0 projects

P-KVINN-Program for kvinne- og kjønnsf

Tenkning som handling: kjønn, demokrati, frihet Thought as Action: Gender, Democracy, Freedom

...shared interest in theoretical questioning has led us towards a more rigorous interrogation of...being marshalled in the name of democracy and freedom, among them , "citizenship", "human rights",...allow us to think future co nfigurations of gender, democracy and freedom. The project's main...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

P-KVINN-Program for kvinne- og kjønnsf

Internasjonalt seminar 06.12.2013 i Bergen: Feminism after Poststructuralism. Litteratur and Philosophy

...(SKOK), UiB, arrangerer et internasjonalt seminar i Bergen 6. desember 2013....i det NFR-finansierte forskningsprosjektet Thought as Action. Democracy, Freedom, Citizenship....med særlig vekt på filosofi og litteratur. Thought as Action fant en manglende stringens og...

Awarded: NOK 89,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

The Kantian Foundations of Democracy (KanDem)

...in the 1790s. Kant’s political philosophy has recently been the subject of a surge of...of citizens, and in terms institutions, such as voting, plebiscites and representative...interest, in particular in their views of how freedom requires political participation, on how...

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Gender in the Deliberative Public Sphere

...in relation to rhetoric studies understood as the discipline tasked with studying public...are at the heart of a social and liberal democracy, has undergone radical development s in the...and, in keeping with Third Wave Feminism, has made rhetoric studies a field of excellence to...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Transnational /Global Feminism: Issues, Contestations, Challenges

...disciplines and different geographical areas will discuss the current grounds for...global/transnational/postcolonial feminism has influenced Norwegian feminist thought and...Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) UiB, and the Association for Womens Studies and Gender Research...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

Gender, Violence and Democracy in Western Balkans

...main objective of the project "Gender, Violence and Democracy in West Balkan" is to...of the following part-projects: 1) Men, masculinities and violence in post-socialist...and personal meanings of gender. The model has been developed to analyse the workings of...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

When will citizens defend democracy?

...last decade has seen several alarming setbacks for...have recently moved away from democracy by increasing restrictions on civil liberties, press...silent in the face of democratic erosion, and aspiring autocrats have remained highly popular...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Formations of the secular in contemporary debates on democracy: Postcolonial interventions

...constitutive "others" are no longer depicted as irrational beings within a classic Orientalist...rs, critically engaging with the naturalized assumptions of secularism in contemporary...with Gayatri Spivak's critique of colonialism, as a revitalized "epistemic violence" vis-à-vis...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

The Social Conditions of Freedom in Contemporary Modernity

...project is to study the social conditions of freedom in contemporary modern societies. How do the...we live in today enable and constrain the freedom of individuals? To answer this question, I...a multidimensional empirical concept of freedom consisting of six subcategories of free...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Transatlantic Women Theologians in the Lusophone World. Texts, Contexts and Scriptural Hermeneutics in Joana de Jesus (1620-1681)

...research on the historical and philosophical thought of the Portuguese Reformed Cistercians Nun...citations and commentaries the Portuguese Nun has produced and its implications for a feminist...for a po st-doctoral international research based on the early modern Portuguese manuscripts...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

...of Nordic feminist research. NORA puts emphasis on the various Nordic positions of feminist...conversations, creative and critical feminist thought, and comparative perspectives. Acknowledging...axes of differentiation and signification, such as religion, nationality, sexual orientation,...

Awarded: NOK 56,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

...of Nordic feminist research. NORA puts emphasis on the various Nordic positions of feminist...conversations, creative and critical feminist thought, and comparative perspectives. Acknowledging...axes of differentiation and signification, such as religion, nationality, sexual orientation,...

Awarded: NOK 54,999

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

...of Nordic feminist research. NORA puts emphasis on the various Nordic positions of feminist...conversations, creative and critical feminist thought, and comparative perspectives. Acknowledging...axes of differentiation and signification, such as religion, nationality, sexual orientation,...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: The Freedom of the Other. Ethical Consequences of Irigaray's Conception of Sexual Difference

...project "The Freedom of the Other. Ethical Consequences of...possible alternative conceptions of freedom from within an ontological-ethical...in relation to the ethical question of freedom. As Ellen Mortensen points out, Irigaray...

