Frida Hastrup
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frida Hastrup |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frida |
| FAMILY NAME | Hastrup |
| SIGNATURE | HASTRUP F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village
The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book provides the first in-depth ethnography of the disaster and its effects on a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India. The author explores how the villagers have lived with the tsunami in the years succeeding it and actively worked to gradually regain a sense of certainty and confidence in their environment in the face of disempowerin…
Introduction: Waterworlds At Large
Epidemic objects in museums. Cholera, storytelling and ecological disturbance
The Covid19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that global interconnectedness may explode in virulent contagion. Against this background, the article looks to another disease outbreak and engages an object from a historical cholera epidemic, namely a nineteenth century sealed flask containing gut secretion from a Nordic cholera patient. The so-called cholera bottle, now held in Copenhagen Medical Museion, works as an “epidemic object”, implying…
Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene
This article explores the emergence of Greenland as an Anthropocene island through anthropological fieldwork in and around the decommissioned Nalunaq goldmine in the south of the country. The article takes off from the idea that Anthropocene activities are characterized by the invention, movement, and marketing of seemingly mobile resource units that can be identified and invested in regardless of landscape specificities, and explores how the pro…
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…
Natural Resources and their Units
Dating back to medieval times, fruit cultivation in Hardanger in western Norway is rooted in what is portrayed as a perfect microclimate naturally yielding the best apples in the world. However, the viability of the comparatively minute Norwegian fruit trade is continuously threatened by competition from outside, spurring all kinds of initiatives and policies to make it sustainable. The Norwegian fruit landscape, in other words, is both the natur…
Industrious Landscaping: The Making and Managing of Natural Resources at Søby Brown Coal Beds
This article has a twofold ambition. It offers a history of landscaping at Søby brown coal beds—a former mining site in western Denmark—and a methodological discussion of how to write such a study. Exploring this specific industrial landscape through a series of projects that have made different natural resources appear, we show that even what is recognized as resources shifts over time according to radically different and unpredictable agendas. …
Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Waterworlds
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in mo…
Analogue Analysis Ethnography as Inventive Conversation
This article explores ethnographic work as an inventive conversational practice, through which fieldworker and interlocutors continuously process the world. Rather than a summary description, ethnography emerges as an analytical product by which people generate a world to live in, think and write about. Ethnography, then, is not about representation of an empirical setting, but a generative practice of analytically relating some features of the w…
Theory and methodology in causal research: A commentary
Theory and methodology in causal research: a commentary." Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, 112(2), pp. 206–207
Weathering the World: Recovery in the wake of the tsunami in a Tamil fishing village
The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book provides the first in-depth ethnography of the disaster and its effects on a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India. The author explores how the villagers have lived with the tsunami in the years succeeding it and actively worked to gradually regain a sense of certainty and confidence in their environment in the face of disempowerin…
Essay: I omegnen af COPenhagen
Intet resumé
Figurer uden grund. Museumsansamlinger og globale klimaforandringer
Denne artikel har to nøje sammenhængende forehavender: Dels skriver den en udstilling frem på baggrund af et etnografisk indsamlingsprojekt, hvor bestemte genstande er hjembragt fra hele verden for at kaste lys over de globale klima- forandringer. Dels afprøver den et særligt analytisk greb om disse genstande til at belyse, hvordan ting overhovedet kan komme til syne som objekter i antro- pologiske analyser. Dermed udforsker artiklen overordnet, …
Shady plantations: Theorizing coastal shelter in Tamil Nadu
This article explores practices of protection played out in a coastal plantation in a village in Tamil Nadu. I argue that these practices are articulations of different but coexisting theorizations of shelter, and that the plantation can be seen as that which emerges at the intersections between these, as they are realized in social encounters. This calls for a view of theory and analysis as generative of objects in the world, rather than applied…
Materializations of Disaster: Recovering Lost Plots in a Tsunami-Affected Village in South India
Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence
An Anthropology of Absence: Materializations of Transcendence and Loss
På Sikker Grund: Genhusning efter tsunamien i Tamil Nadu
This article explores the various meanings ascribed to destroyed, repaired and newly constructed houses in the South Indian fi shing village of Tharangambadi which was heavily affected by the tsunami disaster in December 2004. The article focuses on re-housing both as implemented by authorities and as understood by the survivors, thereby investigating divergent notions of danger and safety. The overall argument is that re-housing as a spatial pra…
Natures of Change: Weathering the World in Post-Tsunami Tamil Nadu
This article analyzes local concerns with nature and natural changes in response to the tsunami of 2004 based on anthropological fieldwork in the South Indian fishing village of Tharangambadi. It explores the fishermen's effort to restore confidence in their environment after the disaster, and argues that this entails a subtle strategy of relating to climate and weather that aims at gradually transferring the rupture of the tsunami to a more mana…
Religiøse fantomsmerter
Religious Phantom Pains - The Khmer Rouge and Victims' historiographyThis article explores the ways in which biographical accounts by Cambodian refugees in the West portray the oppression during the reign of Pol Pot in the late 1970s. Arguing that victims' biographies constitute a specific genre which is rapidly growing, perhaps due to a general increase in the attention to the voices of the marginalized, the article outlines typical characterist…
An Anthropology of Absence: Materializations of Transcendence and Loss
Shady plantations: Theorizing coastal shelter in Tamil Nadu
This article explores practices of protection played out in a coastal plantation in a village in Tamil Nadu. I argue that these practices are articulations of different but coexisting theorizations of shelter, and that the plantation can be seen as that which emerges at the intersections between these, as they are realized in social encounters. This calls for a view of theory and analysis as generative of objects in the world, rather than applied…
Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene
This article explores the emergence of Greenland as an Anthropocene island through anthropological fieldwork in and around the decommissioned Nalunaq goldmine in the south of the country. The article takes off from the idea that Anthropocene activities are characterized by the invention, movement, and marketing of seemingly mobile resource units that can be identified and invested in regardless of landscape specificities, and explores how the pro…
Natures of Change: Weathering the World in Post-Tsunami Tamil Nadu
This article analyzes local concerns with nature and natural changes in response to the tsunami of 2004 based on anthropological fieldwork in the South Indian fishing village of Tharangambadi. It explores the fishermen's effort to restore confidence in their environment after the disaster, and argues that this entails a subtle strategy of relating to climate and weather that aims at gradually transferring the rupture of the tsunami to a more mana…
Natural Resources and their Units
Dating back to medieval times, fruit cultivation in Hardanger in western Norway is rooted in what is portrayed as a perfect microclimate naturally yielding the best apples in the world. However, the viability of the comparatively minute Norwegian fruit trade is continuously threatened by competition from outside, spurring all kinds of initiatives and policies to make it sustainable. The Norwegian fruit landscape, in other words, is both the natur…
Religiøse fantomsmerter
Religious Phantom Pains - The Khmer Rouge and Victims' historiographyThis article explores the ways in which biographical accounts by Cambodian refugees in the West portray the oppression during the reign of Pol Pot in the late 1970s. Arguing that victims' biographies constitute a specific genre which is rapidly growing, perhaps due to a general increase in the attention to the voices of the marginalized, the article outlines typical characterist…
Natures of Change: Weathering the World in Post-Tsunami Tamil Nadu
This article analyzes local concerns with nature and natural changes in response to the tsunami of 2004 based on anthropological fieldwork in the South Indian fishing village of Tharangambadi. It explores the fishermen's effort to restore confidence in their environment after the disaster, and argues that this entails a subtle strategy of relating to climate and weather that aims at gradually transferring the rupture of the tsunami to a more mana…
På Sikker Grund: Genhusning efter tsunamien i Tamil Nadu
This article explores the various meanings ascribed to destroyed, repaired and newly constructed houses in the South Indian fi shing village of Tharangambadi which was heavily affected by the tsunami disaster in December 2004. The article focuses on re-housing both as implemented by authorities and as understood by the survivors, thereby investigating divergent notions of danger and safety. The overall argument is that re-housing as a spatial pra…
