Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 75245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Astrid Oberborbeck |
| FAMILY NAME | Andersen |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSEN A O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7811-1427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ideal-Real-Actual: Models for Collaboration between Anthropology and Computational Sciences
Based on our experiences from ongoing collaborations with computational engineers over the course of six years and two interdisciplinary research projects, with this article we suggest that the building of collaborations between anthropology and computational sciences that alter disciplinary boundaries and bridge epistemic differences can be accomplished through three levels of engagement: a shared research project, becoming involved in each othe…
Water Infrastructures: The Making and Maintenance of Material and Organisational Connections: Water
Introduction: Human-muskox pathways through millennia
This introduction sets the frame and introduces a special issue on muskox-human relations in Greenland and the Arctic. The articles that follow grow out of the research project “Muskox Pathways: Resource and Ecologies in Greenland.” This anthropological and archaeological project explores the trajectories and transformations of humans-and-muskoxen through time. Thinking about pathways we are inspired partly by the “Muskox Way” theory (Steensby 19…
Muskox multiplications: The becoming of a resource, relations and place in Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland
In the mid-1960s, 27 muskoxen were translocated from Northeast Greenland to Tatsip Ataa near Kangerlussuaq in West Greenland. In just a few decades, these 27 individuals reproduced to become a population of many thousand – now the largest population of muskoxen in Greenland. This article examines human–muskox relations in present-day Kangerlussuaq and Greenland as biosocial multiplications. Muskox–human encounters shape muskoxen as well as human …
Feral Atlas: Rejsebeskrivelser fra Feral Atlas
Rejsebeskrivelser fra Feral Atlas: Feral Atlas
Montage: Moskusokser I Dele Og Heler I Kangerlussuaq, Vestgrønland
Montage: Moskusokser i dele og heler i Kangerlussuaq, Vestgrønland
Forord
Forord
Anthropology Inside Out: Fieldworkers Taking Notes
Fieldworkers’ notebooks are full of sensations and observations in which the subjectivity of the ethnographer seeps through. Not really science. Much closer to life. Yet in classical anthropology they are invisible to the reader. In this book the focus is reversed, turning Anthropology Inside Out as it explores the vibrant backstage life of field notes. What happens when we put them centre stage?
Joseph Dumit Og Nye Tendenser I Antropologien: Portræt
Det følgende stykke tekst rapporterer fra en række begivenheder, som fandt sted i det danske antropologiske landskab i 2018, og forsøger at portrættere, hvad man kunne kalde dataetnografi i en digital tid
Data, en progressiv rodebutik: Redaktionelt Forord
Hvad er data? Befinder vi os i en datatidsalder? Og hvad karakteriserer en sådan? Hvad er data, antropologisk set
Infrastructures of trust and distrust: The politics and ethics of emerging cryptographic technologies
The authors of this article are engaged in anthropological research on the links between the growing interest in privacy and data security as a technical field and how notions of trust, security and accountability are practised in and beyond technical fields of cryptography, specifically a field called multi-party computation (MPC). They pursue the relationship between trust in different forms of cryptography - academic and activist - and notions…
Taking note: A Kaleidoscopic View on Two, or Three, Modes of Fieldnoting
In this article we examine what can be captured, recorded, remembered, and shared through different note-taking modalities. The case narrated is one of a simultaneous fieldwork experience carried out as part of a larger interdisciplinary project in Greenland. It reveals how the same situation is recorded differently in our respective notebooks; and that the way we write fieldnotes is not just determined by the anthropologists, but also by the fie…
Present and past dynamics of Inughuit resource spaces
Information from a collaborative GPS tracking project, Piniariarneq, involving 17 occupational hunters from Qaanaaq and Savissivik, Northwest Greenland, is used to explore the resource spaces of hunters in Avanersuaq today. By comparison with historical records from the time of the Thule Trading Station and the decades following its closure, we reveal a marked variability in resource spaces over time. It is argued that the dynamics of resources a…
Life around the North Water ecosystem: Natural and social drivers of change over a millennium
The formation of the North Water in Smith Sound about 4500 years ago, as evidenced by the establishment of bird colonies and human presence, also initiated a long-term anthropogenic agent as part of this High Arctic ecosystem. Different epochs have influenced the human occupation in the area: immigration pulses from Canada and Alaska, trade with meteorite iron throughout the Arctic, introduction of new technologies by whalers and explorers, explo…
Is sustainable resource utilisation a relevant concept in Avanersuaq? The walrus case
This article addresses the role of Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in present-day Avanersuaq from anthropological and biological perspectives, and asks whether or not sustainable resource utilisation is a useful concept in northwest Greenland. We describe the relations that unfold around walrus and walrus hunting, in the communities living adjacent to the North Water polynya on the eastern side of Smith Sound. We examine the interpla…
Purification: Engineering Water and Producing Politics
In Arequipa, Peru's second largest city, engineers work hard to control water flows and provide different sectors with clean and sufficient water. In 2011, only 10 percent of the totality of water used daily by Arequipa's then close to 1 million people-in households, tourism, industry, and mining-was treated before it was returned to the river where it continues its flow downstream towards cultivated fields and, finally, into the Pacific Ocean. I…
Walrus Movements in Smith Sound: A Canada–Greenland Shared Stock + Supplementary Appendix 1 (See Article Tools)
Fifty of 58 walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) instrumented with satellite-linked transmitters in four areas in eastern Smith Sound, Northwest Greenland, during May and June of 2010 – 13 and 2015 provided data for this study. These animals departed from the feeding banks along the Greenland coast in June – July (average 14th June), simultaneously with the disappearance of sea ice from these areas. Most of them moved to Canadian waters in weste…
Whose Track Is It Anyway: An Anthropological Perspective on Collaboration with Biologists and Hunters in Thule, Northwest Greenland
From May 2015 until May 2016, nineteen occupational hunters, two anthropologists, two biologists, and one GIS expert engaged in a project of collaborative data collection in Northwest Greenland. With handheld GPS devices and a specially designed software called Piniariarneq (Hunting Trip), hunters tracked their hunting routes, registered animals caught and observed, and photographed and videoed important places, events, and other phenomena they f…
Negotiating development narratives within large-scale oil palm projects on village lands in Sarawak, Malaysia
The Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo is one of the global hotspots of deforestation and forest degradation. The planting of oil palm has played a key role in the transformation of land use in the state. While much of the expansion in Sarawak so far has taken place in state forests (80%), many new plantations are being established on native customary rights (NCR) land. A significant portion of the total land area in Sarawak (20-2…
Water Citizenship: Negotiating Water Rights and Contesting Water Culture in the Peruvian Andes
This article examines the implementation of Peru’s new water law and discusses how it produces new forms of water citizenship. Inspired by the global paradigm of “integrated water resources management,” the law aims to include all citizens in the management of the country’s water resources by embracing a “new water culture.” We ask what forms of water citizenship emerge from the new water law and how they engage with local water practices and aff…
Infrastructures of progress and dispossession
This article examines what economic growth and state versions of progress have done to small and medium-scale farmers in an urban setting, in Arequipa in southern Peru. The general reorganization of production, resources, and labor in the Peruvian economy has generated a discursive move to reposition small and medium-scale farmers as backward. This article analyzes how farmers struggle to find their place within a neoliberal urban ecology where d…
Moving facts in an Arctic field: The expedition as anthropological method
This article reflects on the merits of the expedition as an anthropological method on the basis of a recent cross-disciplinary experience, involving biologists, archaeologists and anthropologists working together in High Arctic Greenland. True to the term, the expedition had chartered a vessel from where the team could go ashore in places that would otherwise have been difficult to access, and where the individual perspectives could cross-fertili…
Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Water Citizenship: Negotiating Water Rights and Contesting Water Culture in the Peruvian Andes
