Publikasjoner fra Senter for global bærekraft

• Korsnes, Marius; Hansen, Arve; Sundet, Øyvind; Volden, Johannes & Loeng, Martin (2026). Bodies in tension: embodied persistence and change in meat-eating. Food, Culture, and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. ISSN 1552-8014. s. 22–22. doi: 10.1080/15528014.2026.2740964. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article examines how embodied knowledge contributes to both the reproduction and possible reorientation of meat consumption. Drawing on household interviews and a dietary experiment with consumers in Norway, we analyze three interconnected dimensions of embodied meat-eating: shared cultural understandings of meat as healthy and nutritious; habituated routines of shopping, cooking, and eating; and interpreted bodily experiences of taste, satiety, craving, and discomfort. Together, these dimensions show how meat becomes part of what feels normal, practical, satisfying, and at times necessary in everyday life. They also reveal tensions arising when habituated ways of eating, bodily experiences, and demands associated with health, social expectations, or dietary aspirations do not fully align. Inspired by practice theory, we conceptualize these frictions as “bodies in tension.” Such tensions may reinforce established conduct, be accommodated within familiar routines, or create openings for dietary reorientation. The article contributes to food studies by showing how bio-social bodies shape both the persistence and transformation of meat-eating. More broadly, it demonstrates that dietary transitions depend not only on changing attitudes or intentions but on creating alternative ways of shopping, cooking, tasting, and eating that can become familiar, satisfying, and socially supported.

• Bull, Benedicte & Delascio, Gustavo Cadenas (2026). The New Political Economy of Climate Mitigation: Impetus to or Hindrance against Environmental Regionalization in the Global South? I Ruiz, José Briceno & Rivarola, Andres (Red.), Handbook on Political Economy and Regionalism. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 9781035336388. s. 272–288. doi: 10.4337/9781035336395.00028. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter develops a political economy framework to analyze the trajectory of environmental regionalism in the Global South. It argues that the geopolitical competition among the European Union, the United States, and China for resources critical to the ‘green transition’ creates a central paradox. Using Latin America as an illustrative case, we show how these external powers simultaneously promote environmental norms while their economic engagement reinforces the extractive models that undermine sustainability. The outcome of these competing pressures is a 'fragmented integration', where regional environmental governance is often weakened or bypassed in favor of bilateral arrangements and externally-driven standards. The analysis challenges simplistic views of external influence and highlights the challenges for states navigating the contemporary global order. It concludes that understanding the political economy of this fragmentation is key to grasping the future of environmental regionalism in an era of great power rivalry.

• Schmoll, Moritz; Miklian, Jason & Hoelscher, Kristian (2026). Solar extraversion: incumbent interests, foreign capital and the making of Morocco's megaproject strategy. Globalizations. ISSN 1474-7731. s. 1–21. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2026.2726683. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bull, Benedicte & Rosales, Antulio (2026). The Politics of Sanctions. I Nesi, Hilary & Milin, Petar (Red.), Reference Module in Social Sciences. Elsevier. ISSN 9780443157851. doi: https:/www.researchgate.net/publication/408099397_The_Politics_of_Sanctions. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  International sanctions are coercive measures imposed by states or international organizations to influence the behavior of a target, typically another state, but can include non-state actors, by restricting access to goods, services, financial intermediation, foreign markets, or resources without resorting to military force. In this chapter, we historicize the use of sanctions in international politics and discuss their proliferation, efficiency, and unintended effects, based on our extensive research on Venezuela. The use of sanctions has increased significantly in recent decades. The specialized literature demonstrates that their effectiveness has been questionable at achieving their stated goals. Nonetheless, sanctions continue to have effects, from increased informality to a potential reconfiguration of trade and financial routes in recent times. This expansion in the use of sanctions can contribute to greater instability in global politics and a re-arrangement of trade and financial interconnections.

• Støen, Mariel Cristina; Jakobsen, Jostein & Barbesgaard, Mads (2026). Structural One Health? A critical geography perspective on emerging infectious diseases and livestock. I Støen, Mariel Cristina; Jakobsen, Jostein & Rutt, Rebecca Leigh (Red.), One Health, Ecology, and the Politics of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Routledge. ISSN 9781003558217. s. 87–105. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter critically examines the structural forces shaping the emergence and spread of Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs), with a particular focus on avian influenza and the poultry supply chain. Moving beyond conventional epicenter thinking, which attributes disease emergence to specific geographic locations, we argue that EIDs should be understood within broader ecological, economic, social, and political networks. Drawing on perspectives from critical geography, political economy, and ecological epidemiology, we explore how global circuits of capital – especially as they manifest in industrial livestock production – facilitate the conditions for disease outbreaks. By disaggregating the poultry supply chain, we highlight the differentiated vulnerabilities of key actors, including biotech firms, hatcheries, growers, processors, and retailers. While biosecurity measures are framed as a shared responsibility, power imbalances within supply chains determine who bears the greatest risks and economic burdens when outbreaks occur. We argue that the One Health framework, despite its emphasis on intersectoral collaboration, often fails to address these underlying structural drivers of disease emergence. We propose that supply chains themselves must become a central focus of pandemic preparedness and response. By shifting attention to the political economy of food systems, this chapter contributes to debates on how to reorganize global agriculture to mitigate future pandemics at their root causes.

• Støen, Mariel Cristina; Jakobsen, Jostein & Rutt, Rebecca Leigh (2026). Introduction. I Støen, Mariel Cristina; Jakobsen, Jostein & Rutt, Rebecca Leigh (Red.), One Health, Ecology, and the Politics of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Routledge. ISSN 9781003558217. s. 1–18. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This introductory chapter situates industrial livestock production at the heart of converging crises – climate change, biodiversity loss, emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – and argues that, absent structural change, the current “Pandemic Era” will intensify. It synthesizes evidence that agro-industrial expansion, habitat disruption, and vertically integrated meat supply chains heighten zoonotic spillover risks and accelerate AMR, whose burdens fall disproportionately on low- and middle-income countries. While One Health has gained traction as an integrative framework, the chapter contends it remains narrowly operationalized – privileging surveillance and outbreak response over prevention and overlooking political-economic drivers such as corporate consolidation, trade liberalization, and the financialization of food systems. The chapter traces the global transformation of meat production – from the “Tyson model” of vertically integrated poultry to a consolidated grain-oilseed-livestock complex dominated by a handful of transnational corporations – and the attendant reconfiguration of landscapes, labor, and migration. Also, it maps the roles of global finance and commodity speculation in underwriting industrial expansion and externalizing ecological and health costs. The chapter reassesses One Health’s promise and limits, engaging critiques from different fields, and calling for a version that embeds environmental governance, social justice, and accountability. This chapter introduces the different contributions that together advance a One Health approach capable of tackling root causes and enabling more sustainable, equitable food futures.

