Hege Høyer Leivestad is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology. Her research deals with mobility, materiality and the global circulation of commodities.
Research Interests
Thematic: mobility, material culture and consumption, logistics and labour, ports and maritime anthropology, homemaking, social class, mobile dwellings
Regional: Spain, Strait of Gibraltar, Nordic region
Background
- Assistant Professor, Department of Social Anthropology. Stockholm University (2021-2022)
- International Postdoc. London School of Economics and Stockholm University (2018-2021. Funded by the Swedish Research Council).
- Researcher, Department of Social Anthropology. Stockholm University (2016-2018).
- PhD, Stockholm University (2015).
- Trainee and Environmental Researcher, Western Norway Research Institute (2007-2009).
- MA (2007) and BA (2005), University of Oslo
About
Hege Høyer Leivestad has published on mobility theory and methodology, homemaking and social class, logistics and shipping. Her research is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Europe, particularly Spain. Since 2022 Hege is part of the executive committee of EASA | European Association of Social Anthropologists (easaonline.org)
Hege's current book project The Port: Life and Labour at a Maritime Crossroads deals with port infrastructure, maritime labour and logistics in the Port of Algeciras Bay in southern Spain. She also works as a researcher in the ERC funded project Ports, led by Elisabeth Schober, which deals with the world's most central container ports and the cities they are embedded in. Hege's most recent research project When Amazon comes to town (with Karin Krifors, funded by Swedish FORMAS 2022-2025) explores the formation of logistics hubs in Europe.
For her doctoral research Hege looked closer at mobile homes, campsite living and housing infrastructure among British and Swedish caravan dwellers. The monograph Caravans: Lives on Wheels in Contemporary Europe (Bloomsbury 2018) offers a novel take on the relationship between housing, mobility and class in a European context.