37 projects

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SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Atmospheres of Dust: Environmental and Epidemiological Transformations in West Africa

This six-month mobility project supports writing, fieldwork, and collaboration for Atmospheres of Dust (Epitraces WP3), an anthropological investigation of how industrial dust and coastal industry shape environments and lives in West Africa. Tracing the movements and meanings of airborne matter, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.88 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Knowledge in Crisis: The Dynamics of Environmental Expertise amidst Rural Change

RURALEX addresses the cumulative crisis of environmental expertise across rural Europe and investigates how this relates to broader processes of societal disenfranchisement. In recent years, many rural parts of Europe have struggled with the local effects of large demographic and associated ecolo...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Epidemic traces. Remains of infectious disease control in Africa, and how they shape future health.

Epidemics are experienced as events that suddenly come and go. But disease outbreaks – and measures taken to combat them – leave traces. For example, we live with cemeteries, hygiene rules and water supplies, which were created during the cholera epidemics of the 19th century; tropical diseases w...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Strengthening Environmental Anthropology Research and Education Through Interdisciplinary Methods and Collaborations

The UiO Department of Social Anthropology (SAI) has in recent years emerged as a world-leader in environmental social science research and education. It has developed novel approaches for environmental anthropology that combine and expand anthropological scholarship through creative interdiscipli...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Teenagers without land: Offspring of economic migrants to Svalbard in an overheated world

There are tens of children living in the Norwegian settlement of Longyearbyen, Svalbard, who joined their parents migrating mostly for economic reasons to the high Arctic from Thailand, the Philippines and other places in the global South. Some of them stay long, become fluent in Norwegian and ca...

Awarded: NOK 60,690

Project Period: 2021-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

Offshore citizens: Buying golden passports and visas in the contemporary EU

My ERC project PASSPORTS explores the commodification of ciitizenship. Me and my ERC group shall ethnographically examine the formation of "global citizens" through golden passport and golden visa programmes within the EU, focusing on Malta and Cyprus as well as on Russia (the main country of ori...

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Shrinking the Planet: Psychotherapy and the New Global Middle Class.

Our world is changing rapidly as the centres of economic and political power shift from Europe and North America to South and East Asia. The new middle classes of China and India will be the drivers of new patterns of consumer taste and culture over the next century. This is a planetary social r...

Awarded: NOK 13.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Ecological Globalisation; Domestication beyond control

This proposed project has been part of a long-term strategy at the Department of Social Anthropology to strengthen and develop the existing research groups ‘Domestication’ and ‘Overheating’, and to enhance collaborative and joined efforts between these research groups. This includes measures to t...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Private Lives: Embedding Sociality at Digital Kitchen-tables

How does digital technology embed social relations? How do social media reconfigure privacy and senses of belonging? Most studies of social life assume that people meet in space and time, or face-to-face. Today, social media and digitalization are increasingly important in most people's lives. W...

Awarded: NOK 13.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Global Trout: Investigating environmental change through more-than-human world systems

The project has taken as its starting point the historical and political background of the global spread of alien species. We asked how we can study environmental problems that are 'global', but which still have very different effects in different places, and how this can help us think differentl...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

(Dis-)Assembling the Life Cycle of Container Ships. Global Ethnographic explorations into Maritime Working Lives.

The container ship is the most significant icon of economic globalization. An ever-growing amount of commodities in circulation on this planet end up in stores after having been transported on container ships first. The ubiquity of the image of the container ship as a stand-in for globalization, ...

Awarded: NOK 10.4 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

Prosjektetableringsstøtte FRIPRO ERC LABOUR/POWER

PI went to interview-stage with an ERC Starting Grant Application (entitled: "Labour/Power. Ethnographic Explorations of the energy-work nexus in newly industrialised countries") twice (June 2016, June 2017). PI will rework grant application and improve CV through 1) a buy-out from other teaching...

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Oslo - Oslove

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

GROW: State Recognition and Indigenous Peoples: Focus on Norway Erica Kowsz

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Awarded: NOK 0.42 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Antropologien i møte med globale kriser, Norsk Antropologisk Forenings årskonferanse

Nyhetsbildet preges av en samtid i krise. Vi konfronteres daglig med en flyktningkrise som utfordrer EU, nasjonalstater og sivilsamfunn og gir grobunn for ekstremisme. Jordens befolkning øker, og med den også presset på matproduksjon som stadig effektiviseres, men fører med seg økologiske sammenb...

