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Haldis Haukanes

Professor
Department of Health Promotion and Development
  • E-mailHaldis.Haukanes@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 92 59
  • Visitor Address
    Alrek helseklynge, Årstadveien 17
    5009 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7807
    5020 Bergen
  • Social anthropology
  • Gender studies and feminist theory
  • Development
  • Food and risk
  • Youth and family studies
  • Eastern and East– Central Europe and post-communist transformation
  • Sexual and reproductive rights, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa

 

NEW BOOK

Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders.

Gender, reproduction, regulation

This book is a collection of articles by anthropologists and social scientists concerned with gendered labour, care, intimacy and sexuality, in relation to mobility and the hardening of borders in Europe. Interrogating the relation between physical, geopolitical borders and ideological, conceptual boundaries, this book offers a range of vivid and original ethnographic case studies that will capture the imagination of anyone interested in gendered migration, policies of inclusion and exclusion, and regulation of reproduction and intimacy.
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PUBLICATIONS AT CRIStin

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2024). Between ‘block course relationships’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University. Culture, Health and Sexuality.
  • Show author(s) (2022). ‘I Do Not Want Her to be Doing Anything Stressful’: Men’s Involvement in Domestic Work during pregnancy in Ghana. Progress in Development Studies. 319-334.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Participation in Climate Change Adaptation Programs in Nepal: An Intersectional Study. Forum for Development Studies. 155-174.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Silences and Secrets of Family, Community and State. Ethnologia Polona. 99-112.
  • Show author(s) (2021). "I came to escort someone": Men's experiences of antenatal care services in Urban Ghana. A qualitative study. Reproductive Health. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia. Social Science and Medicine.
  • Show author(s) (2020). The emotional journey of motherhood in migration. The case of Southern European mothers in Norway. Migration Studies. 1230-1249.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy. Social Science and Medicine.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Self-legitimation and sense-making of Southern European parents' migration to Norway: The role of family aspirations. Population, Space and Place. 1-12.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Making Fathers: Masculinities and Social Change in the Ghanaian Context. Africa Today. 24-47.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Gendered visions of family life and parenthood among Czech young people: restricted or transforming imaginations. Journal of Youth Studies. 1148-1163.
  • Show author(s) (2019). ‘An uneasy compromise’: strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia. International Journal for Equity in Health.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia. International Journal for Equity in Health. 1-10.
  • Show author(s) (2019). When abortion is not within reach. Ethiopian university students struggling with unintended pregnancies. International Journal for Equity in Health. 1-13.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. International Journal for Equity in Health.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act. International Journal for Equity in Health. 1-11.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Organizing for Empowerment: Exploring the Impact of Unionization on Domestic Workers in India . Studies in comparative international development. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania. International Journal for Equity in Health.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Futures full of hope, futures of despair. Contrasting temporalities in the life narratives of young Czechs. Slovak Ethnology. 120-134.
  • Show author(s) (2017). From benevolent maternalism to the market logic: exploring discursive boundary making in domestic work relations in India. Critical Asian studies (Print). 481-500.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Shifting meanings of gender equality in Development: Perspectives from Norway and Ethiopia. Progress in Development Studies. 39-51.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Maid in India: negotiating and contesting the boundaries of domestic work. Forum for Development Studies. 415-436.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Care and career in the life scripts of young people - gendered cases from the Czech Republic and Norway. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 165-180.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Mediating development? Exchanges on gender policies and development practices in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Africa Today. 25-45.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Freedom and pressure in self-disclosure. Social Theory & Health. 105-123.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Symbols and meanings in breast cancer awareness campaigns. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 140-155.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Strong state policies on gender and aid: threats and opportunities for Norwegian faith-based organisations. Forum for Development Studies. 193-216.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Precarious Lives. Narratives of hope, loss and "normality" across two generations of Czechs. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 47-57.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Memory, imagination, and belonging across generations:Perspectives from postsocialist Europe and beyond. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 1-13.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Fearing the future? Young people envisioning their working lives in the Czech Republic, Norway and Tunisia. Journal of Youth Studies. 916-931.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Belonging, mobility and the future: representations of space in the life narratives of young rural czechs. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. 193-210.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Når det intime blir offentlig. Kvinners erfaringer med åpenhet om brystkreft. Nordisk tidsskrift for helseforskning. 17.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Når det intime blir offentlig. Kvinners erfaringer med åpenhet om brystkreft. Nordisk tidsskrift for helseforskning. 2-17.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Sharing food, sharing taste? Consumption practices, gender relations and individuality in Czech families. Anthropology of food.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Katja's canteen: Gendered intersections of the public and the private in the South Bohemian countryside. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 19-34.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Det siste måltidet. Mat og ekteskap i sjølvbiografiske forteljingar. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 137-147.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Telling Lives. Autobiography and History after Socialism. Anthropology of East Europe Review.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Rituál a kazdodenné spotrebitelské praktiky na ceskom a polskom vidieku: pochopenie modernity prostrednícvom zmien v stravovacích návykoch. Slovak Ethnology. 103-121.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Ritual and Everyday Consumption Practices in the Czech and Polish Countryside. Conceiving Modernity through Changing Food Regimes. Anthropological Journal on European Cultures. 103-129.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Ritual and everyday consumption Practices in the Czech and Polish countryside. Conceiving modernity through changing food regimes. Bulletin for Biblical Research.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Ambivalent traditions. Transforming gender symbols and food practices in the Czech Republic. Anthropology of East Europe Review.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Anthropological Debates on Gender and the Post-Communist Transformation. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 5-20.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Postkommunismen antropologi - fins den? Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 267-272.
