About the reading group
We are happy to welcome a professor of cultural history at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo Dr Karen V. Lykke as our guest at the Anthropogenic Soils May Reading Group. We will be discussing the paper by Isabelle Hugøy on alternative agricultural practices in Norway, before turning our attention towards the research of the SOILFOOD research group. This is bound to be an exciting conversation!
Readings
- Hugøy, Isabelle. "Unearthing care: Rooting alternative agricultural practices in Norway and Costa Rica". Nature and Space (2024).
The readings will be circulated via the SOILS e-mail listserve.
Location
This will be a hybrid event but we encourage you to attend in person if you can!
Zoom-link
Click here to attend Zoom meeting
Meeting ID: 659 4524 0456
Passcode: 717659
About the presenter:
Dr Karen V. Lykke is an agronomist, ethnologist and holds a PhD in cultural history from the University of Oslo. She is a professor of cultural history at the Centre for Development and the Environment. Her research interests pivot around the histories and ideologies of nature, focusing on environmental discourse and practice; agrarian and arboreal landscape studies; and social and cultural aspects of food. She has been co-editor of the volumes Perceptions of Water in Britain from Early Modern Times to the Present (Bric, 2010) Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life (Routledge 2015) Denialism in Environmental and Animal Abuse: Averting Our Gaze. (Lexington Rowman 2021) and Changing Meat Cultures (Rowman & Littlefield 2022). Her most recent book is Live, Die, Buy, Eat: A Cultural History of Animals and Meat (Routledge 2023) and Kjøtt (Res Publica), both co-authored with K. Bjørkdahl. Her ongoing projects are the historical and contemporary relationships with non-human animals as food and the practice and science of regenerative farming.
SOILFOOD
SOILFOOD is a research group at the Center for Development and Environment, University of Oslo. Find out more about the research they are doing at SOILFOOD by clicking here and about their project RIPARAGO by clicking here.