• Miklian, Jason & Hoelscher, Kristian (2026). A new digital divide? Coder worldviews, the ‘Slop economy,’ and democracy in the age of AI. Information, Communication & Society. ISSN 1369-118X. 29(8), s. 2412–2428. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2025.2566814. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hansen, Arve (2026). Consumption, Sustainability and Variegated Consumer Societies: Development and Distinction in Late-Socialist China and Vietnam. Sociologica – International Journal for Sociological Debate. 20(2), s. 85–104. doi: 10.60923/issn.1971-8853/23738. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Contemporary accounts of consumption and sustainability are often criticized both for ignoring the non-Western world and for not paying sufficient attention to the structuring effects of capitalist political economy. This paper suggests a way to do both through a variegated consumer societies framework. Such a framework involves a multi-scalar approach to production-consumption complexes, including attention to both everyday life and consumption environments, as well as governance, production networks, and broader consumer-cultural frames. A central point is that capitalist consumer societies always take similar but varied shapes, depending on local institutions and cultures as well as the multi-scalar connections behind goods, trends and fashion. In this article, I use this framework to study changing consumption in China and Vietnam, two countries that have been among the fastest-growing economies and home to some of the fastest-expanding consumer-class populations globally over the past decades. I study the emergence of capitalist consumer cultures in these nominally socialist countries, zooming in on sustainable consumption and new forms of distinction through two core consumption domains: mobility and food.

• Jakobsen, Jostein (2026). Marx og kapitalismens kriser. Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. 2026(1-2), s. 39–75. doi: 10.18261/agora.44.1-2.3. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Eldevik-Stjernqvist, Ada (2026). Framing the pandemic era : Different understandings of pathogenic landscapes in Norway. I Støen, Mariel Cristina; Jakobsen, Jostein & Rutt, Rebecca Leigh (Red.), One Health, Ecology, and the Politics of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Routledge. ISSN 9781003558217. s. 106–122. doi: 10.4324/9781003558217-7. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter explores different understandings of disease, encompassing various perspectives on uncertainties, infection pathways, and risks, by focusing on the first-ever outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in commercial poultry production in Jæren, Norway. Understanding these dynamics is valuable for understanding the complexities of disease and meat production relationships within the context of heightened threats of emergence, spread, and outbreaks of infectious diseases. Illuminating diverse and sometimes contradictory framings of disease matters because varying perceptions of infectious disease can generate uncertainties, tensions, and decreased trust. After detailing the historical and political developments of Jæren, especially as related to the emergence of commercial poultry production as it exists today, the chapter then unpacks how some of the key actors in this context – Norwegian farmers and human and animal health authorities – understand HPAI. By considering and contrasting multiple disease framings, this chapter uncovers an often-unrecognized aspect of the relationships among wild and domestic animals, nature, humans, and pathogens and, especially, how these interact in the meat production landscape of Jæren in times of worsening disease threat.

• Rødvik, Trym Daniel (2026). Logistical supply chains as capitalist planning : The case of the Norwegian broiler industry and avian influenza. I Støen, Mariel Cristina; Jakobsen, Jostein & Rutt, Rebecca Leigh (Red.), One Health, Ecology, and the Politics of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Routledge. ISSN 9781003558217. s. 53–70. doi: 10.4324/9781003558217-4. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter looks at how the organization of poultry production in Norway affects the ability of the poultry industry to manage outbreaks of highly pathogenic

• Bull, Benedicte (2026). From bolibourgeoisie to cryptocrats: how the crisis and sanctions reshaped Venezuela’s ruling elite into a new oligarchy. Third World Quarterly. ISSN 0143-6597. s. 21–21. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2026.2633287. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article examines whether Venezuela’s prolonged ongoing crisis, intensified by international sanctions, is fostering the emergence of a new oligarchy. Extending theories on the relationship between the modern state and oligarchic cohesion, it proposes a three variable framework to understand the drivers of oligarchic change in Venezuela: (1) a regression of the functional differentiation of the state; (2) a shift in the sources of wealth from oil rent to illicit commodities and cryptocurrency based finance; and (3) the evolution of an authoritarian regime blurring public private boundaries. Sanctions have accelerated the transformation by forcing economic liberalisation, reallocating scarce dollars and licences to loyal actors, and spurring diversification into illicit and crypto channels, supplying resources for patronage networks. Empirical evidence from secondary sources, legal proceedings, and interviews identifies four emergent clusters of elites – sanction evaders, military millionaires, new ‘kings of commerce’, and ‘cryptocrats’. These groups depend on regime granted privileges, creating a feedback loop that deepens authoritarian capitalism and patrimonialism. The analysis therefore highlights that sanctions are not merely a tool of economic pressure; they can act as a catalyst for re‑configuration of elite relations, towards an oligarchic formation that fuses state power, illicit enterprise and digital finance.

• Barbesgaard, Mads; Jakobsen, Jostein & Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (2026). Caught in the coop: local labour control regimes in poultry supply chains under avian influenza. Journal of Economic Geography. ISSN 1468-2702. doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbag011. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) pose an escalating threat to global poultry supply chains, with their management highlighting reconfigurations in economic geography through the increasing centrality of actors and processes beyond the farm-level. Taking HPAI outbreaks in Denmark as our empirical focus, we argue that outbreaks and their management reveal poultry growers’ lack of control over the labour process. Growers organize labour regimes in struggles with requirements imposed from other capitals and the state. Combining labour regime analysis with an emphasis on classes of capital, allows us to examine how this organizing is done in constitutively different ways.

