Welcome to the site of the strategic research area Globalization at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Globalization is a research area in which NTNU has potential for outstanding research. The Globalization Programme aims at bringing out this potential by putting researchers from different corners of the institution and of the world together to examine the issues and challenges of an increasingly globalized world.
Mobile Livelihoods and Gendered Citizenship: The Counter-Geographies of Indigenous People in India, China and Laos
The project is financed by the Norwegian Research council (NFR) for a three year period (2010 -2012). Project Summary
Globalization research leader was interviewed by GEMINI magazine
– A lively debate followed the interview of Indra de Soysa by Gemini magazine
Based on data on conflicts around the world from 1970s onwards, de Soysa and co-authors show that economic freedom promotes domestic peace. If globalization means also the spread of neo-liberal economic policies, then more globalization points to peace rather than social breakdown as many sceptics of globalization claim.
You can read more of the interview and the debate that followed at: GEMINI magazine
Focus Area name changed
– Focus area Cultural Translation is renamed as Intercultural Dynamics: communication, responsibility and development
Focus area Cultural Translation has been going through several changes in this autumn. Since September the focus area has a new leader. Associate professor May Thorseth from the Department of Philosophy replaces the former leader Tor Åfalrli. The focus area has also revised its research focus and therefore changed its name into Intercultural Dynamics: communication, responsibility and development. The leader group consists of the same research members as before.
These modifications are made to addressed the comments of the evaluation group ( in 2007) as well as an attempt to further improve the research within themes of cultural aspects of globalization.
Latest publications:
Eksil og Livsløp (Published in Norwegian): Berit Berg and Kirsten Lauritsen (2009)
Teknologibasert Nyskaping i Norge (Published in Norwegian): Edited by Arild Aspelund , Professor Øystein Moen, Alf Steinar Sætre, Roger Sørheim and Øystein Widding (2009)
The Tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka: Impacts and Policy in the Shadow of Civil War: Edited by Ragnhild Lund and Piers Blaikie (2009)
