When melting glaciers take away people’s water
Poor people are most affected by climate change, economic crises and discrimination. Anthropologist Astrid Bredholt Stensrud wants to find out how people go about i…
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Saving Energy: It’s also about culture
– We can reduce our energy use only through a radically different vision of what it means to be modern, says anthropologist Harold Langford Wilhite.
Does it have to be humans against nature?
Many poor people have been forcibly evicted from their homes in the name of nature conservation. "To protect nature we have to transcend the separation of humans from…
Of Suicides and Offshoring
An increasing number of companies move their businesses to low cost countries. Elisabeth Schober is studying what offshoring means for workers and local communities.
MILEN seminar: The three horsemen of the apocalypse
Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen has been invited by MILEN to speak about humanity's biggest crisis and how researchers can contribute to an original and alternative pe…
Anthropologists to study humanity’s biggest crises
A new research project looks at how some of our world’s most serious crises are interconnected and what can be done about them. “It is about time that…