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Knut Gunnar Nustad
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(+47) 924 303 65
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Pb 8159 Dep, 0033 Oslo
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C.J. Hambros plass 2 D
Current research
Knut Nustad's publications:
Nustad works on the project Slums, states and citizens: Security, Welfare and Political Participation among the Urban Poor in Delhi, Durban and Nairobi, were he is responsible for the South African component. The project is running from 2011 to 2014 and is funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
He is also part of the part of the project Cultures of Biodiversity: Perceptions and Practices at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, where he investigates relationships between protected area and adjacent communities in South Africa. This project is also funded by the Norwegian Research Council and runs from 2011 to 2014.
Co-editor, with Axel Borchgrevink, of Forum for Development Studies , a Nordic journal on development research and debate on development theory and aid policy.
Formal education
[1993 - 1999]
Ph.D. Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
[1989 - 1993]
Master, Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
Professional experience
[2009-]
Senior Researcher, NUPI
[2004]
Associate Professor, Department of Research and Development, International Unit, Diakonhjemmet University College
[2003-2009]
Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
Publications
Articles (in books and journals)
- Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2011). Land, eiendom og samfunn i Dukuduku, Sør-Afrika,
i Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, no 3-4.
.Oslo,Norsk antropologisk forening.p. .Artikkelen søker å vise hvordan ideer om både eiendom og rettigheter er formet gjennom en lang historisk prosess i Sør-Afrika. Dagens forståelse av rettigheter er et resultat av en liberal juridisk kultur som også gjorde seg gjeldende under apartheid, samtidig som rettigheter og statsborgerskap ble frarøvet majoritetsbefolkningen gjennom et system basert på indirekte styre. [url] - Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2011). Revisiting Post-development from an Environment-Development Perspective,
in Kjosavik, D. J. og Vedeld, P(eds.), The Political Economy of Environment and Development in a Globalised World
.Trondheim,Tapir Academic Press.p. 153-171.In this theoretically oriented chapter, Knut G. Nustad argues that many of the insitghts from post-development could be carried over to the study of environmental issues. It is important that such a critical environmental approach do not re-create one of the problems of post-development, its separation of the natural and the social. [url] - Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2011). Property, rights and community in a South African land-claim case,
in Anthropology Today, Vol 27, No 1
.Wiley.p. 20-24.In the context of South Africa's land reform programme, the concepts of ‘property’ and ‘rights’ carry a heavy ideological baggage. A shift in government policy, from treating land reform as a question of rights to a question of the transfer of land, has been accompanied by a reification of the idea of community. The result is a policy that is seriously out of touch with the complex legacy of dispossession that the land reform programme was meant to address. These problems become exacerbated when the land in question is part of a conservation area. [url] - Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2011). Performing Natures and Land in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa ,
in Ethnos, 76:1
.London,Routledge.p. 88-108.The article experiments with a performative approach to examine the changing relationships between humans, animals and flora around South Africa’s first World Heritage Site as enacted, multiple realities. [url] - Nustad, Knut Gunnar, Henrik Thune
(2003). Norway: political consensus and the problem of accountability,
in Charlotte Ku, Harold Karan Jacobson, (eds.), Democratic accountability and the use of force in international law
.Cambridge,Cambridge University Press.p. 154-175. [url]