Research Groups and Ongoing Projects

Anthropologists at the The Department of Social Anthropology works all over the world, within a large variety of thematical focuses and regions. Here you can find information about research at the department.

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Kjersti Simonsen, Tareq M. Hasan, Mari Korsbrekke, Ståle Knudsen, Iselin Å. Strønen, Anna Szolucha, Alessandro Zagato, Amalie Tveit, Nora Haukali, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

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Read more about publications, PhD, academic staff and an overview of research projects at the Department of Social Anthropology from 2004 until today.

You find our ongoing projects and active research groups underneath.

ASMOG Collaborative Project

Automation Shift in the Maritime Sector of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry: Assessing Risk and Safety, Protecting Labor

The SEATIMES Project

Research Project Seatimes: How Climate Change Transforms Human-Marine Temporalities.

Human Futures: A study of Technoscientific Immortality

The research project "Human Futures: A study ofTechnoscientific Immortality" examines changing conceptions of the human being, mortality and social relations in an increasingly technologically advanced world.

Urban Enclaving Futures

The project "Enclaving: Patterns of global futures in three African cities" (UrbanEnclavingFutures) explores and maps the unequal distribution of urban resources in separated spaces across cities. In exploring enclaving more broadly, we recognize that social actors co-produce and engage...

Frontlines of Value

The 'Frontlines' project seeks to occupy the space for innovative and ethnographic-historical class driven research on global capitalism and inequality.

Island Lives, Ocean States

Island Lives, Ocean States (OceanStates) is a research project about the Pacific Islands, climate change and the politics of the ocean. The OceanStates project aims to build new and urgent interdisciplinary analysis of one of the greatest challenges of our time: how Pacific islanders and their...

Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group

This research group includes about a dozen professors, PhD candidates, project staff and graduate students currently work in the Pacific region on diverse topics including gender, environment, climate change, indigenous politics, religion, cosmology, art, health, and education.

Egalitarian Futures Research Group

The Egalitarian Futures Research Group's (FUTURES) point of departure is the idea that the future - the orientation towards a time yet to come - is fundamental for understanding contemporary global society.

Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons

Egalitarianism and Experimentation in a new Global Reality. Read about the Egalitarianism Project here.

Contested Knowledges in and through Asylum Litigation (ASYKNOW)

Global Research Programme on Inequality

GRIP aims to provide a framework facilitating collaboration across disciplines and knowledge systems around problems of inequality.

Habitable Air

“Habitable Air” is a groundbreaking project that seeks to explore the intersection between urban inequality, political divisions, and the impact of pollution and climate change. Using qualitative research methods and working closely with a network of experts, policymakers, and community members, the...

The Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC)

UiB’s collaboration with UoK in Sudan started in 1963 and is one of UiB's most long-lasting international collaborations....

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