Forskergrupper
Kort info
Arbeid
This PhD-project, Making a home: An ethnographic study examining the production of ‘home’ and urban futures in Johannesburg, South Africa, seeks to explore home-making and urban enclaving in Johannesburg, South Africa. The project will investigate the dialectic relations between people and the material world as a means to understand how processes of enclaving work to transform urban structures and everyday practices, particularly along gendered lines. In order to examine the sociality dimensions of enclaving the study is specifically concerned with the materialities and aesthetics of 'home-making'.
The research will investigate how people live in the city and the visions people have for their own future and the future of the city. Questions I aim to explore include: 1) How do people look at the built environment of the neighbourhood and the city? 2) How do people create their home today and how do they imagine their home in the future? With this focus, the study aims to map out how people conceptualize, are influenced by, and influence processes of enclaving in possibly different ways, and thus trace their imaginaries of urban future(s) and their homes and neighbourhoods, and how these are interlocked with imaginaries and practices of the past and the present.
Formidling
Konferanser og workshop deltakelse
2022 An ethnographic account on the desire for greenery in the affluent northern suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. Paper presented at the conference The City is (NOT) a tree: The Urban Ecology of Divided Cities, 5-7th July.
2022 Rethinking ideas about the home through the lens of real estate in Johannesburg, South Africa. Paper presented in panel The City and The Human, at ASAA Conference, 11-16th April.
2021 Kultivering av verdifull natur in Johannesburg, Sør-Afrika (Cultivating valuable nature in Johannesburg, South Africa). Paper presented in panel Klima og miljøkamp: etnografiske nyansar, NAF Conference. University of Bergen, 25th November.
Audiovisual
2021 Imagining the Future City, Video poster SDG-Conference, Bergen, 9-11th November.
Blogger
August 2019 – August 2020. «Livet i en storby: En feltblogg fra Johannesburg».
2019. Sør-Afrika: Hva kan vi lære av et av verdens mest ulike land? (SA: What can we learn from one of the most unequal countries in the world?). Attac Norge 9th December.
Livet i en storby - en feltblogg fra Johannesburg
Hvordan skaper folk seg et hjem? Hva skjer med parker og andre offentlige rom i en by hvor innbyggerne foretrekker bil og sikkerhetstiltak deler opp byen? Hva kan valgene innbyggere tar i dag fortelle oss om byens fremtid? Nysgjerrig på hvordan et feltarbeid egentlig foregår? Sjekk ut bloggen min.
I mitt prosjekt forsker jeg på livet i en afrikansk storby og fremtidsvisjonene til menneskene som bor der. Studien ønsker å finne ut hvordan vi kan bygge bedre byer. Bloggen gir innblikk i min forskerhverdag gjennom et år i Johannesburg, Sør-Afrika. Med historier fra hverdagen får man innblikk i en by med store sosiale og økonomiske ulikheter, men også muligheter. Man lærer om kvalitative sosialantropologiske metoder og hvordan man utfører et feltarbeid. Bloggen er tilrettelagt for elever i videregående skole og andre som er nysgjerrige på samfunnsforskning, byutvikling og Sør-Afrika.
Undervisning
Emneansvarlig
SANT150: Akademisk skriving, teori og metode: antropologiske tilnærmingar Høst 2021 og Høst 2024
SANT260: Bacheloroppgåve Vår 2022
SANT215: Komparativ regional etnografi: Kina og Sørlige Afrika (Emneansvarlig sammen med C. Buckermann) Vår 2021
Arbeidsgruppeleder
SANT150: Akademisk skriving, teori og metode: antropologiske tilnærmingar Høst 2020
SANT100: Invitasjon til sosialantropologi Høst 2017
SANT240: Poverty, Welfare and Marginalisation: An Ethnographic Approach to Modern Urban Life Høst 2017
Veiledning
SANT260: Bacheloroppgåve Vår 2019 og Vår 2022
Publikasjoner
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
- Müftüoglu, Ingrid Birce; Knudsen, Ståle; Dale, Ragnhild Freng et al. (2023). Chapter 1. Rethinking Access: Key Methodological Challenges in Studying Energy Companies. (ekstern lenke)
- Maraire, Oda Eiken; Hugøy, Isabelle Hammerstad (2023). Samfunnsansvar Is Not CSR: Mapping Expectations and Practices of (Corporate) Social Responsibility in Norway. (ekstern lenke)
- Maraire, Oda Eiken (2023). An Ethnographic Account on the Desire for Greenery in the Affluent Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. (ekstern lenke)
Poster
Vitenskapelig foredrag
- Maraire, Oda Eiken (2022). Cultivating desirable homes through real estate advertisements in the affluent northern suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. (ekstern lenke)
- Maraire, Oda Eiken (2022). Rethinking ideas about the home through the lens of real estate in Johannesburg, South Africa. (ekstern lenke)
- Maraire, Oda Eiken (2022). Cultivating desirable homes in the affluent northern suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. (ekstern lenke)
- Maraire, Oda Eiken (2022). Moments of becoming: Cultivating desirable imaginaries of urban spaces in the affluent northern suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. (ekstern lenke)
- Maraire, Oda Eiken (2022). An ethnographic account on the desire for greenery in the affluent northern suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. (ekstern lenke)
- Maraire, Oda Eiken (2022). Cultivating desirable homes through property advertisements in the affluent northern suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. (ekstern lenke)
- Maraire, Oda Eiken (2021). Kultivering av verdifull natur in Johannesburg, Sør-Afrika. (ekstern lenke)
- Müftüoglu, Ingrid Birce; Eiken, Oda; Dale, Ragnhild Freng et al. (2017). Accounting for Energy. (ekstern lenke)
Kronikk
Faglig foredrag
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i Cristin
Oda Eiken Maraire and Isabelle Hugøy (submitted, publication early 2023) "Samfunnsansvar is not CSR: Mapping Expectations and Practices of (Corporate) Social Responsibility in Norway". In Ståle Knudsen (ed.) Corporate social responsibility and the paradoxes of state capitalism. Ethnographies of Norwegian energy and extraction businesses abroad. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Müftüoglu, Ingrid Birce, Ståle Knudsen, Ragnhild Freng Dale, Oda Eiken, Dinah Rajak, and Siri Lange. 2018. 'Rethinking access: Key methodological challenges in studying energy companies', Energy research & social science, 45: 250-57.
Prosjekter
Del av det tverrfaglige forskningsprosjektet: "Enclaving: Patterns of global futures in three African cities" (UrbanEnclavingFutures)