Kari Anne Klovholt Drangsland
- E-mailkari.drangsland@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 25 730047 97978783
- Visitor AddressParkveien 9Ida Bloms hus5007 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78055020 Bergen
Drangsland is a human geographer and a postdoctoral fellow on the TemPro project - led by Jessica Schultz at CMI - of which SKOK is one of the partners. TemPro is an interdisciplinary project gathering legal scholars, anthropologists and geographers. Drangsland is the work package leader for the ethnographic work of TemPro. Drangsland defended her PhD thesis at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) in January 2021. Her PhD project was a part of the umbrella project "Waiting for an uncertain future: the temporalities of irregular migration" (Research Council of Norway). Her empirical focus was on temporality related to irregular migration in the German migration hub of Hamburg. Read her doctoral thesis here. Time and temporality are still central dimensions of her research.
Before embarking on her PhD work Drangsland worked as a researcher, consultant and university lecturer within the field of migration and urban studies. Her professional career has been guided by a profound interest in matters of migration, bordering, difference, labour and temporality. Her work has focused on Norwegian asylum and integration policies and on questions concerning diversity and migration within urban spatial and social planning. These are also core issues in 'Planning and society', a masters course that Drangsland intiated ran together with colleagues between 2012-2016, at the Department of Geography at UiB. Drangsland has also thaught at the Bergen School of Architecture, with a thematic focus on architecture and temporality, architecture and power, and feminist perspectives.
In 2007, Drangsland co-founded the Centre of Urban Ecology (CUE) in Bergen. She works with issues related to migration and urban development and conducts projects at the intersection of art, architecture and research. CUE worked with questions related to urban development in the face of climate change and with projects within the field of migration. In 2011, the Center of Urban Ecology received "Anette Tommesens Minnepris" (Norwegian Association for Asylum Seekers) for their work with the relation between asylum reception centres and the local community. In 2011, the Center was one of three nominees to the national design prize "Young Designer of the Year" by "Norsk Form".
Drangsland leads the research group Gender, migration and inequality at SKOK, and she is also a member of the research group Foundational Questions in Gender and Sexuality Research.
She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Hamburg (2018) and at the Centre for Global Migration Studies at the University of Göttingen (2021). From 2023 she holds as 20 percent position as Assistant Professor in Human Geography at the Western University of Applied Sciences, teaching within fields of urbanism, planning, climate adaptation and geographical didactical methods. Drangsland is a board member of the Norwegian Network for Migration Research (NNMF) and of Nordic Migration Research (NMR). Previously, she was a board member of IMER Bergen (International Migration and Ethnic Relation) (2017-2020).
Podcast
Panel conversations and other public conversations (selected)
Presentation "temporary protection in Europe post 2015", Ideas2evidence, Bergen, 20 January 2023.
Workshop participant in the project Speculative Urban Futures's two-day workshop in Berlin, Speculative Urban Futures Part 2, 18-19 January 2023.
Public lecture, Evangelische Hochschule Freiburg. Presentation title: ‘Migration and waiting. European migration governance after 2015 – perspectives from Norway’. 20.01.2022.
Speaker at the conference ‘Migration in a Multilateral World’ (digital). Annual conference of the European Migration Network National Contact Point for the Slovak Republic. 26.08.2021
Global School Film & Reflections: Migration, Film screening of Mediterranea followed by conversation. 28.04.2021. Bergen School of Global Studies, University of Bergen
"Nattens lys". Kulturkirken Jacob, Oslo, 9.11.2020
Social Acoustics: Sound, Hearing, Movement, Performativity. Seminar, 10 April 2019
Nattens Lys" Vår Frues Kirke, Trondheim, 11.11.2018
Med livet på vent, Litteraturhuset i Bergen, 20.11.2018
Blog posts, articles and opinion pieces
Listening to Papenreye. Article in the free newspaper Free Berlin, Issue No. 10/June 2023
Retten til familieliv er en menneskerettighet. Norge nekter flyktninger denne rettigheten (The right to a family life is a human right. Norway is denying refugees this right) Opinion piece in Norwegian daily Vårt Land, 20.04.2023 (behind paywall, the piece was also published in the paper version 21.04.23)
Hva skjer hvis flyktningene ikke kan reise hjem raskt? (What happens if the refugees cannot return quickly?) Opinion piece in Norwegian daily Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). 12.03.2022
Collective protection as a short-term solution: European responses to the protection needs of refugees from the war in Ukraine. Blog post on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy blog. 08.03.2022
Drangsland, Kari Anne, Jacobsen, Christine M., Karlsen, Marry-Anne og Schultz, Jessica. How is the Covid-19 pandemic affecting migrants with precarious legal status? Blog post at the WAIT project website, 15.04.2020.
