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Inter-disciplinarity, or transdisciplinarity, is much discussed. It is essentially a product of the (Western) educational system. In practice, it does not seem to amount to much.
Ayn Rand's views and visions covered different areas of life and culture. There is only a limited amount of internal consistency in her work.
Økt vektlegging av samarbeid mellom de tre samfunnssektorene er nødvendig for å få til en grønn omstilling og sirkulær økonomi.
Om sammenger mellom Covid-19 og COP-26, og konsekvenser på kort og lang sikt, og hva vi bør gjøre framover. Fokus på Agder.
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), 2022 annual conference, Panel on anthropology, indigenous peoples, and human rights (Belfast, 26-29 July 2022).
A post on LinkedIn aimed to show how large Africa is, compared with other continents. This was done through placing outlines of other countries inside Africa. Judging from the comments it did not work well.
Map projections are often notoriously incapable of representing land masses correctly. This is the case with the Mercator Projection, the de facto standard projection in use globally, and has led us to gross misrepresentation of, among others, Africa.
Climate change discussions use a traditional development cooperation terminology, including "sustainable development". The ongoing COP26 actualizes this. Some arguments pro et contra.
www.academia.edu hosted an interesting and good discussion on my draft paper "Involuntary Resettlement in Nepal: A Portfolio Review". The paper was presented at the annual conference of International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), May 2021.
I worked with the Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) in the early 1980s. These are some reminicenses and outlooks on NAFA then and today.
