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Nustad, Knut G; Brown, Duncan & Swanson, Heather Anne
(2023).
Reading landscapes from fish bodies: The “fitness” of South African trout, presented at Multispecies Landscapes: A Workshop, Gran June 2023.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2022).
'Trout and the future of colonial river landscapes in South Africa: Contemporary debates' for the panel: Mending Waterscapes: Restoring River Landscapes.
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Nustad, Knut G; Brown, Duncan & Swanson, Heather Anne
(2022).
How fish bodies make South African earth forms. Paper for the roundtable Earthforms: Round Table on Landscape Morphology, Memory and Loss
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Nustad, Knut G
(2022).
Global trout.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2022).
Global Trout: ecological globalisation, colonial legacies, and properties of water .
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What can trout tell us about living with colonial legacies, human-induced environmental change, and Anthropocene landscapes? In this talk I will present the Global Trout project, a collaborative and interdisciplinary project that draws on anthropology, biology, and the humanities to study legacies of colonial trout introductions in Japan, Argentina, New Zealand, and South Africa. The South Africa part of the project uses trout histories to intervene in debates about domestication/wildness, conservation/aliens, science/coloniality and properties/property. I will present some thoughts on the last of these themes:
The physical characteristics of water initially sparked alliances between settlers and the colonial state to promote the introduction of trout, but since the 1990s, have amplified conflicts over trout management between white landowners and the post-Apartheid government. Where most introduced species are difficult to control, trout can be nearly eliminated by legislative efforts, due to the specificities of the region’s waters, which limit trout spawning and make them dependent on hatchery reproduction. Environmental legislation declares trout as alien and invasive and seeks to reduce their numbers. Trout advocates interpret restrictions on hatcheries as an attempt to control and nationalize privately-owned waters through environmental legislation. I will argue that paying attention
to water properties that affect trout spawning can shed new light on contemporary property debates in South Africa.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2022).
Den globale ørreten: en fiskehistorie.
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Britene var ikke bare opptatt av å reise til Norge for å fiske laks. I løpet at et par tiår fra midten av 1860 tallet introduserte de ørreten til alle hjørner av det britiske imperiet. Et forskningsprosjekt på Universitetet i Oslo samler biologer og samfunnsvitere for å studere denne fascinerende historien.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2022).
Ørreten splitter samfunn: Britiske koloniherrer satt ut regnbueørret mange steder i verden. Det endret miljøet i vassdragene og mange lokalsamfunn er preget, forteller forsker.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2022).
Colonial trout between enclosures and expropriation .
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2022).
Colonial trout between enclosures and expropriation, for the panel 'Future Commons of the Anthropocene'.
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Khumalo, Lindokuhle Brian & Nustad, Knut G
(2021).
Dispossessed custodians? Tenure regimes and power relations in the Biodiversity Stewardship Programme of South Africa. Paper for the panel: State formation and identity in conservation: exploring the relation (Nustad and Lien).
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Nustad, Knut G
(2021).
Book launch for Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh, Camelia Dewan.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2021).
Global Trout: ecological globalisation and colonial legacies.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Flikke, Rune & Münster, Ursula
(2019).
Project opening and film screening: an aquatic antropocene? The domestication of fish and rivers.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar & Swanson, Heather Ann
(2016).
Trout Biopolitics: Living in the ruins of colonial fish introductions.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar; Flikke, Rune & Berg, Cato
(2016).
Trout, temporalities and capitalism in the Aurland Valley, Western Norway.
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Nustad, Knut
(2015).
Creating land as investable and as nature.
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Nustad, Knut
(2014).
Exploring conservation and its critique in St Lucia, South Africa.
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Nustad, Knut
(2014).
Wilderness trough domestication: Trout, colonialism, and capitalism in South Africa:.
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Nustad, Knut
(2014).
‘Traces of pasts and imaginations of futures in St Lucia, South Africa’. Paper for the workshop Engaging the Material: Challenges to Anthropology, Oslo November 2014.
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Nustad, Knut
(2014).
The Political Economy of NGOs: State Formation in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Critique of Anthropology.
ISSN 0308-275X.
32(2).
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Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Ween, Gro Birgit & Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2013).
Om å 'Forholde seg til' ANTropologi og andre tekster.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.
ISSN 0802-7285.
24(3-4),
p. 272–274.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2013).
Bokanmeldelse: Ørnulf Gulbrandsen - The state and the social: state formation in Botswana and its precolonial and colonial genealogies.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.
ISSN 0802-7285.
24(2).
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2012).
Comments: developmentality and the ethnography of aid partnership. AAA San Francisco 2012.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar; Berg, Cato & Flikke, Rune
(2012).
Human-fish temporalities in Aurland, Norway. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association, San Francisco 2012.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2012).
Nature, Values & Dumont. Paper presented at CUBI workshop: Environment and Values, Holmen, June 2012.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2012).
‘Beyond purifications: exploring conservation and its critique’. Paper presented at EASA, Nanterres, July 2012.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2012).
Beyond purifications: exploring conservation and its critique. Paper presented at the conference Old Land, New Practices, Grahamstown, South Africa, September 2012.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2011).
Creating Africas: Struggles over nature, conservation and land.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2011).
Conservation nature and land claims in the Dukuduku forest, KZN.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2011).
Land and nature in St Lucia.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2011).
Creating Africas: Struggles over nature, conservation and land.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2011).
Traces of landscapes past: Conservation and Land claims in St Lucia, South Africa.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar; Flikke, Rune & Berg, Cato
(2010).
Imagining fish and rivers in Aurland, Norway.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2010).
