Ulrikke Wethal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrikke Wethal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrikke |
| FAMILY NAME | Wethal |
| SIGNATURE | WETHAL U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9041-3583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry
Asia has become the world’s largest beer-consuming region, and Southeast Asia sees the strongest growth in demand. While the Asian beer industry attracts investments from global and regional capital and is undergoing significant restructuring, there has been little academic attention to these transformations. In this article, the focus is on Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand to analyse how global and regional lead firms adapt to changing competition…
Swamped in dinosaurs with LED lights: Negotiating sustainability in a high-consumption society
Unsustainable patterns of consumption in affluent societies are at the heart of global climate and environmental challenges and seemingly highly resistant to change. While decades of research have revealed how consumption is deeply embedded in society, recently calls have been made for (re-)engaging with the systemic conditioning of consumption in studies of everyday practices. In this paper, we analyse the ways in which eco-conscious households …
Circular additions to linear systems? Exploring Norwegian households' engagement with circularity in everyday life
The circular economy (CE) has gained a prominent position in the broader literature, discourse, and policy arenas concerned with sustainable production and consumption. With roots in industrial ecology, the goal of CE is to shift away from linear ‘take-make-waste’ systems towards a regenerative system where resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimised by slowing, closing, and narrowing material and energy loops, achieved t…
Towards plantification: Contesting, negotiating and re-placing meaty routines
In her contribution to the inaugural edition of this journal, Bente Halkier (2022: 52) noted that '[f]ood consumption is an exemplar of the intermingling of a highly routinised but simultaneously normatively contested kind of consumption'. This special issue proposes that meat is especially well-suited to elucidate the complex dynamics of contested consumption, spanning scales from globally connected markets to individuals' guts Meat is more than…
Performing meat reduction across scripted social sites: Exploring the experiences and challenges of meat reducers in Norway
Current meat consumption trends are associated with extensive resource use, environmental degradation, and detrimental effects on animal and human health, making meat reduction a core sustainability target. The experiences of meat reducers, often conceptualised as flexitarians, have gradually attracted more academic attention. This literature has shown that in many cases meat reducers do not radically reduce their meat intake and have untangled a…
It's just pølse’: Convenient meat consumption and reduction in Norway
Meat consumption and convenience food are both located at the heart of contemporary, industrialized, unhealthy and unsustainable food systems. In this article, we study the intersections between convenience food and 'meatification' of diets, focusing on the 'pølse'-an umbrella term including both hotdogs and a range of sausages-as the epitome of convenience food in Norway. We explore how the pølse is embedded in Norwegian food practices, and why …
Reading Mozambique's mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: Evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments
Propelled by a commodities boom and expanding South-South investment, mega-projects have reshaped the politics of labour in many African settings. Reflecting on such dynamics, this article critically engages with questions of employment, skills development, and contestation re-configuring capital-labour encounters in the 'Chinese' and 'Brazilian' workplace in Mozambique. We analyse two mega-projects: the Maputo Ring Road, implemented by the China…
Practices, provision and protest: Power outages in rural Norwegian households
Electricity plays a vital role in everyday life. However, electricity-dependent practices are often taken for granted, and the complex underlying infrastructure tends to be invisible – until power supply is disrupted. Drawing on qualitative interviews with rural Norwegian households, this article takes practices as the starting point for examining how daily life changes during power outages and how households experience the consequences of such o…
Building Africa’s Infrastructure: Reinstating History in Infrastructure Debates
Infrastructure has gone from being yesterday's news to a focal point of development cooperation, particularly in Africa. While the list of development challenges that infrastructure is assumed to improve keeps expanding, projects are simultaneously criticised for not yielding the expected broader development effects. What is it about infrastructure that holds such high promises of development? Has this changed between the post-independence period…
Beyond the China factor: Challenges to backward linkages in the Mozambican construction sector
China has become a significant contributor to closing Africa's infrastructural gap, but Chinese companies are repeatedly criticised for not involving local businesses in their operations, and for isolating themselves from the socio-economic environment. Can this be attributed to 'typical Chinese business practice'? This article employs linkage theory to examine the weak domestic backward linkages in Chinese-led construction projects in Mozambique…
Passive Hosts or Demanding Stakeholders? Understanding Mozambique’s Negotiating Power in the Face of China
Recent debates on African agency in China–Africa relations highlight how China provides African governments with an alternative to traditional donors that should allow African policy-makers to experiment with policy approaches and play a more assertive role in negotiations. However, how this is translated into negotiations between China and individual African countries remains unclear. This article uses the negotiation of a Chinese-funded constru…
Workplace regimes in Sino-Mozambican construction projects: Resentment and tension in a divided workplace
