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New project about container ships and labour

Most commodities in circulation on this planet are transported on container ships. But what do we know about the ships, the people who build them, work on them, and take them apart?

The bunad: More than a garment

Can anyone wear a bunad? Is it a real bunad if it is made in China? Is it a symbol of origin and roots or a nationalistic symbol? Thomas Hylland Eriksen explains the Norwegian obsession with this tradional garment.

Warns against explosive changes

Ever-increasing rapid changes create powerlessness, resentment and opportunities. Through the Overheating project, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and his colleagues have studied how globalisation is changing our homes, workplaces and plans.

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Research events

14 Nov.

CANCELLED - Bringing anthropological perspectives to development practice: Solar powered electricity access: Implications for women’s empowerment in rural Kenya

2:15 PM, Rom 648, Eilert Sundts hus

15 Nov.

Latin America Literature Seminar: Decolonial Thinking

2:15 PM, Eilert Sundts hus, 6. Floor, room 648

21 Nov.

Anastasia Piliavsky: "Hierarchy as a theory of life"

2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room

05 Dec.

Cristina Grasseni: "Food Citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scale"

2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room

Research events

News from OVERHEATING

Globalization has broken the chain of responsibility Aug. 15, 2018
Inclusion and exclusion in an overheated world Nov. 2, 2017
Free e-book from Overheating Oct. 27, 2017
Videos from the Closing Conference June 29, 2017

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Publications

Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism. Ethnographies from South America Nov. 9, 2018 9:09 AM
The Mauritian Paradox: Fifty years of Development. Diversity and Democracy Sep. 26, 2018 3:34 PM

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There is currently three active research groups at the department .

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