Marianne Elisabeth Lien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marianne Elisabeth Lien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marianne Elisabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Lien |
| SIGNATURE | LIEN M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5216-6219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 439 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Devenir scalable: Vitesse, alimentation et alignements temporels
Entre 1971 et 2011, la production de saumon d’élevage en Norvège a été multipliée par dix mille, faisant de ce pays le premier producteur mondial de saumon. Ce texte vise à comprendre comment cette expansion s’est réalisée. Il montre que loin d’être le résultat inéluctable d’innovations techno-scientifiques et de stratégies capitalistes, elle est le produit d’un assemblage fragile, incluant aussi bien le travail accompli au jour le jour au sein d…
Anthropologists Are Talking About Ecography
Uncommon Ground: Climate Change and Compound Dispossessions in Sámi Reindeer Herding
Recent Arctic warming is a threat to Sámi reindeer herding in the Nordic region as more frequent freeze-thaw episodes temporarily block the reindeers' access to lichen under the snow. But climate change is only one of the many other contemporary challenges affecting reindeer husbandry, which include the effects of wind turbines and mineral extraction. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Sámi reindeer owners in Finnmark, Norway, this article dis…
New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized environments
Digital Anthropology has in the past two decades emerged as a field that seeks to better grasp experiences of being human within digital technology and culture. However, digital technology is today so entangled in everyday practices that it gives as little meaning to single it out as a specific field of inquiry as it does to leave it out. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway, one of the most digitalized countries in the world, we argue that …
Fluid Scalability; Frontiers and Commons in Salmon Waterworlds
The fluid qualities of water include its propensity to yield, to dissolve, and to accommodate intrusive structures and projects. The possibilities for aquacultural expansion appear limitless, yet the presence of aquaculture excludes and transforms other life-forms. While terrestrial expansions mark their presence through infrastructure such as fences and walls, aquatic infrastructures are more elusive. This article takes the current capitalist sc…
Chapter four Becoming Food edibility as threshold in arctic norway marianne
BecomingFood edibility as threshold in arctic norway marianne elisabeth lien acts of eating nourish relations, materialize social differences, and maintain cultural norms, as foods are effective vehicles for negotiating the bound aries of what is acceptable.These are well-known insights from food studies, yet the implications of such axioms remain underexplored, as the study object "food" is often taken for granted.How does food emerge in the fir…
Kinning and De-kinning: Houses, Heirlooms and the Reproduction of Family
‘Kinning and De-kinning’ introduces a special issue that considers how houses, heirlooms and other owned items reproduce kinship and family in diverse societies. It revisits death and inheritance in kinship studies, with a focus on processes of ‘passing on’ and the materiality of things as well as bodies. Incorporating temporalities and materialities in the changing expression of deeply felt emotions that extend between people and between people …
Passing It On: Kinship, Temporality and Moral Personhood in Norwegian ‘Hytte’ Succession
In this article we explore the inheritance of hytte , or secondary homes, in Norway. Inspired by the notion of ‘kinning’, we extend the notion of kinning to include various materialities and temporalities. In particular, we trace the passing on of the hytte ethnographically as a stretched moment, and argue that temporality adds another layer to the understanding of the hytte as a participant in kinning. Our material indicates a number of connecti…
Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm
For decades, a post-Cold War narrative heralded a 'new Arctic', with melting ice and snow and accessible resources that would build sustainable communities. Today, large parts of the Arctic are still trapped in the path dependencies of past resource extraction. At the same time, the impetus for green transitions and a 'new industrialism' spell opportunities to shift the development model and build new futures for Arctic residents and Indigenous p…
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Care, Curiosity, and Commitment in Ethnography beyond the Human
An ethics of care in nature conservation must ask not only whose voices are heard, but also which interspecies relations that come to matter. Inspired by Jane Bennett’s question about how ethical codes are transformed into laudable acts in interspecies relations, this article explores alignments between affective enchantment and interspecies response-ability. Juxtaposing two ethnographic sites in Norway, salmon aquaculture and nature conservation…
Fish protection during fish production. Organizational conditions for fish welfare