Drangsland, Kari Anne, Jacobsen, Christine M. og Karlsen, Marry-Anne. Waiting for uncertain futures in pandemic times. Blog post at the WAIT project website, 15.04.2020.
Research blog at Forskning.no. "Venterommet Europa"
Drangsland, Kari Anne. Places of silence at the edge of comfort. Blog post at SKOK website 05.01.2018
Exhibitions (collaborative art projects).
"Now is our time to imagine," photo exhibition. Together with Roma Youth and Youth from Bergen. Co-produced with textile designer and artist Heidi W. Strom (2014)
"There is no place like here," textile design and photo exhibition, explorative research project. Collaborative project together with asylum seekers/women from Bergen. Co-produced with textile designer and artist Heidi W. Strom(2010). Awarded the "Anette Tommesens Minnepris" (Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers - NOAS)
"In place out of place," photo exhibition and exhibition of objects. Collaborative project with children living in Norwegian asylum reception centres. Together with artist Elida Brenna Linge (2010)
Drangsland welcomes requests from MA students and PhD candidates regarding supervision on topics such as migration, gender, post-colonialism, exclusion, temporality, planning (e.g. planning theory, participatory planning, area-based programmes), place and space.
Since January 2023 Drangsland teaches geography and sustainability at Western University of Applied Sciences.
2023: "Writing a room, writing about a room", Leading and lecturer at crosscourse at Bergen School of Architecture, 22 - 24 February.
2022 - : Supervision of PhD.candidate (Hamburg University).
2017-2021: "Tid og temporalitet i planleggingen." Master seminar, Department of Geography, University of Bergen.
2018: "Limits of Control". Leading and teaching a master course at the Bergen School of Architecture.
2018: "Sexuality and migration". Lecture. Centre for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Bergen
2017: "Temporary Architecture. Material Politics." Leading and teaching the master workshop at the Bergen School of Architecture.
2012-2016: "Planning and Society". University lecturer and responsible for the master's course. Department of Geography, University of Bergen.
Thesis PhD
Drangsland, Kari Anne (2021) Working to ‘Wait Well’ : Exploring the temporalities of irregular migration in Germany. Centre for Women's and Gender Research. University of Bergen
Journal articles (per-reviewed)
Drangsland, Kari Anne (2020). Bordering through recalibration: Exploring the temporality of the German “Ausbildungsduldung." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38(6) 1128–1145.
Drangsland, Kari Anne (2020). Waiting as a redemptive state: The ‘Lampedusa in Hamburg’ and the offer from the Hamburg government. Time & Society 2020, Vol. 29 (2) 318–339.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K. and Haarstad, Håvard (2009). Urban Planning and the Delimitation of Diversity: Roma as ‘in place’ and ‘out of place’ in Jungbusch, Mannheim. International Planning Studies 14 (2): 125-140.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K. and Holgersen, Ståle (2008). The Production of Bergen. International Planning Studies 13 (2): 161-169.
Book chapters (peer-reviewed)
Drangsland, Kari Anne Klovholt (2020) Mo’s challenge. Waiting and the question of methodological nationalism, in Jacobsen, Karlsen and Khosravi (eds), Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration. Routledge.
Karlsen, Marry-Anne, Drangsland, Kari Anne K. and Hidle, Knut (2014). ‘The conditions for hospitality in the Norwegian asylum reception system’. in Nordic Work with Traumatised refugeees: Do we really care. Overland, Gwynyth, Guribye, Eugene and Lie, Birgit (Eds.) Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Other publications (selected)
Drangsland, KA (2023). Listnening to Papenrey - the soundscape of an urban asylum camp. Speculative Urban Futures: Inequality and Migration Miniseries. Available at: Listening to Papenreye – the soundscape of an urban asylum camp - GRIP (gripinequality.org)
Drangsland, KA (2023). Listnening to Papenreye. Free Berlin, No. 1. 2023. Errant Bodies Press. Available at: ResearchGate
Drangsland, KA., og Karlsen M-A. (2023). Retten til familieliv er en menneskerettighet. Norge nekter flyktninger denne rettigheten. Kronikk. Vårt Land. 21. april
Drangsland, KA., Karlsen M-A. and Schultz J. (2022) Hva skjer hvis flyktningene ikke kan reise hjem raskt? Kronikk. Bergens Tidende. 12.mars.