This article examines the implementation of Peru’s new water law and discusses how it produces new forms of water citizenship. Inspired by the global paradigm of “integrated water resources management,” the law aims to include all citizens in the management of the country’s water resources by embracing a “new water culture.” We ask what forms of water citizenship emerge from the new water law and how they engage with local water practices and aff…
Present and past dynamics of Inughuit resource spaces
Information from a collaborative GPS tracking project, Piniariarneq, involving 17 occupational hunters from Qaanaaq and Savissivik, Northwest Greenland, is used to explore the resource spaces of hunters in Avanersuaq today. By comparison with historical records from the time of the Thule Trading Station and the decades following its closure, we reveal a marked variability in resource spaces over time. It is argued that the dynamics of resources a…
Life around the North Water ecosystem: Natural and social drivers of change over a millennium
The formation of the North Water in Smith Sound about 4500 years ago, as evidenced by the establishment of bird colonies and human presence, also initiated a long-term anthropogenic agent as part of this High Arctic ecosystem. Different epochs have influenced the human occupation in the area: immigration pulses from Canada and Alaska, trade with meteorite iron throughout the Arctic, introduction of new technologies by whalers and explorers, explo…
Infrastructures of trust and distrust: The politics and ethics of emerging cryptographic technologies
The authors of this article are engaged in anthropological research on the links between the growing interest in privacy and data security as a technical field and how notions of trust, security and accountability are practised in and beyond technical fields of cryptography, specifically a field called multi-party computation (MPC). They pursue the relationship between trust in different forms of cryptography - academic and activist - and notions…
Moving facts in an Arctic field: The expedition as anthropological method
This article reflects on the merits of the expedition as an anthropological method on the basis of a recent cross-disciplinary experience, involving biologists, archaeologists and anthropologists working together in High Arctic Greenland. True to the term, the expedition had chartered a vessel from where the team could go ashore in places that would otherwise have been difficult to access, and where the individual perspectives could cross-fertili…
Is sustainable resource utilisation a relevant concept in Avanersuaq? The walrus case
This article addresses the role of Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in present-day Avanersuaq from anthropological and biological perspectives, and asks whether or not sustainable resource utilisation is a useful concept in northwest Greenland. We describe the relations that unfold around walrus and walrus hunting, in the communities living adjacent to the North Water polynya on the eastern side of Smith Sound. We examine the interpla…
Negotiating development narratives within large-scale oil palm projects on village lands in Sarawak, Malaysia
The Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo is one of the global hotspots of deforestation and forest degradation. The planting of oil palm has played a key role in the transformation of land use in the state. While much of the expansion in Sarawak so far has taken place in state forests (80%), many new plantations are being established on native customary rights (NCR) land. A significant portion of the total land area in Sarawak (20-2…
Infrastructures of progress and dispossession
This article examines what economic growth and state versions of progress have done to small and medium-scale farmers in an urban setting, in Arequipa in southern Peru. The general reorganization of production, resources, and labor in the Peruvian economy has generated a discursive move to reposition small and medium-scale farmers as backward. This article analyzes how farmers struggle to find their place within a neoliberal urban ecology where d…
Muskox multiplications: The becoming of a resource, relations and place in Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland
In the mid-1960s, 27 muskoxen were translocated from Northeast Greenland to Tatsip Ataa near Kangerlussuaq in West Greenland. In just a few decades, these 27 individuals reproduced to become a population of many thousand – now the largest population of muskoxen in Greenland. This article examines human–muskox relations in present-day Kangerlussuaq and Greenland as biosocial multiplications. Muskox–human encounters shape muskoxen as well as human …
Taking note: A Kaleidoscopic View on Two, or Three, Modes of Fieldnoting