Performing natures and land in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2009).
Performing nature in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2009).
“They think birds are more important than people”: Conservation, land and natures in a South African World Heritage Site.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2008).
Problematizing property relations in the Isimagaliso Wetland Park, South Africa.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2008).
Appropriation of nature and land in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2008).
Urban politics at the intersection of street and state: the case of Durban.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2008).
Shack-land state formation - a South African case.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2008).
Property rights, nature and conservation in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa.
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The paper examines different conceptions of nature, land and property in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in the Natal province of South Africa. The area epitomizes the highly contested and complex issues involving land in post-apartheid South Africa. More than a thousand people were removed from the area between the 1950s and the 1980s. The rationale for the removals and the alternative use to which the land was to be put, ranged from commercial forestry, mining, national security to nature conservation. Today the area is promoted as a unique natural resort and a holiday destination, and comprises the affluent town of St Lucia, squatter settlements and people having been resettled in newly built villages. After being declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in December 1999, severe restrictions were imposed on settlement in the area. This heavily impacted on the legal processes of land restitution set in motion after the end of apartheid, with more than 80 per cent of the Park being under some form of claim. Moreover, many of the claims were settled through negotiations with traditional leaders on behalf of their community, hence departing from the individualized conception of land right and entitlement set down in the South African constitution. These different conceptions of the land ¿ as nature to conserve, as resources under traditional authorities and as individual entitlement ¿ will be examined as part of separate but intertwined historical discourses on land rights, nature and the environment in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2008).
Fremtiden for norsk bistand.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2007).
Nature, land, property rights and conservation in the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa.
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The paper examines different conceptions of nature, land and property in the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park in the Natal province of South Africa. The area epitomizes the highly contested and complex issues involving land in post-apartheid South Africa. More than a thousand people were removed from the area between the 1950s and the 1980s. The rationale for the removals and the alternative use to which the land was to be put, ranged from commercial forestry, mining, national security to nature conservation. Today the area is promoted as a unique natural resort and a holiday destination, and comprises the affluent town of St Lucia, squatter settlements and people having been resettled in newly built villages. After being declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in December 1999, severe restrictions were imposed on settlement in the area. This heavily impacted on the legal processes of land restitution set in motion after the end of apartheid, with more than 80 per cent of the Park being under some form of claim. Moreover, many of the claims were settled through negotiations with traditional leaders on behalf of their community, hence departing from the individualized conception of land right and entitlement set down in the South African constitution. These different conceptions of the land ? as nature to conserve, as resources under traditional authorities and as individual entitlement ? will be examined as part of separate but intertwined historical discourses on land rights, nature and the environment in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2007).
Vi redder verden - etter kaffen.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2007).
An anthropology of the State? A conversation with Knut Nustad and Finn Stepputat.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2007).
Produserer godt omdømme for Norge.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2007).
The state as form and as effect: a South African case.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2006).
People and the state in Durban's Cato Crest.
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Anthropology has in the last decade begun to explore ways in which to study state formation ethnographically. Building on authors such as Trouillot?s and his adaptation of the Marxist notion of state-effects, this literature seek to examine state formation ethnographically through a focus on the effects produced by state-like bodies, rather than through a concern with nominal definitions of ?the state.? This paper will build on the theoretical foundations I developed in State formation: anthropological perspectives (Edited with C. Krohn Hansen, Pluto 2005) to examine the relationship between the residents in Durban?s Cato Manor and outside agents. It will put the new ethnographic approach to the nation state to the test by examining a set of relations between inhabitants in Cato Manor and external agents such as municipalities, apartheid bodies, private and public developers. The paper demonstrates that in all these historically divergent relations, a set of features appear and reappear, such as the external agent?s concern with imposing spatial control, with creating a legible population through numbering and other devises, with creating atomized individuals and new collective identities based on the social order the external agent seeks to impose. But the paper also demonstrates that for all these periods, there is a need for modifying the state-effect approach, because this approach conflates intentions with outcomes. In all the instances examined, the effects sought produced were sometimes countered, sometimes transformed, by the inhabitants own agendas and strategies.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2006).
What should be learned from the sucess and failures of of development research over the past 40 years?
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Nustad, Knut G
(2005).
Civil society as reconfigured public in South Africa.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2005).
Thomas Hylland Eriksen og Finn Sivert Nielsen: til verdens ende og tilbake - antropologiens historie.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.
ISSN 0802-7285.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2005).
Experiencing representation: leadership, politics and resources in a South African informal settlement.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2005).
Den norske staten i verden: bilder og speilbilder.
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Nustad, Knut G
(2005).
Hvis vi er Vesten, hva er da resten?
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2004).
Språk og makt i bistanden.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2004).
Terje Tvedt: Utviklingshjelp, utenrikspolitikk og makt.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.
ISSN 0802-7285.
15(3),
p. 185–186.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2004).
Terje Tvedt: Utviklingshjelp, utenrikspolitikk og makt: den norske modellen.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.
ISSN 0802-7285.
15(3),
p. 185–186.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2004).
Keynote: New directions in development theory.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2004).
After the Giants.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2004).
State, Governance and Development in Durban's Cato Crest (South Africa.
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Nustad, Knut Gunnar
(2003).
Virker bistanden?
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Sundnes, Frode; Nustad, Knut Gunnar; Benjaminsen, Tor A & Sjaastad, Espen Olav
(2013).
Claiming Land, Nature and History: Land Restitution and Nature Conservation at the Dukuduku Forest, South Africa.
Universitetet for miljø- og biovitenskap.
ISSN 978-82-575-1128-9.