• Farahani, Ilia; Barbesgaard, Mads & Jakobsen, Jostein (2026). Political Economy in Geographic Research: Institutionalist versus Marxist Approaches. I Das, Raju J.; Latham, Robert & Fasenfest, David (Red.), The Power of Marxist Thought: Volume 1. Brill | Nijhoff. ISSN 9789004746015. s. 85–108. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Since the rise of radical geography in the early 1970s, political economy has been crucial in examining the spatial dynamics of capital in economic geography. Marxist and non-Marxist (particularly institutionalist) economic geographers use political economy to challenge non-political economy approaches that ignore the relationship between microeconomic processes and their spatial manifestations and structural (economic and institutional) power dynamics in capitalism. Since the 1980s, however, Marxist political economy has been increasingly sidelined in favor of the institutionalist approach, which contends that the Marxist focus on systemic features of capitalism in shaping spatial relations is overly structural. Instead, the institutionalist approach emphasizes the “particular,” and highlights the importance of examining geographical difference through variegated modes of exchange and analyzing underlying rationalities of inherently heterogenous real economies. This shift poses analytical challenges, particularly during the current phase of de-globalization, highlighting the need to revisit the "general" laws of capitalist production. Given rising inter-regional competition in the emerging tri-polar world economy, a solid grasp of long-term economic forces is crucial. We contend that a modified Marxist approach remains relevant precisely for its ability to explain capitalism’s general and systemic features. In 1985, David Harvey suggested integrating two viewpoints from Marx’s Capital, volumes one and two, for a fuller understanding of the spatiality of capitalism. We argue that incorporating a third viewpoint on competition from Capital, volume three, along with more systematic empirical engagements with Anwar Shaikh’s theory of real competition, is essential for a comprehensive analysis of the spatiality and temporality of capitalism.

• Cechvala, Sarah & Miklian, Jason (2025). Systems analysis and peacebuilding: a conceptual stock-taking and forward research agenda. Peacebuilding. ISSN 2164-7259. doi: 10.1080/21647259.2025.2570908. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The growing complexity of conflicts has prompted the expansion of conceptual frameworks to better understand their multifaceted and inter-connected nature. Systems thinking has emerged as a popular approach in peacebuilding in response to this need. This approach leverages peacebuilding’s ‘local turn’ to promise a deeper study of complex social systems and their social, economic, political, and cultural factors. But what is ‘systems thinking’, and what does its proliferation mean for peacebuilding scholarship? To answer, this conceptual review systematically catalogues the most relevant 250 scholarly articles on systems thinking and analysis. We then build a framework for four interconnected approaches that systems thinking is commonly framed: heuristic, diagnostic, process-oriented, and adaptive. Our framework strengthens knowledge about how systems thinking is used in peacebuilding research and practice, and where its conceptual strengths and weaknesses lie. We conclude with a discussion of a critical analysis of the ‘systems turn’ in peacebuilding scholars

• Culén, Alma Leora; Stevens, Nicholas; Niess, Jasmin; Finken, Sisse; Miklian, Jason & Hoelscher, Kristian (2025). In the relational sandbox: Deep democracy and technology. I Morrison, Andrew & Habib, Laurence (Red.), Proceedings of Nordes 2025: Relational Design. s. 1–7. doi: 10.21606/nordes.2025.77. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Designing for democracy often emphasizes values but underestimates the role of relationships in shaping civic life. This workshop explores how relationality - our social ties, political agency, and economic conditions - affects grassroots democratic design experiments and the technologies they inspire. Grounded in deep democracy and participatory approaches, we engage in small-scale experiments using Relational Sandbox to explore how new technologies that support democratic values can reshape power dynamics and how locally rooted, tailored designs can counteract capital-driven technological development. By experimenting with relational civics, we will collectively imagine new design strategies that prioritize meaningful technologies for deep democracy over profit-driven ones. This workshop invites designers, activists, and researchers to co-develop strategies and design guidelines that place relationships at the heart of democratic practice.

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• Bull, Benedicte (2026). Trumps bakgård: Fra Monroe doktrine til røverimperialisme i Latin-Amerika. Res Publica. ISBN 9788282263788. doi: https:/respublica.no/produkter/trumps-bakgard/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Den 3. januar 2026 falt bombene over hovedstaden Caracas. Venezuelas president Nicolás Maduro ble pågrepet og fraktet ut av landet av amerikanske spesialstyrker. Disse dramatiske hendelsene er utgangspunktet for Benedicte Bulls bok om den politiske situasjonen i de latinamerikanske landene. Amerikansk utenrikspolitikk i Latin-Amerika har svingt mellom idealisme og imperialisme siden den såkalte Monroe-doktrinen ble lansert i 1823. Med Donald Trump som president har politikken tatt en ny vending, og han skyr ingen midler i jakten på narkoterrorister og migranter – og for å holde Kina unna. I Trumps bakgård forklarer Bull hvordan Trumps handlinger i regionen minner om måten kriminelle organisasjoner utvider sitt territorium på – der personlig makt og rikdom trumfer lover og institusjoner, og der statlig suverenitet ikke lenger respekteres.

• Støen, Mariel Cristina; Jakobsen, Jostein & Rutt, Rebecca Leigh (2026). One Health, Ecology, and the Politics of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Routledge. ISBN 9781003558217. 256 s. doi: 10.4324/9781003558217. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book explores the critical intersection of contemporary livestock production and some of today’s most urgent challenges: the spread of emerging infectious diseases, the sustainability of food systems, and the contested promises of One Health. It provides insights that cut across disciplines and geographies, from both the social and the natural sciences, reflecting the interdisciplinary aspirations of One Health. Yet, in foregrounding especially cutting edge contributions from ecology and the social sciences, this book addresses the persistent knowledge gap from these fields, which have frequently been neglected in favor of the veterinary sciences. By including contributions from across these fields, the book broadens and critically deepen the conversation around One Health. The book is intended for a wide interdisciplinary audience of scholars, students, and practitioners concerned with livestock production, public health, and the future of food systems.

• Westskog, Hege; Vindegg, Mikkel; Sandnes, Thea & Bjørklund, Kjetil (2026). Jorda, skogen, dyra og menneskene: Fortellinger fra småskalaliv. Småskalalandbrukets bidrag til klima- og miljøomstilling. Kolofon Forlag AS. ISBN 9788230029909. 202 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2026). Include, Research Centre for Socially Inclusive Energy Transitions. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Through inclusive processes and close collaboration between research and partners in public, private and voluntary sectors, the objective of Include is to produce critical knowledge on how to achieve a socially inclusive and just energy, climate and environmental transformation. Include has six research partners and 20 user partners in Norway and the UK.

