Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 105181 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kristin Bergtora Sandvik |
| PRENOMES | Kristin Bergtora |
| SOBRENOME | Sandvik |
| ASSINATURA | SANDVIK K B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4671-6410 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 246 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Om jurister og sosialantropologer i kriser og kamp
Aeropeace
As Europe grapples with a rapidly shifting security environment and a turn toward rearmament, European airspace is becoming more crowded, chaotic, and dangerous, with implications for everyday life across the continent. This essay argues that peace can no longer be imagined without a peaceful sky, termed here as “Aeropeace.” Aeropeace is a conceptual frame for rethinking airspace not only through the lens of “negative peace,” meaning the absence …
Dyrt, men dyrebare
Kjæledyr som krysser grenser i krisesituasjoner, reiser vanskelige dilemmaer, men har så langt fått lite oppmerksomhet av forskere. I denne artikkelen undersøker vi hva som skjedde da flere tusen ukrainske flyktninger tok med seg kjæledyr til Norge etter Russlands fullskala invasjon i 2022. I en tid da restriktiv flyktningpolitikk og velferdsnasjonalisme dominerer den europeiske agendaen, har norske myndigheter gjort flere unntak fra gjeldende im…
Et mikrominnekart etter 22. juli
Det finnes mange minnesmerker etter 22. juli. Disse antar ulike former, finnes på ulike steder og har ulike funksjoner. Et viktig spørsmål som ikke har blitt diskutert i 22. juli-litteraturen, er hvordan vi kan forstå minnesmerker, steder og praksiser som var midlertidige og nå er borte. Som et slags svar på dette spørsmålet begynner vi i denne artikkelen å kartlegge det vi kaller «mikrominnelandskapet» etter 22. juli. Mens de offisielle minneste…
Protecting skilled Afghan women
Considering the Afghan evacuation of 2021 and its aftermath, this article suggests the term ‘brain save’ to characterise emerging protection discourses and practices concerning the resettlement of skilled women refugees. Resettlement has traditionally focused on women as vulnerable because of their gender. Drawing on examples of the evacuation and prospective resettlement of Afghan women professionals, the article develops the analytic concept of…
Cultural Heritage and Legal Mobilisation After Terror
This article investigates the growing recognition of cultural heritage as a contentious human rights issue. After the bombing of the Norwegian government buildings in Oslo on 22 July 2011, the YBlock, emerged as a cultural heritage object of high symbolic value. The government's megaproject of constructing a new government complex was contested due to its impact on the human right to public space and human rights in public space. Following a leng…
Transitional Justice in Post-terror Contexts
∞ This article explores litigation as a practice of memorialization through a qualitative study of the legal mobilization to halt and re-site the Norwegian national memorial for the 22 July 2011 terror attack. In arguing that adversarial legal processes initiated by grassroots actors can represent a form of commemorative work with an ambiguous societal status, the article contributes to the emergent literature on transitional justice practices in…
Safeguarding Sex
This paper is about the intersection of technological utopianism with the safeguarding rush in international aid and the DNA imaginations that it has given rise to. It explores the implications of the centering of DNA technology in efforts to prevent and punish sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers and asks what types of accountability DNA approaches yield. The article examines the discursive power of DNA imaginaries in shaping the politic…
If 'it all breaks down
How did the arrival of growing numbers of refugees and migrants in a non-violent setting and high-income country like Norway become framed as a 'humanitarian crisis' and with what consequences? In this article, we examine the framing and responses to the influx of refugees and other migrants to Norway in 2015-16, in and around Oslo and in the Arctic region of Storskog, along the Russian border. Our analysis draws on two theoretical contributions:…
Refugee Resettlement
Introduction. Refugee Resettlement as Humanitarian Governance
A Legal History
The Ukrainian refugee crisis
The rescue of pets soon became part of the humanitarian narrative of the attack on Ukraine. The open‐door policy on companion animals from Ukraine—a high‐risk country for rabies—in terms of regulatory modifications and the provision of services could be described as one of ‘pet exceptionalism’. While the influx of pets and the response to it has significance for the international refugee regime, there has been scant scholarly engagement with the …
The Norwegian Covid-19 Tracing App Experiment
The rollout of a host of COVID-19 tracing apps has been described as a global digital experiment. This development has been followed by a proliferation of scholarship, analyzing and assessing the performance of these apps in fighting the pandemic . This includes discussions of their legal, ethical and technical properties, as well as more detailed investigations of the surveillance implications and the effectiveness of national initiatives. In th…
The afterlife of buzzwords
