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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, "Water is Life". An ethnography of urban ecology and water politics in Arequipa, Peru, Københavns Universitet, Institut for Antropologi
1 Aug 2010 → 25 Apr 2014
Award Date: 25 Apr 2014
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Collaborations from the last five years
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Jordforbindelser: et projekt der vækker jorden til live gennem sanserne
Andersen, A. O. (PI) & Skovgaard, S. R. (Project Participant)
01/09/2024 → 31/08/2027
Project: Research
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Developing interdisciplinary permafrost higher education in collaboration with a Greenlandic community
Ren, C. (CoPI) & Andersen, A. O. (CoPI)
01/08/2024 → 31/07/2025
Project: Research
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EKoDA: Environmental Knowledge in the Digital Anthropocene: exploring new spaces of cross-disciplinary collaboration
Andersen, A. O. (PI), Laursen, A. T. (PI), Jacobsen, R. B. (CoI), Horvath, A.-S. (CoI) & Arler, F. (PI)
01/07/2024 → 31/08/2025
Project: Research
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The Digitization of Everyday Life during the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark
Munk, A. (PI), Andersen, A. O. (CoI), Grundtvig, A. (Other), Voll, C. N. (Other), Jacobsen, E. B. (Other), Jessen, J. F. (Other), Birkbak, A. (CoI), Madsen, A. K. (CoI), Jensen, T. E. (CoI), Heuser, M. C. (Other) & Søltoft, J. I. (Other)
01/04/2020 → …
Project: Research
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Justice, Equity and Fairness in Deep Seabed Mining in the North
Cassotta, S. (PI), Coelho, N. F. (Project Applicant), Andersen, A. O. (Project Applicant), Rathcke, K. (Project Participant), Galva, D. A. (Project Participant) & Thorsen, F. K. (Project Participant)
30/04/2024 → 31/12/2024
Project: Research
Research output
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Anthropological Sensations: A High Arctic Travelogue
Hastrup, K. B., Flora, J. & Andersen, A. O., 2023, Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds. Bubandt, N. O., Oberborbeck Andersen, A. & Cypher, R. A. (eds.). University of Minnesota Press, p. 276-299Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Digital Water
Andersen, A. O. & Jessen, J. F., 14 Jun 2023, Reclaiming Technology: a poetic-scientific vocabulary. Maguire, J. & Winthereik, B. R. (eds.). Copenhagen: Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books, p. 122 – 125 4 p.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Ideal-Real-Actual: Models for collaboration between anthropology and computational sciences
Jessen, J. F., Mannov, A. & Andersen, A. O., Dec 2023, In: Anthropology in Action. 30, 3, p. 9–19 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Introduction. Rubber Boots Methods: Outline for a Multispecies Study of the Anthropocene
Bubandt, N. O., Andersen, A. O. & Cypher, R. A., 2023, Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds. Andersen, A. O., Bubandt, N. O. & Cypher, R. A. (eds.). University of Minnesota Press, p. 1-36Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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On new ground: Tracing Human–Muskox Reconfigurations in Greenland
Andersen, A. O. & Flora, J., 2023, Anthropology and Climate Change: From Transformations to World making, Third Edition. Routledge, p. 181-194 14 p.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus)
Datasets
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Data on the Digitization of Everyday Life during the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark
Munk, A. K. (Creator), 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) & Søltoft, J. I. (Contributor), VBN, 1 Aug 2020
DOI: 10.5278/8e246a10-8b63-4264-ad8d-31ee953e0896
Dataset
Prizes
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Ziman Award 2020: TANTlab
Munk, A. K. (Recipient), Madsen, A. K. (Recipient), Birkbak, A. (Recipient), Jensen, T. E. (Recipient), Jacomy, M. (Recipient), Abildgaard, M. S. (Recipient), Olesen, A. G. (Recipient), Andersen, A. O. (Recipient), Mannov, A. (Recipient), Ren, C. (Recipient) & Thorsen, S. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Research, education and innovation prizes
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Teacher of the year 2019 in Techno-Anthropology, Aalborg University
Andersen, A. O. (Recipient), Jun 2019
Prize: Educational prizes
Activities
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Seabed Mining Governance in the Green Energy Transition
Cassotta, S. (Organizer), Rathcke, K. (Organizer), Coelho, N. F. (Organizer), Thorsen, F. K. (Organizer), Andersen, A. O. (Organizer), Galva, D. A. (Organizer), Vidal, F. (Participant), Ivaldi, R. (Participant), Pecoraro, A. (Participant), Madelena, M. (Participant), Dordoni, M. (Participant), Singh, K. (Participant) & Kristoffersen, B. (Participant)
4 Dec 2024Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, seminars, exhibitions or similar
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I Moskusoksernes spor: Introduktion og kulturel tilpasning af moskusokser i Vestgrønland
Andersen, A. O. (Lecturer) & Fog Jensen, J. (Lecturer)
3 Nov 2024Activity: Talks and presentations › Talks and presentations in private or public companies
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Homing new territories: Muskoxen, humans, and unruly dynamics in West Greenland, Greenland
Andersen, A. O. (Lecturer)
20 Apr 2023Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations
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Human-Animal Relations: Beyond the Wild and Domesticated
Flora, J. (Organizer) & Andersen, A. O. (Organizer)
20 Apr 2023 → 21 Apr 2023Activity: Attending an event › Conference organisation or participation
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Human-Animal Relations: Beyond the Wild and Domesticated
Flora, J. (Organizer) & Andersen, A. O. (Organizer)
20 Apr 2023 → 21 Apr 2023Activity: Attending an event › Conference organisation or participation
Press/Media
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Debat: Du skræmmer akademikere væk fra debatten. Det er fuldstændig uholdbart
10/03/2025
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Samarbejder på tværs skal klæde os på til fremtidens smarte vandsystemer
Jessen, J. F., Andersen, A. O., Wisniewski, R., Rathore, S. S. & Kallesøe, C.
25/04/2023
2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Forsker skal se på digitalisering af vand
Andersen, A. O. & Jessen, J. F.
15/07/2021
6 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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ITU-forskningsprojekt kortlægger danskernes digitale corona-liv
Munk, A. K., Andersen, A. O., Grundtvig, A., Voll, C. N., Jacobsen, E. B. & Jessen, J. F.
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