Based on a qualitative study of Chinese-led construction projects in Mozambique, this article explores how Chinese engagement in the construction sector affects workplace regimes. The study addresses the following set of questions: What characterises these workplace regimes, and why do the workplace regimes give rise to resentment and tension amongst Mozambican workers? Furthermore, how is labour agency constrained or enabled within these workpla…
Reading Mozambique's mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: Evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments
Propelled by a commodities boom and expanding South-South investment, mega-projects have reshaped the politics of labour in many African settings. Reflecting on such dynamics, this article critically engages with questions of employment, skills development, and contestation re-configuring capital-labour encounters in the 'Chinese' and 'Brazilian' workplace in Mozambique. We analyse two mega-projects: the Maputo Ring Road, implemented by the China…
Performing meat reduction across scripted social sites: Exploring the experiences and challenges of meat reducers in Norway
Current meat consumption trends are associated with extensive resource use, environmental degradation, and detrimental effects on animal and human health, making meat reduction a core sustainability target. The experiences of meat reducers, often conceptualised as flexitarians, have gradually attracted more academic attention. This literature has shown that in many cases meat reducers do not radically reduce their meat intake and have untangled a…
Workplace regimes in Sino-Mozambican construction projects: Resentment and tension in a divided workplace
Based on a qualitative study of Chinese-led construction projects in Mozambique, this article explores how Chinese engagement in the construction sector affects workplace regimes. The study addresses the following set of questions: What characterises these workplace regimes, and why do the workplace regimes give rise to resentment and tension amongst Mozambican workers? Furthermore, how is labour agency constrained or enabled within these workpla…
Building Africa’s Infrastructure: Reinstating History in Infrastructure Debates
Infrastructure has gone from being yesterday's news to a focal point of development cooperation, particularly in Africa. While the list of development challenges that infrastructure is assumed to improve keeps expanding, projects are simultaneously criticised for not yielding the expected broader development effects. What is it about infrastructure that holds such high promises of development? Has this changed between the post-independence period…
Practices, provision and protest: Power outages in rural Norwegian households
Electricity plays a vital role in everyday life. However, electricity-dependent practices are often taken for granted, and the complex underlying infrastructure tends to be invisible – until power supply is disrupted. Drawing on qualitative interviews with rural Norwegian households, this article takes practices as the starting point for examining how daily life changes during power outages and how households experience the consequences of such o…
It's just pølse’: Convenient meat consumption and reduction in Norway
Meat consumption and convenience food are both located at the heart of contemporary, industrialized, unhealthy and unsustainable food systems. In this article, we study the intersections between convenience food and 'meatification' of diets, focusing on the 'pølse'-an umbrella term including both hotdogs and a range of sausages-as the epitome of convenience food in Norway. We explore how the pølse is embedded in Norwegian food practices, and why …
Circular additions to linear systems? Exploring Norwegian households' engagement with circularity in everyday life
The circular economy (CE) has gained a prominent position in the broader literature, discourse, and policy arenas concerned with sustainable production and consumption. With roots in industrial ecology, the goal of CE is to shift away from linear ‘take-make-waste’ systems towards a regenerative system where resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimised by slowing, closing, and narrowing material and energy loops, achieved t…
Towards plantification: Contesting, negotiating and re-placing meaty routines
In her contribution to the inaugural edition of this journal, Bente Halkier (2022: 52) noted that '[f]ood consumption is an exemplar of the intermingling of a highly routinised but simultaneously normatively contested kind of consumption'. This special issue proposes that meat is especially well-suited to elucidate the complex dynamics of contested consumption, spanning scales from globally connected markets to individuals' guts Meat is more than…
Passive Hosts or Demanding Stakeholders? Understanding Mozambique’s Negotiating Power in the Face of China
Recent debates on African agency in China–Africa relations highlight how China provides African governments with an alternative to traditional donors that should allow African policy-makers to experiment with policy approaches and play a more assertive role in negotiations. However, how this is translated into negotiations between China and individual African countries remains unclear. This article uses the negotiation of a Chinese-funded constru…
Swamped in dinosaurs with LED lights: Negotiating sustainability in a high-consumption society
Unsustainable patterns of consumption in affluent societies are at the heart of global climate and environmental challenges and seemingly highly resistant to change. While decades of research have revealed how consumption is deeply embedded in society, recently calls have been made for (re-)engaging with the systemic conditioning of consumption in studies of everyday practices. In this paper, we analyse the ways in which eco-conscious households …
Beyond the China factor: Challenges to backward linkages in the Mozambican construction sector
China has become a significant contributor to closing Africa's infrastructural gap, but Chinese companies are repeatedly criticised for not involving local businesses in their operations, and for isolating themselves from the socio-economic environment. Can this be attributed to 'typical Chinese business practice'? This article employs linkage theory to examine the weak domestic backward linkages in Chinese-led construction projects in Mozambique…
Passive Hosts or Demanding Stakeholders? Understanding Mozambique’s Negotiating Power in the Face of China
