Political science. Political theory, deliberative democracy, northern governance.

The relationship between indigenous rights and citizenship rights.

Political procedures in the relationship between minorities and majorities, consultations.

Governance arrangements - differences and similarities in the Circumpolar North. Resource management,  Indigenous Peoples - state - industry interactions and conflicts.

• Resource Extraction, Land use, Knowledge systems
• Political Ecology and Environmental Anthropology
• Gender and Queer Theory
• Indigenous Methodology and Theory
• Settler Colonialism
• Psychological Anthropology

Canada, Norway, Arctic

• Political Economy

Sami and indigenous issues in school and education

Gender, power, and positions in indigenous studies

The history of religions in Sápmi and Northern Norway

I am a social anthropologist, who has worked with indigenous communities in Namibia and Botswana since 2008. My research has focused on Indigenous peoples - state relations and on the ways in which Indigenous peoples have responded to and resisted top-down development initiatives, such as land resettlement and education.

Currently, I am part of the research project Indigenous Citizenship and Education. As part of the project, I am researching the educational challenges and opportunities for an indigenous group in east central Namibia, the Ju|'hoansi. In my most recent research, I have discussed the challenges of multicultural education in emerging democracies, and the deficit discourse in education policy and practice in Namibia.

I am also a co-founding member of the Research and Advocacy Group for Hunter Gatherer Education under the International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research. The group's work is focused on the research and advocacy for (post-)forager communities with respect to formal education and traditional knowledge transmission in the context of rapid social, political and environmental change.