Marianne Elisabeth Lien

Utvalgte publikasjoner

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2020). Dreams of Prosperity - Enactments of Growth; The Rise and Fall of Farming in Varanger. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures.  ISSN 1755-2923.  29(1), s 42- 62 . doi: 10.3167/ajec.2020.290104

Hastrup, Frida & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2020). Welfare Frontier: Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. ISSN 1755-2923. 29(1), sv-xxi.doi: 10.3167/ajec.2020.290101

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2020). Hjemløse laks og laksens hjem: Domestisering, fangenskap og tilhørighet langs norskekysten. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.  ISSN 0802-7285.  31(1-2), s 116- 128 . doi: https://www.idunn.no/nat/2020/01-02/hjemloese_laks_og_laksens_hjem_domestisering_fangenskap_og

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Pálsson, Gisli (2019). Ethnography Beyond the Human: The ‘Other-than-Human’ in Ethnographic Work. Ethnos. ISSN 0014-1844. s.1-20.doi: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1628796

Swanson, Heather Anne; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Ween, Gro Birgit (ed.) (2018). Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and practices of multispecies relations. Duke University Press.  ISBN 978-0-8223-7126-7.  272 s.

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Abram, Simone Almond (2018). Hvem skal arve hytta? Slektskapsprosesser, familierelasjoner og avslekting. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift ISSN 0802-7285.  29(1-2), s 26- 41 . doi: https://www.idunn.no/nat/2018/01-02/hvem_skal_arve_hytta

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2018). Hva kan vi lære av Eilert Sundt? . Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.  ISSN 0040-716X.  1(59), s 80- 88 . doi: 10.18261/ISSN.1504-291X-2018-01-07

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2015). Becoming Salmon. Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish. University of California Press.  ISBN 978-0-520-28056-4. 208 s.

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Law, John (2012) Slippery: Field Notes on Empirical Ontology. Social Studies of Science (Published online before print September 13, 2012, in full text)

Abram, Simone; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth, Performing Nature at Wolrd's Ends. Ethnos 2011 ;Volum 76.(1) s. 3-18

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Law, John (2011)  'Emergent Aliens': On Salmon, Nature, and Their Enactment. Ethnos 1 ;Volum 76.(1) s. 65-87

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Davison, Aidan (2010) Roots, Rupture and Remembrance. The Tasmanian Lives of Monterey Pine. Journal of material culture, Volum 15.(2)

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Nerlich, Brigitte(red.)  (2004). The Politics of Food. Oxford: Berg.

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (1997) Marketing and Modernity.  Oxford, Berg.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2025). Devenir scalable. Revue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances. 19(4). doi: 10.4000/15977. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Entre 1971 et 2011, la production de saumon d’élevage en Norvège a été multipliée par dix mille, faisant de ce pays le premier producteur mondial de saumon. Ce texte vise à comprendre comment cette expansion s’est réalisée. Il montre que loin d’être le résultat inéluctable d’innovations techno-scientifiques et de stratégies capitalistes, elle est le produit d’un assemblage fragile, incluant aussi bien le travail accompli au jour le jour au sein des fermes que celui, réalisé dans d’autres lieux et à de grandes distances, pour assurer un approvisionnement constant des saumons en nourriture. Cet assemblage est analysé comme un double processus d’attachement et de détachement, permettant d’aligner les temporalités biologiques sur celles des marchés et de rendre les saumons scalables.

• Bubandt, Nils; Chao, Sophie; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Paxson, Heather; Virtanen, Pirjo Kristina & Ahlberg, Karin [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2025). Anthropologists Are Talking About Ecography. Ethnos. ISSN 0014-1844. doi: 10.1080/00141844.2025.2541773. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2025). At innfange forgjengeligheten — om Jenny Erpenbeck. I Dalsgård, Anne Lene; Frederiksen, Martin Demant & Louw, Maria (Red.), Sagens kerne. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. ISSN 9788775976034. s. 74–83. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Broch, Tuva Beyer; Bratrud, Tom; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Salinas, Cecilia G. (2024). New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized environments. Ethnography. ISSN 1466-1381. doi: 10.1177/14661381241266924. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Digital Anthropology has in the past two decades emerged as a field that seeks to better grasp experiences of being human within digital technology and culture. However, digital technology is today so entangled in everyday practices that it gives as little meaning to single it out as a specific field of inquiry as it does to leave it out. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway, one of the most digitalized countries in the world, we argue that the ubiquity of the digital re-actualizes classic debates in the discipline on ‘home blindness’ emerging from the methodological challenges of doing fieldwork in familiar surroundings. We argue that building on methodological and analytical perspectives from the home blindness debate can help us better understand what it means to be human in digital environments.

• Abram, Simone Almond & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2024). Lives of the House: Tracing Kinship through the Biography of Houses in Norway. I Alderman, Jonathan & Stolz, Rosalie (Red.), Houses Transformed. Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781805392316. s. 39–58. doi: 10.3167/9781805392316. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2024). Uncommon Ground: Climate Change and Compound Dispossessions in Sámi Reindeer Herding. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. ISSN 0155-977X. 68(2), s. 119–137. doi: 10.3167/sa.2024.680207. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Recent Arctic warming is a threat to Sámi reindeer herding in the Nordic region as more frequent freeze-thaw episodes temporarily block the reindeers’ access to lichen under the snow. But climate change is only one of the many other contemporary challenges affecting reindeer husbandry, which include the effects of wind turbines and mineral extraction. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Sámi reindeer owners in Finnmark, Norway, this article discusses how ‘compound dispossessions’ are mitigated and negotiated in relation to Sámi notions of reindeer-herding practices and colonial legacies. The author argues that Sámi reindeer herders are facing ‘uncommon grounds’ due not only to climate change and infrastructural encroachments, but also to repeated mistranslations that amplify compound dispossession in a region marked by shifting bioethical regimes

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2023). Domestication and Multispecies Relations in the Anthropocene. I Münster, Ursula; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland & Schroer, Sara Asu (Red.), Responding to the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Twelve Academic Disciplines. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISSN 9788230403624. s. 267–291. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The Anthropocene - the era of humans - refers to a time when humanity has left its indelible stamp on the planet, including its geology and biogeochemistry. Understanding the Anthropocene, where the risk of irreversible and catastrophic ecological damage looms on the horizon, is a daunting task and solutions seem to be difficult to come by. What we offer in this book consists of fifteen perspectives on the Anthropocene written by scholars with backgrounds in over a dozen academic disciplines - archaeology, biology, geology, cultural history, literature, art history, science and technology studies, anthropology, political ecology, geography and law. Together, they offer tools enabling us to grasp the Anthropocene as a multifaceted phenomenon that requires attention from across the social and natural sciences as well as the humanities. Unlike most academic texts, these chapters are written in a personal and engaging style indicating not only that the Anthropocene is a worthy subject of scholarly attention, but that its implications are existentially important to the authors, who are not just researchers, but also global citizens.

