Iselin Åsedotter Strønen er førsteamanuensis i sosialantropologi og har lang feltarbeidserfaring fra Spania, Brasil, Venezuela og Angola. 

Hennes forskningsinteresser inkluderer fiskeri- og havbruksantropologi, kvinner i fiskerisektoren, olje- og naturressursforvaltning, kjønn, sosiale bevegelser, politiske konflikter og statlige transformasjoner, ​​fattigdom og sosioøkonomiske ulikheter, og bedrifters samfunnsansvar (CSR).

I hennes pågående forskning gjør hun feltarbeid i det nordvestlige og nordlige Spania, med fokus på kvinners rolle i marine økonomier og fiskerisektorens kjønnede politiske økonomi, klima- og miljøforringelse, og konflikter mellom fiskeri og havvindutvikling.

Strønen har undervist i en rekke emner på BA-nivå ved Institutt for sosialantropologi siden 2015, og har også vært undervisningsleder i 2020-2021 og 2023. Siden 2018 har hun vært emneansvarlig for etter- og videreutdanningsemnet (EVU) Flerkulturell forståelse og kommunikasjon.

Hun er prosjektleder for INTPART-prosjektet Environmental Sustainability, Marine Economies and Gendered Socio-Economic Inequalities (ENMARINE): A Norway-Brazil Partnership in Research and Teaching (2020-2024), finansiert av Norges forskningsråd (NRC) og Direktoratet for høyere utdanning og ferdigheter (HK-dir).

Strønen har tidligere vært med i forskningsprosjektet ENERGETHICS - Norwegian energy companies abroad.  Expanding the anthropological understanding of corporate social responsibility (2015-2019). Prosjektet var forankret ved Institutt for Sosialantropologi, UiB, og Chr. Michelsens Institutt (CMI), og ble finansiert av Norges Forskningsråd (NFR). Prosjektet fokuserer på Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) blant norske energiselskaper som opererer i utlandet. Strønen sitt case-studie handlet om Equinors CSR-arbeid i Brasil.

Hun har også vært prosjektmedlem i CEIC-CMI Angola-programmet (2015-2018) ved Chr. Michelsens Institutt (CMI), og var prosjektkoordinator for delprosjektet Gender Relations and Human Rights i Angola. Prosjektet ble finansiert av Den Kongelige Norske Ambassade i Luanda Hun har også fungert som prosjektkoordinator og redaktør for CMI-prosjektet Everyday Maneuvres: Military-Civilian Relations in Latin-America and the Middle East (2013-2016), finansiert av det norske Utenriksdepartementet, hvor hun også gjennomførte case-studier i Venezuela og Brasil.

Som PhD-kandidat var hun en del av forskningsprosjektet The Role of the Oil and Gas Industry in the Promotion of Poverty Reduction and Social Volatility (2008-2010, finansiert av Norges Forskningsråd (NRC). Doktorgradsarbeidet hennes fokuserte på grasrotbevegelser, staten og oljens betydning politisk og kulturelt i Venezuela. PhD-avhandlingen hennes ble videreutviklet til monografien Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela. The Revolutionary Petro-state (Palgrave McMillan 2017). Boken er tilgjengelig Open Access her.

Strønen disputerte for doktorgraden i sosialantropologi fra Universitetet i Bergen i 2014. Hun har også en MA-grad i Anthropology of Development fra Universitetet i Bergen (2006), og en MA-grad i internasjonal journalistikk fra City University, London (2008). Hun har vært førsteamanuensis i sosialantropologi siden 2020.

 

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION, INVITED GUEST LECTURES

Antropologiske perspektiver på sykdom og helse (Anthropological perspectives on illness and health). Invited lecture at Nettverkssamling for Livsmestringskurs, Senter for Migrasjonshelse/Center for Migrationhealth. Bergen, November 27, 2023. 

