Publikasjoner

This book makes a case for a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to energy research - one that brings more of the social sciences to bear. Featuring eight studies from across the spectrum of the social sciences, each applying multiple disciplines to one or more energy-related problems, the book demonstrates the strong analytical and policy-making potential of such a broadened perspective.

This dissertation develops an integrated conceptual framework for analyzing how the interplay between business-strategy formation and embryonic environmental governance can generate conditions for political and regulatory change.  

Añorada Esperanza (Wistful Hope) is an in-depth ethnographic study of local experiences with global economic processes. Based on fieldwork conducted for five months in 2008-2009, the book analyses the recent installation of a Finnish pulp mill in a rural town in Uruguay.

In addition to analyzing structures and relations of power between the formal and the informal economies, the book critically discusses the work of governments, civil society organizations and the poor themselves to address the daily challenges of living in the informal economy.

At the beginning of the 21st century Norway has seemingly succeeded to create a Great Good Place on the planet: in the eyes of the outside world it is an epitome of welfare, equality, justice, environmental concern, and enlightened samaritanism. Nina Witoszek's book attempts to explore the cultural sources of the Norwegian success.

A cross-disciplinary approach to the diverse and entangled political and democratic practices of South Asia. Edited by Stig Toft Madsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Uwe Skoda, Anthem Press 2011.

Boken gir en balansert og pedagogisk innføring i Latin-Amerikas nyere historie og gir nødvendig bakgrunnskunnskap for å forstå de mange utfordringene Latin-Amerika står overfor.

The book questions the current status of the development agenda and examines why development has eluded large groups of people living in poverty.

Benedicte Bull has co-edited this collection of four volumes with Morten Bøås. The collection traces the evolution and contemporary state of International Development through the articles that have defined the field and its history.