Dr GRO WEEN
Research Fellow
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g.b.ween@abdn.ac.uk
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http://www.abdn.ac.uk/arctic-domus/
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Biography
Gro Ween received her D.Phil from University of Oxford in 2002. Her thesis was based upon fieldwork in the Kimberleys in Australia on topics such as Native title, Aboriginal politics, leadership and land management. Since then she has held three postdoctoral fellowships. The first with funding from the NRC Sami Program, on Southern Sami, customary law and rights perceptions. Fieldwork on this project involved Southern Sami institions and reindeeer herding. Following this fellowship, she was worked in a temporary position an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology the University of Oslo for almost four years before taking on a new postdoctoral fellowship on Marianne Lien’s 'Newcomers to the Farm: Atlantic Salmon between the Wild and the Industrial'. Her fieldwork site in this project was on human-salmon relations in the Tana River in the Norwegian high north. She is currently employed as a postdoctoral fellow on David G. Anderson’s 'Arctic Domus: Emplacing Human-Animal Relationships in the Circumpolar North' where she will continue working on human-salmon relations and human-reindeer relations.
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Research Interests
Human-animal relations, nature practices, natural resource conflicts, cultural heritage, landscape, indigenous issues, legal anthropology, political anthropology, gender studies, material semiotics.
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Current Research
Arctic Domus fieldsites:
1.Two Rivers:
Human-Salmon relations in two rivers: Tana River in Northern Norway and Yukon River in Alaska. This comparison focuses on human-salmon relations in three interfacing knowledge practices; that of local fishermen, scientists and natural resource managers.
2. Sequences of domestication:
Moments of transition from wild to domesticated is theorised and made manifest through the use of various technologies in both genetics and in archaeology. This study explores how exactly such sequences are enacted in the two disciplines and the materialities involved.
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Research Grants
2012 NRC Miljø 2015, funds for dissemination.
2012 Writing grant from Norges Fagbokforfatter forening (8 months).
2012 Kjell Moen’s Memorial Fund. County Governor of Finnmark.
2011 Kjell Moen’s Memorial Fund, County Governor of Finnmark.
2011 Patrick Gedde Samlingen, University of Oslo.
2011 Travel Grant, Norsk Fagbokforfatterforening.
2010 2 Travel Grants, Miljø 2015, Norwegian Research Council.
2009 Travel Grant, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
2008 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo.
2008 Travel Grant, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo.
2006 Pre-project funding, Norwegian Research Council.
2001 Postdoctoral Fellowship Norwegian Research Council (undertaken in 2003).
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Ween, GB. & Colombi, B. (2013). 'Two Rivers: The Politics of wild salmon, indigenous rights and natural resource management'. Sustainability, vol 5, no. 2, pp. 478-495.
[Online] DOI: 10.3390/su5020478
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Peer-Reviewed Chapters
- Ween, GB. (2012). 'Resisting the imminent death of wild salmon: Local knowledge of Tana fishermen in arctic Norway'. C Carothers, KR Criddle, CP Chambers, PJ Cullenberg, JA Falls, AH Himes-Cornell, JP Johnsen, NS Kimball, CR Menzies & ES Springer (eds), in: Fishing People of the North: Cultures, economies, and management responding to change. Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, pp. 153-171.
[Online] DOI: 10.4027/fpncemrc.2012
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