Flerkulturell forståelse i politiet: hvordan and hvorfor? (Multicultural understanding and communication in the police force- how and why?) Invited lecture at police workshop, Police West, Bergen, November 7, 2023.

Viejo legado, nuevos desafíos: el subreconocimiento de las mujeres en el sector pesquero (Old legacy, new challenges: the underrecognition of women in the fishery sector". Conference paper delivered at the ENMARINE kick-off conference 2023: Women and the Sea: Setting the research agenda. University of Bergen, October 26-27, 2023. 

The ongoing legacy of women's exclusion and invisibility: gendered disconnections to politics and policy in the Spanish fishery sector. Workshop presentation delivered at the Ocean World Workshop: Connections and disconnections in a fluid world. University of Bergen, October 16-17, 2023. 

Comparing the gendering of fisheries in Brazil and Spain: some preliminary notes. Conference paper delivered at MARE People and the Sea Conference 2023, University of Amsterdam, June 26-30, 2023. 

El petro-estado revolucionario: por que no se logró “sembrar el petroleo” en Venezuela? (The revolutionary petro-state: why didn't they manage to "sow the oil" in Venezuela?). Invited lecture at Universidade Federal de Rio Grande, Brazil, March 26, 2023.

The politics of morality and the morality of politics. Notes towards an enhanced understanding of Bolivarian ideology. Keynote speech delivered at online international workshop, Ethnographic encounters with Morality, Crisis and Extractivism in Venezuela. Arranged by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/The Institute for Societal Resilience, November 12, 2020.

El petróleo y la pesca: Una co-existencia conflictiva? [Oil and fish. A conflictive co-existence?]. Presentation delivered at Conversas do Mar [Conversations about the ocean], organized by Foro do Mar [Sea Forum] and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Brazil, Brazil/online, October 6, 2020.

"Erfaringer med utvikling av EVU-kurset Flerkulturell forståelse og kommunikasjon, med fokus på utvikling av struktur i nettkurs" [Experiences with development of the adult continuation course SANT660: Multicultural understanding and communcation], presentation at UiB-seminar "Læring på nett - hvordan legge til rette for EVU-studenten?"[Online learning: how to accomodate the adult continuation course student?], Media City, October 9, 2019.

Frictions: utopian sambas and corporate sustainability in Equinor’s oil- and gas operations in Brazil. Paper presented at ASA 2019: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges. University of East Anglia, Norwich, 3-6 September 2019

Recursos naturales, el estado, y pobreza en la era de capitalismo extractivo (Natural resources, the state, and poverty in the era of extractive capitalism). Invited guest lecture at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil, August 6, 2019.

In the belly of the beast: rentier capitalism and redistribution of rents as articulated from within the State during the Chávez–years. Paper presented at 2019 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Boston, May 2019

Inside/outside the enigma of oil in Venezuela: vernacular horizons of transition and the Western intellectual gaze. Paper presented at Petrocultures, Glasgow, Scotland, August 29-September 2, 2018.

State transformation and state stasis in Venezuela: lessons from the Bolivarian project. Paper presented at 2018 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Barcelona, Spain, May 23-26

The case of Brazil: Preliminary Results and Further Questions. Presentation delivered at the workshop “CSR på norsk”. Department for Social Anthropology, December 14-15, 2017.

“The New Extractivist Frontier in Venezuela: Popular and indigenous protest to El Arco Minero.” Presentation delivered at the workshop “Cosmologies, Indigeneity and Politics of Extractivism in Latin America: Ethnographic Approaches", Department for Social Anthropology, June 21-22, 2016

The revolution is in our hearts. Popular aspirations for a Bolivarian future in Chavez' Venezuela. Presentation delivered at the workshop “Momentums, Histories, Localities and Futures in the Anthropology of Ruptures and Hope”. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, October 7-8, 2016

"Here we kill eachother over a pair of shoes". Consumption, identity and oil culture in Veneuzela. Paper delivered at the 2016 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, New York, May 26-31, 2016

Envisioning a post-petro state? Critical discourses on oil-led development in Bolivarian Venezuela. Paper delivered The 8th Nordic Latin American Research Network Conference, Helsinki, June 1, 2015

Searching for Che’s New Man. Rentier Capitalism, Money and Moralities in Bolivarian Venezuela. Paper delivered at Prepared for delivery at the 2015 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27 - 30, 2015.