  • Show author(s) (1994). Kvar går tsjekkisk landbruk ? Jordvett : månedsavis for økologisk landbruk.
  • Show author(s) (1992). Nvekolik dojmu norské studentky socialní antropologie ze vzivota vceské vesnice. Sociologické aktuality.
Report
  • Show author(s) (1997). Anthropology of East Central Europe. A critical analysis. .
Lecture
  • Show author(s) (2018). Mother Blame in Migration: The Experiences of Southern European Mothers in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Global-national-local dynamics in studies of gender, health and the body. Examples of research collaboration between anthropologists on the margins.
  • Show author(s) (2015). North South Partnerships in Higher Education.
Popular scientific lecture
  • Show author(s) (2016). Looking into the future. Visions, plans and worries among Young People in Žamberk and its surroundings.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Looking into the future. Plans, visions and worries among Young People from Žamberk and its surroundings.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Barn og foreldreskap i eit krysskulturelt perspektiv.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Gender and Development as a Study Programme and a Political Field.
  • Show author(s) (1995). Rhetoric of success and failure; the case of the Czech countryside.
  • Show author(s) (1994). Om utviklinga i Lipina, ein tsjekkisk landsby, etter 1989,.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2023). Food, everyday life, and generational transformations. Longitudinal qualitative research in rural Czech Republic.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Food sharing in kin-based networks: substances, structures and relations. .
  • Show author(s) (2023). Food and Food work in times of crises - presentation of research project.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Strategies of silence? Looking back at questions of secrecy and oblivion in an ethnography from the early 1990s.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Gender,labour and care. A three generational perspective from the Czech Republic.
  • Show author(s) (2019). UNWANTED PREGNANCY: DYNAMICS OF GENDER AND POWER University girls’ experiences, Ethiopia, .
  • Show author(s) (2019). Ethiopian University Students Struggling with Unintended Pregnancies .
  • Show author(s) (2018). “We don’t talk about contraceptives”. Students' exposure to and engagement with sexual and reproductive health information at three Universities in Ethiopia.
  • Show author(s) (2018). The Access Paradox in Safe Abortion Care. The cases of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia .
  • Show author(s) (2017). Ethiopian university students negotiating discourses of sexuality, fertility control and abortion: Preliminary findings.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Socialism forgotten? Searching for the future's past among young Czechs.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Competing temporalities. Exploring social change through the past- present- future nexus.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Towards an engaged anthropology of/ for the future?
  • Show author(s) (2015). Deconstructing "Gender" in Gender and Development.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Care and career in the life scripts of young people – cases from the Czech Republic and Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Care and career among in the life scripts of young people – cases from the Czech Republic and Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Young Czechs' visions of the future.
  • Show author(s) (2013). The politics of Translation: Gender Equality, aid and development in Norway and Ethiopia.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Precarious lives? Narratives of hope, loss and normality accross two generations of Czechs.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Mediators of development? Experiences with gender and aid among gender experts in Ethiopia.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Measuring Poverty and Gender Disparity. Comments to preliminary Report.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Livsløp, arbeid of framtid i krisenes tidsalder.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Fearing the future? Young people envisioning their future lives in the Czech Republic, Norway and Tunisia.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Critical Explorations of Aid Policies on Gender Equality and Women's Rights: Cases from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2012). The Politics of Translation: Gender Equality, Aid and Development in Norway and Ethiopia.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Precarious lives? Narratives of hope, loss and “normality” among different generations of Czechs.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Beyond Culture? Commitment and Structural Critique among Gender experts in Ethiopia.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Precarious lives?Narratives of hope, loss and “normality” among different generations of Czechs.
  • Show author(s) (2009). The beauty of quietness. Powerful notions of the periphery among young rural Czechs.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Should I stay or should I go? Mobility and Stability as contrasting values in your peoples lives.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Growing up global? Imagined futures of Czech and Tunisian teenagers.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Growing up Global? Young Czechs' and Tunisians' perceptions of family.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Growing up Global? Young Czechs' and Tunisians' perceptions of family.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Engaged Anthropology. Or: what can social anthropology do for Health Promotion.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Kjønna forteljingar og fortolkingar. Om kjønn som umiddelbar og som abstrakt kategori.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Katja’s canteen. Gendered intersections of the public and the private in the South Bohemian countryside.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Globalisation, child vulnerability and ideas of proper parenthood: two cases from the Norwegian media scene.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Globalisation, child vulnerability and ideas of proper parenthood: Two cases from the Norwegain media scene.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Food, death and gender. The narration of lives and marriages in rural Czech Republic.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Det siste måltidet: Mat og ekteskap i sjølvbiografiske forteljingar.