• Abram, Simone & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2023). Kinning and De-kinning Houses, Heirlooms and the Reproduction of Family. Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 31(3), s. 1–17. doi: 10.3167/saas.2023.310302. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract ‘Kinning and De-kinning’ introduces a special issue that considers how houses, heirlooms and other owned items reproduce kinship and family in diverse societies. It revisits death and inheritance in kinship studies, with a focus on processes of ‘passing on’ and the materiality of things as well as bodies. Incorporating temporalities and materialities in the changing expression of deeply felt emotions that extend between people and between people and things, we echo classic concerns in kinship studies around the incorporation of strangers via affinity, while mobilising the notion of house societies, bringing classic anthropological insight on intergenerational transfer of wealth to bear on questions of identity and belonging. Showing how processes of kinning are always selective and negotiated, the articles in this special issue argue that they also carry with them the potential for kinning's shadow: just as property can enable kin relations to be re/produced, they can also be used to release people from kinship through what we term ‘de-kinning’: instances of failed appropriation and disrupted kin relations. The article outlines an approach to kinship that takes seriously the enduring qualities of material and property, while maintaining the argument that kinship is achieved (or negated) through the active performance of acknowledged relations. Résumé « Faire et défaire la parenté » introduit un numéro spécial qui porte sur la manière dont les maisons, les héritages et autres objets reproduisent la parenté et la famille dans diverses sociétés. Ce volume entend revisiter les dimensions de la mort et de l'héritage dans les études de parenté en portant une attention particulière aux donations et à la matérialité des choses et des corps. Notre perspective prend en compte les temporalités et matérialités incorporées dans l'expression changeante des émotions qui passent entre les personnes, et entre les personnes et les choses. Nous faisons ainsi écho à l'intérêt classique de l'anthropologie de la parenté pour l'incorporation des étrangers via l'affinité – notamment autour de la notion de société-Maisons – et sur transfert intergénérationnel de richesse en le faisant porter sur des questions d'appartenance et d'identité. En montrant que les processus de parenté sont toujours sélectifs et négociés, cet ensemble d'articles défend l'idée que ces processus portent aussi en eux l'inverse de ce qu'on pense qu'ils font : de même que la propriété permet aux relations de parenté de se re/produire, elle peut aussi être utilisée pour faire sortir les gens de la parenté à travers ce que l'on désigne comme « dé-parenter » ( de-kinning ) : par des instances d'appropriation ratée ou des relations de parenté auxquelles il est mis fin. Cet article délimite une approche de la parenté qui prend au sérieux les qualités de longévité du matériel et de la propriété, tout en maintenant l'argument que la parenté est réalisée (ou négociée) à travers la performance active de relations reconnues.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Abram, Si Mone (2023). Passing It On Kinship, Temporality and Moral Personhood in Norwegian ‘Hytte’ Succession. Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 31(3), s. 33–50. doi: 10.3167/saas.2023.310304. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract In this article we explore the inheritance of hytte , or secondary homes, in Norway. Inspired by the notion of ‘kinning’, we extend the notion of kinning to include various materialities and temporalities. In particular, we trace the passing on of the hytte ethnographically as a stretched moment, and argue that temporality adds another layer to the understanding of the hytte as a participant in kinning. Our material indicates a number of connections between the hytte as a property to be passed on and the family/kin as a reproducing unit, connections that unfold over time, decades, a lifetime or more. Through this approach, it is possible to trace processes of kinning, but also what we call ‘de-kinning’, involving detachment, refusals and rejection. The article shows that a focus on materials and built structures adds to the understanding of kinship in contemporary societies. Résumé Dans cet article, on étudiera l'héritage de la hytte ou maison secondaire en Norvège. On étendra la notion de « parenté » à l'inclusion de différentes matérialités ou temporalités. En particulier, on retracera de manière ethnographique la transmission par donation d'une hytte sur une période étendue et l'on défendra l'idée que cette temporalité longue ajoute une couche supplémentaire à la hytte comme participant pleinement au faire-parent. Notre matériel permet de souligner un certain nombre de connexions entre la hytte comme propriété à transmettre et la famille / parenté comme unité de reproduction. Ces connexions se déploient sur le temps long, des décennies et parfois des vies ou plus. Par cette approche, il est possible de retracer les processus de parenté, mais aussi de « de-parentage » impliquant détachement, refus et rejets. L'article montre qu'une attention au matériel et aux structures construites permet de comprendre la parenté dans les sociétés contemporaines.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2023). Fluid Scalability; Frontiers and Commons in Salmon Waterworlds. Ethnos. ISSN 0014-1844. doi: 10.1080/00141844.2023.2213851. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The fluid qualities of water include its propensity to yield, to dissolve, and to accommodate intrusive structures and projects. The possibilities for aquacultural expansion appear limitless, yet the presence of aquaculture excludes and transforms other life-forms. While terrestrial expansions mark their presence through infrastructure such as fences and walls, aquatic infrastructures are more elusive. This article takes the current capitalist scenarios of aquacultural expansion as a starting point for reflecting on the scalability of plantation economies in coastal waters. Assessing the possibilities and limitations of ocean-as-infrastructure for aquatic frontiers, it explores water as a means of production, a medium, and an externality, and asks: How might more than economic forms of fluid dispossession follow in the wake of marine extractive industries? Engaging the notion of ocean frontiers and aquatic commons, the article draws on ethnographic research on Norwegian salmon aquaculture and Sámi river entanglements.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2023). Becoming Food: Edibility as Threshold in Arctic Norway. I Paxson, Heather (Red.), Eating Beside Ourselves. Thresholds of Food and Bodies.. Duke University Press. ISSN 9781478019435. s. 114–137. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2022). What's Love Got to Do with It? Care, Curiosity, and Commitment in Ethnography beyond the Human. Environmental Humanities. 14(2), s. 457–474. doi: 10.1215/22011919-9712511. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  An ethics of care in nature conservation must ask not only whose voices are heard, but also which interspecies relations that come to matter. Inspired by Jane Bennett’s question about how ethical codes are transformed into laudable acts in interspecies relations, this article explores alignments between affective enchantment and interspecies response-ability. Juxtaposing two ethnographic sites in Norway, salmon aquaculture and nature conservation, Marianne E. Lien argues that ethical conduct calls for relational interspecies commitment beyond mere affect: enchantment offers no guarantee of animal welfare. But nor does a set of legal regulations. The first section of this article explores the practical enactment of sentient salmon in Norwegian aquaculture, and details interspecies response-ability and care through practices where legal regulations and affective registers intersect. In the second section Lien turns to what some call untouched nature, while others call it home, and shows how enchantment of nature in the abstract may legitimate the dispossession of the vital relations between local people and their worlds. Both cases suggest the need to pay close attention to relational and vernacular arts of noticing that have been cultivated by others. Shifting our attention from the outsider’s gaze as an affective enchantment toward the relationality of others, we may notice the myriad of generative interspecies relations that unfold quietly, in a minor chord, and often in unexpected places. The article draws on extensive fieldwork within aquaculture production sites in western Norway and in the coastal regions of Varanger, North Norway.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2022). Beyond Mining. Repair and reconciliation. I Sverker, SÖRLIN (Red.), RESOURCE EXTRACTION AND ARCTIC COMMUNITIES The New Extractivist Paradigm. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781009100236. s. 251–264. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2022). Off the Map, Eyes as Big as Plates 2. arnoldsche Art Publishers. ISSN 9783897906433. s. 94–95. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Larsen, Charlotte Ulvang (2022). Colonization. Through the Plow Agriculture in Pasvik. I Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Red.), Control: Attempting to Tame the World. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253043609. s. 157–163. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Thisted, Kirsen; Sejersen, Frank & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Arctic Uchronotopias: Resource extraction, community making and the negotiation of Arctic futures. Polar Record. ISSN 0032-2474. 57(E28), s. 1–4. doi: 10.1017/S0032247421000231. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Stien, Lars Helge; Medaas, Christian; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Tørud, Brit [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2021). Fish protection during fish production. Organizational conditions for fish welfare. Marine Policy. ISSN 0308-597X. 129. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104530. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Too many salmon die during production at Norwegian fish farms. Earlier research shows that most farmed salmon die in operations partly related to protection of the wild salmon (from salmon lice), but it is not known how this relates to other conditions positive or negative for fish welfare. Fish farm personnel are experts on the organizational conditions during production. This is thus a study of what fish farm personnel consider contributing to fish welfare. Data are gathered through interviews, observation, and a small-scale survey. The results suggest that the personnel stand in a multiple protection dilemma, where fish welfare loses in a battle with objectives of profitable production, and protection of wild salmon. In this context of conditions emphasizing other objectives, the personnel act as a buffer for farmed fish welfare. In particular, the study indicates that fish health personnel perceive themselves and are perceived as advocates for fish welfare. This important role, and the multiple protection dilemma that comes from the conflict between product and environment, are not earlier described in organizational literature. Multiple protection dilemmas can be relevant for all production in open environment, so personnel and organizations should be structured to reduce and handle it.