Awarded: NOK 10,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Nordmedia2013 - Defending democracy. Nordic and global diversities in media and journalism

...than ever. Consequently, the med ia's role as carriers of free speech and democratic ideals...for democratic processes and conditions for freedom of expression? This question, and others...which reflect the broad impact the media field has on societies. Internationally acclaimed...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

UTENRIKS-Internasjonale forhold - utenriks- og sikkerhetspolitikk og norske interesser

Leadership and democratic participation in Asia

...2020 Freedom House report declares that globally,...large and populous regions of South and Southeast Asia where today there is no ‘full democracy’...by ‘strongman’ leaders who are often portrayed as authoritarian or populist, or both—India’s...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Human rights and state-formation in Latin America: Dilemmas in consolidating democracy and the rule of law

...As discursive, social and legal practices, human...in Latin America. Human rights relate to all aspects of state formation: institutional...in Latin America by focusing on current dilemmas or points of tension that arise in the...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Pragmatism, Naturalism, Subjectivity

...examines the explanatory relation between thought and meaning, as this is handled by Rorty and...better suited to the naturalistic and ethical aspirations of pragmatism. 2. The second...and that both his conception of metaphysics as a philosophical dead-end as well as his...

Awarded: NOK 91,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo

FRISAM2-FRIPRO forskerprosjekt, samfunnsvitenskap

Equal Peace? Womens Empowerment and Multicultural Challenges in War-to-Peace Transitions

...interventions, mediation and dialogue efforts, as well as transitional justice mechanisms are all...in their very essence in that they are thought to be beneficial to all irrespective of...of such norms and are strongly contested areas of politics. It is particularly in the...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Modernization as Lived Experiences: Identity Construction of Three Generations of Young Men and Young Women in China and Norway

...int ercultural contact, community building, democracy, civic engagement and social integration,...construction of young men and women in two contrasting societies, China and Norway , through a...examine generational changes and continuities as well as cross-cultural differences and...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Oslo

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Changing Welfare States and the Consequences in the Context of European Integration

...systems and policies are challenged by increasingly diverse and complexe societies. These...the consequences for the population in the areas of labour and social inequality, especially...

Awarded: NOK 46,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Regulating Religion: Secularism and Religious Freedom in the Global Era

...new and critical understandings of the dilemmas involved in both protecting and enforcing...order to enforce laws guaranteeing religious freedom you must first have "religion" (Sullivan...defining "religion" is notoriously difficult (Asad 1993; Keane 2007). Drawing a line around...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Vestland

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Representationalism or Anti-representationalism? Perspectives on intentionality from philosophy and cognitive science

...heart of our conception of ourselves or others as perceiving, thinking and acting beings. A...In crude metaphors: are thoughts mirrors of reality or tools for coping?...and thought content, the guiding question has been what role such semantic notions as...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Popular Representation in Africa: The politics of expectations

...and gender sensitive policies have offered a massive opportunity for political parties in Africa...the less competitive systems that reforms, such as democratic decentralisation and gender quotas,...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Disentangling the Economic Effects of Political Institutions

...policies. Political institutions are widely thought to matter; yet, it remains unclear which...to the Historical Varieties of Democracy dataset with app. 280 indicators coded back to 1800...expand the Social Policies around the World dataset on eligibility and redistributive potential...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Oslo

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Work sharing couples. A longitudinal study of men in change and intergenerational transmission

...and gender equality. It is a follow-up-study as well as an extension of the work-sharing...in an experiment for gender equality based on the sharing of paid and unpaid work. It...equal relations between men and women. An emphasis was placed on changing men?s relation to...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Gender identity and sexual orientation in international and national (Norwegian) law

...system are constructed and mediated by legal thought and culture has not been systematically...of lesbian, homosexual, b isexual, transgender, transsexual and intersex persons (LGBTI) the...the situation of LGBTI persons in Norway it is assumed that the influence of newer theory on...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Breaking BAD: Understanding the Backlash Against Democracy in Africa

...countries are clamping down on democracy, adopting legal restrictions on key civil...form the basis of democratic rule, including freedoms of association, speech, and information;...to independent courts; and rights and freedoms related to reproduction and family life,...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Vestland

IKTPLUSS-IKT og digital innovasjon

European Network For Gender Balance in Informatics - Management Committee Meeting, Working Groups, and First Winter School

...different types of events by its members, such as meetings, workshops, and conferences for the...

Awarded: NOK 70,145

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

P-KVINN-Program for kvinne- og kjønnsf

Reciprocal Reflections: The Lyrical Dialogue of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

...to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir asks how it is that the reciprocity that exists...the statement 'I am a woman' will b e received as an affirmative part of a reciprocal...The project will have an ontologic-ethical as well as an epistemological focus, asking not...

Awarded: NOK 0.85 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland