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Malene Karensdatter Brandshaug

Malene Karensdatter Brandshaug

Job title
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 42, 0167 Oslo
  • Office number: Q7055
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 38 645
E-mail
  • malenekarensdatter.brandshaug@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Malene K Brandshaug is working on her postdoctoral project Rights of Waters - An ethnographic study of human-environment relations and local mobilisation in Peru and Norway. She is a member of the research project Riverine Rights - Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of Rivers. Malene is a social anthropologist with her PHD from School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, and her MA from Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. She has done long-term ethnographic fieldwork among small-scale farmers in the Peruvian Andes twice since 2013. At the moment she is doing fieldwork on natur protection in Norway. Her research interests concern human-nature relations and in particular water practices and environmental change, including topics such as nature management, environmental protection, water politics, indigeneity, infrastructure, development, and (de)coloniality. She is inspired by the fields of more-than-human anthropology, political ecology, science and technology studies (STS), feminist materialism, socio-legal studies and environmental humanities.

Research groups

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter (2023). Water Climing: A Cosmopolitical Ecology of Water in the Southern Peruvian Andes. Yü, Dan Smyer; Wouters, Jelle (Ed.). Storying Multipolar Climes of the Himalaya, Andes and Arctic: Anthropocenic Climate and Shapeshifting Watery Lifeworlds. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003347026

Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter (2021). Water, Life, and Loss: Aguasociality and Environmental Change in the Peruvian Andes. kritisk etnografi - Swedish Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 4.
https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-463873

Paerregaard, Karsten; Ullberg, Susann Baez; Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter (2020). Smooth flows? Hydrosocial communities, water governance and infrastructural discord in Peru’s southern highlands. Water international.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2020.1755538

Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter (2019). Water as More than Commons or Commodity: Understanding Water Management Practices in Yanque, Peru. Water Alternatives - An interdisciplinary journal on water, politics and development. Vol. 12.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3197902



These publications are obtained from Norwegian Research Information Repository. The list may be incomplete.

Research reports

Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter (2020). Liquid landscapes: Human-water interactions and water scarcity in Yanque, Peru. Göteborgs universitet.



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Dissemination

Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter ; Borchgrevink, Axel ; Håkensen, Siv Tonje Sperati (2024). Hva skjer når elver får egne rettigheter?.

Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter (2024). Rights of waters in Norway? Human-nature relations and environmental activism. What happens when rivers get legal personhood?. Riverine rights research project, OsloMet.

Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter (2021). Facing the Anthropocene together: The robust fragility of aquasocial relations in the Peruvian Andes. Storying climes of the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic. Anthropogenic water bodies, multispecies vulnerability, and sustainable living. International Center for Integrated Mountain Development.



These publications are obtained from Norwegian Research Information Repository. The list may be incomplete.
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