  • Show author(s) (2005). The last meal. The transformative power of food in accounts from the past.
  • Show author(s) (2005). The last meal. The transformative power of food in accounts from the past.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Statens kjønn.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Øst-Europa før og etter kommunismens fall.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Sharing food, sharing taste? Consumption practices, gender relations and individuality in Czech families.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Risiko og nytelse i kugalskapens tid.
  • Show author(s) (1996). Dealing with unreliable pasts. History and memory in the Czech lands.
Editorial
  • Show author(s) (2004). Redaksjonelt. Kvinneforskning.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Redaksjonelt. Kvinneforskning.
Reader opinion piece
  • Show author(s) (2020). Reproductive health and the politics of abortion. International Journal for Equity in Health. 1-4.
Book review
  • Show author(s) (2023). "Food systems and food producers during COVID-19: gendered patterns and local-global structures". Review of edited volume: Castellanos, P., Sachs, C. E., Tickamyer, A. R. (eds.). 2022. Gender, Food and COVID 19. Global Stories of Harm and Hope. New York: Routledge Focus. Gender a výzkum. 185-188.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Cervinkova, Hana, Michal Buchowski and Zdeněk Uherek (eds.) 2015. Rethinking ethnography in Central Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 267 pp. Social Anthropology. 103-104.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Elisabeth Lorange Fürst. Hva skal vi med med frihet? Fortellinger fra Moldova før, under og etter Sovjetunionen. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 61-62.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Book review of Johnson, Janet Elise. Gender Violence in Russia: The Politics of Feminist Intervention. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. Russian Review. 545-546.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Men in contemporary Russia: The fallen heroes of post-Soviet change? Russian Review. 171-172.
  • Show author(s) (2007). David Torsello: Trust, Property and Social Change in a Southern Slovakian Village. Sociologický casopis. 227-229.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Bokomtale av Trond Berge: Reaksjoner på industriforurensing og industrinedleggelse i byen Copsa Mica, Romania”. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Ord og deira sosiale liv. Bokomtale av Astrid Grytting "Eit ordenteleg ekteskap. Nytt om Kvinneforskning. 72-76.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Show author(s) (2021). Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders: Gender, reproduction, regulation. Manchester University Press.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Parenting after the century of the child. Travelling ideals, institutional negotiations and individual responses. Ashgate.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Generations, Kinship and Care. Gendered Provisions of Social Security in Central Eastern Europe. Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Memory, Politics and Religion. The past meets the present in contemporary Europe. Lit Verlag.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Women after Communism. Ideal Images and Real Lives. Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning, UiB.
Academic monograph
  • Show author(s) (2004). Velké dramata, bezné zivoty. Postkomunistické zkusenosti na ceském venkove.
Thesis at a second degree level
  • Show author(s) (1992). Lipina - bilete frå ein tsjekkisk landsby i ei omveltningstid.
Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) (2007). Šitbořice očima návštěvnice. Štengaráček.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Mat og risiko i Kugalskapens tid. Et blikk på Tsjekkia i det nye Europa. Jordens Folk. 26-31.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Antropologi før og etter kommunismens fall - regionale tema og faglege utfordringar. KulaKula. 4-7.
  • Show author(s) (1994). Zábia#vcka - griseslakt med tradisjonar. Jordvett : månedsavis for økologisk landbruk.
  • Show author(s) (1993). Managing ones` lives in a turbulent world - some experiences from a Czech village. Bulletin for Biblical Research.
Feature article
  • Show author(s) (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. Bergens Tidende, Debattsider.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. Bergens Tidende, Debattsider.
  • Show author(s) (2017). The paradox of access - abortion law, policy and misoprostol. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 1-6.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Pessimisme og håp i Sentral-Europa. Tsjekkia 20 år etter kommunismen fall. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Den vanskelege maten. UiB-magasinet : nytt fra Universitetet i Bergen.
  • Show author(s) (1997). National myths reproduced or subverted? H-Net Reviews.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2021). Beyond the Law - An Ethnography of Zambian Abortion Politics.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Unequal Interdependencies. Exploring Power and Agency in Domestic Work Relations in Contemporary India.
  • Show author(s) (1999). Grand dramas - ordinary lives : state, locality and person in post-communist Czech society.
Interview
  • Show author(s) (2007). Matglede viktigare enn risiko.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Intervju om eiga forsking om mat og risiko i Tsjekkia.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2021). Reconceptualising borders and boundaries: gender, movement, reproduction, regulation. 24 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Parenthood and childhood: debates within the social sciences. 22 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Growing up nuclear? Young Czechs' and Tunisians' vision of family, parenting and gender roles. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Telling Lives. Autobiography and History after Socialism. 17 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Introduction. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). The Power of Genre. Local history-writing in communist Czechoslovakia. 17 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Introduction. 29 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Enjoyment and choise in an age of risk. The case of BSE in the Czech Republic. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Women as Nurturers. Food, Risk and Ideals of care in the Czech Republic.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Introduction. 9 pages.
Poster
  • Show author(s) (2011). Gender equality in Norwegian Development Aid. Norwegian Gender Equality Models and Experiences and their Applicability for Low-income Countries.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Gender in Poverty Reduction. Critical Explorations of Norwegian Aid Policy on Gender Equality and Women's rights.
Introduction
  • Show author(s) (2021). Introduction. 1-6.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Parenting after the century of the child : introduction. 1-10.
Chapter
  • Show author(s) (2019). Les différents sens de l'égalité de genre dans le développement : le cas de la Norvège et de l'Éthiopie. 245-264. In:
    • Show author(s) (2019). Savoirs féministes au Sud. Expertes en genre et tournant décolonial. L'Harmattan.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Current and recent research projects

