46 projects

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KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Adapting to climate risks via landscape-scale solutions: effects of peatland restoration on floods and water browning (ANTIPASTI)

Natural hazards like river floods and water browning caused by organic matter washed into aquatic environments are becoming more intense because of climate change. These changes threaten lives and properties, drinking water and ecosystems and local communities. Nature-based solutions such as pea...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Times of Crisis, Times in Crisis: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis

Europe is in polycrisis: Climate, economy, migration, democracy, armed conflict and academia are pertinent fields where crisis abounds. This project explores the temporal registers of crisis, the vernacular articulation of life in turmoil, and the cultural dynamics expressed in crisis contexts. T...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Habitable Air: Urban Inequality in the Time of Climate Change

“Habitable Air” is a project that addresses the under-analyzed relationship between three urgent issues: (1) the rapid growth of urban inequality; (2) the ongoing amplification of political divisions in major democracies; and (3) the increasing impact of pollution and global warming. Our project’...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Vestland

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

HAPPINESS IN TIMES OF CHANGE: "FRILUFTSLIV" AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN SVALBARD

The project «Happiness in times of change: 'Friluftsliv' and climate change in Svalbard» is a collaboration between social anthropologists Tomas Salem (University of Bergen) and Alexandra Meyer (University of Vienna). Through ethnographic research we will examine how climate change in Svalbard is...

Awarded: NOK 30,489

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Vestland

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

“Automation shift in the maritime sector of the offshore oil and gas industry: assessing risk and safety, protecting labor.”

The increasingly pervasive digitalization and automation of industrial operations is often referred to as the automation shift. A revealing site for exploring today’s fast-changing nature of economic and labor systems is found at the intersection of the ongoing automation shift and maritime indus...

Awarded: NOK 17.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SEATIMES: How Climate Change Transforms Human-Marine Temporalities

Fish and other marine creatures shape the life of coastal people around the world. What happens then, when marine ecosystems transform radically and people are forced to find new ways to live together with life below water? In SEATIMES we study how relations between humans and marine life change ...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Emic Sovereignties and Global Intersections: Governance Beyond the State in Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan

In large parts Iraq and Syria, the central state is no longer a key force in governing people's everyday lives. But this does not mean that there is no order or any system to how people govern themselves. This is what the project investigated: How do we conceive of governance and sovereignty beyo...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Technologies for Immortality: A study of Human Futures

We have recently co-authored a paper called Cryonics 2.0: From Immortalism to Indefinite Lifespan, which will be submitted to Medicine, Anthropology, Theory. The article discusses major changes surrounding cryonics: the rare practice of storing human bodies at ultralow temperatures in liquid nit...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Environmental sustainability, marine economies and gendered socio-economic inequalities:A Norway-Brazil partnership in research and teaching

"Environmental Sustainability, Marine Economies and Gendered Socio-Economic Inequalities (ENMARINE): A Norway-Brazil Partnership in Research and Teaching (2020-2024)" is an interdisciplinary strategic partnership in teaching and research development, thematically focused on the intersections betw...

Awarded: NOK 0.74 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Egalitarian Futures Research Group (EFRG)

Questions around growing global inequalities are more important than ever, not least in this time of a global pandemic. Our research group, the Egalitarian Futures Research Group (EFRG), tackle the issue of inequalities by looking specifically at what we term egalitarianism, that is ideas about e...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Immortalities: The Changing Nature of the Human Being

Technological innovation in human-computer interfaces, breakthroughs in medical biotechnology, and the emerging notion that aging is a disease seriously challenge established understandings of what a human being is, or might be. A substantial reason for current popular interest in emerging techno...

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2021

Location: Vestland

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Immortalities: The Changing Nature of the Human Being

Awarded: NOK 91,249

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Enclaving: Patterns of global futures in three African cities

'Enclaving' is the unequal distribution of urban resources in separated spaces across cities. In Africa, enclaving means new forms of urban spatial and social differentiation, such as gated communities or private cities. Such differentiation often entails atomization or fragmentation of the city ...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2025

Location: Vestland

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

The Rise of the Modern World and Civilisations: Water-society relations beyond environmental reductionism

The primary objective of the project will be to partly revise the application for this project that aims at deepening our understanding of some identified, fundamental transformations in world history, by integrating water-society interactions into analyses, and by further developing a contrastiv...

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Vestland

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Kontrollromsnett: Tverrfaglig nettverk for kontrollromsforskning

Control rooms are essential to manage critical infrastructure. They are increasingly prevalent in new sectors, and in the emerging cultural logic of life being lived through technology. Ctrl-net has brought together participants from a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology an...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Enactments of property ownership in times of climate change

While property ownership as guarantor of individual autonomy remains a central principle of the modern nation state and a globalized economy, the working hypothesis of this project is that climate change may intensify uncertainties, dilemmas and conflicts related to property ownership. The projec...

Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Vestland

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Forms of Ethics, Shapes of Finance: Ethnographic Explorations of the Limits of Contemporary Capital

This project took as its object of study the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, which commonly counts as the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. The fund is managed on behalf of the Norwegian people by a division of the central bank on the basis of a law enacted by parliament, Stortinge...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

The Rise of the Modern World and Civilisations: Water-society relations beyond environmental reductionism

The primary objective of the project will be to deepen our understanding of fundamental transformations in human history by integrating water-society interactions into analyses and by further developing a contrastive and genealogical methodology, called the Water-Society System Approach.

Awarded: NOK 0.43 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Vestland

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Dirty Games: Fighting Olympic Evictions in Rio de Janeiro

The documentary Dirty Games: Olympic Evictions in Rio de Janeiro follows residents in Vila Autódromo, a neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro that was decimated as the city prepared to host the 2016 Olympics. The film explores what it was like to live in Vila Autódromo as houses were demolished, how re...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Norwegian energy companies abroad: Expanding the anthropological understanding of corporate social responsibility

In recent decades, Norwegian energy companies have increasingly invested in projects outside Norway's borders. These are often projects with significant and contested environmental and social consequences, and companies must adhere to a variety of expectations and guidelines: International standa...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Årskonferanse Norsk Antropologisk Forenings Årsmøte 2015

Temaet for konferansen i 2015 vil være 'Kulturelle logikker i samtiden og antropologisk kunnskapsdannelse'. Stadig flere sosiale fenomener gjøres om til entiteter; virkelighetsforhøyet og tydelig avgrenset som målbare og sammenlignbare størrelser. Tallfesting av alle fenomener kan knyttes til o...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Indian cosmopolitan alternatives: Ritual intersections and the proscription of religious offense

Multi-religious societies are often said to be intrinsically instable. Yet there have been many viable multi-religious societies, not least in Asia. How do such societies hold together? This project directed the spotlight at India, which has given birth to at least three world religions (Hinduism...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2020

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Eurasian Borderlands: Transforming Religious, Ethnic and Socio-Economic Relationships

This project studies changing and emerging borders in the decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The existing scholarship on borders borderlands and often take the border as a given, and studies social life in borderlands. In this project we ask: how do territorial borders come in...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2018

Location: Vestland

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Støtte til språkvask av bokmanuset "Mozambique on the move" på engelsk

Antologimanuskriptet bygger på en tematisk konferanse som ble holdt I Trondheim I 2010 og som bar tittelen 'Dialogues with Mozambique' - en konferanse som ble dels organisert av AEGIS (African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies) og hvor NTNU var vertskap. Et hovedmål med boken er å fram...

Awarded: NOK 15,463

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

ERC- Eriksen Gender and Pentecostal Christianity

The Gender and Pentecostalism project takes as its point of departure the paradox that Pentecostal movements often have an egalitarian form (for instance in the sense that salvation is for everyone)on the one hand, but often reproduce gendered inequalities on the other (for instance that men ofte...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Vestland

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Støtte til språkvask og ferdigstilling av bokmanuset "Kolonitid" på engelsk

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Awarded: NOK 30,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Localizing Globalization: Gendered Transformations of Work in Developing Economies

The overall aim of this interdisciplinary project is to investigate and compare how global flows of capital and goods shape local labour markets in different developing economies, and to study how these changes affect the way in which employment patterns, work forms and relations within househol...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Localizing Global dynamics through Labour: Class as a new regime of value in Bali, Indonesia.

-The aim of the project has been to investigate the relation between rapid economic growth and the emergence of class as a new social logic in Bali, Indonesia. The main focus is on dynamics involved in new opportunities for work and new types of work, and the ways inclusion and exclusion in the n...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Vestland

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Antropologiens grenser

Norsk Antropologisk Forenings årskonferanse er den eneste faste nasjonale fagkonferansen i norsk sosialantropologi. Konferansens formål er å virke som forum for faglig utvikling gjennom å stimulere til meningsbrytning mellom antropologer i og utenfor akad emia. Til årets konferanse er det også in...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Cannabis: An ethnographic exploration of individual trends and socio-cultural context

This project aims at gaining deeper insight into individual trends and trajectories among different types of cannabis users in connection with widespread socio-cultural developments that serve as a contemporary context within which these trends are being expressed.The point of departure for this ...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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