• Social anthropology
• Gender studies and feminist theory
• Development
• Food and risk
• Youth and family studies
• Eastern and East– Central Europe and post-communist transformation
• Sexual and reproductive rights, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa

 

Conference lecture

• Haldis Haukanes (2023). Food and Food work in times of crises - presentation of research project. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2023). Food, everyday life, and generational transformations. Longitudinal qualitative research in rural Czech Republic.. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2024). Food, labour and care: Generational change and continuity in food self-provisioning and sharing in rural South Bohemia. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Marit Tjomsland (2008). Growing up Global? Young Czechs' and Tunisians' perceptions of family. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2006). Kjønna forteljingar og fortolkingar. Om kjønn som umiddelbar og som abstrakt kategori. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2006). Det siste måltidet: Mat og ekteskap i sjølvbiografiske forteljingar. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2011). Precarious lives? Narratives of hope, loss and “normality” among different generations of Czechs. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2011). Beyond Culture? Commitment and Structural Critique among Gender experts in Ethiopia. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Getnet Tadele; Karen Marie Moland et al. (2018). The Access Paradox in Safe Abortion Care. The cases of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2015). Deconstructing "Gender" in Gender and Development. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2013). Fearing the future? Young people envisioning their future lives in the Czech Republic, Norway and Tunisia. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2004). Risiko og nytelse i kugalskapens tid. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2004). Øst-Europa før og etter kommunismens fall. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Mulumebet Zenebe (2019). Ethiopian University Students Struggling with Unintended Pregnancies. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2006). Food, death and gender. The narration of lives and marriages in rural Czech Republic. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2025). Resources and Relations: Everyday modes of food sharing in rural South Bohemia. (external link)
• Marit Tolo Østebø; Haldis Haukanes (2012). The Politics of Translation: Gender Equality, Aid and Development in Norway and Ethiopia. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2006). Katja’s canteen. Gendered intersections of the public and the private in the South Bohemian countryside. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Mulumebet Zenebe (2018). “We don’t talk about contraceptives”. Students' exposure to and engagement with sexual and reproductive health information at three Universities in Ethiopia. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2005). The last meal. The transformative power of food in accounts from the past. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2015). Towards an engaged anthropology of/ for the future?. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2013). Mediators of development? Experiences with gender and aid among gender experts in Ethiopia. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2013). Young Czechs' visions of the future. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2013). Measuring Poverty and Gender Disparity. Comments to preliminary Report. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2008). Engaged Anthropology. Or: what can social anthropology do for Health Promotion. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2006). Globalisation, child vulnerability and ideas of proper parenthood: Two cases from the Norwegain media scene. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2016). Competing temporalities. Exploring social change through the past- present- future nexus. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2005). Statens kjønn. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2005). The last meal. The transformative power of food in accounts from the past. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Marit Tjomsland (2008). Growing up global? Imagined futures of Czech and Tunisian teenagers. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2006). Globalisation, child vulnerability and ideas of proper parenthood: two cases from the Norwegian media scene. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland et al. (2024). MDSR in Ethiopia- Field insights from leading voices’. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2009). The beauty of quietness. Powerful notions of the periphery among young rural Czechs. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (1996). Dealing with unreliable pasts. History and memory in the Czech lands. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Gry Heggli (2015). Care and career in the life scripts of young people – cases from the Czech Republic and Norway. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2013). Critical Explorations of Aid Policies on Gender Equality and Women's Rights: Cases from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Norway. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2013). Precarious lives? Narratives of hope, loss and normality accross two generations of Czechs. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2004). Sharing food, sharing taste? Consumption practices, gender relations and individuality in Czech families. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2010). Precarious lives?Narratives of hope, loss and “normality” among different generations of Czechs. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2020). Strategies of silence? Looking back at questions of secrecy and oblivion in an ethnography from the early 1990s. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Marit Tjomsland (2008). Should I stay or should I go? Mobility and Stability as contrasting values in your peoples lives. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Mulumebet Zenebe (2019). UNWANTED PREGNANCY: DYNAMICS OF GENDER AND POWER University girls’ experiences, Ethiopia,. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2016). Socialism forgotten? Searching for the future's past among young Czechs. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Gry Heggli (2014). Care and career among in the life scripts of young people – cases from the Czech Republic and Norway. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2023). Food sharing in kin-based networks: substances, structures and relations.. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Marit Tjomsland (2008). Growing up Global? Young Czechs' and Tunisians' perceptions of family. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Mulumebet Zenebe (2017). Ethiopian university students negotiating discourses of sexuality, fertility control and abortion: Preliminary findings.. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2013). Livsløp, arbeid of framtid i krisenes tidsalder. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2020). Gender,labour and care. A three generational perspective from the Czech Republic. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Marit Tolo Østebø (2013). The politics of Translation: Gender Equality, aid and development in Norway and Ethiopia. (external link)