• Medaas, Christian; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Gismervik, Kristine; Kristiansen, Tore S.; Osmundsen, Tonje & Størkersen, Kristine Vedal [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2021). Minding the Gaps in Fish Welfare: The Untapped Potential of Fish Farm Workers. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. ISSN 1187-7863. 34(5), s. 1–22. doi: 10.1007/s10806-021-09869-w. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The welfare of farmed fish is often regarded with less concern than the welfare of other husbandry animals, as fish are not universally classified as sentient beings. In Norway, farmed fish and other husbandry animals are legally protected under the same laws. Additionally, the legislature has defined a number of aquaculture-specific amendments, including mandatory welfare courses for fish farmers who have a key role in securing animal welfare, also with regards to noting welfare challenges in the production process. This article uses fish welfare courses as a site from which to inquire about the common-sense understanding of fish welfare in Norwegian fish farming. The focus is specifically on fish farm employees, their experiences of welfare-related issues and contradictions in their daily work, and the struggle to act responsibly in aquaculture settings. Through participant observation at welfare courses, as well as interviews and conversations with fish farm workers, the article details how challenges are experienced ‘on the ground’, and suggests how fish farm workers’ own experiential knowledge might be mobilized to improve the general welfare of farmed fish.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Interruptions: Affective futures and uncanny presences at Giemaš, Finnmark. Polar Record. ISSN 0032-2474. 57. doi: 10.1017/S0032247420000443. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper concerns affective relations and unexpected interruptions as the planned expansion of an extractive open-pit mining site gathers momentum. The site is a mountain in Varanger, North Norway, criss-crossed by a sand-coloured meshwork of roads that are part of the current infrastructure of a quartzite quarry. Recently purchased by Chinese investors, the mining company Elkem plans a massive expansion of the operations, which will interrupt a wide range of practices and projects, including the migratory movement of reindeer, as well as their grazing patterns. Known as Giemaš amongst Sámi speakers, the mountain is also alluded to as a site of other powers, manifesting as unexpected accidents. In this article, I explore how the planned expansion evokes this contested site as more than a singular mountain, and how divergent epistemic formations interrupt the making of extractive resources in multiple ways

• Bratrud, Tom & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Hytta, bygda og byen: Forhandling om tilhørighet i krisetid. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 32(2), s. 55–71. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2021-02-02. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  I denne artikkelen bruker vi «koronaåret» 2020 og hytteforbudet som empirisk inntak for å forstå mer generelle trekk ved norske forståelser av sted, tilhørighet og sosiale skillelinjer. Vi tar utgangspunkt i den økende bruken av hjemmekontor på hytta i forbindelse med korona-pandemien og spør hvorvidt fristilling i forhold til lokalitet kan skape nye sosiale forskjeller – og hvordan disse forholder seg til mer klassiske konflikter knyttet til klasse, stedstilhørighet og by og land. Artikkelen er basert på to ulike feltarbeid i norske hyttedistrikt.

