Iselin Åsedotter Strønen
Biographic Data
| ID | 72791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iselin Åsedotter Strønen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iselin Åsedotter |
| FAMILY NAME | Strønen |
| SIGNATURE | STRØNEN I Å |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8508-2687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Defiant Women of the Sea: Challenging the Gendering of the Spanish Fishery Sector
Women's role in fisheries has generally been underrecognized, both in science and in society. Engaging with anthropological and interdisciplinary literature on women in fisheries, as well as discussions about gender perspectives in studies of political economy, this article explores how women in the Spanish fishery sector are organizing and strategizing to rectify their historically marginalized position and improve their social and economic righ…
The Community' as a Multivocal Concept: Everyday Urban Life and Grassroots Politics in Caracas' Informal Neighbourhoods
This article analyses the multivocal meanings of the concept 'the community' as embedded and employed in everyday- and political discourses in working class and shantytown neighbourhoods (barrios) in the capital city of Caracas, Venezuela. Set in the context of the late Hugo Chávez' presidency (1999-2013), I explore how 'community' variously referred to socio-territorial space or to emerging and contested notions of political community, and how t…
Venezuela’s oil specter: Contextualizing and historicizing the Bolivarian attempt to sow the oil
Under the late Hugo Chávez’ rule in Venezuela, the country’s oil dependency was framed as a pernicious condition to overcome, at the same time as oil became a centerpiece for his social, political and symbolic nation-building project called ‘the Bolivarian process’. This article disentangles this multifaceted ambiguity through an exploration of how the near-90 years old Venezuelan political dictum of ‘sowing the oil’ was conceptualized under Cháv…
Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela by Robert Samet
Reviewed by: Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela by Robert Samet Iselin Åsedotter Strønen Robert Samet. Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 224 pp. Robert Samet. Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 224 pp. Reading Robert Samet's Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela awoke remnants of the chilling angst that occasionally …
"Between social footprint and compliance, or "what Ibama wants: Equinor Brazil’s social sustainability policy
This article analyzes an "Environmental Education Project" run by the Norwegian state oil company Equinor targeting poor women in the seafood processing industry along the coastline adjacent to Equinor's off shore Peregrino field in Brazil. The project is a prerequisite for Equinor's operating license, as required by Brazilian federal environmental authorities. I analyze the broader sociopolitical territory within which the project is implemented…
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America
This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change
economic inequality; neoliberal politics
Negotiating the Popular and the State
In this chapter, Strønen focuses on the interface between popular politics and state politics through exploring the role of the so-called promotores integrales. These are lower-level public officials whose role is to provide support and guidance to the communal councils. Strønen argues that the promotores integrales occupied a hybrid position as neither fully representatives of the state nor fully representatives of the community. Drawing on deta…
The State as a Battlefield
The chapter opens with a discussion of how anthropological approaches to studying the state help us better understand the Venezuelan state under Hugo Chávez. This discussion is followed by an analysis of how historical and contemporary political and social dynamics inside the Venezuelan state apparatus shaped the ways in which the Bolivarian process unfolded. It shows how conflicts between different actors within the state apparatus, including th…
Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela: The Revolutionary Petro-State
The barrios of Casalta and la Silsa, seen from 23 de Enero
Everyday Crafting of the Bolivarian State: Lower-level State Officials and Grassroots Activism in Venezuela
Venezuela’s communal councils are legally sanctioned organs for popular participation implemented mostly in poor communities since 2006. The promotores integrales, lower-level state employees who assist the communal councils in their everyday work, serve as mediators between state policies and community politics, and study of their roles and perspectives provides important insights into the complexities of implementing policies of popular partici…
En feministisk revolusjon? – Kvinner, kvinnekamp og aktivisme i Chávez’ Venezuela
Venezuela’s oil specter: Contextualizing and historicizing the Bolivarian attempt to sow the oil
Under the late Hugo Chávez’ rule in Venezuela, the country’s oil dependency was framed as a pernicious condition to overcome, at the same time as oil became a centerpiece for his social, political and symbolic nation-building project called ‘the Bolivarian process’. This article disentangles this multifaceted ambiguity through an exploration of how the near-90 years old Venezuelan political dictum of ‘sowing the oil’ was conceptualized under Cháv…
Everyday Crafting of the Bolivarian State: Lower-level State Officials and Grassroots Activism in Venezuela
Venezuela’s communal councils are legally sanctioned organs for popular participation implemented mostly in poor communities since 2006. The promotores integrales, lower-level state employees who assist the communal councils in their everyday work, serve as mediators between state policies and community politics, and study of their roles and perspectives provides important insights into the complexities of implementing policies of popular partici…
The Community' as a Multivocal Concept: Everyday Urban Life and Grassroots Politics in Caracas' Informal Neighbourhoods
This article analyses the multivocal meanings of the concept 'the community' as embedded and employed in everyday- and political discourses in working class and shantytown neighbourhoods (barrios) in the capital city of Caracas, Venezuela. Set in the context of the late Hugo Chávez' presidency (1999-2013), I explore how 'community' variously referred to socio-territorial space or to emerging and contested notions of political community, and how t…
"Between social footprint and compliance, or "what Ibama wants: Equinor Brazil’s social sustainability policy
This article analyzes an "Environmental Education Project" run by the Norwegian state oil company Equinor targeting poor women in the seafood processing industry along the coastline adjacent to Equinor's off shore Peregrino field in Brazil. The project is a prerequisite for Equinor's operating license, as required by Brazilian federal environmental authorities. I analyze the broader sociopolitical territory within which the project is implemented…
En feministisk revolusjon? – Kvinner, kvinnekamp og aktivisme i Chávez’ Venezuela
En feministisk revolusjon? – Kvinner, kvinnekamp og aktivisme i Chávez’ Venezuela
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change
economic inequality; neoliberal politics
Negotiating the Popular and the State
In this chapter, Strønen focuses on the interface between popular politics and state politics through exploring the role of the so-called promotores integrales. These are lower-level public officials whose role is to provide support and guidance to the communal councils. Strønen argues that the promotores integrales occupied a hybrid position as neither fully representatives of the state nor fully representatives of the community. Drawing on deta…
The State as a Battlefield
The chapter opens with a discussion of how anthropological approaches to studying the state help us better understand the Venezuelan state under Hugo Chávez. This discussion is followed by an analysis of how historical and contemporary political and social dynamics inside the Venezuelan state apparatus shaped the ways in which the Bolivarian process unfolded. It shows how conflicts between different actors within the state apparatus, including th…
Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela: The Revolutionary Petro-State
The barrios of Casalta and la Silsa, seen from 23 de Enero
Everyday Crafting of the Bolivarian State: Lower-level State Officials and Grassroots Activism in Venezuela
Venezuela’s communal councils are legally sanctioned organs for popular participation implemented mostly in poor communities since 2006. The promotores integrales, lower-level state employees who assist the communal councils in their everyday work, serve as mediators between state policies and community politics, and study of their roles and perspectives provides important insights into the complexities of implementing policies of popular partici…
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America
This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through
Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela by Robert Samet
Reviewed by: Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela by Robert Samet Iselin Åsedotter Strønen Robert Samet. Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 224 pp. Robert Samet. Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 224 pp. Reading Robert Samet's Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela awoke remnants of the chilling angst that occasionally …
"Between social footprint and compliance, or "what Ibama wants: Equinor Brazil’s social sustainability policy
This article analyzes an "Environmental Education Project" run by the Norwegian state oil company Equinor targeting poor women in the seafood processing industry along the coastline adjacent to Equinor's off shore Peregrino field in Brazil. The project is a prerequisite for Equinor's operating license, as required by Brazilian federal environmental authorities. I analyze the broader sociopolitical territory within which the project is implemented…
Venezuela’s oil specter: Contextualizing and historicizing the Bolivarian attempt to sow the oil
Under the late Hugo Chávez’ rule in Venezuela, the country’s oil dependency was framed as a pernicious condition to overcome, at the same time as oil became a centerpiece for his social, political and symbolic nation-building project called ‘the Bolivarian process’. This article disentangles this multifaceted ambiguity through an exploration of how the near-90 years old Venezuelan political dictum of ‘sowing the oil’ was conceptualized under Cháv…
The Community' as a Multivocal Concept: Everyday Urban Life and Grassroots Politics in Caracas' Informal Neighbourhoods
This article analyses the multivocal meanings of the concept 'the community' as embedded and employed in everyday- and political discourses in working class and shantytown neighbourhoods (barrios) in the capital city of Caracas, Venezuela. Set in the context of the late Hugo Chávez' presidency (1999-2013), I explore how 'community' variously referred to socio-territorial space or to emerging and contested notions of political community, and how t…
Defiant Women of the Sea: Challenging the Gendering of the Spanish Fishery Sector
Women's role in fisheries has generally been underrecognized, both in science and in society. Engaging with anthropological and interdisciplinary literature on women in fisheries, as well as discussions about gender perspectives in studies of political economy, this article explores how women in the Spanish fishery sector are organizing and strategizing to rectify their historically marginalized position and improve their social and economic righ…
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)