Too many salmon die during production at Norwegian fish farms. Earlier research shows that most farmed salmon die in operations partly related to protection of the wild salmon (from salmon lice), but it is not known how this relates to other conditions positive or negative for fish welfare. Fish farm personnel are experts on the organizational conditions during production. This is thus a study of what fish farm personnel consider contributing to …
Hytta, bygda og byen: Forhandling om tilhørighet i krisetid
I denne artikkelen bruker vi «koronaåret» 2020 og hytteforbudet som empirisk inntak for å forstå mer generelle trekk ved norske forståelser av sted, tilhørighet og sosiale skillelinjer. Vi tar utgangspunkt i den økende bruken av hjemmekontor på hytta i forbindelse med korona-pandemien og spør hvorvidt fristilling i forhold til lokalitet kan skape nye sosiale forskjeller – og hvordan disse forholder seg til mer klassiske konflikter knyttet til kla…
Minding the Gaps in Fish Welfare: The Untapped Potential of Fish Farm Workers
The welfare of farmed fish is often regarded with less concern than the welfare of other husbandry animals, as fish are not universally classified as sentient beings. In Norway, farmed fish and other husbandry animals are legally protected under the same laws. Additionally, the legislature has defined a number of aquaculture-specific amendments, including mandatory welfare courses for fish farmers who have a key role in securing animal welfare, a…
Arctic Uchronotopias: Resource extraction, community making and the negotiation of Arctic futures
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Interruptions: Affective futures and uncanny presences at Giemaš , Finnmark
This paper concerns affective relations and unexpected interruptions as the planned expansion of an extractive open-pit mining site gathers momentum. The site is a mountain in Varanger, North Norway, criss-crossed by a sand-coloured meshwork of roads that are part of the current infrastructure of a quartzite quarry. Recently purchased by Chinese investors, the mining company Elkem plans a massive expansion of the operations, which will interrupt …
Ethnography Beyond the Human: The 'Other-than-Human' in Ethnographic Work
Recent calls for 'other-than-human' ethnographies draw attention to dimensions of life that have allegedly been overlooked or marginalised in anthropological writings. We take such critique as an opportunity to reconsider selected ethnographic accounts asking: What was the role of animals and plants in these accounts, and what 'hidden stories' may be discerned in texts and images? What might an informed and careful reading teach us about relation…
Governing the welfare of Norwegian farmed salmon: Three conflict cases
To obtain insight into perceptions of how fish welfare and health is governed in Norwegian aquaculture, this study investigates three conflict cases: salmon lice, pancreas disease and farm siting. Using surveys and in-depth interviews, it highlights challenges and solutions as perceived from different professional groups. The results show that the current inflexible limit of the number of salmon lice permitted creates frustration, both among the …
Dreams of Prosperity – Enactments of Growth
An old tractor serves as an ethnographic entry point to shifting articulations of resources in coastal Finnmark, North Norway. Idle since the 1970s, the tractor is a relic of agricultural dreams, turned to rubble as novel layers of the Varanger landscape are conjured as resourceful. Farming in Finnmark was a geopolitical strategy to secure national borders and to expand a post-war welfare state, it was also a colonial effort to cultivate farmers …
Welfare Frontiers? Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene
This article outlines the thematic section’s main anthropological interventions and introduces the inherently ambiguous notion of welfare frontiers, implying allegedly benign practices of resource development. Through ethnographic analyses from Iceland, Norway, and Greenland, it shows that Nordic Arctic landscapes become resourceful through careful crafting, entangled with practices and ideals of nation-building, egalitarianism, sustainability, g…
Hjemløse laks og laksens hjem: Domestisering,fangenskap og tilhørighet langs norskekysten
Norge har verdens største bestand av Atlantisk villaks, men er også verdens største produsent av oppdrettslaks. I 2019 forsvant 289.570 laks fra norske oppdrettsanlegg i det fiskeridirektoratet registrerer som «rømningshendelser». Omfanget av «rømt oppdrettslaks» utgjør mer enn halvparten av all villaks som hvert år kommer opp i norske vassdrag for å gyte. Lakseindustrien er dermed både ekstremt lønnsom, og en varslet økologisk katastrofe. Men ha…
In defense of porridge: Perspectives on domestication from the North
Against the Grain (Scott 2017) is a smart introduction to how archaeologists and historians now think differently about the shifts to sedentism, agriculture and emergent statehood. James C. Scott’s
Denaturalizing Nature
Introduction Naming the Beast-Exploring the Otherwise
Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations
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Slippery: Field notes in empirical ontology