"Chavistas, go eat shit." Political polarization, race and class in Bolivarian Venezuela Panel presented at international workshop Rethinking Inequalities in Latin America", Bergen, Norway, March 5-6, 2015.

• Also acting as co-organizer and co-host, chair and discussant.

Children of Cain? Exploring State and Civil Violence in Latin America. Paper presented at Norwegian Latin America Research Network Conference (Norlarnet), Oslo, Norway, November 27-29, 2013

• Also acting as panel organizer and co-chair

Violent crime in Venezuela- a View from Below. Paper presented at Norwegian Latin America Research Network Conference, Oslo, Norway, November 27-29, 2013

The Oil that Didnt't Trickle Down: Reflections on the Politics of (broken) Promises in Venezuela. Paper presented at Norwegian Latin America Research Network Conference, Bergen, Norway, October 26-27, 2011

Chair, panel entitled "The Grassroot and the State", Norwegian Latin America Research Network Conference, Bergen, Norway, October 26-27, 2011

Revolutionary identity and cultural and artistic expressions amongst Venezuela's Popular Sectors. Paper presented at Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference 2010, Toronto, Canada, October 6-9, 2010

Money and power to the people (?) Development from below in a Caracas barrio- some preliminary observations. Paper presented at Flammable Societies Conference, La Paz/Yungas, Bolivia, July 1-5, 2009

"Here we organize like this". Constructing and Conceptualizing Local Development Projects in a Caracas barrio. Paper presented at The Norwegian Association for Development Research (NFU) Conference, Chr. Michelsens Institute (CMI), Bergen 5-7 November 2007

SELECTED POPULAR PRESENTATIONS AND PANEL PARTICIPATION

Equinor in Brazil: Women, social inequalities and CSR (Equinor i Brasil: Kvinner, sosiale ulikheter og CSR). Presentation delivered at Litteraturhuset in Bergen, December 18, 2019. Bergen, Norway.

Equinor in Brazil: Women, social inequalities and CSR (Equinor i Brasil: Kvinner, sosiale ulikheter og CSR). Presentation delivered at Litteraturhuset in Oslo, December 16, Oslo, 2019. Norway.

Konflikten i Venezuela i kontekst [The conflict in Venezuela in context]. Presentation at the The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, Bergen, March 14, 2019.

Panel participant in panel debate: Venezuela, is there a peaceful solution? Panel organized by SUM, Norwegian Network for Latin Ameria Research (NorLARNet) and the Nobel Peace Center. Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, September 14, 2017.

Panel introducer and panel participant (untitled presentations) at the Globalization-conference, Oslo, October 28-29, 2016. Panels organized by the Norwegian Solidary Committee for Latin America.

Panel participant in panel debate: Parlamentsvalget i Venezuela: mot slutten på Den bolivarianske revolusjonen? (Elections to the National Assembly in Venezuela: towards the end of the Bolivarian Revolution?) Panel debate organized by Norlarnet, Litteraturhuset, Oslo. December 14, 2015

Chavismo after Chavez. Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution in the Electoral Year 2015. Invited open lecture at the Workers' Educational Association, Stockholm, in collaboration with the University of Stockholm. October 12, 2015

ENCYCLOPEDIA

Since 2015- Entry editor for 48 entries in Store Norske Leksikon (the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia), including ‘Venezuela’,’ Venezuela’s history’, ‘Venezuela’s contemporary history’, ‘Hugo Chavez’, ‘Venezuela’s economy and business sector’, ‘Venezuela’s population’ etc.

SELECTED AUDIOVISUALS

Promotional videos for the UiB continuation course SANT660: Intercultural communication and Understanding. Produced by Sven Nydal. Participated as script developer, on-camera and editing advisor.

Promotional video for research on Latin America in Norway, produced by Norwegian Latin. American Research Network (Norlarnet). 2017

Promotional video for doctoral education at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen (March 2015), can be watched at http://www.uib.no/svf/86749/fra-feltarbeid-tildoktorpromosjon

The People and the President: A portrait of the Bolivarian revolution (86min, 2007). A documentary by Iselin Strønen and Hildegunn Wærness. Based on my master’s thesis in Anthropology of Development, the film portrays the presidential elections in Venezuela in December 2006. Original language: Spanish, subtitled in English and Norwegian. Participated as researcher, producer, script developer, camera crew, editor, and translator.

SELECTED BLOGS AND MAGAZINES

Hva volden forteller og ikke forteller [What the violence conveys and does not convey]. Vagant. No. 4/2017

After the Bolivarian Revolution: What’s in store for Margarita? FOCAAL blog, April 1, 2016. Available at: http://www.focaalblog.com/2016/04/01/iselin-asedotter-stronen-after-the-bolivarian-revolution-whats-in-store-for-margarita/#sthash.KHib00I3.dpuf

Civil-military relations in Venezuela....by the pool. Blog post for CMI website, January 2015

Simón Bolívar- a man of war and a symbol of freedom. - with Nefissa Naguib. Blog post for CMI website, April 2014

 

Teaching experiences (since 2015)

• August 2020-august 2021 and january-august 2023: Head of Teaching and leader of the teaching council (undervisningsutvalget), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen

Courses taught:

• Spring 2024: Multicultural understanding and communication (SANT660-continuation course), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Spring 2023: Multicultural understanding and communication (SANT660-continuation course), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Spring 2021: Multicultural understanding and communication (SANT660-continuation course), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Fall 2020: Academic writing, methods and theory: Anthropological approaches (SANT150), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Spring 2020: SANT260 Bacheloressay (course coordinator, supervisor), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Spring 2020: Multicultural understanding and communication (SANT660-continuation course), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Fall 2019: Academic writing, methods and theory: Anthropological approaches (SANT150), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Spring 2019: Multicultural understanding and communication (SANT660-continuation course), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Spring 2019: SANT260 Bacheloressay (course co-coordinator, supervisor), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Fall 2018: Invitation to Social Anthropology (SANT100), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Fall 2018: Academic writing, methods and theory: Anthropological approaches (SANT150), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Spring 2018: Multicultural understanding and communication (SANT660-continuation course), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen 
• Spring 2018: Poverty, Welfare and Marginalisation: An Ethnographic Approach to Modern Urban Life (SANT240), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Fall 2017:Academic writing, methods and theory: Anthropological approaches (SANT150), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Fall 2016: Academic writing, methods and theory: Anthropological approaches (SANT150), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Spring 2016: Anthropology, Intervention and Development (SANT220), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
• Fall 2015: Invitation to Social Anthropology (SANT100), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen

Faglig foredrag

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2023). Comparing the gendering of fisheries in Brazil and Spain: some preliminary notes. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2023). The ongoing legacy of women's exclusion and invisibility: gendered disconnections to politics and policy in the Spanish fishery sector. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2023). Antropologiske perspektiver på sykdom og helse. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2023). El petro-estado revolucionario: por que no se logró “sembrar el petroleo” en Venezuela? (The revolutionary petro-state: why didn't they manage to "sow the oil" in Venezuela?).. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2023). Flerkulturell forståelse i politiet: hvordan and hvorfor? . (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2023). Viejo legado, nuevos desafíos: el subreconocimiento de las mujeres en el sector pesquero. (Old legacy, new challenges: the underrecognit)on of women in the fishery sector). (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2020). Module-based course design. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2023). Between Social Footprint and Compliance, or "what IBAMA wants": Equinor Brazil's Social Sustainability. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2018). Political Polarisation, Colonial Inequalities and the Crisis of Modernity in Venezuela. (ekstern lenke)
• Ystanes, Margit; Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter; Gutiérrez Rivera, Lirio (2018). Coming of Age in the Penal System: Neoliberalism, ‘Mano Dura’ and the Reproduction of ‘Racialised’ Inequality in Honduras. (ekstern lenke)
• Ystanes, Margit; Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2018). Introduction. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter; Maria Victoria, Canino (2015). Oil and environmental injustice in Venezuela: an ethnographic study of Punta Cardón. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2012). Development from below and oil money from above : popular organisation in contemporary Venezuela. (ekstern lenke)

Mastergradsoppgave

• Fredriksen, Michelle Marie Saliba; Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2021). Venice California, Gentrification in a Neo-Bohemian Beach Town: Structural Violence, Power structures, and Ideological Justification for Injustice, Exclusion, and Dispossession. (ekstern lenke)
• Hansen, Henriette Kalsås; Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2019). Reaffirming Identity: An Ethnographic Study of Group Identity and the Negotiations of Boundaries among the Guna People of Ustupu. (ekstern lenke)
• Panayiotou, Ivi-Emilie Kvalvåg; Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2018). "Sometimes it feels like life is going on without me": An ethnographic study of violence, power, and migration in a Mexican border town.. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter; Broch-Due, Vigdis (2006). “For us this is Utopia coming true”Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution and popular movements in a Caracas barrio. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2021). ‘The Community’ as a Multivocal Concept: Everyday Urban Life and Grassroots Politics in Caracas’ Informal Neighbourhoods. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2020). Venezuela’s oil specter: Contextualizing and historicizing the Bolivarian attempt to sow the oil. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2020). Between social footprint and compliance, or “what IBAMA wants” Equinor Brazil's social sustainability policy. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2017). Everyday crafting of the Bolivarian state: lower-level public officials and grass root activism in Venezuela. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2015). Servants of the nation, defenders of la patria: The bolivarian militia in venezuela. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2013). En feministisk revolusjon? Kvinner, kvinnekamp og aktivisme i Chavez' Venezuela. (ekstern lenke)

Anmeldelse

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2020). Review of Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela, by Robert Samet.. (ekstern lenke)

Leksikonartikkel

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2020). Fagartikler, 'Cabimas', 'Raúl Leoni', 'Romulo Betancourt', 'Jose Vicente Gómez'. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2016). Nicholas Maduro, Venezuelas samtidshistorie. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2013). Venezuela; Venezuelas samtidshistorie, Venezuelas Historie, Hugo Chavez; Nicholas Maduro. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig foredrag

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2020). El petróleo y la pesca: Una co-existencia conflictiva? . (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2020). The politics of morality and the morality of politics. Notes towards an enhanced understanding of Bolivarian ideology. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2016). "Here we kill eachother over a pair of shoes". Consumption, identity and oil culture in Veneuzela.. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2015). Searching for Che’s New Man. Rentier Capitalism, Money and Moralities in Bolivarian Venezuela. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2015). Envisioning a post-petro state? Critical discourses on oil-led development in Bolivarian Venezuela. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2010). Revolutionary identity and cultural and artistic expressions amongst Venezuela's Popular Sectors. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie

• Ystanes, Margit; Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2018). The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig monografi

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2017). Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela. The Revolutionary Petro-State. (ekstern lenke)

Rapport

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter; Nangacovie, Margaret (2017). Dificuldades Permanentes: Pobreza Feminina em Malanje Rural, Angola. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter; Nangacovie, Margaret (2017). Perpetual Hardships: Female Poverty in Rural Malanje, Angola. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter; Nangacovie, Margaret (2016). Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2016). «Nowadays there are shoot-outs all the time». Women, children, and Police Pacification Units (UPPs) in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter; Nangacovie, Margaret; Silva, Osvaldo (2016). Violência contra a mulher no contexto da pobreza urbana em Angola. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2015). CMI Working Paper: Servants of the nation, defenders of la patria: The Bolivarian Militia in Venezuela. (ekstern lenke)

Nettsider (opplysningsmateriale)

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2017). Fagartikler, Store Norske Leksikon: Venezuelas historie, Venezuelas samtidshistorie, Nicholas Maduro, Hugo Chávez, Angels Falls. (ekstern lenke)

Annet produkt

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2016). Blog post: After the Bolivarian Revolution: What’s in store for Margarita?. (ekstern lenke)

Populærvitenskapelig foredrag

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2015). I gode og onde dager? Den Bolivarianske Revolusjonen og valget 2015 sett fra grasrota.. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2015). Chavismo after Chavez. Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution in the Electoral Year 2015. (ekstern lenke)

Kronikk

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2015). Hva skjer egentlig i Venezuela?. (ekstern lenke)

Intervju

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2015). Promotional video for doctoral education at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen. (ekstern lenke)
• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2014). Venezuela: Revolusjon og olje. (ekstern lenke)

Doktorgradsavhandling

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2014). The Revolutionary Petro-State. Change, Continuity and Popular Power in Venezuela. (ekstern lenke)

Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i Cristin

Monographs

• Strønen, I. (2017) Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela: The Revolutionary Petro-State. Palgrave McMillan.Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59507-8 (Available Open Access)

Edited Volumes

• Strønen, I. and Margit Ystanes (eds) (2017) The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change. Palgrave McMillan. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61536-3 (Available Open Access)

Journal articles

• Strønen, I. (2021) 'The community’ as a multivocal concept: everyday urban life and grassroots politics in Caracas’ informal neighbourhoods. Ethnos- Journal of Anthropology. Oneline-before-print: DOi: 10.1080/00141844.2021.1906294
• Strønen, I. (2020) Between Social Footprint and Compliance, or "what IBAMA wants": Equinor Brazil's Social Sustainability policy. Focaal 88:40-57. DOI:https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2020.880103
• Strønen, I. (2020) Venezuela's Oil Specter: Contextualizing and Historicizing the Bolivarian attempt to sow the Oil. History and Anthropology. DOI:10.1080/02757206.2020.1762588
• Strønen, I (2016) Everyday Crafting of the Bolivarian State: Lower-level public officials and grass root activism in Venezuela. Latin American Perspectives (LAP)-Special Issue on the Legacy of Hugo Chavez 44(1):159-179
• Strønen, I (2013) En Feministisk Revolusjon? Kvinner, kvinnekamp og aktivisme i Chávez' Venezuela (A Feminist Revolution? Women, Women's Struggle and Activism in Chávez's Venezuela), i Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift (NAT) 1/2013

Book chapters

• Strønen, I. (2023) Between Social Footprint and Compliance, or "what IBAMA wants": Equinor Brazil's Social Sustainability policy, in Knudsen, Ståle (ed.) Corporate social responsibility and the paradoxes of state capitalism. Ethnographies of Norwegian energy and extraction businesses abroad. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
• Strønen I, and Ystanes M. (2017) Introduction, in Ystanes, M. and Strønen, I (eds.) The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America. Decades of Change. Palgrave McMillan 
• Strønen, I. (2017) Political Polarization, Colonial Inequalities and the Crisis of Modernity in Venezuela, in Ystanes, M. and Strønen, I (eds.) The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change. Palgrave McMillan.  
• Gutierrez, Lirio, R. Iselin Strønen, and Margit Ystanes (2017) Coming of Age in the Penal System: Neoliberalism, ‘mano dura’ and the reproduction of ‘racialized’ inequalities in Honduras. In Ystanes, M. and Strønen, I (eds.) The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change. Palgrave McMillan 
• Strønen, I, and Canino, M.V (2015). Oil and Environmental Injustice in Venezuela: An Ethnograpic Study of Punta Cardón, in McNeish, J.A, Borchgrevnik, A, and Logan, O, (eds.) Contested Powers:the politics of energy and development in Latin America, Zed Books
• Strønen, I. (2011). Development from Below and Oil Money from Above. Popular Organization in Contemporary Venezuela, in McNeish, J.A & Logan, O (eds.) Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio Economics of Oil and Gas, Pluto Press, London

