- andrea.felde@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55589455
- Visitor address
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Muséplassen 2
5007 Bergen - Room: 106
- Postal address
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P.O. Box 7802NO-5020 BergenNorway
Research
Andrea Kronstad Felde study student governments in authoritarian settings in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a special focus on processes of politicization and depoliticization. She focus on intra-organizational conflicts and internal dynamics within such organizations; the policy preferences of student government and their role as agenda-setters in national policies; and how student governments have framed the decolonial question at the time of political independence. Her work is based on expencive fieldwork at Makerere University, and her work also relies on interviews and historical archive material. The project seeks to understand how student governments have balanced the role of representing student related issues on campus as well as adressing mroe fundamental rights in society. Her study takes a relational approach to the relationship between student governments in Uganda and the authoritarian political context in which it is embedded.
She is part of the NORHED II project "Decolonizing Epistemologies: the Disciplines and the University in relation to the Society and the World".
Publications
Academic article
- Felde, Andrea Kronstad (2024). Opening the black box of student government in authoritarian contexts: institutional work and intra-organisational conflicts in the Students’ Guild at Makerere University, Uganda. (external link)
- Elgesem, Dag; Felde, Andrea Kronstad (2021). ‘How dare you!’ – anklager og mot-anklager på Facebook knyttet til Greta Thunbergs FN-tale 23. september 2019. (external link)