Tensions are high in Subic Bay in the Philippines. The costs of Labour are among the lowest in Southeast Asia – something more and more foreign investors have come to exploit, says Elisabeth Schober, who is currently on fieldwork there.
In Sierra Leone, as well as in many developing and resource rich countries in the world, there is an increasingly important debate regarding local content: the use of local products and services by foreign investors.
Ny studie viser at når vi tenker på et mørkt rom vil pupillene utvide seg på samme måte som om vi faktisk var i rommet.
The only way to leave Lac La Biche other than by private car are the overland buses. On some days they don’t show up, on some they are way too early, on most days they are late.
People in Colca Valley are organizing forums to discuss climate change, food security and a controversial dam and irrigation project, says Astrid Bredholt Stensrud, currently on fieldwork in the Peruvian Andes.
If we want to move towards ecological sustainability, we cannot ignore the life-worlds of people who make their living in the fossil fuel industry, says Thomas Hylland Eriksen, currently on fieldwork in the industrial town of Gladstone in Australia.
Vår spesielle tilknytning til EU er en av de største truslene mot norsk demokrati i dag. Tross 200 år med egen Grunnlov, gjelder hele tre fjerdedeler av EUs lover automatisk oss. I praksis setter EØS-avtalen Grunnloven til side.
It has taken us several hundred million years to produce this compressed sunlight, and it has been the driving force of modern civilization for two hundred years. It cannot be eliminated without further ado, writes Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
Elephants clashing with human beings on their paddy fields, people dying from kidney failure, climatic uncertainty, increased jealousy leading to sorcery attacks, and the nearing end of small-scale farming: Results of a global crisis of desire?
A little while ago, I caught fifty slimy amphibians with my bare hands, put them into a sack and promptly delivered them to be killed in an industrial-sized freezer. My usually peaceful and animal-friendly self felt surprisingly pleased with itself for carrying out this act, which was intended to protect the lives of other animals.
Many things have changed in Chivay, but at the same time, it feels like it have just been a couple of days since I left.
Wherever there is change, there also seems to be disappointment.
‘It is the ugliest town in Australia; I think you should go there.’
Eurokrisen har sendt tusenvis av europeere på flukt fra økonomiske problemer og arbeidsledighet. Hvordan opplever de som valgte Norge det å komme hit?
China’s economic growth does not always benefit its national minorities. Instead, it strains ethnic relations.
On my 5th day in Subic Bay, we found a dead pig on the shore, buried in sand all the way up to its snout. The stray dogs had not gotten to it yet, and there was no smell, either. Just the sad, solemn sight of this animal that had been caught by the water, carried off into the sea, and then washed ashore on our beach. I could not stop staring at it, wondering about the people it had belonged to before its sudden death by drowning.
A discipline that is obsessed with cultural differences will be nothing but a burden to humanity, says Ronald Stade who is researching human waste and humans as waste in Ghana’s largest slum.
Social anthropologists are not only crossing disciplinary boundaries. They have also started studying other species.
Vi vet det godt. Det trengs mer fornybar energi. Kull og olje er en viktig årsak til at jorden trues av klimagasser. Men hvordan utvikle en energi som blir så god og så billig at den kan erstatte energikildene vi alt har? Mer presist: Hvilke forhold må ligge til rette for at noen skal være villig til å satse på, investere i og ta i bruk fornybar energi?
Fedmeoperasjoner fremstår for mange som en kjapp løsning mot overvekt. Likevel sliter mange mer etter operasjonen enn de gjorde før.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is getting ready for fieldwork close to The Great Barrier Reef that may be about to become a victim of Australia’s economic growth.
Our models for learning are inadequate. To solve humanity’s biggest crises we have to learn how to learn together in new ways, says Fred Steier who will be holding the next Overheating seminar.
More specific knowledge is not always the most imporant thing. What we really need is to train our mind to think outside the box. That's the aim of the second Bateson symposium at the University of Oslo, 11-12 september.
Research in the zoo about the origins of human cooperation can be relevant for understanding the economic crisis. Also “the harder sciences” can contribute to less inequality in our world, says Chris Hann, the new Professor II at the Overheating project.
What happens when international companies develop large-scale projects in poor rural areas in Sierra Leone? How do people respond to the changes? Who gains and who loses? That’s what anthropologist Robert Pijpers wants to find out.