• Gismervik, Kristine; Tørud, Brit; Kristiansen, Tore S; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal & Medaas, Christian [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Comparison of Norwegian health and welfare regulatory frameworks in salmon and chicken production. Reviews in Aquaculture. ISSN 1753-5123. s. 1–15. doi: 10.1111/raq.12440. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The health and welfare of farmed fish are often regarded with less concern than for other production animals. This review compares the Norwegian legal health and welfare frameworks for broiler chickens and farmed salmon, with the aim of improving regulations for salmon farming in Norway. Highlighting differences in laws, regulations and governmental organisation are also highly relevant in general, especially in developing welfare regulations for farmed fish in other countries. Norwegian chicken farmers must comply with two main laws, the Norwegian Animal Welfare Act and the Food Act, governed by the same ministry and governmental agency. The salmon farmers must in addition relate to the Aquaculture Act, different ministries and several agencies with different objectives. Compared to the regulation of chicken farming, the regulation of salmon farming is more complex, has potentially conflicting aims and uses less positive welfare phrasings. Thus, the regulation may be perceived as focusing on profitability over welfare. Despite having many similar paragraphs to regulation for chicken farming, salmon farming regulation is less strict in the daily securing of animals and recordings of mortality. There is no specified slaughterhouse control of high‐density productions, as there is for broiler chickens. There are also differences in the mandatory welfare courses, one being that infection prevention is a stated topic for chickens. The Norwegian Animal Welfare Act has no possibility of dispensation, meaning exceptions, and treats fish and other animals equally. Future regulatory frameworks for farmed fish production should avoid unintended downgrading of fish health and welfare.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2020). Hjemløse laks og laksens hjem: Domestisering, fangenskap og tilhørighet langs norskekysten. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 31(1-2), s. 116–128. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2020-01-02-10. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Norge har verdens største bestand av Atlantisk villaks, men er også verdens største produsent av oppdrettslaks. I 2019 forsvant 289.570 laks fra norske oppdrettsanlegg i det fiskeridirektoratet registrerer som «rømningshendelser». Omfanget av «rømt oppdrettslaks» utgjør mer enn halvparten av all villaks som hvert år kommer opp i norske vassdrag for å gyte. Lakseindustrien er dermed både ekstremt lønnsom, og en varslet økologisk katastrofe. Men har oppdrettslaksen egentlig rømt? Eller burde den beskrives som hjemløs? I denne artikkelen belyser jeg hvordan ideer om hjem, fangenskap og tilhørighet er med å konstituere domestiseringspraksis av laks i oppdrettsanlegg og forvaltningspraksis i vassdrag. Gjennom å sammenstille domestiseringspraksiser med debatten om fremmede arter, viser jeg hvordan ideen om hjem rommer både stedlig tilhørighet og genetisk slektskap, men kommer til kort i møtet med laks som forflytter seg fra merda og oppover elva. Gjennom å forsøke å betrakte merda fra laksens perspektiv, utforsker jeg språket i beskrivelser av dyrs livsbetingelser og deres forhold til mennesker. Teksten er basert på langvarig etnografisk interesse for lakseoppdrett og domestisering.

• Stien, Lars Helge; Tørud, Brit; Gismervik, Kristine; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Medaas, Christian & Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Governing the welfare of Norwegian farmed salmon: three conflict cases. Marine Policy. ISSN 0308-597X. 117. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103969. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  To obtain insight into perceptions of how fish welfare and health is governed in Norwegian aquaculture, this study investigates three conflict cases: salmon lice, pancreas disease and farm siting. Using surveys and in-depth interviews, it highlights challenges and solutions as perceived from different professional groups. The results show that the current inflexible limit of the number of salmon lice permitted creates frustration, both among the farmers themselves and fish health personnel, and that many advocate means for making the regulations more in line with how much infection pressure a farm creates. The regulators acknowledge that upholding salmon lice regulations may diminish animal welfare. Also, farmers and fish health professionals are concerned about the welfare impact of risky delousing operations. Where pancreas disease is concerned, many express their incredulity that a clearly welfare harming disease is permitted to be endemic in parts of Norway, while a positive diagnosis outside the endemic zone will lead to the fish farmers having to slaughter their fish. The case of farm siting was responsible for less conflict than expected. Few expressed strong opinions, but some asked for an overall plan for farm positioning in order to limit spread of pathogens. All groups expressed a concern in that it is difficult to implement the necessary changes within the present framework. The overall problem seems to be that what is best for the single farmer or company in the short term, is often contrary to the common good and long-term benefit of the industry as a whole.

• Hastrup, Frida & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2020). Welfare Frontier: Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene. Anthropological Journal on European Cultures. ISSN 1755-2923. 29(1), s. v–xxi. doi: 10.3167/ajec.2020.290101. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article outlines the thematic section’s main anthropological interventions and introduces the inherently ambiguous notion of welfare frontiers, implying allegedly benign practices of resource development. Through ethnographic analyses from Iceland, Norway, and Greenland, it shows that Nordic Arctic landscapes become resourceful through careful crafting, entangled with practices and ideals of nation-building, egalitarianism, sustainability, good governance, and a concern for liveability for legitimate citizens. Further, the authors suggest that seeing natural resource development as linked to specific welfare state projects, with attention to the sometimes colonizing aspects of such practices, specifies and captures the current era, bringing the Anthropocene back home.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2020). Dreams of Prosperity - Enactments of Growth; The Rise and Fall of Farming in Varanger. Anthropological Journal on European Cultures. ISSN 1755-2923. 29(1), s. 42–62. doi: 10.3167/ajec.2020.290104. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  An old tractor serves as an ethnographic entry point to shifting articulations of resources in coastal Finnmark, North Norway. Idle since the 1970s, the tractor is a relic of agricultural dreams, turned to rubble as novel layers of the Varanger landscape are conjured as resourceful. Farming in Finnmark was a geopolitical strategy to secure national borders and to expand a post-war welfare state, it was also a colonial effort to cultivate farmers in the far north. This article details the back-breaking practices required to make thin Arctic topsoil collaborate in realizing modernist dreams of agricultural growth, while state interventions sought to ensure national borders and national identity. The author highlights dialectic relations between mapping and forgetting, crucial in the making of resources and colonizing practices.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2020). Annemarie Mol. Ontologisk multiplicitet. I Hastrup, Kirsten (Red.), Klassiske og moderne antropologiske tænkere. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISSN 9788741275253. s. 659–667. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Pálsson, Gisli (2019). Ethnography Beyond the Human: The ‘Other-than-Human’ in Ethnographic Work. Ethnos. ISSN 0014-1844. 86(1), s. 1–20. doi: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1628796. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Law, John (2019). The Ghost at the Banquet: Ceremony, Community and Industrial Growth in West Norway. I Harvey, Penny; Krohn-Hansen, Christian & Nustad, Knut Gunnar (Red.), Anthropos and the Material. Duke University Press. ISSN 9781478002864. s. 126–221. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Jacobsen, Thomas (2019). In defense of porridge; Perspectives on domestication from the North. Journal of Peasant Studies. ISSN 0306-6150. 46(4), s. 860–866. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2019.1609773. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2018). Hva kan vi lære av Eilert Sundt? Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS). ISSN 0040-716X. 1(59), s. 80–88. doi: 10.18261/ISSN.1504-291X-2018-01-07. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Abram, Simone Almond (2018). Hvem skal arve hytta? Slektsprosesser, familierelasjoner og 'arvslekting'. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 29(1-2), s. 26–41. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2018-01-02-03. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Arvestrid knyttet til hytter er et velkjent fenomen i Norge, og kan i verste fall smadre søskenrelasjoner og skape varige konflikter mellom familiegrener. Hvorfor blir det slik? Hva er det med hytta som er så viktig for folk, og hvorfor blir det så vanskelig? I forskningsprosjektet Materialising Kinship. Cycles of Life at the Norwegian Hytte spør vi hvordan slektstilhørighet og familierelasjoner blir artikulert gjennom materielle objekter, og retter søkelyset mot hytter i Norge. I denne artikkelen ser vi nærmere på forholdet mellom slekt og familie, og de strukturelle motsetningene som utspiller seg når kjernefamilien «knoppskyter». Vi undersøker hvordan likhet konstituerer forståelser av rettferdighet i forbindelse med hytte-arv, og hvordan brudd med likhetsprinsippet oppleves som urimelig. Inspirert av antropologiske slektskapsstudier og Lévi-Strauss’ begrep om «Hus-samfunn», viser vi hvordan klassiske slektskapsbegrep kan brukes for å beskrive relevante forbindelser mellom folk og hytter i Norge i dag, og hvordan slektskap utspiller seg gjennom arv og eierskapsrelasjoner.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Swanson, Heather Anne & Ween, Gro Birgit (2018). Naming the Beast - Exploring the Otherwise. I Swanson, Heather Anne; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Ween, Gro Birgit (Red.), Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and practices of multispecies relations.. Duke University Press. ISSN 9780822371267. s. 1–33. doi: 10.1215/9780822371649-001. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of civilization's emergence. Intertwined with colonialism and imperial expansion, the domestication narrative has informed and justified dominant and often destructive practices. Contending that domestication retains considerable value as an analytical tool, the contributors to Domestication Gone Wild reengage the concept by highlighting sites and forms of domestication occurring in unexpected and marginal sites, from Norwegian fjords and Philippine villages to British falconry cages and South African colonial townships. Challenging idioms of animal husbandry as human mastery and progress, the contributors push beyond the boundaries of farms, fences, and cages to explore how situated relations with animals and plants are linked to the politics of human difference—and, conversely, how politics are intertwined with plant and animal life. Ultimately, this volume promotes a novel, decolonizing concept of domestication that radically revises its Euro- and anthropocentric narrative.