Recent debates on African agency in China–Africa relations highlight how China provides African governments with an alternative to traditional donors that should allow African policy-makers to experiment with policy approaches and play a more assertive role in negotiations. However, how this is translated into negotiations between China and individual African countries remains unclear. This article uses the negotiation of a Chinese-funded constru…
Workplace regimes in Sino-Mozambican construction projects: Resentment and tension in a divided workplace
Based on a qualitative study of Chinese-led construction projects in Mozambique, this article explores how Chinese engagement in the construction sector affects workplace regimes. The study addresses the following set of questions: What characterises these workplace regimes, and why do the workplace regimes give rise to resentment and tension amongst Mozambican workers? Furthermore, how is labour agency constrained or enabled within these workpla…
Beyond the China factor: Challenges to backward linkages in the Mozambican construction sector
China has become a significant contributor to closing Africa's infrastructural gap, but Chinese companies are repeatedly criticised for not involving local businesses in their operations, and for isolating themselves from the socio-economic environment. Can this be attributed to 'typical Chinese business practice'? This article employs linkage theory to examine the weak domestic backward linkages in Chinese-led construction projects in Mozambique…
Practices, provision and protest: Power outages in rural Norwegian households
Electricity plays a vital role in everyday life. However, electricity-dependent practices are often taken for granted, and the complex underlying infrastructure tends to be invisible – until power supply is disrupted. Drawing on qualitative interviews with rural Norwegian households, this article takes practices as the starting point for examining how daily life changes during power outages and how households experience the consequences of such o…
Building Africa’s Infrastructure: Reinstating History in Infrastructure Debates
Infrastructure has gone from being yesterday's news to a focal point of development cooperation, particularly in Africa. While the list of development challenges that infrastructure is assumed to improve keeps expanding, projects are simultaneously criticised for not yielding the expected broader development effects. What is it about infrastructure that holds such high promises of development? Has this changed between the post-independence period…
Reading Mozambique's mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: Evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments
Propelled by a commodities boom and expanding South-South investment, mega-projects have reshaped the politics of labour in many African settings. Reflecting on such dynamics, this article critically engages with questions of employment, skills development, and contestation re-configuring capital-labour encounters in the 'Chinese' and 'Brazilian' workplace in Mozambique. We analyse two mega-projects: the Maputo Ring Road, implemented by the China…
Towards plantification: Contesting, negotiating and re-placing meaty routines
In her contribution to the inaugural edition of this journal, Bente Halkier (2022: 52) noted that '[f]ood consumption is an exemplar of the intermingling of a highly routinised but simultaneously normatively contested kind of consumption'. This special issue proposes that meat is especially well-suited to elucidate the complex dynamics of contested consumption, spanning scales from globally connected markets to individuals' guts Meat is more than…
Performing meat reduction across scripted social sites: Exploring the experiences and challenges of meat reducers in Norway
Current meat consumption trends are associated with extensive resource use, environmental degradation, and detrimental effects on animal and human health, making meat reduction a core sustainability target. The experiences of meat reducers, often conceptualised as flexitarians, have gradually attracted more academic attention. This literature has shown that in many cases meat reducers do not radically reduce their meat intake and have untangled a…
It's just pølse’: Convenient meat consumption and reduction in Norway
Meat consumption and convenience food are both located at the heart of contemporary, industrialized, unhealthy and unsustainable food systems. In this article, we study the intersections between convenience food and 'meatification' of diets, focusing on the 'pølse'-an umbrella term including both hotdogs and a range of sausages-as the epitome of convenience food in Norway. We explore how the pølse is embedded in Norwegian food practices, and why …
Swamped in dinosaurs with LED lights: Negotiating sustainability in a high-consumption society
Unsustainable patterns of consumption in affluent societies are at the heart of global climate and environmental challenges and seemingly highly resistant to change. While decades of research have revealed how consumption is deeply embedded in society, recently calls have been made for (re-)engaging with the systemic conditioning of consumption in studies of everyday practices. In this paper, we analyse the ways in which eco-conscious households …
Circular additions to linear systems? Exploring Norwegian households' engagement with circularity in everyday life
The circular economy (CE) has gained a prominent position in the broader literature, discourse, and policy arenas concerned with sustainable production and consumption. With roots in industrial ecology, the goal of CE is to shift away from linear ‘take-make-waste’ systems towards a regenerative system where resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimised by slowing, closing, and narrowing material and energy loops, achieved t…
Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry
Asia has become the world’s largest beer-consuming region, and Southeast Asia sees the strongest growth in demand. While the Asian beer industry attracts investments from global and regional capital and is undergoing significant restructuring, there has been little academic attention to these transformations. In this article, the focus is on Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand to analyse how global and regional lead firms adapt to changing competition…
Business (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · International Development and Aid (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Agency (philosophy (3 works) · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (3 works)