This paper explores empirical ontology by arguing that realities are enacted in practices. Using the case of Atlantic salmon, it describes a series of scientific and fish-farming practices. Since these practices differ, the paper also argues that different salmon are being enacted within those different practices. The paper explores the precarious choreographies of those practices, considers the ways in which they enact agency and also work to ge…
Emergent Aliens: On Salmon, Nature, and Their Enactment
Atlantic salmon aquaculture has become one of the most profitable industries in Norway, a country which is also known for its large population of wild salmon. We explore some ways in which Atlantic salmon, an icon of wilderness, is enrolled in regimes of domestication. Inspired by material semiotics, we treat domestication as a set of practices whose character defines and enacts Atlantic salmon in different, though partly overlapping ways. Approa…
Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish
Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. As fish are enrolled in new regimes of marine domestication, traditional distinctions between fish and animals are reconfigured, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal welfare legislation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway and Australia, the author tr…
Ethnography Beyond the Human: The 'Other-than-Human' in Ethnographic Work
Recent calls for 'other-than-human' ethnographies draw attention to dimensions of life that have allegedly been overlooked or marginalised in anthropological writings. We take such critique as an opportunity to reconsider selected ethnographic accounts asking: What was the role of animals and plants in these accounts, and what 'hidden stories' may be discerned in texts and images? What might an informed and careful reading teach us about relation…
Roots, Rupture and Remembrance: The Tasmanian Lives of the Monterey Pine
Why do certain landscapes become contested sites for claims about identity? In responding to this question, we approach landscapes as assemblages of human and non-human elements that reach beyond the confines of their immediate physical and temporal locations. Our empirical focus is a small group of pine trees in a Tasmanian suburb, where remnants of human and non-human migration are inscribed and live on in the landscape and in human memory. We …
Performing Nature at World's Ends
In introducing this special edition, we argue that a shift in emphasis from positionality and representation to performativity and ontology offers a new approach to thinking about nature categories. Rather than criticising dualisms, we focus on how nature categories are produced and reproduced. The article addresses contexts of settler societies and industrial modernity, where concepts of wilderness and nature are called into play. We show how th…
King of Fish' or 'Feral Peril: Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon and the Politics of Belonging
The focus of this paper is Tasmanian Atlantic salmon, and the ways in which this object has served historically to enact, to produce, and to challenge key boundaries and continuities in the construction of Tasmania as a distinct place in the world. Tracing the object and its trajectories in time and space, I shall argue that the making of place involves practices, images, and experiences that connect and disconnect a place to significant places e…
Anthropology and STS: Generative interfaces, multiple locations
In this multi-authored essay, nine anthropologists working in different parts of the world take part in a conversation about the interfaces between anthropology and STS (science and technology studies). Through this conversation, multiple interfaces emerge that are heterogeneously composed according to the languages, places, and arguments from where they emerge. The authors explore these multiple interfaces as sites where encounters are also site…
Røtter, brudd og tilhørighet – Om landskapsintervensjon og stedsidentitet på Tasmania
Experience of dietary advice among Pakistani-born persons with type 2 diabetes in Oslo
Devenir scalable: Vitesse, alimentation et alignements temporels
Entre 1971 et 2011, la production de saumon d’élevage en Norvège a été multipliée par dix mille, faisant de ce pays le premier producteur mondial de saumon. Ce texte vise à comprendre comment cette expansion s’est réalisée. Il montre que loin d’être le résultat inéluctable d’innovations techno-scientifiques et de stratégies capitalistes, elle est le produit d’un assemblage fragile, incluant aussi bien le travail accompli au jour le jour au sein d…
Fluid Scalability; Frontiers and Commons in Salmon Waterworlds
The fluid qualities of water include its propensity to yield, to dissolve, and to accommodate intrusive structures and projects. The possibilities for aquacultural expansion appear limitless, yet the presence of aquaculture excludes and transforms other life-forms. While terrestrial expansions mark their presence through infrastructure such as fences and walls, aquatic infrastructures are more elusive. This article takes the current capitalist sc…
Interruptions: Affective futures and uncanny presences at Giemaš , Finnmark
This paper concerns affective relations and unexpected interruptions as the planned expansion of an extractive open-pit mining site gathers momentum. The site is a mountain in Varanger, North Norway, criss-crossed by a sand-coloured meshwork of roads that are part of the current infrastructure of a quartzite quarry. Recently purchased by Chinese investors, the mining company Elkem plans a massive expansion of the operations, which will interrupt …
