In a new journal article, Kristin Asdal and Bård Hobæk suggest a new way to analyze parliaments: As sites in which the little tools of paperwork and parliamentary procedures enable political issues to be assembled and even be transformed.
TIK's ERC Starting Grant project Little Tools welcomes three new research assistants onboard.
Two new positions have been announced in the Little Tools project:
- One PhD Research Fellow - see announcement here
- One Postdoctoral Fellow - see announcement here
Application deadline for both positions is 30 November 2015
Kristin Asdal has published a new article: "Enacting values from the sea. On innovation devices, value practices and the co-modifications of markets and bodies in aquaculture". This is the first publication from from the framework of the Little Tools project, and can be found in the new volume Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine on Oxford University Press, edited by Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson and Francis Lee. A preview of the first pages can be read here
Professor Kristin Asdal at TIK has received funding for a five year research project on the new bioeconomy
This news article was originally published in Norwegian in February 2015, written by Amalie Kvame Holm.
The biggest threat to democracy today is intolerance and xenophobia, Anne Brasseur warned. The President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly discussed current conflicts in Europe in her ARENA lecture.
'For those of us working with European issues it is crucial to understand not only what is happening in Europe, but also why it happens. ARENA contributes to this', Vidar Helgesen said at the ARENA Lecture 2014.
– Breivik acted alone, but was not thinking on his own. There are groups in Europe that see themselves in a clash of cultures, a thinking that is based on myths of the history of Europe. We need to restore the vision of the cosmopolitan Europe, was professor Seyla Benhabib's message when she gave the ARENA Lecture 2012.