• Winther, Tanja; Røe, Per Gunnar & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2026). FME Include. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Winther, Tanja (2026). Energi2050: Hvilken energifremtid kan og bør Norge velge? doi: https:/www.polyteknisk.no/program/energi2050-hvilken-energifremtid-kan-og-bor-norge-velge. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Rødvik, Trym Daniel (2026). Kapital i bevegelse. Gnist- Marxistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 2535-3195. 2026(3), s. 56–61. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Storeng, Katerini & Neumark, Tom (2026). Local Innovation or Donor-Driven Solutions? Governing Digital Health Transformation in Tanzania. doi: https:/ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PaperDetails/91089. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bull, Benedicte (2026). Latin-Amerika i en ny global ressurskonkurranse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Fra kolonitiden har Latin-Amerika vært preget av stormaktenes kamp om naturressurser. I dag konkurrerer USA, Kina og Europa om både tilgang til enegi, mat og mineraler. En global klimaomstilling har bidratt til økt etterspørsel etter mineraler som Latin-Amerika har store forekomster av, som litium, kobber, kobolt og sjeldne jordarter. I dette foredraget diskuterer Bull hvilke faktorer som har avgjort politikken som latinamerikanske land fører, konfrontert med økt press på sine ressurser. Hun legger frem ny kunnskap om hvordan de latinamerikanske landene selv kan styre, hvilke mål de setter for sin utviklings - og klimapolitikk og med hva slags resultater.

• Bull, Benedicte; Madarriaga, Aldo & Carrazci, Sebastian (2026). Discursive coalitions and critical minerals in Chile. Between extractive dependency and strategic agency. doi: https:/www.criticalmineralspolicylab.org/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The global energy transition has elevated critical minerals to the centre of development and climate-policy debates. For resource-rich developing countries, this moment appears to offer an opportunity to use mineral wealth for industrial upgrading and structural transformation. Yet critical-mineral agendas are increasingly shaped by interests that displace this developmental promise: advanced economies’ efforts to secure supply, geopolitical competition, corporate preferences for stable extractive frameworks, and domestic political projects that prioritize competitiveness and export continuity over value addition. This article examines how these competing interests shape the domestic policy space for critical minerals in Chile between 2018 and 2026. Drawing on dependency theory, we conceptualize external pressures not as deterministic constraints but as conditions mediated through domestic struggles over ideas, development visions, and state policy. The article compares two major policy processes—the Política Minera 2050 under Sebastián Piñera and the Estrategia Nacional de Minerales Críticos para la Transición Energética under Gabriel Boric—using policy-document analysis, consultation materials, more than 240 press articles, and interviews with public and private actors. We show that global transition and geopolitical discourses structure Chilean mineral policy without determining it. Rather, public officials and business actors mobilize notions of sustainability, decarbonization, competitiveness, and strategic autonomy to construct competing coalitions and legitimize distinct policy preferences. While these narratives can support industrial-policy ambitions, they have predominantly been articulated in ways that preserve extractive-oriented policy frameworks and supply-security imperatives. The Chilean case demonstrates how critical minerals can shift from being framed as a means for a renewable and developmental transition to becoming an object of geopolitical and commercial competition, thereby narrowing the scope for transformative industrial policy in resource-rich countries.

• Neumark, Tom (2026). What counts as different enough? Or, Tanzanian AI as an “alternative technology”. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This talk draws on my ethnographic research among Tanzanian computer and data scientists working on healthcare and medical technologies. I begin by posing a simple question: should Tanzanian-led digital technological innovation fill us with despair or inspire us? Debates that hinge on the idea of a technological otherwise often polarise. Critics see sameness in a derivative Silicon Valley solutionism, techno-fixing, and neoliberal capture. In contrast, others emphasise difference, pointing to local, situated knowledge, forms of care, or technological self-determination. I argue that both perspectives are as problematic as they are illuminating, and we must focus more consistently on ambiguity. My argument is not simply descriptive – that ambiguity exists in practice – but normative and methodological: we should retain and centre it in our explanations and political response. I show how centring ambiguity potentially offers new opportunities for learning with not only our interlocutors but also other disciplines.

• Brekke, Tarjei & Hansen, Arve (2026). Making sanwenyu: How Norwegian salmon becomes Japanese food in Chinese cities. doi: https:/www.globe.uio.no/aktuelt/arrangementer/2026/how-norwegian-salmon-becomes-japanese.html. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Over the course of the last 30 years, Atlantic salmon in China has gone from being virtually non-existent to estimated import volumes surpassing 100 000 tonnes per year following 2025. What is this food doing to urban eating practices? The shifting practices which enable consumption at this level within the country did not appear solely as an outcome of the much-discussed rise of the Chinese middle class, but rather in conjunction between aggressive marketing by salmon-producing countries, changing expectations towards food safety and healthiness, established customs of displaying social capital (“face” or mianzi), and compulsions to “eat the modern” in Chinese urban environments. In this talk, PhD student Tarjei Brekke presents some of his findings from his doctoral research to shed light on how Atlantic salmon in China came to be and what this food is doing to urban eating practices. Throughout the talk, he will aim to show how the dense network of actors which enable salmon consumption in China are not necessarily completely new nor unprecedented neither within nor without China, but are nonetheless highly consolidated and, in spite of the salmon’s proposed important role in the transition to low-impact diets, thoroughly unsustainable.

• Miklian, Jason; Rettberg, Angelika; III, Harry J. Van Buren; Katsos, John E. & Cechvala, Sarah (2026). Has Your Company Gone Quiet, or Just Given Up? | STAKES. doi: https:/papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7347858. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Under massive political and geopolitical pressures, companies are quietly stripping the visibility from their social activities. A survey of 400 CSR and ESG executives in both Europe and the USA shows why this silence matters, and what it costs companies now and in the future.

• Bjørklund, Kjetil; Westskog, Hege; Smørdal, Ole; Selvig, Eivind & Wang, Lars (2026). På vei mot en ny standard? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Denne gangen presenteres rapporten På vei mot en ny standard? som inngår i Include-satsningen Deltakende omstilling. Vi inviterer også til drøfting av hvordan rapporten kan brukes som grunnlag for et større forskningsprosjekt innenfor Grønn og rettferdig omstilling. Det blir lagt spesielt vekt å drøfte hvilke prosjekter (case) som kan brukes for å kunne få erfaringer og innsikter fra praksis (innovasjonsfronten) samt hvem som kan være aktuelle samarbeidspartnere.

