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From economic crisis to solidarity economy

Economic crises can lead to a rise in xenophobia. But the opposite can also be true. At the next Overheating seminar, anthropologist Theodoros Rakopoulos will talk …

Post date 7th April 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

From economic crisis to solidarity economy

Economic crises can lead to a rise in xenophobia. But the opposite can also be true. At the next Overheating seminar, anthropologist Theodoros Rakopoulos will talk …

Post date 7th April 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

From economic crisis to solidarity economy

Economic crises can lead to a rise in xenophobia. But the opposite can also be true. At the next Overheating seminar, anthropologist Theodoros Rakopoulos will talk …

Post date 7th April 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

"A model also for other countries"

Instead of reviewing laws and policies in their offices, bureaucrats tour the country, hold public meetings and communicate with citizens via social media. An initiative in Ta…

Post date 29th March 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

"A model also for other countries"

Instead of reviewing laws and policies in their offices, bureaucrats tour the country, hold public meetings and communicate with citizens via social media. An initiative in Ta…

Post date 29th March 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

"A model also for other countries"

Instead of reviewing laws and policies in their offices, bureaucrats tour the country, hold public meetings and communicate with citizens via social media. An initiative in Ta…

Post date 29th March 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

The fragile power of think tanks

Would you like to influence policies on climate change, oil drilling, war, and peace? More and more corporations and foreign governments are convinced that creating a think ta…

Post date 22nd March 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

The fragile power of think tanks

Would you like to influence policies on climate change, oil drilling, war, and peace? More and more corporations and foreign governments are convinced that creating a think ta…

Post date 22nd March 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

The fragile power of think tanks

Would you like to influence policies on climate change, oil drilling, war, and peace? More and more corporations and foreign governments are convinced that creating a think ta…

Post date 22nd March 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

The competing truths about the dying fish in Gladstone harbor

"Who pays for your research? Who benefits from a particular version of reality? These questions should be raised time and again to get a better vantage-point for acting…

Post date 9th March 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

The competing truths about the dying fish in Gladstone harbor

"Who pays for your research? Who benefits from a particular version of reality? These questions should be raised time and again to get a better vantage-point for acting…

Post date 9th March 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

The competing truths about the dying fish in Gladstone harbor

"Who pays for your research? Who benefits from a particular version of reality? These questions should be raised time and again to get a better vantage-point for acting…

Post date 9th March 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

Sustainability

Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Henrik Sinding-Larsen from Overheating have received funding from the Norwegian Research Council to organise a conference on s…

Post date 24th February 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

Sustainability

Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Henrik Sinding-Larsen from Overheating have received funding from the Norwegian Research Council to organise a conference on s…

Post date 24th February 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

Visit from the Czech Republic

Zdenka Sokolíčková Ph.D. M.A. from the Czech Republic will be on a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology, from 23 February – 8 March 2015.

Post date 19th February 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

Visit from the Czech Republic

Zdenka Sokolíčková Ph.D. M.A. from the Czech Republic will be on a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology, from 23 February – 8 March 2015.

Post date 19th February 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

Identity under pressure: New Overheating book in the making

How does global capitalism influence our relations with other people and our perceptions of who we are? How do people cope with rapid changes in their surroundings? Which…

Post date 13th February 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

"New perspectives instead of more facts!"

A Superman cartoon was able to bring some movement to the polarized immigration debate. What can social scientists learn from this?

Post date 13th February 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

The wretched face of forced immobility

When Jacky was deported from the USA to Cape Verde, his life came to a sudden standstill. Within a short time his face grew deep wrinkles; it looked…

Post date 20th January 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

Homophobia: “Anthropologists should be aware of their responsibility”

When the first Pride Parade in Montenegro’s capital turned into a battlefield, early ethnographic accounts about traditional manliness may have had a part to play in the tensi…

Post date 19th January 2015
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

As Peru’s Glacier Vanish, Villagers Appeal To The Gods

In October 2011, while I was conducting ethnographic research on water and climate change in southern Peru’s Colca Valley, I was invited to join the villagers of Pinchollo…

Post date 19th December 2014
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

Economic Crisis Fuels Radical Nationalism?

Is the recent rise in xenophobia and right-wing populism in Europe linked to the economic crisis? Anthropologist Cathrine Moe Thorleifsson is about to embark on fie…

Post date 11th December 2014
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

"Start with the commonalities!"

“Anthropologists tend to exaggerate differences and to downplay commonalities. It is our moral duty to correct this distorted picture,” said Jeremy MacClancy at the…

Post date 29th November 2014
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

Stereotyping Africa: an appeal for a normal people perspective

The recent Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has spurred a range of responses from all over the world. Some of these responses exemplify the ongoing…

Post date 25th November 2014
Post author By www.sv.uio.no