- Institutt for internasjonale miljø- og utviklingsstudier, Noragric
I am a social anthropologist and associate professor and the Head of the Department's PhD Programme in International Environment and Development Sudies. Before joining Noragric in 2009 I held research positions at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. In 2018 I was a visiting scholar at the Univesity of California, Davis. I completed my PhD degree at the University of Oslo in 2006.
My current research focuses on the political ecology and environmental anthropology of mineral extraction, with a specific interest in the geo-social transformations caused by large-scale mining. My research interests also include participatory governance, indigenous rights and environmental justice; the role of minerals in the 'green shift'; recent socio-environmental history of the colonization of the Amazon; decolonial perspectives and methodologies; and the intersection of indigenous, academic and coroporate science epistemological practices. I have previous research experience within the fields of indigenous economy, transnational migration and care economies. I teach critical social theory and research methods at Master- and PhD-levels.
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