• Lykke, Karen Victoria; Engkvist, Elin Helena Wyller; Colman-Denstad, Erica & Mortensen, Søren Nørrekær (2026). RIPARAGRO presentation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Presentation of project aim, methods and themes to discuss across projects at the workshop Inoculating Knowledges: Exchanging Methods and Findings across research projects on regenerative farming in Denmark and Norway

• Engkvist, Elin Helena Wyller; Lykke, Karen Victoria & Colman-Denstad, Erica (2026). RIPARAGRO, BONDEN OG ELVA. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Kayanuma, Tomoyuki (2026). History of Meat and Replacement in Japan. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Volden, Johannes (2026). Ultra-processing and microplastics: How do contemporary food anxieties challenge the edibility of “ordinary” foodstuffs? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Aguilar-Støen, Mariel; Eldevik-Stjernqvist, Ada & Rødvik, Trym Daniel (2026). The good life, African swine fever and rural transformations in Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In the wake of the African Swine Fever outbreak in Sweden in 2023, Norway decided to eradicate its own wild boar population. While the disease only affects wild boar and domestic pigs, it has affected hunting, farming and the overall relationship between rural populations and their natural environment. Simultaneously, the last decades have seen a significant agrarian restructuring in which specialization and intensification have been the norm. Today, only three supply chains deliver to the market in what has effectively become a market triopoly, leading to corporate concentration and oligopsony or even monopsony in some areas for farmers. As such, a constellation of socio-natural moments is differentially affected by the threat of the disease, leading to policy changes, supply chain adaptations and changes in rural aspirations to a good life. Focusing here on the latter, this paper seeks to contribute to earlier debates by treating aspirations as socially embedded and collectively mediated orientations toward the future. As such, aspirations are articulated through concerns that exceed the individual and even the household. They are bound up with the future of the village, the farm, the forest, the pork sector, and the wider rural social fabric. We seek to analyse the intersections of i) the collective reproduction of rural life, ii) territorial belonging, iii) moral obligations to the collective, and iv) the notion of a bio-secure modernity. As such, moving beyond the notion of aspirations as simply an expression of lifestyle preferences, this paper critically engages with disease as a driver of agrarian change.

• Colman-Denstad, Erica (2026). Governance challenges in riparian restoration on agricultural land: How conceptions and valuations shape the potential for riparian zone restoration on agricultural land in Norway. doi: https:/sere2026.sciencesconf.org/725332/document. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Riparian zones on agricultural land represent narrow but important corridors for biodiversity and connectivity and contribute to a range of ecosystem services. They are also multifunctional socio‑ecological spaces that are interpreted and valued differently across stakeholders. Drawing on workshop dialogues and documents from a collaborative research project in Norway, this paper examines how the potential for restoration of watercourses and riparian zones on agricultural land becomes entangled with, and weighted against, broader debates about the responsibility of farmers, food security, climate resilience and biodiversity loss. Because legal frameworks provide flexible yet ambiguous definitions of these areas, actors draw on different assumptions about what defines a riparian zone, what constitutes ecological function, what outcomes are non‑negotiable, and which roles and functions should guide restoration decisions. As a result, participants operate with divergent value hierarchies that are left implicit and concealed by flexible concepts, balancing considerations such as food security and agricultural considerations, runoff and erosion, flood protection, water quality and biodiversity in fundamentally different ways. These competing interpretations shape governance processes and influence which restoration pathways are considered legitimate or feasible. Taking an interdisciplinary approach informed primarily by cultural history and philosophy, this paper explores these social and cultural barriers for meaningful and feasible riparian zone restoration, by unpacking how ecosystem services interact with stakeholder value hierarchies.

• Kayanuma, Tomoyuki (2026). Cultural Appropriateness of Meat Replacement -Case studies in Vietnam and Japan-. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Volden, Johannes (2026). Consumers’ experiences with meat replacement and alternative proteins in everyday life. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hansen, Arve (2026). Meat replacement and protein futures and pasts in Asia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gebrihet, Hafte & Banik, Dan (2026). Africa shaped the global 2030 development agenda. How it can influence what comes next. doi: 10.64628/AAJ.krrg3nyqw. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  African countries should start early to develop an agreed position before the next set of global priorities is discussed.

• Gebrihet, Hafte & Banik, Dan (2026). Can Africa survive the global aid squeeze? Yes, but it will take financial discipline. doi: 10.64628/AAJ.kf9rk7a74. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Africa does not need another grand vision. It needs to treat the vision it already has as a discipline.

• Jakobsen, Jostein & Rødvik, Trym Daniel (2026). En verden i bevegelse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2026-07-21/en-verden-i-bevegelse

• Banik, Dan (2026). Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: Between Empowerment and Erosion. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2026). Who decides for Greenland? Heritage, legitimacy, and geopolitical attention. doi: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFHUCOK1Lg4&t=5s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2026). The future of aid in Malawi: implications on governance and development, Malawi. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2026). Development in an age of possibility. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2026). Sustainable development in an age of geopolitical fragmentation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2026). Negotiating Sustainable Development: African Perspectives on Global Governance and Just Transitions. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2026). Beyond the Hype: Can Generative AI Deliver Democracy and Inclusive Global Development? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2026). Redefining global governance Infrastructure, healthcare, and the roles of China and India. doi: https:/www.wider.unu.edu/publication/redefining-global-governance. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Global governance is being reshaped. For decades, the rules, institutions, and priorities of international development were largely set by Western powers and multilaterals. That world has not disappeared, but it no longer fully explains how development agendas are negotiated.

• Banik, Dan (2026). Why hope is what we need. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/hope. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this Season 6 finale of In Pursuit of Development, Dan Banik asks why hope has come to seem naïve at precisely the moment we need it most. Drawing on global poverty, democracy, climate anxiety, and the politics of collective action, he argues for evidence-based hope as a disciplined and realistic alternative to both denial and despair.

• Banik, Dan & Itaye, Tikhala (2026). How civil society adapts when aid shrinks. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/itaye. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  As aid shrinks and donor priorities shift, civil society organizations are being forced to rethink how they survive, adapt, and continue serving communities. Dan Banik speaks with Tikhala Itaye about funding cuts, local ownership, social entrepreneurship, gender equality, accountability, and why Malawi’s development future may depend on new forms of innovation and collaboration.

• Banik, Dan & Behuria, Pritish (2026). Is Rwanda a development success? doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/behuria. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Rwanda is often celebrated as one of Africa’s most striking development success stories. But how durable is that success, and who has benefited from it? Dan Banik speaks with Pritish Behuria about Rwanda’s services-led growth model, powerful national brand, and the unresolved challenges of jobs, inequality, foreign dependence, and structural transformation.