• Swanson, Heather Anne; Law, John & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2018). Modes of Naturing: Or Stories of Salmon. I Marsden, Terry (Red.), SAGE Handbook of Nature. SAGE Open. ISSN 9781446298572. doi: 10.4135/9781473983007.n46. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Abram, Simone Almond (2018). Hvem skal arve hytta? Slektskapsprosesser, familierelasjoner og «avslekting». Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 29(1-2), s. 26–41. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2018-01-02-03. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Arvestrid knyttet til hytter er et velkjent fenomen i Norge, og kan i verste fall smadre søskenrelasjoner og skape varige konflikter mellom familiegrener. Hvorfor blir det slik? Hva er det med hytta som er så viktig for folk, og hvorfor blir det så vanskelig? I forskningsprosjektet Materialising Kinship. Cycles of Life at the Norwegian Hytte spør vi hvordan slektstilhørighet og familierelasjoner blir artikulert gjennom materielle objekter, og retter søkelyset mot hytter i Norge. I denne artikkelen ser vi nærmere på forholdet mellom slekt og familie, og de strukturelle motsetningene som utspiller seg når kjernefamilien «knoppskyter». Vi undersøker hvordan likhet konstituerer forståelser av rettferdighet i forbindelse med hytte-arv, og hvordan brudd med likhetsprinsippet oppleves som urimelig. Inspirert av antropologiske slektskapsstudier Årgang 29, nr. 1–2-2018, s. 26–41 ISSN online: 1504-2898 27NORSK ANTROPOLOGISK TIDSSKRIFT | ÅRGANG 29 | NR. 1–2-2018 This article is downloaded from www.idunn.no. © 2018 Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). og Lévi-Strauss’ begrep om «Hus-samfunn», viser vi hvordan klassiske slektskapsbegrep kan brukes for å beskrive relevante forbindelser mellom folk og hytter i Norge i dag, og hvordan slektskap utspiller seg gjennom arv og eierskapsrelasjoner.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2017). Unruly Appetites: Salmon Domestication 'All the Way Down'. I Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt; Bubandt, Nils; Gan, Elaine & Swanson, Heather Anne (Red.), Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. University of Minnesota Press. ISSN 9781517902360. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Mestres, S. Gómez & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2017). Recovering Food Commons in Post Industrial Europe: Cooperation Networks in Organic Food Provisioning in Catalonia and Norway. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. ISSN 1187-7863. 30(5), s. 625–643. doi: 10.1007/s10806-017-9691-6. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper explores food commoning through an ethnographic case study in Catalonia as our primary site while the Norwegian case is juxtaposed as a comparison, two agriculturally and economically different European countries. The ethnography analyses cooperation networks between organic food producers’ and consumers’ involving different nodes of community gardening initiatives, selfemployed growers, local farmers and all of them under a unique cooperative integrating a community economy. The result it is a myriad of exchange practices ranging from reciprocity and barter to market exchange without intermediaries through on-line platforms. Along these exchanges different options of currency intervene giving rise to novel social and cooperative relations. Similar initiatives in Norway show less variation and are less experimental regarding forms of payment but share similarities in relation to material articulations, concerns and forms of alternative practice. Although these novel forms do not represent a complete break from the more standardized supply chains, and hence from the oppositions/contradictions of production and consumption, the participants see themselves as contributing to a more general process of de-commodification of food. We explore the extent to which the meaning and moral values are mutually constituted in relation to socioeconomic exchanges and environmental caring that each person experiences based on different forms of cooperation and reciprocity. Food, we suggest, is more than a commodity on the market that we may influence through Our role as consumers. It is a significant focal point connecting our lives to those of others that articulates one’s relations to society in a political manner.

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• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Abram, Simone Almond (2019). Hytta:Fire vegger rundt en drøm. Kagge Forlag AS. ISBN 9788248923282. 205 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Norge er et hytteland. Nesten halvparten av alle som bor her har tilgang til minst én hytte. Selv om hytta kanskje bare brukes te ganger i året og markedsverdien er lav, er hytta viktig for oss. Hva er det som gjør den så viktig? Denne boka handler om alt det som ikke kommer til syne i hyttemagasinenes interiørbilder. Den handler om mennesker og minnene. Om hvordan hele ens liv kan samles i én enkelt utsikt eller i en nedslitt hyttestol. Den handler om all tiden vi nedlegger i beising og vedlikehold, om hvem som arver hytta og hvorfor. Om hvordan slekt og familie skaper liv i en hytte, men også om hvordan hytta skaper bitre familiefeider. Boka er skrevet av sosialantropologen Marianne E. Lien og Simone Abram. Sammen med fotograf Haakon Harriss har de foretatt en reise fra nord til sør i Norge og snakket med folk om hyttene deres, om hvordan hytta blir meningsfull, og om hvorfor man noen ganger må gi slipp.