In this article we examine what can be captured, recorded, remembered, and shared through different note-taking modalities. The case narrated is one of a simultaneous fieldwork experience carried out as part of a larger interdisciplinary project in Greenland. It reveals how the same situation is recorded differently in our respective notebooks; and that the way we write fieldnotes is not just determined by the anthropologists, but also by the fie…
Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Whose Track Is It Anyway: An Anthropological Perspective on Collaboration with Biologists and Hunters in Thule, Northwest Greenland
From May 2015 until May 2016, nineteen occupational hunters, two anthropologists, two biologists, and one GIS expert engaged in a project of collaborative data collection in Northwest Greenland. With handheld GPS devices and a specially designed software called Piniariarneq (Hunting Trip), hunters tracked their hunting routes, registered animals caught and observed, and photographed and videoed important places, events, and other phenomena they f…
Negotiating development narratives within large-scale oil palm projects on village lands in Sarawak, Malaysia
The Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo is one of the global hotspots of deforestation and forest degradation. The planting of oil palm has played a key role in the transformation of land use in the state. While much of the expansion in Sarawak so far has taken place in state forests (80%), many new plantations are being established on native customary rights (NCR) land. A significant portion of the total land area in Sarawak (20-2…
Water Citizenship: Negotiating Water Rights and Contesting Water Culture in the Peruvian Andes
This article examines the implementation of Peru’s new water law and discusses how it produces new forms of water citizenship. Inspired by the global paradigm of “integrated water resources management,” the law aims to include all citizens in the management of the country’s water resources by embracing a “new water culture.” We ask what forms of water citizenship emerge from the new water law and how they engage with local water practices and aff…
Infrastructures of progress and dispossession
This article examines what economic growth and state versions of progress have done to small and medium-scale farmers in an urban setting, in Arequipa in southern Peru. The general reorganization of production, resources, and labor in the Peruvian economy has generated a discursive move to reposition small and medium-scale farmers as backward. This article analyzes how farmers struggle to find their place within a neoliberal urban ecology where d…
Moving facts in an Arctic field: The expedition as anthropological method
This article reflects on the merits of the expedition as an anthropological method on the basis of a recent cross-disciplinary experience, involving biologists, archaeologists and anthropologists working together in High Arctic Greenland. True to the term, the expedition had chartered a vessel from where the team could go ashore in places that would otherwise have been difficult to access, and where the individual perspectives could cross-fertili…
Walrus Movements in Smith Sound: A Canada–Greenland Shared Stock + Supplementary Appendix 1 (See Article Tools)
Fifty of 58 walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) instrumented with satellite-linked transmitters in four areas in eastern Smith Sound, Northwest Greenland, during May and June of 2010 – 13 and 2015 provided data for this study. These animals departed from the feeding banks along the Greenland coast in June – July (average 14th June), simultaneously with the disappearance of sea ice from these areas. Most of them moved to Canadian waters in weste…
Present and past dynamics of Inughuit resource spaces
Information from a collaborative GPS tracking project, Piniariarneq, involving 17 occupational hunters from Qaanaaq and Savissivik, Northwest Greenland, is used to explore the resource spaces of hunters in Avanersuaq today. By comparison with historical records from the time of the Thule Trading Station and the decades following its closure, we reveal a marked variability in resource spaces over time. It is argued that the dynamics of resources a…
Life around the North Water ecosystem: Natural and social drivers of change over a millennium
The formation of the North Water in Smith Sound about 4500 years ago, as evidenced by the establishment of bird colonies and human presence, also initiated a long-term anthropogenic agent as part of this High Arctic ecosystem. Different epochs have influenced the human occupation in the area: immigration pulses from Canada and Alaska, trade with meteorite iron throughout the Arctic, introduction of new technologies by whalers and explorers, explo…
Is sustainable resource utilisation a relevant concept in Avanersuaq? The walrus case
