Erlend Eidsvik
universitetslektor
Institutt for geografi
Stilling: universitetslektor
Telefon: 55 58 93 25
E-post: Erlend.Eidsvik@global.uib.no
Besøksadresse: Fosswinckelsgt. 6
Colonial- and postcolonial geographies, globalisation, historical geography, entrepreneurship. PhD project: "Spaces of Scandinavian encounters in colonial South Africa"
Postcolonial theories, Qualitative Analysis, Historical Geography, Network theories
Eidsvik, Erlend (2013 - in print) Expressions of pan-Scandinavian sentiments in the magazine Fram among Scandinavian migrants in South Africa, 1914-1954. In Harvard, Jonas & Stadius, Peter (Eds.) Communicating the North: Media Structures and Images in the Making of the Nordic Region. Farnham, Ashgate.
Eidsvik, Erlend (2012): "Colonial Discourse and Ambivalence: Norwegian Participants on the Colonial Arena in South Africa." In Loftsdottir, Kristin & Jensen, Lars (Eds.) Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities. Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate.
Eidsvik, Erlend (2009): Thesen & Co - væreigarar i Sør-Afrika. In Kjerland, Kirsten Alsaker & Rio, Knut (Eds.) Kolonitid. Nordmenn på eventyr og big business i Afrika og Stillehavet. Oslo, Scandinavian Academic Press.
Currently responsible for course in Qualitative Analysis - GEO 206
Teaches in Geography and History at Bachelor and Master levels at Bergen University College.
In the Wake of Colonialism