Academic interests
- Political Ecology
- Environmental Humanities
- Anthropology
- Ethnographic Methods and Theory
- Food Consumption and Production
- Landscapes
- Natural Resources
- Human-Animal Relations
Ph.D. Project
For my PhD project with the working title Outfields, Farmers, and Meat: Exploring the Affective Relationship Between Farmers, Animals and the Cultural Landscape in the Wake of Industrial Meat Production in Norway I explore how the industrialisation of meat production impacts the relationship between humans, animals and the outfield landscape. I am especially interested in how politics concerning the outfields have emerged and been changed in relation to meat and food production, and the consequences this has had for the possibilities of outfield grazing and human-animal-landscape relations.
The doctoral project is supervised by Associate Professor Ursula Münster.
Background
I have a background in social anthropology as well as interdisciplinary environmental and development studies. Since 2018 I have conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in both New York City and Hawai'i in which I have focused on the topic of landscapes. In my master's degree in social anthropology I delve into how historical events in queer social movements become inscribed into the urban landscape through storytelling and place-based knowledges in queer communities. In turn, I argue that the mnemonics of the urban landscape in NYC is the foundation for emergent forms of socialities which challenges the established, (hetero)normative social conventions of gender, family, love and intimacy. Recently, my research interests lean towards political ecology and commons, and how politics of landscape resources and histories affect humans' relationship to plants, animals and the environment. For my master thesis in Development, Environment and Cultural Change, I explore how landscape histories, especially in relation to plantations, agriculture and colonisation, affect human-landscape relations. Focusing on coffee farming, I describe how soil conditions, multispecies presences and crop disease impact human-landscape relations through forms of care, control and affect.
Education
- 2023 - Current - Ph.D
- 2021-2023 - Master's degree in Development, Environment and Cultural Change, University of Oslo
- 2017-2019 - Master's degree in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
- 2016-2017 - Year-study in interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Bergen
- 2013-2016 - Bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
Grants
- 2024 UiO:Energy and Environment, Grant award for mobility
- 2023 UiO Faculty of Humanities, Grant for longer research travels
Positions held
- 2022-2023: Research Assistant for Anthropogenic Soils (University of Oslo)
- 2022: Research Assistant for Oslo School of Environmental Humanities
- 2018-2019: Research Assistant for WAIT (University of Bergen)