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Safeguarding the academic freedom goes on (24.10.2013)
On september 11th Alf G. Nilsen wrote an invited comment on the norwegian elections in the renowned British newspaper The Guardian. After this he received threats. - We are witnessing a development of society where we really need that different opinions come forward, and that people can participate in public debate without putting their own safety at risk.
Alf G. Nilsen: Resisting Dispossession in the Narmada Valley, India (23.10.2013)
The full title of the article is "Against the Current, From Below: Resisting Dispossession in the Narmada Valley, India" and it is published in the latest volume of Journal of Poverty (Volume 17, Issue 4, 2013)
Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage (23.10.2013)
The book explains the Narmada conflict and addresses how the building of the anti-dam campaign was animated by processes of collective learning, how activists extended the spatial scope of their struggle by building networks of solidarity with transnational advocacy groups, and how it is embedded in and shaped by a wider field of force of capitalist development at national and transnational... Read more
Tarje I. Wanvik
Local effects of transnational corporate social responsibility (CSR) (18.10.2013)
Increasingly, transnational companies are expected to contribute to economic and social development in the countries they operate in. In this doctoral thesis I will examine how the Norwegian corporate social investment and CSR activities affect local communities in Indonesia and Canada, and how local stakeholders receive and perceive such investments.
Ecopreneurship and Green Growth in a Geographical Context (17.10.2013)
PhD Candidate Helge Lea Tvedt.
Signing a new agreement, ECNU
Comparative Politics delegation visited Shanghai (26.09.2013)
A delegation from the Department of Comparative Politics visited Shanghai in April. The program consisted of a workshop at Fudan University and signing a new agreement with East China Normal University.
Autumn lecture series (26.09.2013)
Embedded Entrepreneurship: (25.09.2013)
Market, Culture, and Micro-Business in Insular Southeast Asia
Defending academic freedom (24.09.2013)
On September 11th our colleague Alf Gunvald Nilsen wrote an article on the Norwegian election by invitation from The Guardian.
Adivasi Mobilization in India (24.09.2013)
New publication from Alf Gunvald Nilsen in Critical Sociology: Adivasi Mobilization in Contemporary India: Democratizing the Local State?
50th Anniversary for social anthropology department seminars (23.09.2013)
The Bergen Social Anthropology Seminar (BSAS) at the Department of social anthropology celebrated its 50th anniversary 30 May 2013
Conference on constitutional processes (23.09.2013)
The conference Recreating constitutions addressed constitutional changes in Norway, Iceland, Ireland and Scotland.
Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe (06.08.2013)
Edited by Ruy Blanes and José Mapril
Norway: Nature, Industry and Society, Fagbokforlaget.
Norway - Nature, Industry and Society (24.06.2013)
Grete Rusten, Kerstin Potthoff and Linda Sangolt have edited a new book about Norway.
Adivasi Mobilization in India (12.06.2013)
New publication from Alf Gunvald Nilsen in Critical Sociology: Adivasi Mobilization in Contemporary India: Democratizing the Local State?
New book: Marxism and Social Movements (07.06.2013)
Alf Gunvald Nilsen has edited a new book with Colin Barker, Manchester Metropolitan University, Laurence Cox, National University of Ireland Maynooth and John Krinsky, The City College of New York.
Professor Paul G. Roness (1951-2013)
Professor Paul G. Roness (1951-2013) (21.05.2013)
On the morning of May 17th we received the sad news that Professor Paul G. Roness had passed away. He was one of "the founding fathers" of the department and played a key role in developing public policy / public administration research, both on the national and international level.
Special issue about trust in the media (16.05.2013)
The special journal issue ‘Trust in the media across Europe’, has just been published in the academic journal Communication Management Quarterly (CM).

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