Håvard Haarstad

Stilling: postdoktor

Telefon: 55 58 45 81

E-post: Havard.Haarstad@geog.uib.no

Besøksadresse: Fosswinckelsgt. 6

Håvard Haarstad (born 1978) is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen. His research reflects his broad interests across social, political and economic geography, and is particularly related to critical analyses of various aspects of globalization. Currently he is focused on the political economy of natural resource governance in Latin America, and is editing a book on “New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance” (Palgrave Macmillan) on the topic. A central argument in his latest work is that it is critical for development prospects that benefits from natural resource extraction are distributed justly and that there are democratic and participatory mechanisms - or political spaces - for civil society to influence the way resources are governed. Both his doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships were fully funded by the Research Council of Norway, and he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford. His work has been accepted in highly ranked journals in geography and in journals outside of his discipline, including Political Geography, Geoforum, Antipode, Globalizations, Latin American Politics and Society, and Contemporary Politics. 

Areas of competence:

- Politics of globalization and development

- The political economy of natural resources

- Labor unions and social movements

- Bolivia and Latin American politics

- Discourse theory, political articulation and identity formation

Publikasjoner i Cristin

Selected publications:

Haarstad, H. (Editor). In press. New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Oseland, S., Haarstad, H., and Fløysand, A. 2012. Labor agency and the importance of the national scale: Emergent aquaculture unionism in Chile. Political Geography, 31, No. 2, pp. 94-103. 

Graham, M. and Haarstad, H. 2012. Global Production Patterns. In: Stoltman, J (ed.) 21st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook. Sage, London, pp. 411-421

Haarstad, H. 2012. The architecture of investment climate surveillance. Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, No. 5, pp. 79-103.

Haarstad, H. and St.Clair, A. (Guest editors) 2011. Social Policy and Global Poverty: beyond the residual paradigm? Special issue in Global Social Policy, 11, No. 3. 

Haarstad, H. 2011. Latin American middle classes and political mobilization for universal welfare. Global Social Policy, Forum contribution, 11, No. 3, pp. 229-232. 

Haarstad, H. and Campero, C. 2011. La participación en el sector de hidrocarburos en Bolivia: El "doble discurso" y las limitaciones sobre la gobernanza participativa. URBECO-report 3/11. Bergen: Center for Urban Ecology.

Haarstad, H. and Campero, C. 2011. Participation in the Bolivian hydrocarbons sector: The "double discourse" and limitations on participatory governance. URBECO-report 4/11. Bergen: Center for Urban Ecology.  

Haarstad, H. 2011. Book review – Rethinking foreign investment for sustainable development: Lessons from Latin America. Gallagher, K and Chudnovsky, D. (eds). London: Anthem Press, 2009. Progress in Development Studies, 11, No. 2, pp. 166-168.

Graham, M. and Haarstad, H. 2011. Transparency and Development: Ethical Consumption through Web 2.0 and the Internet of Things. Information Technologies and International Development, 7, No. 1, pp. 1-18.

Fløysand, A., Haarstad, H. and Barton, J. 2010. Global-economic imperatives, crisis generation and local spaces of engagement in the Chilean aquaculture industry. Norwegian Journal of Geography, 64, No. 4, pp. 199-210. 

Haarstad, H. 2010. Maneuvering the spaces of globalization: the rearticulation of the Bolivian labor movement. Norwegian Journal of Geography, 64, No. 1, pp. 9-20.

Haarstad, H. and Andersson, V. 2009. Backlash Reconsidered: Neoliberalism and Popular Mobilization in Bolivia. Latin American Politics and Society, 51, No. 4, pp. 1-28.  

Haarstad, H. 2009. Globalización, narrativas y redes: conflictos sobre la actividad minera en Tambogrande, Piura. Espacio y Desarollo, No. 20, pp. 87-108.

Haarstad, H. 2009. Globalization and the New Spaces for Social Movement Politics: The Marginalization of Labor Unions in Bolivian Gas Nationalization. Globalizations, 6, No. 2, pp. 169-185.

Drangsland, K.A. and Haarstad, H. 2009. Urban planning and the delimitation of diversity: Roma as "in place" and "out of place" in Jungbusch, Mannheim. International Planning Studies, 14, No. 2, pp. 125-140.

Agafonow, A. and Haarstad, H. 2009. El socialismo del siglo XXI. Una alternativa factible? Revista de Economía Institucional 11, No. 20, pp. 287-307.

Haarstad, H. 2009. FDI policy and political spaces for labour: the disarticulation of the Bolivian petroleros. Geoforum, 40, No. 2, pp. 239-248.  

Holgersen, S and Haarstad, H. 2009. Class, Community and Communicative Planning: Urban Redevelopment at King’s Cross, London. Antipode, 41, No. 2, pp. 348-370.

Fløysand, A and Haarstad, H. 2008. Foreign direct investments in development strategies: Norwegian FDI and the tendency for agglomeration. In: Tamásy, C and Taylor, M. Globalising Worlds and New Economic Configurations. Ashgate, London, pp. 47-56.

Haarstad, H. 2008. The New Left in South America. Forum for development studies, 2, pp. 371-376. (Book review of Kozloff, Nikolas, Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left, 2008.)

Haarstad, H. 2008. Book review – J.K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It) and A Post-Capitalist Politics, 2006. Norwegian Journal of Geography, 62, No. 1, pp. 47.

Haarstad, H and Fløysand, A. 2007. Globalization and the power of rescaled narratives: A case of opposition to mining in Tambogrande, Peru. Political Geography, 26, pp 289-308.

Haarstad, H. 2007. Collective political subjectivity and the problem of scale. Contemporary Politics, 13, No. 1, pp. 57-74.

Haarstad, H. 2007. Kulturelitisme og venstresidens selvransakelse. Replikk: tidsskrift for human- og samfunnsvitenskap (24), pp. 12-17.

Haarstad, H og Lundberg, A. 2006. Fitjarøyane – erfaringer etter 15 år med lokal forvaltning. Geografi i Bergen, nr. 275. 

Fløysand, A, H. Haarstad, S-E. Jakobsen, A. Tønnesen. 2005. Foreign Direct Investment, Regional Change and Poverty: Identifying Norwegian controlled FDI in developing countries. Rapport 4/05. Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning AS, Bergen

Negotiating New Political Spaces: claims for redistribution and recognition in Chile and Bolivia

The project looks at how structural changes in societies influence the ability of civil society actors to press their claims effectively. An important context of the project is the economic globalization that Latin American countries have been embedded in the past two or three decades, the recent shift to the left in the region's electoral politics, and the natural resource base of Latin American economies. Haarstad's work for the project focuses in particular on the case of Bolivia, and the governance of Bolivia's natural gas resources. Financed by the Research Council of Norway.

The Spatial Embeddedness of FDI

Haarstad's PhD project was part of a broader project called The Spatial Embeddedness of Foreign Direct Investment, financed by the Research Council of Norway. The purpose of this project has been to investigate the complex dynamics between FDI and development, focusing in particular on power, social networks and capital. For more information about the project, see the project website fdi.uib.no.