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

"Reviving Indigenous Tradition" in Altai: Sacred Places and Creating Social Networks

The fall of the USSR contributed to the flourishing of new religious movements and inventing of indigenous traditions. Neo-shamanic practices in Siberia are vivid illustration of this. One of these "traditions" in the Altai (Southern Siberia) has become A k-Jan movement. Its background comes from...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Biodiversity as heritage: the practice and politics of heritage seed saving in Norway

This ten-month project, involving five months of ethnographic fieldwork, aims to understand the implications of heritage seed saving as practice for the politics of biodiversity and of heritage in Norway. The notion of heritage vegetable seeds refers to a plant cultivar that is grown and conserv...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

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

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

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

The aim of this project is to examine the relationship between socio-cultural context and individual trends in shaping different cannabis consumption patterns among experienced adult users. This is based on the premise that different beliefs and attitudes about cannabis in terms of how, when, wh...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Party Politics in Palestine: Hamas and the Politicization of Resistance

Populærvitenskapelig framstilling (2010-14) Massebasert parti Overordnet viser forskningsresultatene fra prosjektet at Hamas stort sett oppfører, organiserer og utvikler seg tråd med de partiteoretiske forventningene. Som så ofte er tilfelle for nye partier begynte også Hamas med radikale mål ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

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

Prosjektet sin målsetnad er å undersøke forholdet mellom rask økonomiske vekst og framveksten av sosial lagdeling (klasse) på Bali, Indonesia. Hovudfokus er på dynamikkar involvert i nye arbeidsmoglegheiter/typar av arbeid og korleis prosessar av inkludering og ekskludering på den nye arbeidsmark...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Vestland

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

Appropriation of Landscapes and Resource Management in the Evenki Native Village in the North Baikal

My dissertation analyses the construction of indigeneity in Kholodnaia Evenki village located in Severobaikalskii district in the Republic of Buriatiia in Russia. The aim of my PhD dissertation is to analyse how the "life projects" of the local population coexisted with various development proje...

Awarded: NOK 93,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Time and Practie in the Evenki Native Village in the North Baikal

The project of my dissertation is based upon material I gathered in native Evenki villages in North Baikal, Republic of Buriatia, Russia. I spent one year (2007-2008) doing my fieldwork among the local population mostly in Kholodnaia village in the North Baikal area. I also spent five months doi...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Environmental change and cultural continuity: Alutiiq identity, subsistence practice and ways of knowing in a changing environment

My thesis analyses the construction of Alutiiq indigenous identity in the villages of Chenega Bay and Tatitlek, Prince William Sound, Alaska. I argue that Alutiiq identity is based upon ties to the land and kinship which are actively fostered through the practice of subsistence related activitie...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

The Effects of Violence and Impoverishment on Psychosocial Health Among Pastoralist Communities in Northern Kenya

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

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

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Power, Knowledge and Complexity: An Anthropological Study of the United Nations and the Production of Peacekeeping Strategies

The PhD project, but also parts of the fieldwork have already been funded for by NUPI. This application only concerns the long term fieldwork within the UN DPKO's Best Practice Section and the stay at New School in New York. My primary focus as an intern will be to edit a handbook for the UN's C...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Språvask av bokmanuset Islamic Traditions and Muslim Youth in Norway

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Awarded: NOK 20,492

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Kola Saami Herders in Post-Soviet Society: Ethnopolitics in Urban and Tundra Spaces

Tidligere forskning viser at reindrift på Kola praktiseres som felles, sovkhoz-preget drift sammen med individuelt eide dyr i variende kombinasjoner, og at ulike variasjoner av slike driftsformer gjenspeiler gjeternes risikovillighet og -håndtering, deres tidshori-sont, opptatthet av avkastning,...

Awarded: NOK 0.97 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

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

Prosjektet har, i samarbeid med Akers Avis Groruddalen, arrangert en møteserie (6 møter) på Deichmanske bibliotek, Furuset, der forskere fra prosjektet har presentert sine funn for allmennheten. Flere av forskerne har dessuten deltatt på seminarer, åpne m øter og andre arrangementer der de har gj...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2016

Location: Oslo

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

Haraga: Theorizing Risk, Money and Moralities in Migration

This project is focus on the phenomenon of the undocumented illegal migration of young Moroccans, the so-called haraga, from Tangiers to Europe. Haraga mostly come from poor shanty towns located in large cities such as Casablanca, Rabat or Marrakesh: they use variety of methods to enter Spain an...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Reasserting indigenous life-styles in the European North: Ideology and Post-Soviet reality in the case of the Russian Sámi

This project addresses political and economic tensions experienced by tundra-based communities in the Russian Northwest. In particular, it aims to investigate the problematic situation of the Sámi people in the Kola Peninsula in their relations with state institutions, with external investors in...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: Forskningsopphold for fransk forsker ved Universitetet i Bergen og Universitetet i Oslo

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Awarded: NOK 6,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

An Ethnographic Research on the EU-Driven Security Policies and Bureaucratic Transformation Efforts in the Everyday Work of the Police.

With the EU membership process, Turkey has been subjected to many diverse and contradictory policies in different areas, which affect the structure of the bureaucratic institutions and everyday life of the people. Therefore, it is not only important but a lso crucial to study the impact of these ...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Dwelling with Power: an ethnography with Gwich'in Harvesters

The project concerns with movements and continuity of life for indigenous peoples, specifically Teetl"it Zheh Gwich"in, and critically asserts conventional ethnographic and anthropological research through focusing on "mundane" themes such as wood, trails , cabins, texts, and policies. Using the ...

Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Oversettelse fra engelsk til spansk og utgivelse av doktorgradsavhandling i Guatemala.

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Awarded: NOK 52,053

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Maktens metamorfoser: Norsk Antropologisk Forenings årskonferanse 2009

Årets konferanse inviterer til et antropologisk fokus på de senere års utvidede maktbegrep. Konferansen skal bidra med kritikk av den samfunnsvitenskaplige utvidede forståelsen av makt, samtidig som den skal gi rom for maktens "nye teiger" innenfor antrop ologien, som det historiske, det globale ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Vestland

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

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Walking Uneven Paths

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Awarded: NOK 32,975

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Xie, Yuan Yuan

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Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Searching for Security: Religious Mobilization and the Politics of 'Insecurity' in Indonesia

This project will map and explore the links between religious movements, 'security'-management and violence in the context of a weakened state. The project centers on the faith-based 'security' groups dedicated to fight crime and enforce justice that have emerged among Sasak Muslims and Balines...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Zirh, Besim Can, Tyrkia. statsstipend 2008/09

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Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Arbeidets mening. Om arbeid, verdsetting og identitet.

Hva som forstås med arbeid er under endring, noe som kan bety at arbeid vurderes på nye måter både i forhold til dagliglivets avveininger og i et livsløpsperspektiv. Prosjektet vil fokusere på tre problemstillinger knyttet til dette: * Hvordan foregår av veiningen mellom lønnsarbeid og andre akt...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

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