Momentum delegate Tom Bratrud
Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Anthropology
Hovedinnhold
Tom Bratrud is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has previously worked at the University of Oslo, the University of South-Eastern Norway, and has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. He holds a PhD from the University of Oslo.
Bratrud has conducted long-term ethnographic research in Vanuatu in the South Pacific since 2010, focusing on socio-political life, religion, and practices shaped by anxieties and hopes for the future. This work has resulted in the book Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu. Since 2020, he has conducted fieldwork in rural Norway on center-periphery relations and the social, cultural, and political aspects of digitalization. This work led to the special issue Digital Sociality: Reconfiguring the Public and Private in the Nordics (co-edited with Karen Waltorp).
In the years to come, he is planning to research the ambiguities of green energy and technology infrastructures. Bratrud is co-convener of the European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA) Future Anthropologies Network.