While buzzwords fade from policy speeches, everyday aid talk and conceptual attention, they usually retain a place in aid discourse and practice. To explore the afterlife of buzzwords, this article offers an analytical framework for exploring the journey of Rights-based approaches (RBA) through the humanitarian sector. Through a study of RBA in the Norwegian humanitarian policy and in Norwegian-funded aid in Colombia, Palestine, Myanmar and Pakis…
Digital Refugee Lawyering
This article explores how the digital transformation of humanitarianism, and the refugee regime reshapes refugee lawyering. Much refugee lawyering is based on a traditional understanding of legal protection – and a focus on legal aid, law reform advocacy, and specific protection procedures (such as refugee status determination). Refugee lawyering must now grapple with the challenges offered by the digital transformation of international protectio…
Public Anthropology in the Digital Era
The public anthropologist grapples with not one but many overlapping digital transformations, which influence how anthropologists access, produce, and disseminate knowledge. The digital turn reshapes the social fields with which the anthropologist engages; the political opportunities and risks arising from the engagement of the public anthropologist; and the methodological approach of the public anthropologist as they access, produce, and dissemi…
Barn, korona og dobbeltdugnaden
Når jeg skriver dette tidlig på høsten 2020, hersker det en slags felles offentlig forståelse om at vi her til lands har betalt en lav pris i møte med covid-19, i norsk dagligtale «korona». Utbruddet kom tidlig under kontroll, vi hadde lave smittetall og lav mortalitet i utbruddets første fase, og vi hadde penger på bok som kunne sikre grunnleggende velferd for borgerne. Allerede i april 2020 gikk landet inn i en gjenåpningsfase. Sommeren 2020 va…
Wearables for something good
The article contributes to the emergent critical literature on the creation of data in aid by exploring how the use of digital technologies creates corresponding ‘digital bodies’. The article argues that dataveillance is becoming a central practice of aid. To explore this proposition, the article interrogates the making of children’s digital bodies as objects of intervention through an examination of the development of ‘Khushi baby’, a wearable d…
The struggle against sexual violence in conflict
Digital technological innovations make new types of responses to conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) possible, bringing with them both potential promises and pitfalls. Aiming to provide a conceptual starting point for further analysis, this article problematizes the trend towards data extraction in exchange for aid, protection and justice, and argues for the importance of complementing technology-driven approaches to the struggle against CRSV…
Smittestopp
The intervention attempts to engage critically with the Smittestopp app as a specifically Norwegian technofix. Culturally and politically, much of the Covid-19 response and the success of social distancing rules have been organized around the widespread trust in the government and public health authorities, and a focus on the citizens' duty to contribute to the dugnaðr. The intervention argues that Smittestopp has been co-created by the mobilizat…
Horizon Scan
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
A world in turmoil
This special issue of Disasters on humanitarian governance focuses on risk and order. Its contributions show the tensions between humanitarian normative ideals and practical consequences, as many of the ordering effects are associated with either intended or unintended consequences. This introduction offers a conceptual framing of humanitarian governance. Defining humanitarian governance as a subset of global governance, the paper shows how human…
Refugee Resettlement
Refugee resettlement
Examining resettlement practices worldwide and drawing on contributions from anthropology, law, international relations, social work, political science, and numerous other disciplines, this ground-breaking volume highlights the conflicts between refugees' needs and state practices, and assesses international, regional and national perspectives on resettlement, as well as the bureaucracies and ideologies involved. It offers a detailed understandin…
Shifting Frames, Vanishing Resources, and Dangerous Political Opportunities
How can we make sense of the use of legal claims and tactics under conditions of internal displacement and armed conflict? This article argues that in violent contexts mobilization frames are unstable and constantly shifting, resources tend to vanish, and political opportunities often imply considerable physical danger. It is grounded on a three-year, multimethod study that followed internally displaced women's organizations as they demanded gove…
Blurring Boundaries
This article explores the role of transnational soft law in global migration management. It investigates the formal, informal, and illegal transactions that govern the struggle between urban refugees and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Kampala, Uganda, over the distribution of third-country resettlement slots. I propose that the regularization of resettlement has engendered a pluralist system that draws on and combine…
The Rise of the Humanitarian Drone
This article explores and attempts to define the emerging concept of the humanitarian drone by critically examining actual and anticipated transfers of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, from the global battlespace to the humanitarian emergency zone. Focusing on the relationship between the diffusion of new technology and institutional power, we explore the humanitarian drone as a ‘war dividend’ arising from the transfer of surveillance …