Book review

• Strønen, Iselin (2021) Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela, by Robert Samet (book review). Anthropological Quarterly 93 (4)

CMI publication series

• Nangacovie, M. and I. Strønen (2019). Género e pobreza no periurbano Luandense. CMI Working Paper 10/19. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute
• Strønen, I. and Nagacovie, M. (2018) The Gendering of Poverty and Inequality in Rural Malanje, Angola. CMI Report no. 10/2018. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute
• Strønen, I. et al. (2017) Perpetual Hardships: Female Poverty in Rural Malanje, Angola. CMI Brief. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute
• Strønen, I. et al (2017) Dificuldades Permanentes: Pobreza Feminina em Malanje Rural, Angola. CMI Brief. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute
• Strønen, I. and Margaret Nangacovie (2016) Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola. CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 16. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute 
• Strønen, I. et al (2016) Violência contra a mulher no contexto da pobreza urbana em Angola. CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 16. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute
• Strønen, I (2016) «Nowadays there are shoot-outs all the time». Women, children, and Police Pacification Units (UPPs) in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro. CMI Working Paper 2016:7. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute
• Strønen, I (2016) "A Civil-Military Alliance": The Venezuelan Armed Forces before and during the Chavez-era. CMI Working Paper 2016:4. Bergen. Chr. Michelsen Institute
• Strønen, I (2015) Servants of the nation, defenders of la patria: The Bolivarian Militia in Venezuela. CMI Working Paper 2015:13. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute

PhD dissertation

• Strønen, I (2014) A Revolutionary Petro-State. Change, Continuity and Popular Power in Venezuela. PhD-dissertation, University of Bergen

Reports

• Real-time evaluation of Norway's international climate and forest initiative. Contributions to a global REDD+ regime 2007-2010. Richard Tipper, Johan Helland, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen et al (2011) Oslo: Norad (Evaluation report no. 12/2010) 82 p.

 

Current projects:

2020-2024. Environmental sustainability, marine economies and gendered socio-economic inequalities (ENMARINE) | Universitetet i Bergen (uib.no) Financed by the Norwegian Reseach Council (NRC) and Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (DIKU). Project role: project leader, project member.

Completed projects:

2015-2019. ENERGETICS. Norwegian energy companies abroad. Expanding the anthropological understanding of corporate social responsibility. Financed by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR). Project role: project member, responsible for case study of Equinor Brazil's Social Sustainability-policy. 

2015-2018. Angola CEIC/CMI: Gender Relations and Human Rights in Angola. Funder: The Royal Norwegian Embassy in AngolaProject role: project member, Angola case studies; sub-project coordinator, Gender and Human Rights.

2013-2016: Everyday Manouvers: Military - Civilian Relations in Latin-America and the Middle East.Funder: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD).Project role: project member, Venezuela and Brazil case studies; project editor; project coordinator. 

2008-2010: The Role of the Oil and Gas Industry in the Promotion of Poverty Reduction and Social Volatility. Funder: Norwegian Research Council (NFR). Project role: PhD candidate

2010-2013: Contested Powers: Towards a Political Anthropology of Energy in Latin-America. Funder: Norwegian Research Council. Project role: project member, Venezuela case study. 

2010: REDD - Norad job no 2-2010 Project member (CMI)

 

Fluent: Norwegian (mother tongue), English and Spanish

Intermediary: Portugese