This article addresses the role of Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in present-day Avanersuaq from anthropological and biological perspectives, and asks whether or not sustainable resource utilisation is a useful concept in northwest Greenland. We describe the relations that unfold around walrus and walrus hunting, in the communities living adjacent to the North Water polynya on the eastern side of Smith Sound. We examine the interpla…
Purification: Engineering Water and Producing Politics
In Arequipa, Peru's second largest city, engineers work hard to control water flows and provide different sectors with clean and sufficient water. In 2011, only 10 percent of the totality of water used daily by Arequipa's then close to 1 million people-in households, tourism, industry, and mining-was treated before it was returned to the river where it continues its flow downstream towards cultivated fields and, finally, into the Pacific Ocean. I…
Taking note: A Kaleidoscopic View on Two, or Three, Modes of Fieldnoting
In this article we examine what can be captured, recorded, remembered, and shared through different note-taking modalities. The case narrated is one of a simultaneous fieldwork experience carried out as part of a larger interdisciplinary project in Greenland. It reveals how the same situation is recorded differently in our respective notebooks; and that the way we write fieldnotes is not just determined by the anthropologists, but also by the fie…
Anthropology Inside Out: Fieldworkers Taking Notes
Fieldworkers’ notebooks are full of sensations and observations in which the subjectivity of the ethnographer seeps through. Not really science. Much closer to life. Yet in classical anthropology they are invisible to the reader. In this book the focus is reversed, turning Anthropology Inside Out as it explores the vibrant backstage life of field notes. What happens when we put them centre stage?
Joseph Dumit Og Nye Tendenser I Antropologien: Portræt
Det følgende stykke tekst rapporterer fra en række begivenheder, som fandt sted i det danske antropologiske landskab i 2018, og forsøger at portrættere, hvad man kunne kalde dataetnografi i en digital tid
Data, en progressiv rodebutik: Redaktionelt Forord
Hvad er data? Befinder vi os i en datatidsalder? Og hvad karakteriserer en sådan? Hvad er data, antropologisk set
Infrastructures of trust and distrust: The politics and ethics of emerging cryptographic technologies
The authors of this article are engaged in anthropological research on the links between the growing interest in privacy and data security as a technical field and how notions of trust, security and accountability are practised in and beyond technical fields of cryptography, specifically a field called multi-party computation (MPC). They pursue the relationship between trust in different forms of cryptography - academic and activist - and notions…
Feral Atlas: Rejsebeskrivelser fra Feral Atlas
Rejsebeskrivelser fra Feral Atlas: Feral Atlas
Montage: Moskusokser I Dele Og Heler I Kangerlussuaq, Vestgrønland
Montage: Moskusokser i dele og heler i Kangerlussuaq, Vestgrønland
Forord
Forord
Water Infrastructures: The Making and Maintenance of Material and Organisational Connections: Water
Introduction: Human-muskox pathways through millennia
This introduction sets the frame and introduces a special issue on muskox-human relations in Greenland and the Arctic. The articles that follow grow out of the research project “Muskox Pathways: Resource and Ecologies in Greenland.” This anthropological and archaeological project explores the trajectories and transformations of humans-and-muskoxen through time. Thinking about pathways we are inspired partly by the “Muskox Way” theory (Steensby 19…
Muskox multiplications: The becoming of a resource, relations and place in Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland
In the mid-1960s, 27 muskoxen were translocated from Northeast Greenland to Tatsip Ataa near Kangerlussuaq in West Greenland. In just a few decades, these 27 individuals reproduced to become a population of many thousand – now the largest population of muskoxen in Greenland. This article examines human–muskox relations in present-day Kangerlussuaq and Greenland as biosocial multiplications. Muskox–human encounters shape muskoxen as well as human …
Ideal-Real-Actual: Models for Collaboration between Anthropology and Computational Sciences
Based on our experiences from ongoing collaborations with computational engineers over the course of six years and two interdisciplinary research projects, with this article we suggest that the building of collaborations between anthropology and computational sciences that alter disciplinary boundaries and bridge epistemic differences can be accomplished through three levels of engagement: a shared research project, becoming involved in each othe…
Sociology (13 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)