Gaudencia Mutema
forsker
Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning
Stilling: forsker
Telefon: 55 58 89 32
E-post: Gaudencia.Mutema@skok.uib.no
Besøksadresse: Allegt. 34
- gender and migration
- Affect Theory
- Critical Race Theory (CRT)
- religion and the new African diaspora in Europe and the USA
- minorities and education
- genocide and ethnic conflict
- war trauma
- Rwanda, Somalia
Gender and Migration Studies
Critical Race Studies
Minority Education
African Diaspora Studies
2012 (accepted for publication) Rwandan Narratives of Genocide and Trauma: A Feminist Liberation Psychology Approach, Special Issue on "War and Trauma" (German Trans. Ruandische Narrative über Genozid und Trauma: eine feministisch befreiungspsychologische Annäherung), Trauma & Gewalt, Vol. 2, No. 3, Philipp Kuwert and Ingvill C. Mochmann (Guest Editors)
2010 Religion and African Migration: A Survey, Religion Compass, 4(5), pp. 271-286, Oxford: Blackwell.
2006 “Rwanda," Landprofil. Oljespill – Jakten på Afrikas svarte gull. Fellesrådets Afrikaårbok 2007. Sigurd Jorde (ed.). Oslo: Fellesrådet for Afrika and Solidaritet forlag.
2005 Rebuilding Lives After Genocide: Life Histories of Rwandan Refugees in Zimbabwe and Norway, Doctoral Thesis. Faculty of Arts, University of Bergen, ISBN 82-308-0024-3. 309 pages.
2003 "Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and the Study of Indigenous Knowledge Systems," in INIDILINGA:African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 81-88.
Spring Semester 2012
“Introduction to Gender Theory,” KVIK 101, BA course, SKOK
“Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork,” GAD 301, MPhil course, Gender and Development
Recent Courses
“Politics and Ethics of Research,” Gender and Globalization: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges, Ph. D course, Bergen Summer Research School 2011
"Gender and Conflict: Rape as a Weapon of Genocide,” Gender and Globalization: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges, Ph. D course, Bergen Summer Research School 2011
“Gender Perspectives on the Environment and Development,” GEO 131, BA course, Guest Lecture, Department of Geography
Affective Displacements: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
(with Professor Ellen Mortensen)
This international and interdisciplinary project aims to bring together researchers in the humanities, social sciences, legal studies, medicine/psychiatry, gender studies, Diaspora and migration studies, disability studies, race and ethnic studies, ethnology and peace studies, with the aim of studying various forms of displacement and their effects, in the age of globalization. The overall project will apply affect theory, alongside other theories, with the objective of developing theories, methodologies and models of thought that can be used to both supplement and challenge current scholarship on displacement. While the project's conclusions will be primarily theoretical and methodological, they will necessarily have social, political, pragmatic, developmental and policy-oriented implications.
Migration, Gender and Education: Somali Children in the Diaspora
(Recently completed) A comparative project that explored how gender, ethnic identity and other factors affect children from Somalia attending schools in Bergen, Norway and Omaha, Nebraska (USA), in devising mechanisms to bridge the worlds of family and culture from Somalia and school and Norwegian/American culture respectively. Results from the project show that schooling and neighbourhoods are crucial factors contributing to the integration of young immigrants and their families. In addition, migration brings immigrant children and their families into gendered and racialized contexts that affect Somali immigrant communities' sense of identity, self-worth and belonging.