Halldis Valestrand

Førsteamanuensis

Telefon (+47)
776 44308

E-mail
haldisv@sv.uit.no

Kontor/besøk
N-fløya, Breiviklia, kontor N-111.

Kompetanse og forskningsområde
My primary research interests are how different categories, agencies, institutions, contexts etc,, when they come together, are being changed and challenged, empirically and theoretically. I am particularly interested in how different understandings of gender tend to entail new and critical questions about structural shifts and human agencies and how those, in turn, lead to development of other analytical and methodological approaches by which contradictions, borders, margins, complexities and ambiguities must be analysed and studied. I try to work within an explicit cross-disciplinary approach and my research themes and issues are: place and place constructions; labour- and industrialised landscapes; changes in work and labourmarkets (‘new’ economy); migrations; mobilities; restructurations of place, scales and spaces; globalisation; gender development projects and project chains; economy & culture, cultural shifts; institutional ethnography, constructivism, materiality, practice theory, history of science, feminist theory, cultural theory, social theory, gendered knowledge production.

Geographical areas:
Northern Norway: (Gendered restructurations, place constructions and labour market in
Kirkenes)
Central America: (Restructurations of agriculture, households, gender, development projects).
Uganda: (Everyday challenges for professional women in the city of Kampala)