• Banik, Dan (2026). African agency at the crossroads. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/banik26. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  African scholars, policymakers, civil society leaders, and practitioners are rethinking development amid aid cuts, geopolitical fragmentation, climate pressures, and the rise of AI. Drawing on recent conversations in Pretoria, Addis Ababa, Blantyre, and Mauritius, Dan Banik reflects on African agency, the limits of donor-driven development, and why the future must be shaped by those most affected by it.

• Banik, Dan & Dávid-Barrett,, Elizabeth (2026). How public institutions become captured. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/david-barrett. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Dan Banik speaks with Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett about state capture and development. Together, they explore how corruption moves beyond bribes to reshape institutions, weaken accountability, deepen inequality, and allow powerful political and business actors to rewrite the rules in their own favor.

• Banik, Dan & O’Malley, Alanna (2026). Why the UN looks different from the Global South. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/omalley-6fyvA00C. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Dan Banik speaks with Alanna O’Malley about the hidden history of the United Nations, showing how actors from the Global South helped shape global governance, decolonization, development, and the struggle for a more just international order. The conversation explores why the UN looks very different when viewed from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and why these debates matter so much in today’s crisis-ridden world.

• Banik, Dan & Pai, Madhukar (2026). The poverty trap that kills a million people a year. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/pai. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Why does tuberculosis still kill more than a million people every year despite being preventable and curable? Dan Banik speaks with Madhukar Pai about TB, poverty, undernutrition, primary healthcare, decolonizing global health, and the enduring legacy of Paul Farmer.

• Banik, Dan & Scheja, Elina (2026). Can aid still fight poverty? doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/scheja. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  How is global development cooperation changing in an age of aid cuts, geopolitical fragmentation, and shifting national priorities? In this episode, Dan Banik speaks with Elina Scheja, Chief Economist at Sida, about the future of foreign aid, poverty reduction, jobs, evidence, and what effective development policy looks like in a more uncertain world.

• Banik, Dan & Schellekens, Philip (2026). Can Asia still deliver the development dream? doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/schellekens. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Dan Banik speaks with Philip Schellekens, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at UNDP, about what Asia’s extraordinary rise can (and cannot) teach us about development today. They explore growth, inequality, jobs, aging, AI, and why the future of development depends on moving beyond crisis language toward a more inclusive and opportunity-focused vision.

• Banik, Dan & Bradlow, Benjamin (2026). Urbanization, inequality and the future of development. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/bradlow. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Dan Banik speaks with Benjamin Bradlow about urban inequality, informal settlements, and why access to housing, sanitation, and transport remains so unequal in many of the world’s fastest-growing cities. The conversation explores how local politics, state capacity, and civil society shape whether cities become spaces of exclusion or inclusion.

• Banik, Dan & Kharas, Homi (2026). Why the middle class will shape global development. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/kharas. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Dan Banik speaks with Homi Kharas about the rise of the global middle class and why it has become central to the story of modern development. The conversation explores how middle-class growth is reshaping economies, politics, and aspirations around the world, and why its future will matter for inequality, sustainability, and global change.

• Banik, Dan & Marcelloni, Francesco (2026). Artificial intelligence and the future of human decision-making. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/marcelloni. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare, education, and governance. Dan Banik and Francesco Marcelloni explore the risks and benefits, and why human judgment must remain central in the AI era.

• Banik, Dan & Kewalramani, Manoj (2026). Why India–China relations could reshape the global order. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/manojk. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  India-China relations have entered a phase of cautious re-engagement, but beneath the diplomatic optics lie deep structural fault lines shaped by power asymmetry, border tensions, economic interdependence, and great power rivalry. Dan Banik speaks with Manoj Kewalramani about whether the relationship is stabilizing into a cold peace or simply entering another cycle of strategic competition with global consequences.

• Banik, Dan & Pogge, Thomas (2026). Can philosophy save a world obsessed with power? doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/pogge2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In a world defined by rising great-power rivalry, declining solidarity, and shrinking aid budgets, the Yale philosopher Thomas Pogge joins Dan Banik to discuss whether global justice and human rights still matter or whether power politics has won. From the erosion of soft power to bold proposals like the Ecological Impact Fund, this conversation explores how values, innovation, and institutional reform could reshape a fractured international order.

• Banik, Dan & McNair, David (2026). Debt, development finance, and global agency. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/mcnair. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Dan Banik speaks with David McNair about the shifting politics of global development in an era of debt distress and declining humanitarian funding. They explore how activism must adapt to a changing global financial landscape, the rise of agency in the Global South, and what it will take to reform development finance for the years ahead.

• Banik, Dan & Engerman, David (2026). Six economists and the making of modern development. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/engerman. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  David Engerman takes Dan Banik inside the lives and rivalries of six South Asian economists who helped define what “development” would mean in the postcolonial world. From Cambridge seminars to global institutions, the conversation reveals how their debates on trade, planning, inequality, and human welfare still shape the choices governments face today.

• Banik, Dan & Moore, Lindsey (2026). Making evidence actually usable. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/moore. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Dan Banik speaks with Lindsey Moore about how ethical AI and predictive analytics can transform decades of development evaluations into structured and searchable evidence for better decisions. They explore what it takes to build context-aware models grounded in clear taxonomies and local perspectives, enabling AI to strengthen institutional learning and advance equity.

• Banik, Dan & Hansen, Arve (2026). Vietnam’s remarkable development turnaround. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/hansen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Vietnam is a celebrated development success story, but rapid growth is also reshaping everyday life through rising inequality, changing consumption, and mounting environmental pressures. Dan Banik speaks with Arve Hansen about what Vietnam’s next phase of development may look like and the trade-offs it will require.

• Banik, Dan & Atah, Solomon (2026). Beyond Aid: Growth, Governance And The Politics of Sustainability. doi: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQVs1kcxlBo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this episode of The Solomon Atah Podcast, Prof. Dan Banik joins the conversation to explore what development means today and how it has evolved across Africa and Asia. Drawing on his extensive research and experience, Prof. Banik examines poverty, governance, democracy, and sustainability, while reflecting on how South–South cooperation and technology are reshaping development paradigms.

• Banik, Dan & Frichot, Nicolas (2026). Dan Banik : “The most valuable AI work for Mauritius is fine-tuning, integrating and contextualizing existing models”. [Journal]. L'express. doi: https:/lexpress.mu/s/dan-banik-the-most-valuable-ai-work-for-mauritius-is-fine-tuning-integrating-and-contextualizing-existing-models-557826. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In an exclusive interview with «l’express», Dan Banik, Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, discusses artificial intelligence, its concrete uses in the Global South, the risks of widening inequalities between nations, and what Mauritius should prioritize to govern AI responsibly.

