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Publications

Below is a list of selected publications from group members that touch upon issues that are central in the political ecology approach.

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Rice paddies at the Kızılırmak river in Osmancik, Turkey.
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Ståle Knudsen, Dept. of Social Anthropology, UiB

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2020

Dutta, A. (2020) Forest becomes frontline: conservation and counterinsurgency in a space of violent conflict in Assam, Northeast India. Political Geography 77: 102117.

Denchie, E.O., Ablo, A.D. and Overå, R. (2020) Land governance and access dynamics in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. African Geographical Review, DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2020.1831560

Knudsen, S., Müftüoğlu, I., and Hugøy, I. (2020) Standardizing responsibility through the stakeholder figure. Norwegian hydropower in TurkeyFocaal Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 88: 58-75.

Knudsen, S., Rajak, D., Lange, S., and Hugøy. I. (2020) Bringing the state back in. Corporate social responsibility and the paradoxes of Norwegian state capitalsm in the  international energy sector". Focaal Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 88: 1-21.

Strønen, I. (2020) Between Social Footprint and Compliance, or "what IBAMA wants": Equinor Brazil's Social Sustainability policy. Focaal 88: 40-57. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2020.880103

Strønen, I. (2020) Venezuela's Oil Specter: Contextualizing and Historicizing the Bolivarian attempt to sow the Oil. History and Anthropology. Open access at: DOI:10.1080/02757206.2020.1762588

2019

Adjei, M. and Overå, R. (2019) Opposing discourses on the offshore coexistence of the petroleum industry and small-scale fisheries in Ghana. The Extractive Industries and Society, 6, 190-197.

Hugøy, I. and Ødegaard, C. V. (2019) Becoming 'Wild' at the Intersection of Knowledges: Coffee Rust Crisis in Costa Rica. Ethnos Journal of Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1640761

Ødegaard, C. V. (2019) Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism. Ethnographies from South America, co-edited with J. J. Rivera Andia, Palgrave Macmillan.

Ødegaard, C. V. (2019) Translating Wealth in a Globalised Accumulation by Diversion, in C.V. Ødegaard & J. J. Rivera Andia (eds.) Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism. Ethnographies from South America, Palgrave Macmillan, 119-140.

2018

Svarstad, H., Benjaminsen, T.A. and Overå, R. (2018) Power theories in political ecology. Journal of Political Ecology, 25, 350-363.

2017

Overå, R. (2017) Local Navigators in a Global Industry. The Gendered Nature of Entrepreneurship in Ghana’s Oil and Gas Service Sector. Journal of Development Studies, 53, 3: 361-374.

Williams, A. and Le Billon, P. (eds.) (2017) Corruption, natural resources and development: From resource curse to political ecology. Edward Elgar Publishing.

2015

Boamah, F. and Overå, R. (2015) Rethinking livelihood impacts of biofuel land deals in Ghana. Development and Change, 47, 1: 98-129.

2014

Søreide, T. and Williams, A. (eds.) (2014) Corruption, grabbing and development: Real world challenges. Edward Elgar Publishing.

2011

Overå, R. (2011) Modernisation narratives and small-scale fisheries in Ghana and Zambia. Forum for Development Studies, 38, 3: 321-343.

Ødegaard, C. V. (2011) Sources of Danger and Prosperity: Mobility and Powerful Surroundings in the Andes. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Incorporating Man), 17: 339-35.