Humanitarian technology
New technology may offer many opportunities for humanitarian action, but it also presents a number of challenges. Currently, most of the critical analysis of these potential challenges takes place in the blogosphere, on tweets and on listservs. There is a strong need for more scholarly engagement on the subject. This article offers an agenda for critical inquiry into the emergent field of humanitarian technology as applied to a broadly defined co…
Do no harm
This article aims to acknowledge and articulate the notion of “humanitarian experimentation”. Whether through innovation or uncertain contexts, managing risk is a core component of the humanitarian initiative – but all risk is not created equal. There is a stark ethical and practical difference between managing risk and introducing it, which is mitigated in other fields through experimentation and regulation. This article identifies and historica…
Internally displaced women as knowledge producers and users in humanitarian action
The literature on evidence-based action in humanitarian crises commonly focuses on how inter-and non-governmental organisations can produce better knowledge and how this can be translated into improved programming. Yet, there is little recorded experience of, or concern about, how the beneficiaries of humanitarian relief can produce and use knowledge of their predicament. This paper is based on a case study of how the Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas,…
Beyond Sexual Violence in Transitional Justice
The Ukrainian refugee crisis
The rescue of pets soon became part of the humanitarian narrative of the attack on Ukraine. The open‐door policy on companion animals from Ukraine—a high‐risk country for rabies—in terms of regulatory modifications and the provision of services could be described as one of ‘pet exceptionalism’. While the influx of pets and the response to it has significance for the international refugee regime, there has been scant scholarly engagement with the …
Smittestopp
The intervention attempts to engage critically with the Smittestopp app as a specifically Norwegian technofix. Culturally and politically, much of the Covid-19 response and the success of social distancing rules have been organized around the widespread trust in the government and public health authorities, and a focus on the citizens' duty to contribute to the dugnaðr. The intervention argues that Smittestopp has been co-created by the mobilizat…
Horizon Scan
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
A world in turmoil
This special issue of Disasters on humanitarian governance focuses on risk and order. Its contributions show the tensions between humanitarian normative ideals and practical consequences, as many of the ordering effects are associated with either intended or unintended consequences. This introduction offers a conceptual framing of humanitarian governance. Defining humanitarian governance as a subset of global governance, the paper shows how human…
UNHCR and the pursuit of international protection
Better management and new technological solutions are increasingly portrayed as the way to improve refugee protection and enhance the accountability of humanitarian actors. Taking concepts of legibility, quantification and co-production as the point of departure, this article explores how techno-bureaucratic practices shape conceptions of international refugee protection. We do this by examining the evolving roles of results-based management (RBM…
Beyond the Protective Effect
Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) are now being employed as a standard part of mass atrocity response, evidence collection, and research by non-governmental organizations, governments, and the private sector. Deployment of these tools and techniques occur for a variety of stated reasons, most notably the ostensible goal of “protecting” vulnerable populations. However, these often experimental applications of ICTs and digital data are …
The humanitarian cyberspace
In an effort to contribute to a more critical understanding of the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in humanitarian action, this article explores the topography of the ‘humanitarian cyberspace’ – a composite of ‘cyberspace’ and ‘humanitarian space’ – as it has emerged since the mid-1990s. The goals are to offer some observations about the conditions of the humanitarian cyberspace and to reflect on the relationship between th…
Refugee resettlement
Examining resettlement practices worldwide and drawing on contributions from anthropology, law, international relations, social work, political science, and numerous other disciplines, this ground-breaking volume highlights the conflicts between refugees' needs and state practices, and assesses international, regional and national perspectives on resettlement, as well as the bureaucracies and ideologies involved. It offers a detailed understandin…
Technology, Dead Male Bodies, and Feminist Recognition
Drawing on anthropology, feminist science and technology studies (STS), and critical masculinity studies, this article contributes to a theory of male harm by reflecting on examples of data-driven screening practices in refugee protection and targeting practices in drone strikes as a way of making sense of the relationship between technology and men's suffering. The article identifies and unpacks the shifting composite of attention and dis-attent…