• Banik, Dan & Pasungwi, Jonathan (2026). Malawi asked to revisit dependency on donors. [Journal]. Nation Online. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Discussants at a panel discussion themed ‘The future of aid in Malawi: Implications on governance and development’ have stressed the need for Malawi to focus on home-grown solutions to achieve meaningful development amid donor fatigue.

• Banik, Dan & Pasungwi, Jonathan (2026). Prof Banik assesses Malawi’s democracy. [Journal]. Nation Online. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  There are continued calls for Malawi to focus on home-grown solutions to achieve meaningful development amid donor fatigue. Our News Analyst Jonathan Pasungwi recently engaged Norwegian Professor Dan Banik on Malawi’s development, and its efforts to fight corruption, among other issues.

• Banik, Dan & Erstad, Emil André (2026). Vi må slutte å tru at det er vi som bestemmer. [Journal]. Panorama Nyheter. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Professor Dan Banik mener bistandsepoken går mot slutten og at Norge må lytte mer til mottakerland. I Panorama-podkasten advarer han om sult, hardere prioriteringer og en ny verdensorden der det globale sør får mer makt.

• Hansen, Arve (2026). Interview on bicycling in Hanoi. [TV]. Vietnam Today. doi: https:/drive.google.com/file/d/1rJlzQlmGBMBf05_N-GEY8Cw1S_U6ritN/view. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bui, Trang & Hansen, Arve (2026). Hotpots, barbecues and alcohol: A diet gone red. [Journal]. Mekong Eye. doi: https:/www.mekongeye.com/2026/06/01/a-diet-gone-red. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Westskog, Hege (2026). Klimastrategiseminar Oslo kommune. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lykke, Karen Victoria (2026). Korleis kua bana veg før turkulturen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lykke, Karen Victoria (2026). Presentation of Live, Die, Buy, Eat. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lykke, Karen Victoria (2026). Om jordhelse, kanaliseringspolitikk og fremtidens løsninger. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bull, Benedicte (2026). Venezuelas skjebne: Kan USA bringe demokrati eller kaos? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Venezuelas fremtid er usikker. Vil USAs grep føre til demokrati eller mer autoritær kontroll?

• Bull, Benedicte (2026). Kronikk: En ny optimisme er oppstått i Venezuela. Kan vi få se en venezuelansk vår? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Nesten hver dag har brakt nyheter som vi for få uker siden ville sagt var helt umulige, skriver Benedicte Bull.

• Bull, Benedicte (2026). Demokratiet etter korrupsjonsskandalen: Hva kan vi lære av Latin-Amerika? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Epstein-filene har skapt en historisk tillitskrise i Norge. Det kan være lurt å skue til Latin-Amerika for å finne veien ut av uføret.

• Bull, Benedicte (2026). (+) Voldsbølgen i Mexico er et forvarsel om hva som kan komme ut av Trumps tunge press. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  En stille pakt er det mest logiske valget for Mexicos president frem mot fotball-VM, men kan gjøre kartellene både sterkere og mer brutale på sikt, skriver Benedicte Bull.

• Westskog, Hege & Vindegg, Mikkel (2026). Jorda, skogen, dyra og menneskene: Fortellinger fra småskalaliv. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan & Moss, Todd (2026). Energy for growth on the African continent. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/moss. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Dan Banik speaks with Todd Moss about why electrification has surged in some countries but continues to lag across much of Africa. Together they unpack why “access” is only the starting point when electricity is expensive, unreliable, and unable to power jobs and growth.

• Engkvist, Elin Helena Wyller (2025). Grunneieres perspektiver på restaurering av kantsoner og jordhelse i forhold til miljø, natur og matsikkerhet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Engkvist, Elin Helena Wyller (2025). Paper presentation: Restoring soils and riparian zones. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Brekke, Tarjei & Hansen, Arve (2025). From eating for sustenance to eating for pleasure: Examining thoughts on sufficiency, demand and need in Shanghai salmon consumption. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Problem Over its soon-to-be sixty-year history, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) farming has shifted global shipping lanes for seafood, transformed coastal communities and produced debates on the animal rights of fish (Lien 2015). For finfish, they are globally part of the fourth most farmed species group, the salmonids, in terms of volume at 4,2 million tonnes in 2022 (FAO 2024). Atlantic salmon is lauded in Norway for its high retention of macro- and micronutrients from feed compared to livestock, and is marketed globally as a healthy, high-quality seafood. While the Norwegian seafood business claims that Norwegian seafood is feeding the world sustainably, in the case of Shanghai in China, salmon seemingly remains an expensive “everyday luxury”, challenging the necessity of the salmon farming industry as a food producer. Like many other industrialised animal products, the scale at which salmon is produced receives adverse attention due to its impact on fish stocks and supply lines for foodstuffs that could have otherwise gone to human consumption. Overfishing produces reduced availability of fishmeal and fish oil, the key ingredients ensuring the presence of the nutrients that salmon is famous for. Furthermore, in its immediate environment, the spread of sea lice facilitated by sea-cage salmon farming is responsible for the near extinction of both wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout (Salmo trutta). In the sea pens, the average death rate was around 15 percent in 2023 (Grefsrud et al. 2024). These detriments alone should be enough to reconsider the cost-versus-benefit of the industry from a sustainability point-of-view. Yet at the same time, potentially reducing opportunities for salmon farmers to continue their expansion for the sake of sufficiency overlooks the symbolic value for Chinese citizens of access to expensive, imported seafood. In a culture where the idea of “face” (mianzi) remains strong and expensive purchases are a way of showing status and charitability to others, salmon occupies a price niche which remains accessible to many in the lower middle class. As a vehicle for the Chinese Dream, Atlantic salmon seems effective at proving to both young and old that the country has come far and that they have transitioned from the days of famine – the time when the main goal was to eat until full (chi de bao) to a time when one should eat for pleasure (chi de hao). Method Framed through the lenses of systems of provision (Bayliss and Fine 2020) and domestication and infrastructuring (Berker 2023; Karasti & Blomberg 2018), this presentation analyses the development of the demand for salmon in Shanghai from a systemic and constructionist angle. Drawing on interview data with 18 individuals from five months of fieldwork in the JiangZheHu-region of China (Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai), this paper examines interviewees’ thoughts on salmon consumption and whether China really needs salmon as a case on the role of luxuries under sufficiency as an organizing principle. Results and relevance This study indicates that dietary consumption limitations are undertaken out of concern for one’s health rather than concern for sustainable planetary stewardship.