Materializations of Disaster: Recovering Lost Plots in a Tsunami-Affected Village in South India
Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence
An Anthropology of Absence: Materializations of Transcendence and Loss
Weathering the World: Recovery in the wake of the tsunami in a Tamil fishing village
The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book provides the first in-depth ethnography of the disaster and its effects on a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India. The author explores how the villagers have lived with the tsunami in the years succeeding it and actively worked to gradually regain a sense of certainty and confidence in their environment in the face of disempowerin…
Essay: I omegnen af COPenhagen
Intet resumé
Figurer uden grund. Museumsansamlinger og globale klimaforandringer
Denne artikel har to nøje sammenhængende forehavender: Dels skriver den en udstilling frem på baggrund af et etnografisk indsamlingsprojekt, hvor bestemte genstande er hjembragt fra hele verden for at kaste lys over de globale klima- forandringer. Dels afprøver den et særligt analytisk greb om disse genstande til at belyse, hvordan ting overhovedet kan komme til syne som objekter i antro- pologiske analyser. Dermed udforsker artiklen overordnet, …
Shady plantations: Theorizing coastal shelter in Tamil Nadu
This article explores practices of protection played out in a coastal plantation in a village in Tamil Nadu. I argue that these practices are articulations of different but coexisting theorizations of shelter, and that the plantation can be seen as that which emerges at the intersections between these, as they are realized in social encounters. This calls for a view of theory and analysis as generative of objects in the world, rather than applied…
Theory and methodology in causal research: A commentary
Theory and methodology in causal research: a commentary." Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, 112(2), pp. 206–207
Analogue Analysis Ethnography as Inventive Conversation
This article explores ethnographic work as an inventive conversational practice, through which fieldworker and interlocutors continuously process the world. Rather than a summary description, ethnography emerges as an analytical product by which people generate a world to live in, think and write about. Ethnography, then, is not about representation of an empirical setting, but a generative practice of analytically relating some features of the w…
Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Waterworlds
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in mo…
Industrious Landscaping: The Making and Managing of Natural Resources at Søby Brown Coal Beds
This article has a twofold ambition. It offers a history of landscaping at Søby brown coal beds—a former mining site in western Denmark—and a methodological discussion of how to write such a study. Exploring this specific industrial landscape through a series of projects that have made different natural resources appear, we show that even what is recognized as resources shifts over time according to radically different and unpredictable agendas. …
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…
Natural Resources and their Units
Dating back to medieval times, fruit cultivation in Hardanger in western Norway is rooted in what is portrayed as a perfect microclimate naturally yielding the best apples in the world. However, the viability of the comparatively minute Norwegian fruit trade is continuously threatened by competition from outside, spurring all kinds of initiatives and policies to make it sustainable. The Norwegian fruit landscape, in other words, is both the natur…
Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene
This article explores the emergence of Greenland as an Anthropocene island through anthropological fieldwork in and around the decommissioned Nalunaq goldmine in the south of the country. The article takes off from the idea that Anthropocene activities are characterized by the invention, movement, and marketing of seemingly mobile resource units that can be identified and invested in regardless of landscape specificities, and explores how the pro…
Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village
The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book provides the first in-depth ethnography of the disaster and its effects on a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India. The author explores how the villagers have lived with the tsunami in the years succeeding it and actively worked to gradually regain a sense of certainty and confidence in their environment in the face of disempowerin…
Introduction: Waterworlds At Large
Epidemic objects in museums. Cholera, storytelling and ecological disturbance
The Covid19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that global interconnectedness may explode in virulent contagion. Against this background, the article looks to another disease outbreak and engages an object from a historical cholera epidemic, namely a nineteenth century sealed flask containing gut secretion from a Nordic cholera patient. The so-called cholera bottle, now held in Copenhagen Medical Museion, works as an “epidemic object”, implying…
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)