Drangsland, KA. and Schultz, J. (2021) Regjeringen åpner for å innskrenke retten til flyktningstatus. Det er urovekkende. Kronikk. Aftenposten. 27.desember.
Drangsland, KA. and Strøm, H. (2015) Now is our time to imagine. Exhibition catalogue.
Drangsland, KA., Vabø, A-K and Strøm, H. (2010) There is no place like here. Exhibition catalogue.
Drangsland, KA. and Vabø, A-K. (2010) There is no place like here. Arkitektur N 3, 56-59.
Drangsland, KA., Fuglseth B.B. and Linge, E. (2008). In Place, Out of Place. Exhibition catalogue.
Drangsland, KA. and Fuglseth B.B. (2008) Et stedsperspektiv på asylmottak. Plan 4, 43-44.
Drangsland, KA. and Holgersen, S. (2008) Produksjon av Bergen. Tidsskriftet Demo 1.
Full publication list Drangsland. 4 pages.
Drangsland, KA., Fuglseth, B.B. and Vabø, A. (2006) Kampen om gullkysten. Kronikk. Bergens Tidende. 8. juli.
Drangsland, KA. and Vabø, A-K. (2005) Byrom til salgs. Kronikk. Bergens Tidende. 12. april.
Drangsland, KA., Forras P. and Holgersen S. (ed) (2003) Håndbok om (og til bruk i) det offentlige rom. (Handbook for (and to be used in) the public space). Bergen: Bamse forlag.
Reports and evaluations
Drangsland, Kari Anne K., Karlsen Marry-Anne og Dahle Malin (2016). Norskopplæring for personer i asylmottak. Uni Research Rokkansenteret rapport 2-2016. Bergen: Uni Research Rokkansenteret.
Sinclair, Tina og Drangsland, Kari Anne K. (2016). Eksempelsamling og inspirasjonshefte livskraftige urbane bomiljø. Bergen: CUBUS-rapport 1/2016.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K. og Nordhagen, Inger (2015). Evaluering av Mangfoldsrådet i Trondheim. ideas2evidence rapport 03/2015. Bergen: ideas2evidence.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K. (2015). Konsekvensutredning av barn og unge sine oppvekstvilkår. Områdereguleringsplan for Bømoen. ideas2evidence rapport 11/2015. Bergen: ideas2evidence.
Skutlaberg, Linn-Synnøve, Drangsland, Kari Anne K. og Høgestøl, Asle (2014). Evaluering av introduksjonsprogrammet i storbyene. ideas2evidence rapport 09/2014. Bergen: ideas2evidence.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K., Ellingsen, Winfred, Hidle, Knut og Karlsen, Marry-Anne (2010). Asylmottak og lokalsamfunn. BYØK-rapport 02/10. Bergen: Senter for byøkologi.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K. (2010). Den sosiale byen – en eksempelstudie av deltagende stedsutvikling i seks tyske bydeler. BYØK-rapport 01/10. Bergen: Senter for byøkologi.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K., Fuglseth, Bente B. og Hidle, Knut (2009). Sosiokulturell stedsanalyse av Haugenstua. FoU-rapport nr. 11/2009. Kristiansand: Agderforskning.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K. og Fuglseth, Bente B. (2009). Asylmottak som nærmiljø. BYØK-rapport 01/09. Bergen: Senter for byøkologi. Reference no: 16/7769.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K. og Jakobsen Stig-Erik (2009). Sluttevaluering av omstillingsprogrammet i Ål Kommune. SNF-rapport 08/09. Bergen: Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning AS.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K. og Jakobsen Stig-Erik (2009). Kritiske suksessfaktorer for omstillingsarbeidet. Erfaringer fra gjennomførte omstillingsprogram. SNF-rapport 01/09. Bergen: Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning AS.
Pettersen, Inger Beate, Drangsland, Kari Anne K. og Jakobsen, Stig-Erik (2008). Sluttevaluering av omstillingsprogrammet i Evje og Hornnes kommune. SNF-rapport 08/08. Bergen: Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning AS.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K. og Kjerstad, Egil (2008). Evaluering av tilskuddsordning for helse- og rehabiliteringstjenester. Delrapport. 1. SNF-rapport 18/08. Bergen: Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning AS.
Drangsland, Kari Anne K. og Jakobsen, Stig-Erik (2008). Sluttevaluering av MåltidsArena. SNF-rapport 07/08. Bergen: Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning AS.
