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Bokmål: Regional etnografi i en globalisert verden:
Ekspertinstitusjoner, samarbeid og kulturell dynamikk i
Nordområdene
Engelsk: Regional ethnography in a globalised world: Expert
institutions, collaborations and cultural dynamics in the High
North
Nynorsk: Regional etnografi i ei globalisert verd:
Ekspertinstitusjonar, samarbeid og kulturell dynamikk i
Nordområda
SOA-8010
5 ETC PhD-level
PhD course in humanities and social sciences
Admission to a PhD-programme (and 'førstelektorprogrammet' at
UiT) is obligatory
Students who successfully complete this course should have
achieved the following learning outcomes:
Knowledge:
Knowledge about the contemporary ethnographic landscape: the social
fields of recently emerging actors involved in resource extraction in the
High North.
Faglig innhold
Analytical understanding
A critical view on ‘expert’ knowledge: The organisation of
scientific work, the production, commodification and
dissemination of expert forecasting, and technologies:
Skills and competences:
Combining analysis of major trends with hands-on case studies.
Much anthropology has focused on adaptations in northern areas
in relation to state policies, regulations of the environment and
ethnopolitical categorizations. New initiatives in the border areas
between Norway and Russia (Barents 2020) bring about new
organizational and economical processes connected with resource
extraction. This course introduces new approaches to the study of
experts, institutions and forms of knowledge that seek to
influence energy development in the High North. Examples and
approaches will draw on ongoing research on the role of
consultants, mainly western expertise on gas and oil explorations,
seen as intermediaries between the economic interests and
national regulations.
This new knowledge-intensive economy operates under a
considerable degree of uncertainties, transcending national
borders and sovereign bordered economies. Two patterns in this
field of development will be addressed: The increasing
democratization that redefine local knowledge and create new
publics to which science becomes accountable. And the rise of
intermediaries suggesting a trend towards greater control over
access and production of Arctic knowledge that is privatized via
commodification.
In what ways can anthropological and sociological attention to
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the study of expert knowledge enhance our understanding of the
role of modern science, technology and energy development?
How do various approaches to the study of experts help us
understand the organization of scientific work, the dissemination
of expert technologies, and the roles of new professionals and the
public in relation to energy development in the High North?
The programme will include lectures and seminars on the
contemporary ethnographic landscape: The social field of
recently emerging actors involved in developing Norwegian and
Russian arctic, images of the Energy Future and social
technologies in an Arctic Context.
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vurdering
Kontinasjonseksamen
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Pensum
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There will be a special emphasis on the methodological
challenges in collecting ethnographic data in a field where
knowledge is a commercial product
Teaching methods
A website will be established to contextualise the course and to
provide reading instructions and material. The 2,5 days course
will provide lectures, seminars and students’ presentations.
The students will submit an outline for a paper (2-4 pages) latest
three weeks before the course, and is expected to present the
outline for the paper and to participate in discussions. A final
paper shall incorporate teachings and readings from the course.
Course evaluation
Group assessment on the final day of the course.
80 % obligatory attendance
5 credits
The course yields 5 credits when participation, presentation and
paper have been approved. Paper requirements: 4000-5000
words. The paper is to be written in English. The terms of
assessment for examination: pass/fail. Submission deadline: XXX
If the paper fails, the Faculty will arrange a re-sit exam
500 pages chosen from a reading list on the course web page
The course is taught in English. The paper must also be written in
English.
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