Awarded: NOK 71,573

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Being in field. The role of fieldwork in ecological and environmental science in Ny-Ålesund (RIS 6664)

Based on anthropological pilot research (June 2014, February, June 2015, RIS 6664), this project explores the contribution of being in the field (landscape, organisms, weather) to environmental and ecological science. Methodologically, it applies 'participant observation' to scientific work in Ny...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

The practice and ethics of collaboration in transnational medical research in East Africa. An ethnographic approach

International collaboration is essential for progress in global health research, especially for the development of innovative and effective drugs, interventions and vaccines. The main aim of this project has been to study such transnational collaborations from a social science perspective, and th...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

SUSTAINABILITY: Exploring a post-mechanistic turn in human and biological sciences as a cultural prerequisite for future sustainability.

A background for the project proposal was the project OVERHEATING: the three crises of globalisation (SAI, UiO). Headlines for these crises were 1) environment/climate, 2) economy/finance, 3) identity, culture and religion. Common to all of them are issues of threatened sustainability or reproduc...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Changing Bodies in Toxic Landscapes:Environmental degradation and intersecting knowledges in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia

This comparative post-doc project has explored the intersections of personhood, environmental change and degradation, economic relations and state formation in Northern Peruvian and Southern Ecuadorian Amazonia. Based on fieldwork in Kichwa communities of the Upper Tigre River in Peru and with ...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Arctic Frontiers - Emerging Leaders 2013

Jeg er sosialantropolog med spesialisering i Arktis, miljø og ressursforvaltning. Jeg har min utdannelse fra Tyskland med studieopphold i Nord-Norge, Island, Grønland og Canada. PhD-prosjektet mitt handler om hvilken innflytelse oljesandindustrien har på lokalbefolkningen. Problemstillinger foku...

Awarded: NOK 26,999

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Norsk Antropologisk Forenings årskonferanse 2011

Årskonferansen i Norsk Antropologisk Forening er en begivenhet som finner sted hvert år i mai måned. Ansvaret for konferansen går på omgang mellom de forskjellige universiteter og høyskoler i Norge hvor det finnes antropologiske fagmiljøer. I 2011 er det Sosialantropologisk institutt ved Univers...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Reframing the secular: Norwegian Muslims and vernacular practices of the secular

'Reframing the secular: Norwegian Muslims an vernacular practices of the secular' is a proposed ethnographic study based on informal and semi-structured interviews of as well as participant observation among young Norwegians of Muslim background (aged 20- 35 years, and of both sexes) aimed at gat...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Exclusion and inclusion in the suburb: The centripetal and centrifugal forces of locality and place.

In collaboration with the local newspaper Akers Avis Groruddalen, the project has organised a series of public meetings at the municipal library at Furuset, where researchers from the project have presented their findings for a general public in the community where the research took place. Severa...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

THE LAND IS DYING: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

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Awarded: NOK 31,406

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Newcomers to the farm, Atlantic salmon between the wild and the industrial

Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) has been subject to a dramatic transition over the last three decades, from being a wild to becoming predominantly a domesticated species. This transition reflects a global increase in intensive and industrialised systems of fish farming in which Norway has taken on ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Ethnologie Francaise: spesial nummer om Norge; midler til oversettelse

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Awarded: NOK 36,000

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Oversettelse av prisvinner 2006, Hanna Skartveit

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Awarded: NOK 14,200

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

National Identity in Contemporary Norway: The cultural politics of immigration and integration

As a doctoral candidate in the Social Anthropology Ph.D. program of Harvard University, I am applying for a Leiv Eiriksson Mobility Grant to support a 10-month research stay in Norway beginning in August 2006. The purpose of my stay will be to participat e as a guest, Ph.D. student researcher wi...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Informal Child Migration in Europe

The project will investigate how informal networks of care constitute a social and cultural potential for children and adult caretakers who are involved in informal and illegal migration within and into Europe. The degree to which people's activities with in these networks are exposed to differen...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Fifth Nordic Conference on the Anthropology of Postsocialism: "Uncertainty and Freedom: Second-generation change in the postsocialist world"

While the end of socialism brought dramatic short-term changes, which have been extensively studied, this conference will focus on the less dramatic, but more long-term “second-generation change” occurring today. After the rapid, ad hoc adjustments of str uctures and mentalities in the 90's, new ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

STREP - Unequal possibilities of citizenship in a knowlegde-based society

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Awarded: NOK 75,000

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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