Iselin Åsedotter Strønen
Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Iselin Åsedotter Strønen (born 1980) is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, currently also Head of Teaching. She has previously worked as a Senior Lecturer and temporary Associate Professor at the same department. Prior to that (2008-2018) she worked as a doctoral candidate, researcher, and affiliated researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI).
Strønen has extensive research experience from Venezuela and Brazil, to some extent Angola, and is currently starting up a new field of research in Northern Spain. Her work has focused on political conflict and social struggle, natural resource politics and the anthropology of oil, social movements, the state, gender, corporate social responsibility, poverty and social inequality, and maritime anthropology. She is project leader for the INTPART-project Environmental Sustainability, Marine Economies and Gendered Socio-Economic Inequalities (ENMARINE): A Norway-Brazil Partnership in Research and Teaching (2020-2026). She has authored the monograph Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela: The Revolutionary Petro-State (Palgrave McMillan 2017), and co-edited (with Margit Ystanes) The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change (Palgrave McMillan 2018). Her work as also appeared in several other edited volumes as well as journals such as Ethnos and History and Anthropology.
