We are excited to announce that GRIP will be represented at the Law and Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting 2024 in Denver, Colorado, USA. GRIP's Wesley Maraire will present a paper titled “Beyond Systemic Obstacles: Innovative Approaches to Improving Access to Justice”. Event Details Date: Thursday, June 6, 2024 Time: 12:45 PM - 2:30 PM […]

Queer and Trans World Anthropology   GRIP is happy to announce an upcoming workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, exploring new research priorities and critiques being generated within ethnographic research on gender identity and queer sexuality in the Global South. This workshop is convened by Svati P. Shah, University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Bergen […]

In this official side event at the 2024 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) the critical issue of air pollution and how it impacts on public health and climate change is addressed. The event is free to attend and open to all. Pre-registration required.

The Habitable Air research project cordially invites you to our networking reception “Building Bridges between Policymakers, Academia, Tech-Start Ups, and Communities to Advance SDG1 – No Poverty and SDG13 – Climate Action” during the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2024. The networking reception is free to attend but requires preregistration.

Objectives and Content This course comprehensively introduces a specific area of contemporary anthropological investigation. Current research trends and recent theoretical developments are explored through critical discussions, emphasising anthropology's evolving engagement with the selected field. The course offers a unique opportunity to be acquainted with diverse aspects—methodological, epistemological, and theoretical—of the research process. These aspects lie […]

Join us to celebrate the launch of a Special Issue at the upcoming Bergen Exchanges. The publication is a collaborative effort by early career researchers from the Global South challenging existing inequalities. Born from the South-South Network, forged at the Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation in 2022, this publication amplifies marginalised voices and […]

Significant and systemic disparities, both social and economic, within and between societies, rank among the most pressing global challenges of our era. These inequalities intersect with a range of other global issues, including climate change, migration, pandemics, warfare, organised crime, and political extremism. Various aspects of the law - encompassing economic and social rights, welfare […]

Insidious Capital, with its team of anthropologists and geographers, delves into the concept of ‘value and values’ in what could potentially be the final stage of capitalist globalisation. The book provides a global perspective on rapidly evolving social spaces that span from East to West. It examines various struggles, including those surrounding the exploitation and […]

THE STRUGGLE FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21st CENTURY: CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND ECO-SOCIALISM. Jason Hickel, a leading anthropologist and a key theorist of the global de-growth movement, will give the Third Annual GRIP Lecture at the University of Bergen. In this lecture, supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, he will present his exciting new work on global […]