Linda Madsen
Academic interests
Linda Madsen is currently working on a PhD on avian influenza with a special focus on Turkey. She is interested in the global governance of emerging infectious diseases. Like other emerging transboundary infectious diseases avian influenza is surrounded by uncertainty. A main concern in her project is to study the process of knowledge production related to the nature of avian influenza (HPAI/H5N1), and the circulation and translation of knowledge in the space between the local and the global. She draws on resources from STS and social sciences, and her work is based on a combination of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and textual analysis.
Background
Linda Madsen holds a MA degree in Science, Society and Technology Studies (ESST) from the University of Oslo and Istanbul Technical University. Her background is from social sciences, primarily anthropology and development studies.
Courses taught
Linda Madsen has been responsible for the TIK/ESST Master specialisation course ‘Science and Politics in Controversies on Nature’ (TIK 4011, 2007 and 2008)
Publications
- Madsen, Linda (2011). Mapping bioinsecurity. Avian influenza in and beyond Turkey.
- Madsen, Linda (2009). Making of a controllable avian flu – The contribution of Turkey.
- Madsen, Linda (2008). Avian Influenza and its Circulation between Global Plans and Local Practices.
- Madsen, Linda (2008). Bio-securing the global society - Infectious agents on world tour encountering special agents on mission.
- Madsen, Linda (2008). Facts on flu?.
- Madsen, Linda (2008). Performing global risk.
- Madsen, Linda (2006). Users and Producers of Food and Food Politics. Consumers as agents for environmental sustainability within the framework of a new political technology..