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The edited volume "Egalitarian Dynamics: Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process", has recently been published, offering fresh perspectives on the anthropologist’s enduring influence. Edited by renowned scholars Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold, the book delves into Turner’s concept of liminality and its relevance to contemporary social dynamics... Read more

Six months after the start of the project Contested Frontiers (ConFront), the project’s research team is now in place.

Scholars from the Department of Comparative Politics contributed to the recently published Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour.

This autumn, CET researchers had three articles accepted for publication in Nature-journals. – This is a result of a dedicated focus on quality in publication over time, says CET Director Håvard Haarstad.

«I was interested in finding out if queer boys and boys with a minority background used social media differently than the majority, and found that they stand out a bit,» UiB researcher John Magnus Dahl says.

The Norwegian Association for Economists awarded John Sæten Lilletvedt Best paper presented by a PhD student.

The aim of my master’s project is to study the glacier fluctuations of the cirque glacier Blåskavlen, located on the Lofoten archipelago in northern Norway.

My master's project explores the Gendered Geographies of Gentrification in Ezulwini, Eswatini.