Jakobsen, Stig-Erik, Kristiansen, Frode, Drangsland, Kari Anne K. og Nesheim, Torstein (2007). Indikatorer for lokal sårbarhet. Utredning av et analyseverktøy. SNF-rapport 22/07. Bergen: Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning AS.
- (2020). Bordering through recalibration: Exploring the temporality of the German “Ausbildungsduldung. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 1128-1145.
- (2019). Waiting as a redemptive state - The ‘Lampedusa in Hamburg’ and the offer from the Hamburg government. Time & Society. 318-339.
- (2009). Urban Planning and the Delimitation of Diversity: Roma as ‘In Place’ and ‘Out of Place’ in Jungbusch, Mannheim. International Planning Studies. 161-169.
- (2008). The Production of Bergen. International Planning Studies. 161-169.
- (2023). Midlertidighet som prinsipp og praksis i norsk asylpolitikk siden 2015.
- (2022). „Temporärer Schutz als Prinzip in der Asylpolitik in Europa“.
- (2022). Temporärer Schutz in Europa und Deutschland.
- (2022). Interdisciplinary modes of collaboration in the TemPro project.
- (2022). Increasing precarity, unduing refuge: the temporary turn in European asylum law and practice.
- (2022). Temporary protection in Germany since 2015 - A conversation with Constantin Hruschka.
- (2021). What is protection? A conversation with Hani, a Syrian refugee in Norway.
- (2021). Waiting, power and migration control: A conversation with Shahram Khosravi.
- (2021). Language tests as gatekeepers to residency and democratic rights.
- (2021). Global School Film & Reflections: Migration.
- (2021). Exploring the temporalities of migration governance: How does prolonged waiting affect migrants?
- (2023). Å skrive - min metode .
- (2023). Urban migrant futures.
- (2023). Unpacking waiting through the lens of temporality: Three different approaches to time.
- (2023). Speaking racism - linguistic frontiers, race and beloning in Norway.
- (2022). ‘For two years I have been in a large prison’: Temporary protection and immobility.
- (2022). ‘European migration governance after 2015 – perspectives from Norway’.
- (2022). Lost in translation. Interdisciplinary encounters between law and ethnography.
- (2022). '”I cannot wait”’. Exploring waiting through a lens of time’.
- (2021). Waiting and uncertainty in the context of European migration governance after 2015 – perspectives from Norway.
- (2022). Hva skjer hvis flyktningene ikke kan returnere innen kort tid? . Bergens Tidende.
- (2021). Regjeringen åpner for å innskrenke retten til flyktningstatus. Det er urovekkende. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
- (2022). Was ist Schutz? Ein Gespräch mit Kefyat Junaid von Defund Syrian Embassy.
- (2020). Mo’s challenge. Waiting and the question of methodological nationalism. 21 pages.
- (2014). The conditions for hospitality in the Norwegian asylum reception system. 16 pages.
- (2022). What we can learn from getting lost in translation.
- (2022). Collective Protection as a Short-Term Solution: European Responses to the Protection Needs of Refugees from the War in Ukraine.
- (2021). Multiple, uneven and relational time in ethnographic research.
- (2021). Addressing the co-production of law and time in regularisation processes: legal and ethnographic lines of enquiry.
- (2020). Waiting for uncertain futures in pandemic times.
- (2023). Listening to Papenreye. Free Berlin.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
Current project:
Temporary protection as a durable solution? The 'return turn' in asylum policies in Europe (TemPro) [2019 - 2024] - funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Previous project:
WAIT - Waiting for an uncertain future: the temporalities of irregular migration [2016-2020] - funded by the Research Council of Norway.
2023: "Listening to Papenreye". Essay in Free Berlin No. 10 / June 2023. Developed in dialogue with the exhibition Power Space Violence: Planning and Building under National Socialism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and launched as part of the exhibition Event program, June 2023. Free Berlin – Errant Bodies Press. Fulltext vailable at: ResearchGate
2020: Nattens lys. Contribution to art project (speech). Kulturkirken Jacob, Oslo, 9. November.
2018: Nattens Lys- en våkenatt. Contribution to art project (speech). Vår Frues Kirke, Trondheim, 11. November.
2014: "Now is our time to imagine", collaborate photo project together with textile artist Heidi W. Strom.
2010: "There is no place like here", textile design/art project in collaboration with textile designer/artist Heidi W. Strom. Received the price "Anette Tommesens Minnepris" (Norwegian Association for Asylum Seekers, NOAS)
2010: "In place out of place", collaborative photo project together with artist Elida Brenna Linge.
