Academically, I have worked within cultural theory, in the contact zones between power, identity and the planetary "in-common". My PhD at the University of Oslo took an ecocritical look at contemporary Anglo-African and Norwegian speculative fictions, and its creators (downloadable here).

Empirically speaking, I have generally taken a macro-level approach to examining contemporary texts and discourses, their meanings and material entanglements, especially those emerging from the Nordics and southern and East Africa.  

Anthropocene discourses, colonial histories and their reverberations, cross-cultural identities, cosmopolitanism and planetarity, environmental justice and related social movements, political philosophies and artistic practices, as well as decolonial and anti-colonial mobilizations are some of the topics I engaged with.

Recently I have begun to explore speculation and anticipation in relation to resource management and the energy transition with the Unruliness research group. MSc from University of Oxford (2018), MA in global media studies from SOAS (2013). BA Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Maastricht (2012).

Current Affiliations:

Unruly Entanglements — Rethinking uncertainty in environmental change Postdoctor, University of Oslo

CoFutures — Global Futures

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Science Fictionality — Pathways to possible presents