Siden Hugo Chávez kom til makten i Venezuela i 1998, har kvinners handlingsrom og kvinners rettigheter blitt betydelig styrket. Dette har skjedd gjennom en rekke legale, institusjonelle og politiske grep,...

This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch...

This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the...

Since Hugo Chavez came to power in Venezuela in 1998, large parts of the country's vast oil resources have been diverted towards social spending amongst the poor sectors of the...

This report is an output of the first iteration of a process of real-time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). This strand of evaluation addresses NICFI’s contribution...

This report is concerned with analyzing the gendered dimensions of rural poverty, based on qualitative and quantitative research in the rural municipality of Kalandula in the northeastern province of Malanje,...

Executive summary This CMI Working paper explores the implementation of the Brazilian government’s favela (shantytown) policing program, Unidades de Pacificacion Policiais (UPP) or The Pacifying Police Units, from the point of...

Executive summary When Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) came to power in Venezuela in 1998, the military was bestowed with a new—and controversial—role in society. Being a former career military himself, a central...

In 2008, the government of now-deceased President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela passed a law creating what is known as the Bolivarian militia (Milicia Bolivariana), a reserve force composed by civilian...

Rural poverty in Angola is severe and gendered. This brief draws on qualitative field research in ten rural communities in the municipality of Kalandula, Malanje province. It shows that female...

A pobreza rural em Angola é grave e diferenciada por género. Este artigo resulta de uma pesquisa de campo qualitativa realizada em 10 comunidades rurais do município de Kalandula, província...

Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing out in the context of urban...

A violência contra as mulheres é uma prática generalizada em Angola, pouco se sabendo ainda sobre a perceção que as mulheres têm deste fenómeno e como elas se relacionam com...

Panel organized by SUM, Norwegian Network for Latin America Research (NorLARNet) and the Nobel Peace Center. Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, September 14, 2017.

Promotional video for research on Latin America in Norway, produced by Norwegian Latin American Research Network (Norlarnet)

Venezuela: Revolusjon og olje

Workshop: ”CSR på norsk.” 14.12-15.12.2017 Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen

Annual Energetics Workshop. 14-15 Dec. 2017. Department for Social Anthropology, University of Bergen