Academic article

• Frances Pine; Haldis Haukanes (2021). Silences and Secrets of Family, Community and State. (external link)
• Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland; Haldis Haukanes; Joseph Zulu et al. (2020). Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Mulumebet Zenebe (2019). When abortion is not within reach. Ethiopian university students struggling with unintended pregnancies. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (1992). Nvekolik dojmu norské studentky socialní antropologie ze vzivota vceské vesnice. (external link)
• Raquel Herrero-Arias; Ragnhild Hollekim; Haldis Haukanes et al. (2020). The emotional journey of motherhood in migration. The case of Southern European mothers in Norway. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Frances Pine (2003). Ritual and everyday consumption Practices in the Czech and Polish countryside. Conceiving modernity through changing food regimes. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2013). Precarious Lives. Narratives of hope, loss and "normality" across two generations of Czechs. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2005). Telling Lives. Autobiography and History after Socialism. (external link)
• Joseph M. Zulu; Astrid Blystad; Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland et al. (2019). Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia. (external link)
• Richard Sambaiga; Haldis Haukanes; Karen Marie Moland et al. (2019). Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (1997). Postkommunismen antropologi - fins den?. (external link)
• Venke Frederike Johansen; Therese Marie Andrews; Haldis Haukanes et al. (2013). Symbols and meanings in breast cancer awareness campaigns. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2007). Sharing food, sharing taste? Consumption practices, gender relations and individuality in Czech families. (external link)
• Astrid Blystad; Haldis Haukanes; Getnet Tadele et al. (2019). The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2007). Katja's canteen: Gendered intersections of the public and the private in the South Bohemian countryside. (external link)
• Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland; Haldis Haukanes; Joseph M. Zulu et al. (2019). Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act. (external link)
• Raquel Herrero-Arias; Ragnhild Hollekim; Haldis Haukanes (2020). Self-legitimation and sense-making of Southern European parents' migration to Norway: The role of family aspirations. (external link)
• Gloria Abena Ampim; Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad et al. (2022). ‘I Do Not Want Her to be Doing Anything Stressful’: Men’s Involvement in Domestic Work during pregnancy in Ghana. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Frances Pine (2004). Rituál a kazdodenné spotrebitelské praktiky na ceskom a polskom vidieku: pochopenie modernity prostrednícvom zmien v stravovacích návykoch. (external link)
• Padmaja Barua; Haldis Haukanes; Anne Waldrop (2016). Maid in India: negotiating and contesting the boundaries of domestic work. (external link)
• Preema Ranjitkar; Haldis Haukanes (2022). Participation in Climate Change Adaptation Programs in Nepal: An Intersectional Study. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (1994). Kvar går tsjekkisk landbruk ?. (external link)
• Gloria Abena Ampim; Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2020). Making Fathers: Masculinities and Social Change in the Ghanaian Context. (external link)
• Gry Heggli; Haldis Haukanes; Marit Tjomsland (2013). Fearing the future? Young people envisioning their working lives in the Czech Republic, Norway and Tunisia. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Susanna Trnka (2013). Memory, imagination, and belonging across generations:Perspectives from postsocialist Europe and beyond. (external link)
• Mulumebet Zenebe; Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2024). Between ‘block course relationships’ and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University. (external link)
• Astrid Blystad; Haldis Haukanes; Mulumebet Zenebe (2014). Mediating development? Exchanges on gender policies and development practices in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (external link)
• Gloria Abena Ampim; Astrid Blystad; Albert Kpoor et al. (2021). "I came to escort someone": Men's experiences of antenatal care services in Urban Ghana. A qualitative study. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Frances Pine (2004). Ritual and Everyday Consumption Practices in the Czech and Polish Countryside. Conceiving Modernity through Changing Food Regimes. (external link)
• Venke Frederike Johansen; Therese Marie Andrews; Haldis Haukanes (2009). Når det intime blir offentlig. Kvinners erfaringer med åpenhet om brystkreft. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Marit Tolo Østebø (2016). Shifting meanings of gender equality in Development: Perspectives from Norway and Ethiopia. (external link)
• Nega Jibat; Getnet Tadele; Haldis Haukanes et al. (2024). “We need to confirm at least from two or three”: Healthcare workers’ discretion as gatekeepers in the context of the Ethiopian abortion law. (external link)
• Venke Frederike Johansen; Therese Marie Andrews; Haldis Haukanes et al. (2014). Freedom and pressure in self-disclosure. (external link)
• Marit Tolo Østebø; Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2013). Strong state policies on gender and aid: threats and opportunities for Norwegian faith-based organisations. (external link)
• Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland; Joseph Mumba Zulu; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland et al. (2020). When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Hana Haskova (2020). Gendered visions of family life and parenthood among Czech young people: restricted or transforming imaginations. (external link)
• Getnet Tadele; Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad et al. (2019). ‘An uneasy compromise’: strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia. (external link)
• Gry Heggli; Haldis Haukanes (2016). Care and career in the life scripts of young people - gendered cases from the Czech Republic and Norway. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2007). Det siste måltidet. Mat og ekteskap i sjølvbiografiske forteljingar. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2017). Futures full of hope, futures of despair. Contrasting temporalities in the life narratives of young Czechs. (external link)
• Padmaja Barua; Haldis Haukanes (2019). Organizing for Empowerment: Exploring the Impact of Unionization on Domestic Workers in India. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2001). Anthropological Debates on Gender and the Post-Communist Transformation. (external link)
• Padmaja Barua; Anne Waldrop; Haldis Haukanes (2017). From benevolent maternalism to the market logic: exploring discursive boundary making in domestic work relations in India. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2003). Ambivalent traditions. Transforming gender symbols and food practices in the Czech Republic. (external link)
• Venke Frederike Johansen; Therese Marie Andrews; Haldis Haukanes (2009). Når det intime blir offentlig. Kvinners erfaringer med åpenhet om brystkreft. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2013). Belonging, mobility and the future: representations of space in the life narratives of young rural czechs. (external link)