The afterlife of buzzwords
While buzzwords fade from policy speeches, everyday aid talk and conceptual attention, they usually retain a place in aid discourse and practice. To explore the afterlife of buzzwords, this article offers an analytical framework for exploring the journey of Rights-based approaches (RBA) through the humanitarian sector. Through a study of RBA in the Norwegian humanitarian policy and in Norwegian-funded aid in Colombia, Palestine, Myanmar and Pakis…
Gendering violent pluralism
As a theory on violent democracies, the theory of violent pluralism is silent on the gendered realities of this violence as it plays out in Latin America. To bridge that knowledge gap, this article begins to develop a theory of the ‘gender of violent pluralism’. The article builds on socio-legal research on displaced women’s political organising in a violent context in Colombia (2010–2014) while also drawing on empirical examples of violence agai…
Negotiating the Humanitarian Past
This article provides an ethnographic account of how urban refugees and legal protection officers from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kampala, Uganda compete to define the present by way of a struggle to manage the past. Taking the bonds between the visible and invisible cityscapes of Kampala as a focal point for the inquiry, the article juxtaposes the practices involved in recording official history with the scattered memor…
If 'it all breaks down
How did the arrival of growing numbers of refugees and migrants in a non-violent setting and high-income country like Norway become framed as a 'humanitarian crisis' and with what consequences? In this article, we examine the framing and responses to the influx of refugees and other migrants to Norway in 2015-16, in and around Oslo and in the Arctic region of Storskog, along the Russian border. Our analysis draws on two theoretical contributions:…
"The Reframing of the War on Drugs as a "Humanitarian Crisis
The War on Drugs has had grave humanitarian consequences for Latin America. It has encouraged a highly militarized and ultimately unsuccessful approach to drug control, leading to violence, displacement, and human suffering throughout the region. In acknowledging and responding to this suffering, humanitarian organizations have recently begun to frame this situation as a "humanitarian crisis" to facilitate humanitarian entry into new spaces. Ther…
Transitional Justice in Post-terror Contexts
∞ This article explores litigation as a practice of memorialization through a qualitative study of the legal mobilization to halt and re-site the Norwegian national memorial for the 22 July 2011 terror attack. In arguing that adversarial legal processes initiated by grassroots actors can represent a form of commemorative work with an ambiguous societal status, the article contributes to the emergent literature on transitional justice practices in…
Safeguarding Sex
This paper is about the intersection of technological utopianism with the safeguarding rush in international aid and the DNA imaginations that it has given rise to. It explores the implications of the centering of DNA technology in efforts to prevent and punish sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers and asks what types of accountability DNA approaches yield. The article examines the discursive power of DNA imaginaries in shaping the politic…
Public Anthropology in the Digital Era
The public anthropologist grapples with not one but many overlapping digital transformations, which influence how anthropologists access, produce, and disseminate knowledge. The digital turn reshapes the social fields with which the anthropologist engages; the political opportunities and risks arising from the engagement of the public anthropologist; and the methodological approach of the public anthropologist as they access, produce, and dissemi…
Humanitarian Drones
Bokanmeldelser
Exploiting the Limits of Law
Hva teller som transnasjonal kunnskap? – Mistenksomhet, sladder og rykter i møter mellom urbane flyktninger og UNHCR-byråkrater
A Legal History
A Legal History: the Emergence of the African Resettlement Candidate in International Refugee Management Get access Kristin Bergtora Sandvik Kristin Bergtora Sandvik * *SJD Harvard Law School (2008). An earlier draft of this article was a part of a doctoral project entitled 'On the Everyday Life of International Law: Humanitarianism and Refugee-Resettlement in Kampala', at Harvard Law School. I am grateful to the Oxford Refugee Studies program an…
Book Notes
Shields, Vanessa E & Nicholas D J Baldwin, eds, 2008. Beyond Settlement: Making Peace Last After Civil Conflict. Madison-Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 413 pp. ISBN 9780838641835
Blurring Boundaries
This article explores the role of transnational soft law in global migration management. It investigates the formal, informal, and illegal transactions that govern the struggle between urban refugees and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Kampala, Uganda, over the distribution of third-country resettlement slots. I propose that the regularization of resettlement has engendered a pluralist system that draws on and combine…
Negotiating the Humanitarian Past
