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SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturell

Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource

Det globale samfunnet står stadig overfor kriser og utfordringer knyttet til økologi, religion, økonomi og teknologi. Når vi aktivt forholder oss til disse utfordringene, mobiliserer vi kulturelle ressurser. Et ritual er et kulturelt verktøy som kan tromme sammen en gruppe, et lokalsamfunn eller ...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Ritualizing in a World at Risk

This is a book-project at the interface of finishing-up research and writing draft chapters for a volume on ritual as a cultural ressource: how do changing conceptualizations of the nature-culture bond create new conditions for ritual pluralizations and h ow do new rituals emerge in response to f...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Broken Women, Healing Traditions? Indigenous resources for gender Critique and Social transformation in the Context of AIDS in South Africa.

The success in combating AIDS may depend upon whether we are able to support women´s agency and emerging leadership roles, overcome the overly moralist and curative discourse of AIDS and extend the field to include a deeper, communal healing approach. Thi s must include women´s yearning for radic...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo