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Global Trout

Rainbow trout and human made environmental change.

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Fish farm in Underberg, South Africa: Rainbow trout is raised both for food and recreational fishing. Photo: Knut G. Nustad

How do we study human impacts on environments when these are global and local at the same time? How can we combine the rich details and sensitivity to complex historical processes and specificity of place that we capture through ethnographic fieldwork, with global historical processes? And how can answering these questions help us live in a world where all environments have been fundamentally transformed by humans?

Global trout addresses these large questions by studying the colonial spread of trout from Britain across the globe in the second half of the 19th century, and the social and natural consequences in places such as South Africa, Argentina, Japan as well as in the UK.

At each site, a team of social scientists and natural scientists study histories of introduction and contemporary effects of trout. As such, the project also breaks new ground in interdisciplinary collaboration.

Read more about the project.

 

Financing

The project is funded with NOK 10.000.000 by the FRIPRO – Researcher Project Grant by the Norwegian Research Council.

Project period

The project will run between September 2019 and August 2023.


Publications

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  • Christensen, Peter Andreas (2023). Fisken, der erobrede verden. Sportsfiskeren. p. 46–50.
  • Dewan, Camelia & Nustad, Knut G (2023). ‘Fluid Dispossessions’: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures. Ethnos. ISSN 0014-1844. doi: 10.1080/00141844.2023.2214340. Full text in Research Archive
  • Flikke, Rune (2023). Patagonien og den jyske forbindelse. Sportfiskeren. p. 76–78.
  • 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.
  • Nustad, Knut Gunnar (2022). Colonial trout between enclosures and expropriation .
  • 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.
  • Nustad, Knut Gunnar (2022). Den globale ørreten: en fiskehistorie.
  • Nustad, Knut Gunnar (2022). Colonial trout between enclosures and expropriation, for the panel 'Future Commons of the Anthropocene'.
  • 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 .
  • 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.
  • Nustad, Knut G (2022). Global trout.
  • Nustad, Knut G (2022). Global Trout: ecological globalisation, colonial legacies, and properties of water .
  • Nustad, Knut G (2021). Global Trout: ecological globalisation and colonial legacies.
  • Flikke, Rune; Salinas, Cecilia & Ciancio, Javier (2021). Argentina forbyr lakseoppdrett. Følger Norge med i timen? Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
  • Flikke, Rune; Ciancio, Javier & Salinas, Cecilia G. (2021). Argentina forbyr lakseoppdrett: Følger Norge med i timen? Bladet Vesterålen. ISSN 1891-6147. p. 15–15.
  • Dewan, Camelia & Nustad, Knut Gunnar (2020). Contested Waters and Fluid Properties in Capitalist Natures.
  • Flikke, Rune; Ciancio, Javier E.; Aigo, Juana & Clarke, Rodrigo R. (2019). El polémicosalmón invasor. Desde la Patagonia. ISSN 2618-5385. 16(27), p. 10–19.
  • 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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Published Mar. 23, 2021 1:48 PM - Last modified Dec. 13, 2023 6:34 AM