Publications

2025

Mariel Cristina Støen et al.: Dangerous Liaisons: Unveiling the Co-Constitution of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Industrial Meat Production

Published in Antipode

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Jostein Jakobsen: Capital's Food Regime: Class Struggle, the State and Corporate Agriculture in India

Published by Brill | Nijhoff

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2024

Erica Colman-Denstad: Wildness and control: Mediating technology and perceptions of nature in nineteenth century Norway

Published by the University of Oslo

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Karen Victoria Lykke and Kristian Bjørkdahl: Pernicious propaganda: The Norwegian Meat Information Office and its "politics of meat promotion".

Published in Taina Syrjämaa (ed.) Animal Industries Nordic Perspectives on the Exploitation of Animals since 1860

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Dickon Bonvik-Stone and Karen Victoria Lykke: Whose Expertise and Whose Knowledge Matter? Influencing Wind Power Decisions in Norway

Published in Environmental Communication

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Hege Westskog et al.: Local food systems and community development: a symbiotic relation? A case study of three rural municipalities in Norway

Published in The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food

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Johannes Volden: ‘A wing in the throat’: Negotiating edibility in everyday insect consumption

Published in Geoforum

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Arve Hansen: Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life

Published in positions asia critique

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2023

Johannes Volden: Doing (food) without meat? Accomplishing substitution and qualifying substitutes in household food practices

Published in Consumption and Society

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Hansen, Wethal, Efstathiou, and Volden: Towards plantification: contesting, negotiating and re-placing meaty routines

Published in Consumption and Society

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Mariel Aguilar-Støen and Jostein Jakobsen: Will development kill us? Globalized livestock production in the "Pandemic Era"

Published in Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen (eds.) Handbook on International Development and the Environment

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Hansen, Pitkänen and Nguyen: Feeding a tourism boom: changing food practices and systems of provision in Hoi An, Vietnam

Published in Food, Culture & Society

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Karen V. Lykke and Bron Taylor: Searching for the Green Man. Special Issue Editors’ Introduction

Published in Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (JSRNC)

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Karen V. Lykke og Ane Ohrvik: The Foliate Mask in Vernacular Material Culture from Medieval to Modern Norway

Published in Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (JSRNC)

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Kristian Bjørkdahl og Karen V. Lykke: Live, Die, Buy, Eat. A Cultural History of Animals and Meat

Published by Routledge

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Kristi Anne Stølen: Soybeans and Capitalist Transformation among Family Farmers in Argentina

Published in Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Sundet, Hansen and Wethal: Performing meat reduction across scripted social sites: exploring the experiences and challenges of meat reducers in Norway

Published in Consumption and Society

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Arve Hansen and Ulrikke Wethal: ‘It's just pølse’: Convenient meat consumption and reduction in Norway

Published in Appetite

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Mariel Cristina Støen: Examining the links between meat, viruses and disease in the Anthropocene

Published in Ursula Münster, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Sara Asu Schroer (eds.) Responding to the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Twelve Academic Disciplines

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David Harnesk and Jostein Jakobsen: Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden

Published in Journal of Rural Studies

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2022

Kristian Bjørkdahl and Karen Lykke Syse: From ritual loss of life to loss of living rituals: on judicialization of slaughter and denial of animal death

Published in Food, Culture & Society

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Guillem Rubio Ramon and Karen Lykke Syse: Establishing nationhood through heritage landscapes: Bear biopolitics in the Catalan Pyrenees

Published in Giacomo Pettenati (ed.) Landscape as Heritage: International Critical Perspectives

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Karen Lykke Syse: Hefting the Land: A Locative Heritage of Hooves and Feet

Published in Daniel Svensson, Katarina Saltzman and Sverker Sörlin (eds.) Pathways : Exploring the routes of a movement heritage

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Ulrikke Wethal et al.: COVID-19 and socio-materially bounded experimentation in food practices: insights from seven countries

Published in Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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Jostein Jakobsen and Kenneth Bo Nielsen: Bovine meat, authoritarian populism, and state contradictions in Modi's India

Published in Journal of Agrarian Change

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Sara, Syse & Mathiesen: Precious blood and nourishing offal: past and present slaughtering perspectives in Sámi reindeer pastoralism

Published in Pastoralism

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Klara Fisher, Jostein Jakobsen and Ola T. Westengen: The political ecology of crops: From seed to state and capital

Published in Geoforum

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Karen Lykke Syse and Arve Hansen: Changing Meat Cultures Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals

Published by Rowman & Littlefield

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Erica-Colman Denstad: Forestillinger om villhet og kontroll: Produksjonslandskap og rekreasjonslandskap i Asbjørnsens folkesagn

