Randi Kaarhus is Professor of Development Studies, Noragric at the Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM). With a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oslo (1996), she has working experience as a Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) in the period 1988-1998, First Secretary at the Norwegian Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique (1999-2000), and as Professor of Anthropology at Nord University (2014-2017). In the period 2001- 2013 she worked at Noragric, first as Associate Professor, then as Professor and Head of Research at the Department. In the period 2018-2021 (September) she was first Head of Research, then Acting Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Landscape and Society.
Thematic fields of interest:
Women's land rights; Knowledge and power in policy and planning; Epistemology and qualitative methodology; Comparative approaches
Society/Environment and Culture/Environment intersections; Natural resource conflicts; Gender relations and food production
Geographical competence: South-eastern Africa; Latin America/Andean region; Norway/Nordic countries
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