• Swanson, Heather Anne; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Ween, Gro Birgit (2018). Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and practices of multispecies relations. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822371267. 272 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of civilization's emergence. Intertwined with colonialism and imperial expansion, the domestication narrative has informed and justified dominant and often destructive practices. Contending that domestication retains considerable value as an analytical tool, the contributors to Domestication Gone Wild reengage the concept by highlighting sites and forms of domestication occurring in unexpected and marginal sites, from Norwegian fjords and Philippine villages to British falconry cages and South African colonial townships. Challenging idioms of animal husbandry as human mastery and progress, the contributors push beyond the boundaries of farms, fences, and cages to explore how situated relations with animals and plants are linked to the politics of human difference—and, conversely, how politics are intertwined with plant and animal life. Ultimately, this volume promotes a novel, decolonizing concept of domestication that radically revises its Euro- and anthropocentric narrative.

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• Klutsch, Cornelya; Vagstad, Nils & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2025). Bærekraftig landbruk i Pasvikdalen diskutert på NIBIO Svanhovd. [Journal]. Sør-Varanger Avis. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; abram, simone & Harriss, Haakon (2025). Hytta fire vegger rundt en drøm. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2025). Hytta - fire vegger rundt en drøm? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2025). Dreams of Prosperity - Colonization through Soil. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2025). Knowing reindeer in times of transition. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2025). Forskning på tvers og på langs; Hva kan vi lære av Eilert Sundt idag? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2025). Colonization through Soil: Welfare Frontier in the Nordic Arctic. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Modernist farming has the capacity to transform land as well as people, and to render other relations and uses of land invisible. Indigenous relations to land are particularly vulnerable to being marginalized through practices. In this talk, I elaborate such transformations and erasures from the vantage point of l Finnmark, North Norway, a region that has shifted from a site of agricultural intensification in the 20th century, to rural abandonment today. I propose that in order to grasp the significance of such transformations, we need to be attentive, not only to human and multispecies relations, but also to how processes of land formation and relations between soil and water shape the conditions for future livelihoods. Inspired by the notion of landscapes as archives (Laura Ogden) and the arts of noticing (Andrew Mathews, Anna Tsing), I will reflect on the boundaries and openings of an ethnographic approach, as it plays out in a region marked by loss and dramatic transformation.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2025). Landskap som arkiv. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Klutsch, Cornelya; Krzywoszynska, Anna & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2025). Re-cap of the first workshop – goals for this second workshop. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2024). Colonization through the Soil. Rethinking Nordic Welfare Frontiers. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Modernist farming has a particular capacity to render other relations invisible, and indigenous relations to land are particularly vulnerable to being marginalized through practices. In this talk, I elaborate these erasures and relations from the vantage point of coastal Finnmark, an Arctic region in North Norway, where I am currently doing fieldwork. In this region, agriculture was intensified in the 20th century, but is now nearly abandoned. I propose that in order to grasp the significance of such transformations, we need to be attentive, not only to human and multispecies processes and relations, but to also pay attention to how elements of land morphology, soil and water shape the conditions for future livelihoods. Inspired by the notion of landscapes as archives (Laura Ogden) and the need to cultivate arts of noticing (Andrew Mathews, Anna Tsing), I will reflect on the boundaries and openings of an ethnographic approach, as it plays out in a region marked by loss and dramatic transformation.

• Harvey, Penny; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Nyquist, Jon Rasmus (2024). Introduction Bioethical Regimes and Commoning Practices. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. ISSN 0155-977X. 68(2), s. 1–20. doi: 10.3167/sa.2024.680201. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This introduction outlines an approach to commons that captures and responds to intersecting social, environmental, and political complications. The extractive power of states and corporations has long threatened the lives and livelihoods of the poor. However, contemporary local struggles are not adequately understood by frameworks that rest exclusively on social and political power. Climate change and the lingering effects of colonial and industrial extraction multiply the threats to the wider ecologies on which human lives depend. Debates on the commons have addressed such struggles, but without sufficient attention to the diverse bioethical regimes that underpin conventional commons. We propose that such attention can inform analyses by moving beyond the narrow singularities of modern categories. Our introduction lays the groundwork for an approach to the commons that pays attention to multiple and intersecting modes of dispossession, while also looking at convening or ‘commoning’ practices that are oriented toward building alternative relational worlds.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2024). Aquaculture 'going wild'. Fluid scalability and Future Commons. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  As aquaculture production is now surpassing wild caught fish on global fish markets, what are the implications for our understanding of wild and domesticated, growth and sustainability, nature and culture, and for the protection of marine commons? Taiwan and Norway are both, in different ways, spearheading the blue economy. Drawing on long term research on salmon aquaculture in Norway and Australia professor Marianne Lien will discuss the prospects and pitfalls of marine domestication, and how it challenges capitalist paradigms of growth, regional idioms of ownership, as well as fish sentience and human-animal relations. How can local and indigenous modes of knowing be engaged in the shaping of future aquaculture? Lien will address is the role of research in a situation of environmental transitions and shifting bioethical regimes.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2024). Multispecies Ethnography as a Forum for Dialogue in Anthropology. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2024). Order, time, gravity and mud. Thinking geomorphologically about agricultural colonization. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2024). Hytta - Fire vegger rundt en drøm. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2024). Seeing like a state, like a bird or like a night-owl. Sensory capacities and surveillance in digitalized reindeer herding. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2024). Reindrift og droner- en revolusjon? (Teknologihistorisk Foredrag). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2024). Klassikeren: Marianne Gullestad og Kitchen-Table Society. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2023). Hytta - fire vegger rundt en drøm. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2023). The future of diversity. Threats to cultural and biological diversity in the Anthropocene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Salinas, Cecilia G.; Bratrud, Tom; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Broch, Tuva Beyer; Treimo, Henrik & Kipphoff, Karen [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Privatlivets grenser: nye skillelinjer, nye samvær. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  DIGSOS I/0 - Digital Sosialitet i Hverdagen (DIGSOS) er et formidlingsprosjekt i form av en utvidet utstilling ved Norsk Teknisk Museum. DIGSOS springer ut av SAMKUL prosjektet Privatlivets Grenser; Sosialiatet og tilhørighet i digitale hverdagsliv (NFR 303048) som startet i 2020 og løper til våren 2024. Privatlivets Grenser (PG) undersøker hvordan digitale verktøy former sosialitet, grensesetting og tilhørighet, med særlig fokus på grenser mellom det private og det offentlige . Med utgangspunkt i Marianne Gullestads klassiker 'Kitchen-Table Society', spør vi 'hvor er kjøkkenbordene nå?': Hvilke arenaer utgjør 'backstage' for sosiale relasjoner, og hvordan forhandles grensene mellom privat og offentlig, individet og fellesskapet i en digital tidsalder? Hvilke nye former for sosialitet kommer til? Norsk Teknisk Museum er samarbeidspartner i prosjektet, og SAI har bidratt i etableringen av deres utstilling I/0, og har også lagt inn formidling fra prosjektet i form an en temaløype, en samling av digitale formidlingspunkter med utgangspunkt i gjenstander i utstillingen. DIGSOS I/0 muliggjør at en sentral del av NTMs utstillingslokale settes av til formidling fra PG. Vi vil i samarbeid med designere etablere en 'analog' sone i form av f.eks. kjøkkenbord, samt en vegg for projisering, der vi inviterer publikum til å reflektere over digital sosialitet i hverdagen, før og nå, og på tvers av generasjoner. Hensikten er å løfte fram det ikke-lineære, uforutsigbare og erfaringsnære i digital sosial interaksjon, på en refleksiv måte som står i et spenningsforhold til den mer gjenstands- og innovasjonsfokuserte dimensjonen i I/0-utstillingen, samt å utfordre publikoums antagelser teknologi som lineært framskritt. I tråd med sentrale funn i Privatlivets Grenser, vil DIGSOS desentrere medie som sådan ('non-media-centric aproach') og rette søkelyset mot hvordan innlemming av digitalisering i sosial praksiser omskaper både hverdagslivets sosialitet og digitale medier.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2023). Feed-units, fodder and fire: How Arctic sheep got disconnected from Arctic landscapes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2023). Colonization through the Soil: Rethinking Nordic Welfare Frontiers. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2023). Digitalization in reindeer herding. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Bratrud, Tom (2023). Panel 3: Inscribing nature in digital worlds. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Panel 3: Inscribing nature in digital worlds Convenors: Marianne E. Lien and Tom Bratrud Digital technology is currently mediating biosocial relations in various ways: GPS tracking, smartphones, satellite photos and digital tagging is being incorporated in farming and herding practices; promising enhanced remote animal control as well as precision agriculture. At the same time, close encounters with ‘untouched’ nature (and wild animals) is ritually celebrated through the digital sharing of mountain-top-selfies on Social Media with implications for identity-work and regional tourism. This panel invites contributions that approach the ways in which natural environments are mediated, managed, interpreted and curated through digital technologies. How do digitized technologies shape relations human relations with the other-than-human world? What modes of knowing, forms of governance, and affective encounters do digitalized contact zones enable? We especially invite contributions with an ethnographic approach.

