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Research profile
My research is informed by an interest in human–environment relations, with a regional specialization in the Arctic (Greenland), Latin America (Peru, Honduras) and Denmark.
Main research areas:
Climate change and human-environment relations - looking specifically at social water ecologies (in Peru), living resources and ecosystems use and management (in Greenland), and how ecosystems are increasingly rendered and formatted through digital technologies.
Knowledge infrastructures – with a focus on how different ways of knowing and expertise, including technologies, structure hierarchies for decision making and politics.
Collaboration across and beyond disciplines – bringing different kinds of scientific knowledge production together around specific themes and issues; also including knowledge practices and systems beyond academia.
Theoretically, my research is situated at the intersection of anthropology, political ecology and Science and Technology Studies, with a special attention to decolonial theory and scholarly practices. Her work is rooted in solid and detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analyses, seeking - with a postcolonial engagement, simultaneously critical and constructive - to question existing epistemologies and paradigms, and to find modes of collaboration through which to move towards new ways of knowing, theorizing and making worlds.
Muskox Pathways
I am currently co-heading the collaborative project Muskox Pathways: Resources and Ecologies in Greenland funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research in 2019. The project, which involves anthropologists and archaeologists from the universities of Aarhus and Copenhagen, as well as stakeholders in Greenland, explores the sporadic, but nonetheless deep, entanglements between natural environments and social forms that come into being through the muskox.
Digital Water.
As part of the interdisciplinary and tech-headed project Smart Water Infrastructures, PhD fellow Jonas Falzarano Jessen and I examine Qualitative relations in smart water infrastructures. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we study how the digitization of water technologies transforms water as a material and social substance, and what the implications are to different actors working with water, to society more broadly, and to environments.
Cryptic Commons
From 2019-2021 I was work-package leader of the interdisciplinary project SECURE Estimation and Control Using Recursion and Encryption. The techno-anthropological focus was to examine how notions and relations of trust and privacy are transformed as digitized and cyber-physical systems become prevalent in society.
An outcome of the project was the CRYPTIC COMMOMS - a concept and space in collaborative making, promoting reflection and debate about what a data-democracy might be.
Visit the Cryptic Commons online exhibition here.
And watch our Cryptic Commons Science TV productions here.
Education/Academic qualification
Social Anthropology, PhD, Københavns Universitet, Institut for Antropologi
1 Aug 2010 → 25 Apr 2014
Award Date: 25 Apr 2014
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IKL grøn omstilling
Sørensen, A. S., Paulsen, P. C., Bjørst, L. R., Harfeld, J. L. & Andersen, A. O.
01/06/2021 → 31/12/2022
Project: Other
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The Digitization of Everyday Life during the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark
Munk, A. K., Andersen, A. O., Grundtvig, A., Voll, C. N., Jacobsen, E. B., Jessen, J. F., Birkbak, A., Madsen, A. K., Jensen, T. E., Heuser, M. C. & Søltoft, J. I.
01/04/2020 → …
Project: Research
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Muskox Pathways. Ecologies and Resources in Greenland
Flora, J., Andersen, A. O., Hastrup, K. B. & Jensen, J. F.
01/11/2019 → 31/08/2023
Project: Research
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SWIFT
Wisniewski, R., Misra, R., Rathore, S. S., Kuskonmaz, B., Jessen, J. F., Andersen, A. O. & Gundersen, J. S.
01/10/2019 → 30/09/2024
Project: Research
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LASSO: Locating Arctic Sustainability Online
Birkbak, A., Andersen, A. O. & Jacomy, M.
01/03/2021 → 07/05/2021
Project: Research
Research output
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Anthropological Sensations: A High Arctic Travelogue
Hastrup, K. B., Flora, J. & Andersen, A. O., 2022, (Accepted/In press) Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Curiosity, Collaboration, and Critical Description in the Study of Multispecies Worlds. University of Minnesota PressResearch output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Grønlandsk fangstkultur
Graugaard, N. D., Andersen, A. O. & Møller, R-E. D., 2022, (Accepted/In press) TRAP Grønland. Trap Danmark A/SResearch output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Introduction: Human-Muskox Pathways through Millennia
Flora, J. & Andersen, A. O., 27 Apr 2022, In: Acta Borealia. 39, 1, p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Muskox multiplications: the becoming of a resource, relations and place in Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland
Andersen, A. O., 2022, In: Acta Borealia. 39, 1, p. 75-94 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Pluriversal tundra: Storying more than human ecologies across deep, accelerated, and troubled times
Andersen, A. O., 2022, (Submitted) Multipolar Clime Studies of the Himalaya, Andes and Arctic. Smyer Yu, D., Wouters, J. & Saikia, A. (eds.). University of Washington PressResearch output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Datasets
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Data on the Digitization of Everyday Life during the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark
Munk, A. K. (Owner), Andersen, A. O. (Contributor), Birkbak, A. (Contributor), Madsen, A. K. (Contributor), Jensen, T. E. (Contributor), Heuser, M. C. (Contributor), Voll, C. N. (Contributor), Jacobsen, E. B. (Contributor), Jessen, J. F. (Contributor) & Grundtvig, A. (Contributor), VBN, 1 Aug 2020
Dataset
Prizes
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Ziman Award 2020: TANTlab
Munk, Anders Kristian (Recipient), Madsen, Anders Koed (Recipient), Birkbak, Andreas (Recipient), Jensen, Torben Elgaard (Recipient), Jacomy, Mathieu (Recipient), Abildgaard, Mette Simonsen (Recipient), Olesen, A. G. (Recipient), Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck (Recipient), Mannov, A. (Recipient), Ren, Carina (Recipient) & Thorsen, Sofie (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Research, education and innovation prizes
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Teacher of the year 2019 in Techno-Anthropology, Aalborg University
Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck (Recipient), Jun 2019
Prize: Educational prizes
Activities
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Umimmaat inuillu antropologii aallaavigalugu / Moskusokser og mennesker i antropologisk perspektiv
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen (Lecturer)
17 Feb 2022Activity: Talks and presentations › Talks and presentations in private or public companies
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Workshop on Digital Anthropology
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen (Participant) & Jonas Falzarano Jessen (Participant)
6 Jan 2022Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, or seminars
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Cryptic Commons: Samarbejder og oversættelser for et mere datasikkert samfund
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen (Lecturer)
24 Nov 2021Activity: Talks and presentations › Talks and presentations in private or public companies
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Muskox ecologies and biosocial becoming in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland: Towards an ethno-ethological approach for conservation and management
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen (Lecturer)
27 Oct 2021Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations
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Moskusoksens stier i antropologisk perspektiv - til, fra og igennem Kangerlussuaq
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen (Lecturer)
13 Oct 2021Activity: Talks and presentations › Talks and presentations in private or public companies
Press / Media
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Forsker skal se på digitalisering af vand
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen & Jonas Falzarano Jessen
15/07/2021
6 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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ITU-forskningsprojekt kortlægger danskernes digitale corona-liv
Anders Kristian Munk, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen, Anders Grundtvig, Corinna Nathalie Voll, Emil Buch Jacobsen & Jonas Falzarano Jessen
16/04/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Aalborg Universitet og Biffen Nordkraft organiserer Teknoantropologisk Filmfestival
30/10/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media