Thera Mjaaland
Biographic Data
| ID | 144512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thera Mjaaland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thera |
| FAMILY NAME | Mjaaland |
| SIGNATURE | MJAALAND T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yahoo (United Kingdom) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2792-9130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Self-reliant’ Refugees as ‘Development Actors’
In this article which is based on anthropological fieldworks among Eritrean refugees in Hitsats and Adi Harush camps in North-Ethiopia and out of camp in the capital city Addis Ababa between 2019 and 2022, I report on how the new Ethiopian policy/law environment for refugee response has affected access to formal employment and own business licenses for this third largest refugee group in the country. This policy/law change in Ethiopia was linked …
Co-photographing in North-western Tigray, Ethiopia
The argument in this article, which starts from the assertion that anthropological research is always dependent on cross-cultural collaboration – whether acknowledged or not – is based on my experience from north-western Tigray, North-Ethiopia as a photographic artist and photographing anthropologist. The photographic portraits that resulted from Tigrayan people taking control over their own self-representation in a process of “co-photographing” …
Imagining the Real
The exploratory discussion in this article starts from the fact that it is the realism of photographic representations which enables them, in an indexical sense, to point back to a reality beyond themselves as images. In the same vein, it is as a metonymic space-time fragment that the photograph can indicate a continuation of reality beyond its own framing of the visible. Or, putting it differently, rather than constituting transparent representa…
Negotiating gender norms in the context of equal access to education in north-western Tigray, Ethiopia
Girls in Tigray region in North Ethiopia have over the past decade started to outnumber boys up through primary and secondary education in terms of enrolment rates. But underage marriage still hampers rural girls’ pursuit of education. Left unchallenged by governmental efforts to address marriage of underage girls is the female virginity ideal and the burden of sexual morality which girls continue to shoulder, and that sustains the practice. It i…
Whose Authority? The Religious Conditioning of Decision-Making in the Context of Right to Reproductive Choice in North-Western Tigray, Ethiopia / Sous l’autorité de qui ? Le conditionnement religieux …
Sous l’autorité de qui ? Le conditionnement religieux de la prise de décision dans le contexte du droit au choix en matière de reproduction dans le nord-ouest du Tigré – L’analyse développée dans cet article procède de l’hypothèse couramment admise selon laquelle une fervente religiosité entraverait le recours aux pratiques contraceptives et à l’avortement car la personne serait tenue de respecter la volonté divine et d’engendrer le nombre d’enfa…
Having fewer children makes it possible to educate them all
Education is presumed to play a decisive role in decreasing fertility rates. This article is about the role of education and other factors in fertility decline in the context of current Ethiopian policies on population and sustainable development, based on an ethnographic study of women's agency and girls' pursuit of education in one semi-urban and one rural area in north-western Tigray, in northern Ethiopia. Long-term environmental insecurity an…
Evocative Encounters
The main objective of this article is to discuss a rethinking of knowledge production that involves the incorporation of artistic practice as one aspect of its methodology. The point of departure is still photography as one such practice, and the fact that it is almost entirely banished from mainstream social anthropological methodology and analysis. To acquire a new position for photography within social science research practice, a repositionin…
Saleni, fotografer meg! Om sammenhenger mellom fotografisk representasjon og forståelse av personen i Tigray, Etiopia
Imagining the Real
The exploratory discussion in this article starts from the fact that it is the realism of photographic representations which enables them, in an indexical sense, to point back to a reality beyond themselves as images. In the same vein, it is as a metonymic space-time fragment that the photograph can indicate a continuation of reality beyond its own framing of the visible. Or, putting it differently, rather than constituting transparent representa…
Evocative Encounters
The main objective of this article is to discuss a rethinking of knowledge production that involves the incorporation of artistic practice as one aspect of its methodology. The point of departure is still photography as one such practice, and the fact that it is almost entirely banished from mainstream social anthropological methodology and analysis. To acquire a new position for photography within social science research practice, a repositionin…
Negotiating gender norms in the context of equal access to education in north-western Tigray, Ethiopia
Girls in Tigray region in North Ethiopia have over the past decade started to outnumber boys up through primary and secondary education in terms of enrolment rates. But underage marriage still hampers rural girls’ pursuit of education. Left unchallenged by governmental efforts to address marriage of underage girls is the female virginity ideal and the burden of sexual morality which girls continue to shoulder, and that sustains the practice. It i…
Saleni, fotografer meg! Om sammenhenger mellom fotografisk representasjon og forståelse av personen i Tigray, Etiopia
Evocative Encounters
The main objective of this article is to discuss a rethinking of knowledge production that involves the incorporation of artistic practice as one aspect of its methodology. The point of departure is still photography as one such practice, and the fact that it is almost entirely banished from mainstream social anthropological methodology and analysis. To acquire a new position for photography within social science research practice, a repositionin…
Having fewer children makes it possible to educate them all
Education is presumed to play a decisive role in decreasing fertility rates. This article is about the role of education and other factors in fertility decline in the context of current Ethiopian policies on population and sustainable development, based on an ethnographic study of women's agency and girls' pursuit of education in one semi-urban and one rural area in north-western Tigray, in northern Ethiopia. Long-term environmental insecurity an…
Whose Authority? The Religious Conditioning of Decision-Making in the Context of Right to Reproductive Choice in North-Western Tigray, Ethiopia / Sous l’autorité de qui ? Le conditionnement religieux …
Sous l’autorité de qui ? Le conditionnement religieux de la prise de décision dans le contexte du droit au choix en matière de reproduction dans le nord-ouest du Tigré – L’analyse développée dans cet article procède de l’hypothèse couramment admise selon laquelle une fervente religiosité entraverait le recours aux pratiques contraceptives et à l’avortement car la personne serait tenue de respecter la volonté divine et d’engendrer le nombre d’enfa…
Negotiating gender norms in the context of equal access to education in north-western Tigray, Ethiopia
Girls in Tigray region in North Ethiopia have over the past decade started to outnumber boys up through primary and secondary education in terms of enrolment rates. But underage marriage still hampers rural girls’ pursuit of education. Left unchallenged by governmental efforts to address marriage of underage girls is the female virginity ideal and the burden of sexual morality which girls continue to shoulder, and that sustains the practice. It i…
Co-photographing in North-western Tigray, Ethiopia
The argument in this article, which starts from the assertion that anthropological research is always dependent on cross-cultural collaboration – whether acknowledged or not – is based on my experience from north-western Tigray, North-Ethiopia as a photographic artist and photographing anthropologist. The photographic portraits that resulted from Tigrayan people taking control over their own self-representation in a process of “co-photographing” …
Imagining the Real
The exploratory discussion in this article starts from the fact that it is the realism of photographic representations which enables them, in an indexical sense, to point back to a reality beyond themselves as images. In the same vein, it is as a metonymic space-time fragment that the photograph can indicate a continuation of reality beyond its own framing of the visible. Or, putting it differently, rather than constituting transparent representa…
Self-reliant’ Refugees as ‘Development Actors’
In this article which is based on anthropological fieldworks among Eritrean refugees in Hitsats and Adi Harush camps in North-Ethiopia and out of camp in the capital city Addis Ababa between 2019 and 2022, I report on how the new Ethiopian policy/law environment for refugee response has affected access to formal employment and own business licenses for this third largest refugee group in the country. This policy/law change in Ethiopia was linked …
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works)