This article provides an ethnographic account of how urban refugees and legal protection officers from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kampala, Uganda compete to define the present by way of a struggle to manage the past. Taking the bonds between the visible and invisible cityscapes of Kampala as a focal point for the inquiry, the article juxtaposes the practices involved in recording official history with the scattered memor…
Cyberkrig og internasjonal rett
Cyberspace og sikkerhet
Internally displaced women as knowledge producers and users in humanitarian action
The literature on evidence-based action in humanitarian crises commonly focuses on how inter-and non-governmental organisations can produce better knowledge and how this can be translated into improved programming. Yet, there is little recorded experience of, or concern about, how the beneficiaries of humanitarian relief can produce and use knowledge of their predicament. This paper is based on a case study of how the Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas,…
Ny humanitær teknologi - en kritisk forskningsagenda
Teknologi og det humanitære fornyelsesprosjektet
Humanitarian technology
New technology may offer many opportunities for humanitarian action, but it also presents a number of challenges. Currently, most of the critical analysis of these potential challenges takes place in the blogosphere, on tweets and on listservs. There is a strong need for more scholarly engagement on the subject. This article offers an agenda for critical inquiry into the emergent field of humanitarian technology as applied to a broadly defined co…
Beyond Sexual Violence in Transitional Justice
The Rise of the Humanitarian Drone
This article explores and attempts to define the emerging concept of the humanitarian drone by critically examining actual and anticipated transfers of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, from the global battlespace to the humanitarian emergency zone. Focusing on the relationship between the diffusion of new technology and institutional power, we explore the humanitarian drone as a ‘war dividend’ arising from the transfer of surveillance …
Humanitarian Drones
Shifting Frames, Vanishing Resources, and Dangerous Political Opportunities
How can we make sense of the use of legal claims and tactics under conditions of internal displacement and armed conflict? This article argues that in violent contexts mobilization frames are unstable and constantly shifting, resources tend to vanish, and political opportunities often imply considerable physical danger. It is grounded on a three-year, multimethod study that followed internally displaced women's organizations as they demanded gove…
The Good Drone
The idea of using low-cost do-it-yourself drones for conservation came in 2011 after two of us (Lian Pin Koh and Serge Wich) discussed the generally high financial and time investments that were made to monitor biodiversity in South East Asia. Particularly when surveying species such as orangutans (Pongo spp), it is costly and time-consuming to cover the entire distribution due to the relatively large geographic extent to which they occur and the…
The humanitarian cyberspace
In an effort to contribute to a more critical understanding of the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in humanitarian action, this article explores the topography of the ‘humanitarian cyberspace’ – a composite of ‘cyberspace’ and ‘humanitarian space’ – as it has emerged since the mid-1990s. The goals are to offer some observations about the conditions of the humanitarian cyberspace and to reflect on the relationship between th…
Rise of the Good Drone
Beyond the Protective Effect
Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) are now being employed as a standard part of mass atrocity response, evidence collection, and research by non-governmental organizations, governments, and the private sector. Deployment of these tools and techniques occur for a variety of stated reasons, most notably the ostensible goal of “protecting” vulnerable populations. However, these often experimental applications of ICTs and digital data are …
Do no harm
This article aims to acknowledge and articulate the notion of “humanitarian experimentation”. Whether through innovation or uncertain contexts, managing risk is a core component of the humanitarian initiative – but all risk is not created equal. There is a stark ethical and practical difference between managing risk and introducing it, which is mitigated in other fields through experimentation and regulation. This article identifies and historica…
"The Reframing of the War on Drugs as a "Humanitarian Crisis
The War on Drugs has had grave humanitarian consequences for Latin America. It has encouraged a highly militarized and ultimately unsuccessful approach to drug control, leading to violence, displacement, and human suffering throughout the region. In acknowledging and responding to this suffering, humanitarian organizations have recently begun to frame this situation as a "humanitarian crisis" to facilitate humanitarian entry into new spaces. Ther…
Refugee Resettlement
Refugee Resettlement
Examining resettlement practices worldwide and drawing on contributions from anthropology, law, international relations, social work, political science, and numerous other disciplines, this ground-breaking volume highlights the conflicts between refugees’ needs and state practices, and assesses international, regional and national perspectives on resettlement, as well as the bureaucracies and ideologies involved. It offers a detailed understandin…
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