• Hansen, Arve (2025). Meat replacement and systems of edibility in Asia (and beyond). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2025). Professor Dan Banik (University of Oslo) joins the Department of Law as Visiting Professor. [Internet]. University of Pisa. doi: https:/www.jus.unipi.it/2025/09/15/professor-dan-banik-university-of-oslo-joins-the-department-of-law-as-visiting-professor/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPn4uFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEex0raVyxGzTU8NharPFlrDm3RcmlQW8G7jMb36cEPYGaye9y70JpjSOK012c_aem_N4Vp8CMYIFGwPQtXQFM3Aw. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2025). Circle U. Summer School on Democracy and Development hosted this summer in Belgrade. [Internet]. Circle U.. doi: https:/www.circle-u.eu/news/circle-u-summer-school-democracy-and-development-hosted-summer-belgrade. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2025). International seminar in Pisa explores Constitutional Courts and Electoral Integrity. [Internet]. unipinews. doi: https:/www.unipi.it/en/news/corti-costituzionali-e-integrita-elettorale-al-centro-di-un-seminario-internazionale-a-pisa/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2025). Banik tilbake med populær podcast. [Internet]. Panorama Nyheter. doi: https:/www.panoramanyheter.no/medier-utviklingsbransjen/banik-tilbake-med-populaer-podcast/404794. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2025). Professoren var alltid i bevegelse. Så fikk han hjerteinfarkt. [Internet]. Khrono. doi: https:/www.khrono.no/professoren-var-alltid-i-bevegelse-sa-fikk-han-hjerteinfarkt/986925. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Banik, Dan (2025). From crisis to possibility. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/banik. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In the opening episode of Season 6, Dan Banik reflects on his personal journey of recovery after a medical emergency and uses this experience as a lens to explore a world in transition — one marked by fragmentation, shifting power, and the rise of the Global South. He argues that despite turbulence and uncertainty, actors across the Global South are reshaping global development, offering new possibilities for a more just, inclusive, and hopeful international order.

• Banik, Dan & Patz, Ronny (2025). How to Save the United Nations from Financial Meltdown. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/ronny-patz. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Dan Banik speaks with Ronny Patz about the United Nations’ deepest financial crisis in decades and the ambitious reforms unfolding under the UN80 initiative. Together they unpack how politics, member state behaviour, and fragmented funding are reshaping the UN’s ability to act, and what this means for the future of multilateralism.

• Banik, Dan & Hossain, Naomi (2025). Bangladesh: How a ‘basket case’ became a development pioneer. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/hossain. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Dan Banik and Naomi Hossain discuss Bangladesh’s remarkable but contested development journey — from famine and fragility to growth and global recognition. Together they explore how politics, crisis, and collective learning have shaped the country’s progress, and what its experience reveals about resilience, accountability, and the moral economy of development.

• Banik, Dan & Asunka, Joseph (2025). Africa’s pulse: Listening to citizens in an age of uncertainty. doi: https:/in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com/episodes/asunka. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Joseph Asunka joins Dan Banik to discuss what Africans themselves are saying about democracy, governance, and opportunity amid shifting global and local realities. Drawing on data from across the continent, they explore youth frustration and activism, the persistence of “big man” politics, and why reliable citizen data is essential for Africa’s democratic future.

• Miklian, Jason & Hoelscher, Kristian (2026). Stochastic Parrots or Singing in Harmony? Testing Leading AI LLMs’ Ability to Replicate a Human Survey with Synthetic Data. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  How well can AI-generated synthetic research data replicate the responses of human participants? This article benchmarks synthetic survey generation against a survey of 400 Silicon Valley coders and developers by asking first for leading consumer AI platforms to produce full synthetic datasets through a naturalistic chat protocol, then testing the three newest frontier models (Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Kimi K3). Our findings reveal that while the platforms produced technically plausible results that lean more towards replicability and harmonization than typically assumed, none of the LLMs consistently captured the complete set of counterintuitive findings of the human survey. This pattern varied across different prompt formations and generation methods: deviations in synthetic data grouped together for some model comparisons, while others diverged substantially. While leading LLMs are increasingly being used to scale, replicate and replace human survey responses in innovation and science policy research, the tested models still differed substantially from the human benchmark. Agreement among synthetic samples, whether across models or across runs, therefore does not establish agreement with human populations, showing here that replicability and validity decouple. We propose that synthetic respondents could be used before fieldwork, as an instrument for identifying model-generated expectations about research populations, and we connect this use to emerging calibration methods for settings where a human anchor exists.

• Bjerke, Lise; Lie, Anne Kveim; Fjeld, Heidi E; Gradmann, Christoph; Roalkvam, Sidsel & Kannuri, Nanda Kishore (2026). Antibiotics and India’s pharmaceutical industry: An exploration of drug production and trade in globalised pharmaceutical geographies. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Antibiotics play complex roles in global health. While many still lack access, their massive use has contributed to the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In addition, our supply of these life-saving drugs rests on intricate networks of globalised production and trade. This thesis explores the production and trade of antibiotics in India's pharmaceutical industry in the context of globalised pharmaceutical geographies and their histories. Situated within the interdisciplinary field of pharmaceutical studies, the thesis draws on perspectives from medical anthropology, history, and science and technology studies, and is based on document and trade data analysis combined with ethnographic fieldwork in India. The thesis shows how India’s pharmaceutical industry has become a major global supplier of antibiotics, while also grappling with the reliance on China’s industry for the import of antibiotic ingredients, and the environmental challenges accompanying the industrial manufacturing of antibiotics. The thesis demonstrates that, despite major trade tensions, collaboration and competition coexist in the China-India nexus of antibiotic supply chains. The thesis also challenges the often taken-for-granted status of drugs as simply bare chemical molecules, showing how antibiotics take on multiple and sometimes clashing identities depending on the practices, relations and politics in which they are involved. A key contribution of the thesis is its focus on the environmental aspect of antibiotics and AMR. By analysing the science-policy response to industrial antibiotic pollution and AMR in India, it shows how various uncertainties at the molecular level are used to challenge scientific claims and the imposition of discharge limits. As the forces underlying antibiotic pollution extend beyond the molecular and local scale, the thesis emphasises the need to address the broader global dynamics that shape drug manufacturing and the rise of AMR in environments and beyond.

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