2007- 2013 Project leader of the research project Growing up Global? A comparative study of belonging, gendered identities and imagined futures in The Czech Republic, Norway and Tunisia. (With Marit Tjomsland and Gry Heggli)

2009-2013 Project leader of the research project Gender in poverty reduction. Critical Explorations of Norwegian Aid Policy on Gender Equality and Women’s Rights. (Financed by NFR, Poverty and Peace, start-up date 01.07.2009)

2014- Youth and the future in times of crises; gendered life visions, work and vulnerabilities. (Follow-up study of the "Growing up Global"-project, carried out in the Czech Republic by Haldis Haukanes)

2016-2019: Competing moralities impacting girls’ and women’s rights: The case of safe abortion in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia (NFR-NORGLOBAL-project, headed by Astrid Blystad, University of Bergen)

2021-2026: Reporting in context: An interdisciplinary initiative to strengthen maternal health services and surveillance in Ethiopia and Tanzania (Financed by NRC, headed by Astrid Blystad, University of Bergen)

 

  • Doctoral degree in Social Anthropology
  • Professor at the International MPhil programme in Global Development Theory and Practice

 

Fields of competence 
Czech Republic
East Central Europe
Family and Generational Studies
Gender and Development
Postsocialism
Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Youth
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Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders

Gender, reproduction, regulation