Journal review

• Haldis Haukanes (2010). Book review of Johnson, Janet Elise. Gender Violence in Russia: The Politics of Feminist Intervention. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2007). David Torsello: Trust, Property and Social Change in a Southern Slovakian Village. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2002). Bokomtale av Trond Berge: Reaksjoner på industriforurensing og industrinedleggelse i byen Copsa Mica, Romania”. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2007). Men in contemporary Russia: The fallen heroes of post-Soviet change?. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2023). "Food systems and food producers during COVID-19: gendered patterns and local-global structures". Review of edited volume: Castellanos, P., Sachs, C. E., Tickamyer, A. R. (eds.). 2022. Gender, Food and COVID 19. Global Stories of Harm and Hope. New York: Routledge Focus.. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2011). Elisabeth Lorange Fürst. Hva skal vi med med frihet? Fortellinger fra Moldova før, under og etter Sovjetunionen. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2001). Ord og deira sosiale liv. Bokomtale av Astrid Grytting "Eit ordenteleg ekteskap. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2017). Cervinkova, Hana, Michal Buchowski and Zdeněk Uherek (eds.) 2015. Rethinking ethnography in Central Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 267 pp. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Haldis Haukanes (2003). Redaksjonelt. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2004). Redaksjonelt. (external link)

Lecture

• Haldis Haukanes (1994). Om utviklinga i Lipina, ein tsjekkisk landsby, etter 1989,. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2012). Barn og foreldreskap i eit krysskulturelt perspektiv. (external link)
• Raquel Herrero-Arias; Ragnhild Hollekim; Haldis Haukanes et al. (2018). Mother Blame in Migration: The Experiences of Southern European Mothers in Norway. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2016). Looking into the future. Plans, visions and worries among Young People from Žamberk and its surroundings. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Astrid Blystad (2017). Global-national-local dynamics in studies of gender, health and the body. Examples of research collaboration between anthropologists on the margins. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (1995). Rhetoric of success and failure; the case of the Czech countryside. (external link)
• Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Moland; Haldis Haukanes (2015). North South Partnerships in Higher Education. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2016). Looking into the future. Visions, plans and worries among Young People in Žamberk and its surroundings. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2005). Gender and Development as a Study Programme and a Political Field. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Haldis Haukanes; Frances Pine (2005). Introduction. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Tatjana Thelen (2010). Parenthood and childhood: debates within the social sciences. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2001). Women as Nurturers. Food, Risk and Ideals of care in the Czech Republic. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2004). Enjoyment and choise in an age of risk. The case of BSE in the Czech Republic. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2006). Telling Lives. Autobiography and History after Socialism. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Marit Tjomsland (2010). Growing up nuclear? Young Czechs' and Tunisians' vision of family, parenting and gender roles. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2001). Introduction. (external link)
• Frances Pine; Haldis Haukanes (2021). Reconceptualising borders and boundaries: gender, movement, reproduction, regulation. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Frances Pine; Deema Kaneff (2004). Introduction. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2004). The Power of Genre. Local history-writing in communist Czechoslovakia. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Astrid Blystad; Haldis Haukanes; Getnet Tadele et al. (2020). Reproductive health and the politics of abortion. (external link)

Book anthology

• Haldis Haukanes; Frances Pine (2021). Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders: Gender, reproduction, regulation. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Frances Pine; Deema Kaneff (2004). Memory, Politics and Religion. The past meets the present in contemporary Europe. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2001). Women after Communism. Ideal Images and Real Lives. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Frances Pine (2005). Generations, Kinship and Care. Gendered Provisions of Social Security in Central Eastern Europe. (external link)
• Tatjana Thelen; Haldis Haukanes (2010). Parenting after the century of the child. Travelling ideals, institutional negotiations and individual responses. (external link)

Popular science article

• Haldis Haukanes (2007). Šitbořice očima návštěvnice. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Endre Leivstad (1994). Zábia#vcka - griseslakt med tradisjonar. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (1993). Managing ones` lives in a turbulent world - some experiences from a Czech village. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2005). Mat og risiko i Kugalskapens tid. Et blikk på Tsjekkia i det nye Europa. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2001). Antropologi før og etter kommunismens fall - regionale tema og faglege utfordringar. (external link)

Research report

• Haldis Haukanes; xx xx (1997). Anthropology of East Central Europe. A critical analysis. (external link)

Media feature article

• Karen Marie Moland; Haldis Haukanes; Getnet Tadele et al. (2017). The paradox of access - abortion law, policy and misoprostol. (external link)
• Jansen Karine Aasgaard; Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland et al. (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. (external link)
• Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland; Haldis Haukanes et al. (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2002). Den vanskelege maten. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2009). Pessimisme og håp i Sentral-Europa. Tsjekkia 20 år etter kommunismen fall. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (1997). National myths reproduced or subverted?. (external link)

Conference poster

• Haldis Haukanes (2010). Gender in Poverty Reduction. Critical Explorations of Norwegian Aid Policy on Gender Equality and Women's rights. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Marit Tolo Østebø (2011). Gender equality in Norwegian Development Aid. Norwegian Gender Equality Models and Experiences and their Applicability for Low-income Countries. (external link)

Media interview

• Haldis Haukanes (2007). Intervju om eiga forsking om mat og risiko i Tsjekkia. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (2007). Matglede viktigare enn risiko. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Padmaja Barua; Haldis Haukanes (2018). Unequal Interdependencies. Exploring Power and Agency in Domestic Work Relations in Contemporary India. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes (1999). Grand dramas - ordinary lives : state, locality and person in post-communist Czech society. (external link)
• Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland; Astrid Blystad; Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland et al. (2021). Beyond the Law - An Ethnography of Zambian Abortion Politics. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Haldis Haukanes (2004). Velké dramata, bezné zivoty. Postkomunistické zkusenosti na ceském venkove. (external link)

Non-fiction book chapter

• Haldis Haukanes; Marit Tolo Østebø (2019). Les différents sens de l'égalité de genre dans le développement : le cas de la Norvège et de l'Éthiopie. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Haldis Haukanes (1992). Lipina - bilete frå ein tsjekkisk landsby i ei omveltningstid. (external link)

Introduction

• Haldis Haukanes; Frances Pine (2021). Introduction. (external link)
• Haldis Haukanes; Tatjana Thelen (2010). Parenting after the century of the child : introduction. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

NEW BOOK

Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders.

Gender, reproduction, regulation

This book is a collection of articles by anthropologists and social scientists concerned with gendered labour, care, intimacy and sexuality, in relation to mobility and the hardening of borders in Europe. Interrogating the relation between physical, geopolitical borders and ideological, conceptual boundaries, this book offers a range of vivid and original ethnographic case studies that will capture the imagination of anyone interested in gendered migration, policies of inclusion and exclusion, and regulation of reproduction and intimacy.
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PUBLICATIONS AT CRIStin

Current and recent research projects

2007- 2013 Project leader of the research project Growing up Global? A comparative study of belonging, gendered identities and imagined futures in The Czech Republic, Norway and Tunisia. (With Marit Tjomsland and Gry Heggli)

2009-2013 Project leader of the research project Gender in poverty reduction. Critical Explorations of Norwegian Aid Policy on Gender Equality and Women’s Rights. (Financed by NFR, Poverty and Peace, start-up date 01.07.2009)

2014- Youth and the future in times of crises; gendered life visions, work and vulnerabilities. (Follow-up study of the "Growing up Global"-project, carried out in the Czech Republic by Haldis Haukanes)

2016-2019: Competing moralities impacting girls’ and women’s rights: The case of safe abortion in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia (NFR-NORGLOBAL-project, headed by Astrid Blystad, University of Bergen)

2021-2026: Reporting in context: An interdisciplinary initiative to strengthen maternal health services and surveillance in Ethiopia and Tanzania (Financed by NRC, headed by Astrid Blystad, University of Bergen)