Mot en postkolonial hjemmeantropologi – Aktør-nettverk-teori i studier av oss selv
Ethics and the Politics of Food
New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized environments
Digital Anthropology has in the past two decades emerged as a field that seeks to better grasp experiences of being human within digital technology and culture. However, digital technology is today so entangled in everyday practices that it gives as little meaning to single it out as a specific field of inquiry as it does to leave it out. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway, one of the most digitalized countries in the world, we argue that …
Recovering Food Commons in Post Industrial Europe: Cooperation Networks in Organic Food Provisioning in Catalonia and Norway
Overcoming the division between anthropology «at home» and «abroad» – Marianne Gullestad intervjuet av Marianne Lien og Marit Melhuus
Synnøve Bendixsen, Mary Bente Bringslid, HalvardVike (Red.): Egalitarianism in Scandinavia. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Anthropologists Are Talking About Ecography
Uncommon Ground: Climate Change and Compound Dispossessions in Sámi Reindeer Herding
Recent Arctic warming is a threat to Sámi reindeer herding in the Nordic region as more frequent freeze-thaw episodes temporarily block the reindeers' access to lichen under the snow. But climate change is only one of the many other contemporary challenges affecting reindeer husbandry, which include the effects of wind turbines and mineral extraction. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Sámi reindeer owners in Finnmark, Norway, this article dis…
Minding the Gaps in Fish Welfare: The Untapped Potential of Fish Farm Workers
The welfare of farmed fish is often regarded with less concern than the welfare of other husbandry animals, as fish are not universally classified as sentient beings. In Norway, farmed fish and other husbandry animals are legally protected under the same laws. Additionally, the legislature has defined a number of aquaculture-specific amendments, including mandatory welfare courses for fish farmers who have a key role in securing animal welfare, a…
Arctic Uchronotopias: Resource extraction, community making and the negotiation of Arctic futures
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Hjemløse laks og laksens hjem: Domestisering,fangenskap og tilhørighet langs norskekysten
Norge har verdens største bestand av Atlantisk villaks, men er også verdens største produsent av oppdrettslaks. I 2019 forsvant 289.570 laks fra norske oppdrettsanlegg i det fiskeridirektoratet registrerer som «rømningshendelser». Omfanget av «rømt oppdrettslaks» utgjør mer enn halvparten av all villaks som hvert år kommer opp i norske vassdrag for å gyte. Lakseindustrien er dermed både ekstremt lønnsom, og en varslet økologisk katastrofe. Men ha…
Fluid subsistences: Towards a better understanding of northern livelihoods
In this collection we learn about varied livelihoods that are roughly grouped as northern small-scale fisheries. Two messages are particularly salient, and hence they connect nearly all the papers: First, that small-scale fishing is paramount for social and cultural livelihoods, and an indispensable resource for reproduction of coastal communities. And second, that certain fish related practices are changing, or currently under threat, and thus t…
Changing Food Habits: Case Studies from Africa, South America and Europe
Changing Food Habits: Case Studies from Africa, South America and Europe. Carola Lentz. ed. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. vii. 222 pp., figures, maps, tables, photographs, index
Experience of dietary advice among Pakistani-born persons with type 2 diabetes in Oslo
King of Fish' or 'Feral Peril: Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon and the Politics of Belonging
The focus of this paper is Tasmanian Atlantic salmon, and the ways in which this object has served historically to enact, to produce, and to challenge key boundaries and continuities in the construction of Tasmania as a distinct place in the world. Tracing the object and its trajectories in time and space, I shall argue that the making of place involves practices, images, and experiences that connect and disconnect a place to significant places e…
Feeding fish efficiently. Mobilising knowledge in Tasmanian salmon farming: Feeding Fish Efficiently
How do certain forms of knowledge become globally mobile? Focusing on Tasmanian salmon farming, this article addresses the negotiation of locally situated knowledge against the persuasive power of universalising expertise. It is argued that intensive salmon farming relies upon techno‐scientific regimes of production in which the universality of salmon as biogenetic artefact is already inscribed. Intensive salmon farming thus lends itself well to …
Ethics and the Politics of Food
Health worker style and trustworthiness as perceived by Pakistani-born persons with type 2 diabetes in Oslo, Norway
This article explores Pakistani-born persons' expectations regarding health encounters and health-worker style, and consequences for communication. It is part of a larger qualitative study involving both health workers and Pakistani-born persons in Oslo. An earlier publication based on interviews with health workers revealed dilemmas around role enactment, and described how they perceived Pakistani-born patients to expect an authoritarian health-…