• Bochynska, Agata; Eskeland, Ragnhild; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Klette, Kirsti (2023). Why and how to share qualitative data. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Salinas, Cecilia G.; Bratrud, Tom; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Broch, Tuva Beyer (2022). Sosiale medier – privatlivets grenser rute. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Digitale hverdagsliv utfordrer grensene mellom det private, intime og nære, og det som er offentlig og åpent for alle. Fire sosialantropologer har undersøkt hva den digitale tidsalderen gjør med måten folk i Norge er sammen på. Bli med å reflektere over hvordan digitalisering påvirker deg og din hverdag

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2022). Landscapes as Archives. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Ottesen, Vibeke Smelror (2022). Foring i fjæra; Fjøsgryta og andre foringspraksiser i Varanger. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2022). En endeløs allmening? Havet som drøm og framtidshåp. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2022). Climate change or a crisis of the commons? Sámi land use in the Anthropocene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Reindeer migration routes have shaped human mobilities for hundreds of years. In the Nordic Arctic, these migrations are the backbone of Northern Sámi husbandry practices, and rely on free access to extensive landscapes, from low mountains and winter pastures in the southern inland regions where the snow is soft and allows access to lichen underneath, to summer pastures along the North Norwegian coast. Recurrent winter episodes of snow melt/freeze have always been a challenge, as it ‘locks’ winter feed under layers of ice, but with changing climate in the Arctic such episodes are now more frequent than they used to be. Some reindeer herders respond to the foraging crises by supplementary feeding of silage which is a major technological operation and expense. Others face the loss of calves and see their reindeer in a poor condition. In this paper, I argue that approaching the locked pastures as a crisis of climate change only, may mask the parallel anthropogenic crises that threaten migratory herding practices through encroachment and dispossession of land associated with the commons. How might attention to shifting and conflicting practices of land ownership illuminate the recurrent crises? To what extent does climate change mitigation exacerbate the pressure on land? How might future commons of the Anthropocene accommodate reindeer husbandry as a viable practice, and what is the role of digitalization in mediating human-animal relations in the reindeer herding landscape?

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Abram, Simone Almond (2022). Hytta - fire vegger rundt en drøm. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Norge er et hytteland, der nesten annenhver innbygger har tilgang til minst en hytte. De fleste brukes av slekt og familie, men hva skjer når eierne dør? Skal hytta selges, skal den eies i fellesskap, eller skal den arves av et av barna? Fotoutstillingen vises på Maihaugen i 2020 er del av forskningsprosjektet Materialiseringer av slektskap; Livssykluser på norske hytter (Materialising kinship: Cycles of life at the Norwegian – Hytte), finansiert av Norges forskningsråd. Utstillingen ble i 2019 vist ved Norsk Folkemuseum. Prosjektet ledes av Marianne Lien, som er professor ved Universitetet i Oslo, og professor Simone Abram ved universitetet i Durham. Forskerne har besøkt hytter fra nord til sør og undersøkt hvordan hytta formidler både tvilen og kjærligheten i nære relasjoner. Fotografiene er av Haakon Harriss. Resultatet, formidlet i utstilling og bok, er et nytt perspektiv på hvordan hytta skaper slekt og familie, om alt vi gjør på hytta som minner oss om hvem vi var, og de rare små tingene som gir slektninger og forfedre «evig liv»