Published in Tidsskrift for kulturforskning

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2021

Tomasz Grusovnik, Reingard Spannring and Karen Lykke Syse: Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Arve Hansen: Negotiating Unsustainable Food Transformations: Development, Middle Classes and Everyday Food Practices in Vietnam

Published in The European Journal of Development Research

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Jostein Jakobsen: New food regime geographies: Scale, state, labor

Published in World Development

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Jostein Jakobsen & Ola T. Westengen: The imperial maize assemblage: maize dialectics in Malawi and India

Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Kristian Bjørkdahl and Karen Lykke Syse: Welfare Washing: Disseminating Disinformation in Meat Marketing

Published in Society & Animals

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2020

Karen Lykke Syse: Det er ikkje for hat, det er for mat. Griseliv og grisedød i Norge før og nå

Published in Arr, Idéhistorisk tidsskrift

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Jostein Jakobsen: Cultivating knowledge: Biotechnology, sustainability, and the human cost of cotton capitalism in India

Book review, published in Journal of Agrarian Change

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Erika Heiberg and Karen Lykke Syse: Farming autonomy: Canadian beef farmers reclaiming the grass through management-intensive grazing practices

Published in Organic Agriculture

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Arve Hansen and Jostein Jakobsen: Meatification and everyday geographies of consumption in Vietnam and China

Published in Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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2019

Kristian Bjørkdahl and Karen Lykke Syse: Kjøtt, fremmedgjøring og fornektelse

Published in Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift

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Dan Banik (ed.): Food Security in the SDG Era

Food Ethics, special issue

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Dan Banik: The Politics of Hunger in an SDG Era: Food Policy in Malawi

Published in Food Ethics

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Dan Banik: Achieving Food Security in a Sustainable Development Era

Published in Food Ethics

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Jostein Jakobsen:  The maize frontier in rural South India: Exploring the everyday dynamics of the contemporary food regime

Published in Journal of Agrarian Change

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Jostein Jakobsen: Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists: Social Politics of Sustainable Agriculture in India by Trent Brown

Book review, Journal of Agrarian Change

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Karen Lykke Syse og Kristian Bjørkdahl: Kjøtt, fremmedgjøring og fornektelse

Published in Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift

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Desmond McNeill: Reflections on IPES-Food: Can Power Analysis Change the World?

Published in IDS Bulletin

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Ann Louise Lie: Power in Global Nutrition Governance

Published in Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations

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Anna Birgitte Milford & Charlotte Kildal: Meat Reduction by Force: The Case of “Meatless Monday” in the Norwegian Armed Forces

Published in Sustainability

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Jostein Jakobsen & Arve Hansen: Geographies of meatification: an emerging Asian meat complex

Published in Globalizations

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2018

Arve Hansen: Meat consumption and capitalist development: The meatification of food provision and practice in Vietnam

Published in Geoforum

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Jostein Jakobsen: Neoliberalising the food regime ‘amongst its others’: the right to food and the state in India

Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Jostein Jakobsen: Towards a Gramscian food regime analysis of India’s agrarian crisis: Counter-movements, petrofarming and Cheap Nature

Published in Geoforum

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2017

Charlotte L. Kildal & Karen L. Syse: Meat and masculinity in the Norwegian Armed Forces

Published in Appetite

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Karen V. Lykke Syse: Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animation of Meat Eating in Food Prose.

Published in Michael Lundblad (ed.) Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human 

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Karen V. Lykke Syse: Histories and Ideologies of Nature in Argyll

Published in Steven Hartman (ed.) Contesting Environmental Imaginaries: Nature and Counternature in a Time of Global Change

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2016

Jostein Jakobsen: Disappearing Landlords and the Unmaking of Revolution: Maoist Mobilization, the State and Agrarian Change in Northern Telangana

Published in Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Alf Gunvald Nilsen (eds.) Social Movements and the State in India. Deepening Democracy?

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Dan Banik: The Hungry Nation: Food Policy and Food Politics in India

Published in Food Ethics

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Mariel Aguilar-Støen: Beyond Transnational Corporations, Food and Biofuels: The Role of Extracitivism and Agribusiness in Land Grabbing in Central America

Published in Forum for Development Studies

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2015

Karen Lykke Syse and Martin Lee Mueller: Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life: Interdisciplinary perspectives

Published by Routledge

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Kristi Anne Stølen: Agricultural change in Argentina: Impacts of the Gene Modified Soybean Revolution

Published in Arve Hansen and Ulrikke Bryn Wethal (eds.) Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities

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