Kristin Asdal
Academic interests
Asdals's research draws on a combination of resources from STS, political science and history. She is particularly concerned with studying the ways in which scientific knowledge interrelates with politics and the shaping of political issues. Her doctoral thesis is a broad historical study of the ways in which nature has been formed in technical, scientific and administrative practices, hence the title of her thesis: "The technologies of politics". Asdal has also taken an interest in feminist studies of science and the history as well as politics of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and has co-edited several textbooks on the subject. She has published widely on the history and philosophy of science. In recent years her research has also included the politics of food, and the history of medicine and veterinary science.
Courses taught
TIK/ESST Master and the specialization course ‘Science and Poitics in Controversies on Nature’ (TIK 4011) and the PhD course ‘Science and Technology Studies’.
Background
Kristin Asdal has a Master's degree (hovedfag) in economic history and a PhD in science and technology studies (STS)/history. Since 2009 she has been professor at TIK. She also holds a II position at the Norwegian institute for Consumer Research (SIFO). In 1999/2000 Asdal was a research fellow at Centre de Sociologie de l´innovation (CSI) at Ecole des Mines in Paris, later (Spring 2002) at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Lancaster. The Autumn 2007 she was visiting research associate at Oxford University Centre for the Environment (OUCE).
Positions held
In the management group of KULTRANS and heading the research group Nature and the Natural
Publications
Asdal, K. (2011) Politikkens natur. Naturens politikk. Oslo. Universitetsforlaget.
Asdal, K. (2011) The office: The weakness of numbers and the production of non-authority. Accounting, Organizations and Society. 36: 1-9
Asdal, K. (2008) Subjected to Parliament: Experimental Medicine and the Animal Body. Social Studies of Science. 38 (6): 899-917.
Asdal, K. (2008) Enacting things through Numbers. Taking Nature into Accounting. Geoforum. 39: 123-132.
Asdal, K. (2008) On politics and the little tools of Democracy. A Down to Earth Approach. Distinktion. Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. No. 16: 5-26.
Asdal, K. (2004) Politikkens teknologier. Produksjoner av regjerlig natur. [The technologies of politics.Producing governable nature]. PhD Thesis, Acta Humaniora, Unipub.
Asdal, K. (2003) The Problematic Nature of Nature: The Post-constructivist Challenge to Environmental History. History and Theory: Studies in the philosophy of history, 42(4): 60-75.
- Asdal, Kristin (2011). The office: The weakness of numbers and the production of non-authority. Accounting, Organizations and Society. ISSN 0361-3682. 36(1), s 1- 9 . doi: 10.1016/j.aos.2011.01.001
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Å legitimere fri tid og fri forskning. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 27(1/2), s 72- 85
- Asdal, Kristin (2009). Subjected to Parliament II, In Tora Holmberg (ed.), Investigating Human/Animal Relations. Centrum för genusvetenskap. ISBN 978-91-978186-0-5. Scientific animals. s 164 - 172
- Asdal, Kristin & Jacobsen, Eivind (2009). Å bære forbrukeransvar, I: Kristin Asdal & Eivind Jacobsen (red.), Forbrukerens ansvar. Cappelen Akademisk Forlag. ISBN 978-82-02-30639-7. Kapittel 1.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Enacting things through numbers: Taking nature into account/ing. Geoforum. ISSN 0016-7185. 39 . doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.11.004
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). On Politics and the Little Tools of Democracy: A Down-to-Earth Approach. Distinktion : Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. ISSN 1600-910X. (16), s 11- 27
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Saken, I: Kristin Asdal; Kjell Lars Berge; Karen Gammelgaard; Trygve Riiser Gundersen; Helge Jordheim; Tore Rem & Johan Tønnesson (red.), Tekst og historie. Å lese tekster historisk. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 978-82-15-01250-6. Kapittel 4. s 107 - 135
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Subjected to Parliament: The Laboratory of Experimental Medicine and the Animal Body. Social Studies of Science. ISSN 0306-3127. 38(6), s 899- 917 . doi: 10.1177/0306312706098607
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Å lese tekst og miljøhistorie. Fortid. ISSN 1504-1913. 5(4), s 37- 40
- Asdal, Kristin; Borch, Christian & Moser, Ingunn (2008). The Technologies of Politics. Distinktion : Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. ISSN 1600-910X. (16), s 5- 11
- Asdal, Kristin & Moser, Ingunn Brita (2008). Ekspertkunnskap, brukermakt og forbrukerdemokrati, I: Kristin Asdal & Ingunn Brita Moser (red.), Ekspertise og brukermakt. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274773356. Kapittel. s 7 - 41