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Røtter, brudd og tilhørighet – Om landskapsintervensjon og stedsidentitet på Tasmania
Le ski de minuit dans le nord du Finnmark: Construire la localité
Le ski de minuit entre femmes » est un événement qui a lieu chaque année début mai sur la péninsule de Varanger dans le nord de la Norvège. Il commence à minuit et se déroule avec la participation de la chorale masculine de Båtsfjord, qui, tout au long du parcours, apporte aux skieuses du feu, des chants et des encouragements. Cet événement est ainsi devenu un rituel carnavalesque qui transcende les frontières liées au genre, à la saison et à l'i…
La Norvège: Vues de l'intérieur
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Anthropologie « chez soi » et anthropologie « chez l'autre: Une distinction à dépasser
Roots, Rupture and Remembrance: The Tasmanian Lives of the Monterey Pine
Why do certain landscapes become contested sites for claims about identity? In responding to this question, we approach landscapes as assemblages of human and non-human elements that reach beyond the confines of their immediate physical and temporal locations. Our empirical focus is a small group of pine trees in a Tasmanian suburb, where remnants of human and non-human migration are inscribed and live on in the landscape and in human memory. We …
Overcoming the division between anthropology «at home» and «abroad» – Marianne Gullestad intervjuet av Marianne Lien og Marit Melhuus
Emergent Aliens: On Salmon, Nature, and Their Enactment
Atlantic salmon aquaculture has become one of the most profitable industries in Norway, a country which is also known for its large population of wild salmon. We explore some ways in which Atlantic salmon, an icon of wilderness, is enrolled in regimes of domestication. Inspired by material semiotics, we treat domestication as a set of practices whose character defines and enacts Atlantic salmon in different, though partly overlapping ways. Approa…
Performing Nature at World's Ends
In introducing this special edition, we argue that a shift in emphasis from positionality and representation to performativity and ontology offers a new approach to thinking about nature categories. Rather than criticising dualisms, we focus on how nature categories are produced and reproduced. The article addresses contexts of settler societies and industrial modernity, where concepts of wilderness and nature are called into play. We show how th…
Opinions: What business anthropology is, what it might become… and what, perhaps, it should not be
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Slippery: Field notes in empirical ontology
This paper explores empirical ontology by arguing that realities are enacted in practices. Using the case of Atlantic salmon, it describes a series of scientific and fish-farming practices. Since these practices differ, the paper also argues that different salmon are being enacted within those different practices. The paper explores the precarious choreographies of those practices, considers the ways in which they enact agency and also work to ge…
Mot en postkolonial hjemmeantropologi – Aktør-nettverk-teori i studier av oss selv
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Fluid subsistences: Towards a better understanding of northern livelihoods
In this collection we learn about varied livelihoods that are roughly grouped as northern small-scale fisheries. Two messages are particularly salient, and hence they connect nearly all the papers: First, that small-scale fishing is paramount for social and cultural livelihoods, and an indispensable resource for reproduction of coastal communities. And second, that certain fish related practices are changing, or currently under threat, and thus t…
Are we all Galatians now: A response to Catherine Keller
I take Catherine Keller's very rich article as a subtle invitation to think across the narrow boundaries of specialized disciplines. Rather than feeling confined by the boundaries of our respective
Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish
Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. As fish are enrolled in new regimes of marine domestication, traditional distinctions between fish and animals are reconfigured, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal welfare legislation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway and Australia, the author tr…
Terapolva-effekten - Om postkolonial antropologi og prekære relasjoner
Anthropology and STS: Generative interfaces, multiple locations
In this multi-authored essay, nine anthropologists working in different parts of the world take part in a conversation about the interfaces between anthropology and STS (science and technology studies). Through this conversation, multiple interfaces emerge that are heterogeneously composed according to the languages, places, and arguments from where they emerge. The authors explore these multiple interfaces as sites where encounters are also site…
Lotte Meinert og Bruce Kapferer (red.): In the Event. Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
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