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Bratrud, Tom & Salinas, Cecilia G. (2022). Private Lives: Embedding Sociality at Digital 'Kitchen tables'. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Hvem skal arve hytta? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Deler hytta med 27 andre. [Journal]. Hytteliv. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Comments to keynote speaker Tess Lea. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Abram, Simone Almond & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Lives of the house: tracing kinship through the biography of the house. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Half of the population of Norway are said to have some connection to a holiday-home, known as a Hytte. Hytter (pl) became increasingly popular through the second half of the twentieth century with early self-built hytter giving way to mass-produced hytte-developments. Being ‘at the hytte’ has become a cultural phenomenon, involving a range of socio-material practices, traditions and emotional connections. This article starts from the premise that the hytte is more than a stage on which families play out their social relations, but has a role in shaping and curating relationships. Because hytter may remain in a family over generations, the biography of a hytte and its changing physical form offer insight into family relations. While many hytte owners imagine, and try to facilitate the passing-on of their hytte to the next generation, ,new family constellations throw up questions about what makes a family, how far a family can or should extend, and how the buildings and their surroundings adapt to changing dreams, resources and demands. This paper considers the latter in particular through a focus on the ‘annex’, an addition to the hytte that makes space for an expanded family, whether that is parents making way for adult children who are taking over the main hytte, or whether it is for additional children or for guests to visit. The annex may be a new building or an extension of the original building; it may mimic the original style of the hytte or introduce a new architectural form. The hytte itself has been referred to as an annex of everyday life (Klepp; Garvey), but the hytte’s own annex can tell us a great deal about contemporary imaginaries and practices of kinship in Norway.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Kjøkkenantropologen som satte Norge på kartet. Kilden kjønnsforskning. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Sletner, Catharina (2021). Vitenskapelig etterrettelighet og etisk varsomhet. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Sletner, Catharina (2021). Data uten fortolkning er tomme. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Domestication and Multispecies Relations in the Anthropocene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Webs of meaning revisited; Conservation, cultivation and dispossession in the North. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Beyond Ethnographic Presentism: Landscapes as Relational Archives. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2020). Materialiseringer av slektskap: Hytta som arvegods. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Bratrud, Tom (2020). Hytta, korona og drømmen om å klare seg selv. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2020). Hytta - fire vegger rundt en drøm (Foto- og gjenstandsutstilling, Maihaugen). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Norge er et hytteland, der nesten annenhver innbygger har tilgang til minst en hytte. De fleste brukes av slekt og familie, men hva skjer når eierne dør? Skal hytta selges, skal den eies i fellesskap, eller skal den arves av et av barna? Fotoutstillingen vises på Maihaugen i 2020 er del av forskningsprosjektet Materialiseringer av slektskap; Livssykluser på norske hytter (Materialising kinship: Cycles of life at the Norwegian – Hytte), finansiert av Norges forskningsråd. Utstillingen ble i 2019 vist ved Norsk Folkemuseum. Prosjektet ledes av Marianne Lien, som er professor ved Universitetet i Oslo, og professor Simone Abram ved universitetet i Durham. Forskerne har besøkt hytter fra nord til sør og undersøkt hvordan hytta formidler både tvilen og kjærligheten i nære relasjoner. Fotografiene er av Haakon Harriss. Resultatet, formidlet i utstilling og bok, er et nytt perspektiv på hvordan hytta skaper slekt og familie, om alt vi gjør på hytta som minner oss om hvem vi var, og de rare små tingene som gir slektninger og forfedre «evig liv».

• Gismervik, Kristine; Tørud, Brit; Kristiansen, Tore S; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Effekter fra det regulatoriske rammeverket på fiskehelse og fiskevelferd- Fokus fiskehelsepersonell. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gismervik, Kristine; Tørud, Brit; Kristiansen, Tore S; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal & Medaas, Christian [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Forvaltning av fiskevelferd og -helse fra kyllingperspektivet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Gismervik, Kristine; Stien, Lars Helge; Medaas, Christian & Tørud, Brit [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Fiskevelferd sett fra merdkanten. Organisjonsstudie av lokalitetspersonell. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Gismervik, Kristine; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Stien, Lars Helge; Tørud, Brit & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Fisken først – men hvilken? Forhold som påvirker ivaretakelse av fiskevelferd på havbrukslokaliteter. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Stien, Lars Helge; Gismervik, Kristine; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth; Medaas, Christian; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie & Tørud, Brit [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Forvaltning av velferd til norsk oppdrettslaks: Tre konflikttilfeller. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gismervik, Kristine; Tørud, Brit; Kristiansen, Tore S; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal & Medaas, Christian [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Sammenlikning av regelverksramme laks og kylling -dyrevelferd og helse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Abram, Simone Almond (2019). Hytta - fire vegger rundt en drøm Hytta - four walls around a dream. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gismervik, Kristine; Tørud, Brit; Kristiansen, Tore S; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2018). Regler på kryss og tvers- blir det kontrovers? Effektene for fiskevelferd og –helse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gismervik, Kristine & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2018). Fiskevelferd, ordvalg og etikk- NRK Ytring. [Radio]. NRK P2- Ytring. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Law, John & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2018). Denaturalizing Nature. I Cadena, Marisol de la & Blaser, Mario (Red.), A World of Many Worlds. Duke University Press. ISSN 9781478002956. s. 131–171. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2018). Ducks into houses. Domestication and its margins. I Swanson, Heather Anne; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Ween, Gro Birgit (Red.), Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and practices of multispecies relations.. Duke University Press. ISSN 9780822371267. s. 117–141. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of civilization's emergence. Intertwined with colonialism and imperial expansion, the domestication narrative has informed and justified dominant and often destructive practices. Contending that domestication retains considerable value as an analytical tool, the contributors to Domestication Gone Wild reengage the concept by highlighting sites and forms of domestication occurring in unexpected and marginal sites, from Norwegian fjords and Philippine villages to British falconry cages and South African colonial townships. Challenging idioms of animal husbandry as human mastery and progress, the contributors push beyond the boundaries of farms, fences, and cages to explore how situated relations with animals and plants are linked to the politics of human difference—and, conversely, how politics are intertwined with plant and animal life. Ultimately, this volume promotes a novel, decolonizing concept of domestication that radically revises its Euro- and anthropocentric narrative.

• Lien, Marianne Elisabeth & Høgblad, Tone (2018). Synnøve Bendixsen, Mary Bente Bringslid, Halvard Vike (Red.): Egalitarianism in Scandinavia. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 29(3-4), s. 238–241. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gismervik, Kristine; Tørud, Brit; Kristiansen, Tore S; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2018). Gir ord holdning om dyreverd? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gismervik, Kristine; Tørud, Brit; Stien, Lars Helge; Kristiansen, Tore S; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2017). REGFISHWELH; presentasjon av prosjektet med spørsmålsdiskusjon. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Paulsen, Majken; Hovelsrud, Grete K. & Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (2021). Dilemmaet tilleggsfôring : En nymaterialistisk studie av tilleggsfôring av rein. Nord universitet. ISSN 9788292958513. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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