This paper focuses on ideology, gender and caste in Tamilnadu, South India. First the epistemological grounding of a critical feminist theory of ideology ...

This report analyses the growth of political Islam in South Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan and India's Jammu and Kashmir Province). In Pakistan the failure ...

Robert Lensink (Groningen) and Carol Newman (Dublin) are visiting CMI for the spring Bergen seminar in development economics. There will be papers on son-preference in South-Asia, technology transfers and foreign investments in Vietnam, the role of IMF for foreign aid flows, and on financial literacy in rural Rwanda.

Seeking to expand the domain of the political beyond normative understandings of the state, the articles in this special edition examine the performative ...

This book offers fresh perspectives on the current aid effectiveness and aid relationship debates by focusing on the issue of ownership.  The book ...

Over the past decade, the study of so-called religious violence has evolved into a veritable cottage industry. Taking a critical view of the 'religious violence industry', this CMI seminar brings together two scholars, Faisal Devji and Kathinka Frøystad, whose historical and ethnographically informed research engages directly with the issues of 'religion' and 'violence.'

A study of human rights commissions in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines

(Published in cooperation with Norwegian Association for Development Research; Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsen ...

Felipe doesn’t like it much, shootouts occur almost every day, but he knows that he can’t show any signs of weakness, so he tries to keep up appearances. Two weeks after arriving at Fazendinha he was shot in a confrontation with armed traffickers.

The South China Sea (SCS) is a bitterly contested maritime battleground for state sovereignty, oil and gas and, perhaps above all, for the marine resources ...

Every year, millions of children die before reaching the age of five. 85 percent of child-mother fatalities happen in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The new Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC) focus their efforts here.

This report commissioned  by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides a review of the Norwegian 2012-2015 core support to the Aga Khan ...

Nuptiality in Bangladesh Armindo Miranda The Journal of Social Studies Asia: Bangladesh armindo mi

This working paper is an analytical review of four recent studies on "women and the state" or the gendered state. Three of these books include studies ...

The demography of Bangaldesh: Data and issues Armindo Miranda DERAP Publication Asia: Bangladesh a

Politics of food and famine in Bangladesh Rehman Sobhan Economic and Political Weekly Asia: Bangla

Infrastructure development and the rural poor in Bangladesh Haakon Lein DERAP Publication Asia: Ba

The state and the peasantry: The Bangladesh Case Atiur Rahman DERAP Working Paper Asia: Bangladesh

Food politics and famine in Bangladesh Rehman Sobhan DERAP Working Paper Asia: Bangladesh rehman s

Problematics of nationalism: Bangladesh B.K. Jahangir DERAP Working Paper Asia: Bangladesh b.k. ja