- Asdal, Kristin (2007). Re-Inventing Politics of the State: Science and the Politics of Contestation, In Kristin Asdal; Brita Brenna & Ingunn Brita Moser (ed.), technoscience. the politics of interventions. Unipub forlag. ISBN 978-82-7477-300-4. Kapittel 12. s 309 - 326
- Asdal, Kristin (2007). Samfunnskontrakt og akademisk karisma. Kulturviteren Francis Sejersted. Prosa - tidsskrift for skribenter. ISSN 0805-276X. 13(1), s 30- 34
- Asdal, Kristin; Brenna, Brita & Moser, Ingunn Brita (2007). The Politics of Interventions. A History of STS, In Kristin Asdal; Brita Brenna & Ingunn Brita Moser (ed.), technoscience. the politics of interventions. Unipub forlag. ISBN 978-82-7477-300-4. Kapittel I. s 7 - 53
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Making space with medicine: The dissolution of Norway´s union with Sweden and the unexplored role of animal trade. Scandinavian Journal of History. ISSN 0346-8755. 31(3-4), s 255- 269
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Re-doing responsibilities: Re-doing the state. Politics of food and the political market-place, In Matthias Kaiser & Marianne Elisabeth Lien (ed.), Ethics and the Politics of Food. Wageningen Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-8686-008-7. Who is responsible? Corporate responsibility and political governance. s 393 - 398
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Rom for framskritt? Stortinget, viviseksjonssaken og striden om laboratorierommet omkring 1900, I: Fredrik Engelstad; Even Lange; Helge Pharo & Erik Rudeng (red.), Demokratisk konservatisme. Pax Forlag. ISBN 82-530-2909-8. kapittel.
- Asdal, Kristin (2011). Politikkens natur. Naturens politikk. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215016993. 304 s.
- Asdal, Kristin & Jacobsen, Eivind (red.) (2009). Forbrukerens ansvar. Cappelen Akademisk Forlag. ISBN 978-82-02-30639-7. 360 s.
- Asdal, Kristin; Berge, Kjell Lars; Gammelgaard, Karen; Gundersen, Trygve Riiser; Jordheim, Helge; Rem, Tore & Tønnesson, Johan (red.) (2008). Tekst og historie. Å lese tekster historisk. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 978-82-15-01250-6. 326 s.
- Asdal, Kristin & Moser, Ingunn Brita (red.) (2008). Ekspertise og brukermakt. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274773356.
- Asdal, Kristin; Brenna, Brita & Moser, Ingunn Brita (ed.) (2007). technoscience. the politics of interventions. Unipub forlag. ISBN 978-82-7477-300-4. 351 s.
- Asdal, Kristin (2011, 05. februar). En fri høyremann. Klassekampen.
- Asdal, Kristin (2011). Innovasjoner/transformasjoner: Å studere endring.
- Asdal, Kristin (2011). Politikkens natur - naturens politikk. En studie av politikkens teknologier.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). "Back to nature!": The non-pasteurization of Norway.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Clearing the way for carbon markets.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Demokratiets muligheter og begrensninger.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Forvaltningens natur - naturens forvaltning.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Ikke et tall for alt. Prosa - tidsskrift for skribenter. ISSN 0805-276X.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Introduksjon til aktør-nettverk-teori.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Laboratoriehistorie(r) og vitenskapelige revolusjoner.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Nature and Capital: Accounting for Nature.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Ord som virker. Om metaforer og forholdet mellom vitenskap og politikk.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Producing an animal model: Axel Holst and the history of scurvy and beriberi.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Producing an animal model: Axel Holst and the history of scurvy and beriberi.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Tekst og kontekst.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). The role of technology in Norwegian environment- and climate policy.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Vitenskapspolitikk og levende dyr.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Å skape verdi.
- Asdal, Kristin (2010). Å studere vitenskap som kultur – ny kulturhistorie?.
- Reinertsen, Hilde & Asdal, Kristin (2010). Fra naturfredning til klimakamp: Norges Naturvernforbund 1914-2014.
- Asdal, Kristin (2009). Accounting for natural resources.
- Asdal, Kristin (2009). Ekspertise og brukermakt.
- Asdal, Kristin (2009). Idégrunnlaget for norsk økonomisk politikk idet 20. århundre: Knappe ressurser; økonomisk versus ingeniørfaglig tenkning i miljøfeltet etter 1945.
- Asdal, Kristin (2009). Politikkens natur - naturens politikk.
- Asdal, Kristin (2009). Saken - i teksten og historien.
- Asdal, Kristin (2009). Science and technology studies and the environment.
- Asdal, Kristin (2009). The non-pasteurization of Norway.
- Asdal, Kristin (2009). The office: The weakness of statistics and the production of non-authority.
- Asdal, Kristin (2009). The state, the animal and the human population.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Bodies in Text and Contexts: The Democratic Challenge to Medicine at the turn of the 20th century.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008, 30. desember). Grønne skatter i det blå. ABC Nyheter.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008, 03. september). Historien er i tekstene. Klassekampen.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008, 12. september). Ja takk, begge deler. Forskergruppen bak Tekst og historie vil forene uforsonlige humanister. Morgenbladet.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Kultur, makt og diskurs: Å studere kontroverser.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Miljø i krisetider. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372. 119(257)
- Asdal, Kristin (2008, 08. mars). Miljøbudsjett:Miljøverndepartementet versus Finansdepartementet. [Radio]. NRK Friluftsmagasinet.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Miljøvern i en nedgangskonjunktur. Fortid. ISSN 1504-1913. 5(4), s 16- 17
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Når tekster skaper endring. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 40(204), s 12- 13
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). On Politics and the Litte Tools of STS.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Political authority versus scientific expertise: The Norwegian controversy over animal experiments at the turn of the 20th century.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Politics and the Political. The little tools of STS.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Politikk og materiell kultur.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Subjected to Parliament: The laboratory of Experimental Medicine and the Animal Body.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). The history and politics of science and technology studies.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Tools of Democracy. Ten entrances.
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. Scandinavian Economic History Review. ISSN 0358-5522. 56(2), s 156- 166
- Asdal, Kristin (2008). Å gjøre valg: Politikk, økonomi og materiell kultur.
- Asdal, Kristin; Berge, Kjell Lars; Gammelgaard, Karen; Jordheim, Helge; Gundersen, Trygve Riiser; Rem, Tore & Tønnesson, Johan L. (2008). Humanioras kraft. Tekst og historie. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. 188(37), s 20- 20
- Asdal, Kristin (2007, 15. september). Da klimapolitikken ble for het. Dagens Næringsliv.
- Asdal, Kristin (2007). Hva er miljøhistorie?.
- Asdal, Kristin (2007, 04. august). Natur og Ungdom 40 år - historisk tilbakeblikk. [Radio]. NRK P1, Friluftsmagasinet.
- Asdal, Kristin (2007). On Politics.
- Asdal, Kristin (2007). Publish and perish?.
- Asdal, Kristin (2007). Science in contexts. The democratic challenge to laboratory medicine at the turn of the 20th century. The case of Norway?.
- Asdal, Kristin (2007). The ends of Nature.
- Asdal, Kristin (2007). The little tools of democracy: A down to earth approach to the history and politics of pollution.
- Asdal, Kristin & Skarstad, Guro Ådnegard (2007). Mapping food controversies: Expertise and consumer power: a project on the technologies of nature-politics.
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Da husdyra ble storpolitikk. Veterinærhistorisk selskap. Årbok. ISSN 0808-1743. s 43- 48
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Diskursanalyse som historie-faglig metode.
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Doing liberal society. The technopolitics of food.
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). En nytte-forbindelse: Laboratoriet og Stortinget omkring 1900.
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Grensetrafikk.
- Asdal, Kristin (2006, 15. oktober). Kampen om matpolitikken. Apollon.
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Kampen om Årdal. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. s 4- 4
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Naturpolitikkens teknologier.
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Naturpolitikkens teknologier. Vitenskapeliggjøring og forbrukerretting..
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Positivismekritikk kontra post-konstruktivisme; en vitenskapsteoretisk diskusjon..
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Rom for framskritt? Francis Hagerups utilitarisme og striden om laboratorierommet omkring 1900.
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Science and Sensibility: The political animal and its transformation into an object of abstract utility..
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Spaces and bodies: Re-configuring humanness through parliament, the medical laboratory and the practices and opposition of vivisection..
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Staten, dyrekropper og befolkning.
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Teoretiske forbindelser: Naturpolitikk og aktør-nettverk-teori..
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Teoretiske ressurser til matpolitikkens historie.
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Valgt eller utvalgt? Demokrati versus ekspertise omkring 1900..
- Asdal, Kristin (2006). Veterinary medicine; The poor cousin of human medicine?.
- Asdal, Kristin (2005). Before Nature.
- Asdal, Kristin (2005). Boundary traffic: Doing animal-human relations, doing science-politics relations through the lab.
- Asdal, Kristin (2005). Boundary-traffic: Veterinary Practices, Mediations of Animal Bodies, Food and State-bodies.