Background and activities
Deputy Head of Department for research
I teach and supervise students in human geography, including philosophy and history of geography and landscape studies.
My research addresses how people morally regulate and enact spaces and places through what they do - or not. I have used empirical material from e.g. the cultural heritage management sector, outdoor recreation, and agri-cultures in order to demonstrate the production and effects of different moral geographies.
I am currently leading project on 'Climate change and natural hazards: the geography of community resilience in Norway' (funded by Klimaforsk, the Research Council of Norway, NOK 9 mill, 2014-2019). My contribution focuses on the work of 'local knowledge' for hazard management and community resilience.
I am currently also the chair or the organising committe of the 8th Nordic Geographers Meeting to be held in Trondheim, June 16-19 2019.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2018) Ecosystem services as an integrative framework: what is the potential?. Land Use Policy. vol. 75.
- (2017) Integrering gjennom friluftsliv?. Plan : Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, byplan og regional utvikling.
- (2017) Bærekraftig beiting i fjellet: Hvilke prinsipper legger sentrale interessegrupper til grunn for å balansere mellom ressursbruk og ressursgrunnlag?. Tidsskriftet Utmark. vol. 2017 (2).
- (2015) Morality, mobility and citizenship: Legitimising mobile subjectivities in a contested outdoors. Geoforum. vol. 64.
- (2015) Modernity, Heritage and Landscape: The Housing Estate as Heritage. Landscape Research. vol. 40 (8).
- (2014) Politicising plants. Invasive alien species and domestic gardening. Bulletin för trädgårdshistorisk forskning. vol. 27.
- (2014) Politicising plants: Dwelling and invasive alien species in domestic gardens in Norway. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 68 (1).
- (2012) Changes in land use and landscape dynamics in mountains of northern Europe: Challenges for science, management and conservation. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management. vol. 8 (4).
- (2012) Ecosystem services and landscape management: three challenges and one plea. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management. vol. 8 (4).
- (2012) The teleconference and its implications for geographical knowledge-sharing. Geography. vol. 97.
- (2009) Holding property in trust: kinship, law and property enactment on Norwegian smallholdings. Environment and planning A. vol. 41 (9).
- (2008) Encyclopaedic vision: Speculating on The Dictionary of Human Geography. Geoforum. vol. 39 (3).
- (2007) Romance, practice and substantiveness: what do landscapes do?. Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography. vol. 89B (3).
- (2006) Fusion or exclusion? Reflections on the practices of landscape and place in human geography. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 60 (1).
- (2005) 'Farming the heritage'. On the construction and production of a personal and practiced landscape heritage. International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). vol. 11 (1).
- (2004) The habitus, the rule and the moral landscape. Cultural Geographies. vol. 11 (4).
- (2003) Landscapes of gaze and practice. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 57 (3).
- (2001) Farmers, planners and the moral message of nature and landscape. Ethics, Place and Environment. vol. 4 (3).
Books
- (2017) Nature, temporality and environmental management. Scandinavian and Australian perspectives on peoples and landscapes. Routledge. 2017. ISBN 978-1-47-246465-1.
- (2013) Hus, hjem og sted. Geografiske perspektiver på vår samtid. Akademika forlag. 2013. ISBN 978-82-321-0207-5.
- (2004) Det Levende Landskapet. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. 2004. ISBN 82-519-1995-9.
- (2004) European rural landscapes. Persistence and change in a globalising environment. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2004. ISBN 1-4020-2067-8.
Part of book/report
- (2017) Holding on and letting go: nature, temporality and environmental management. Nature, temporality and environmental management. Scandinavian and Australian perspectives on peoples and landscapes.
- (2017) Landscape, temporality and responsibility: making conceptual connections through alien invasive species. Nature, temporality and environmental management. Scandinavian and Australian perspectives on peoples and landscapes.
- (2017) Marginal(ising) geographies. Geography from the Margins.
- (2016) Landskap og areal. Synteserapport Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015.
- (2013) Jærhuset i kulturminnevernet: dømt til dissonans?. Hus, hjem og sted. Geografiske perspektiver på vår samtid.
- (2013) Til fots - et metodeblikk på landskap og praksis. Å finne sted. Metodologiske perspektiver i stedsanalyser.
- (2013) Landscape and social justice. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies.
- (2012) What's in a house? Heritage in the making on the south-western coast of Norway. Heritage from Below.
- (2009) Social and cultural geography: Habitus. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.
- (2009) Social and cultural geography: Moral landscapes. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.