Speakers

Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Kenneth Bo Nielsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway. He works on social movements in contemporary India, with a particular focus on land and environmental questions. At the moment he is particularly interested in how popular movements and activists mobilize the language and institutions of law in struggles over land and nature. His research interests also include Indian politics in general, as well as the political economy of development. 

Siddharth Sareen

Siddharth Sareen is an associate professor in energy and environment at the University of Stavanger and an associate professor II at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation in Bergen. His research addresses the governance of energy transitions, from bustling cities to extractive zones, examining how changing energy infrastructure impacts social equity. He leads a research group on sustainability transformation and international projects on multi-scalar energy transitions governance, and teaches on a Master degree programme in Energy, Environment and Society.

Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov

Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov is Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, and Editor-in-Chief of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. His research interests include anthropology and history of the state and governance, exchange theory, time, anthropology of aesthetics, and history of anthropology. Publications include The Topography of Happiness: ethnographic contours of modernity (in Russian: Topografia schastia: etnograficheskie karty moderna) Moscow: New Literary Observer Publishers 2013; special issue Ethnographic Conceptualism of the journal Laboratorium (2013), Gifts to Soviet leaders. Exhibition Catalogue (Pinakotheke 2006) and monograph The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia (Stanford University Press 2003).

Madina Tlostanova

Madina Tlostanova is a decolonial thinker and writer. She is a chaired professor of postcolonial feminisms at the Gender Studies Unit of the Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA), Linköping University. Madina’s interests focus on decolonial option, non-Western feminisms, postsocialist subjectivity and art. Her latest book co-authored with Tony Fry – A New Political Imagination. Making the Case was published by Routledge in 2020. Currently she is working on a book Fictions of Unsettlement.

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