Brynhild Granås
Associate Professor
Department of Tourism and Northern Studies
University of Tromso
Norway
Biography
"Education: PhD, University of Tromsø, 2012;Master of Sociology, University of Oslo, 1997: Work Experience:1.amanuensis IRN / UiT Norway's Arctic University (2013-) Project Manager and Researcher IRN / Finnmark University College (2012);Fellow ISS / CEPIN and Associate Professor ISS (2007-2011);Project leader and researcher IPL / UiT (2003-2006);Project Manager UiT's Communication Strategy, Information Department / UiT (2002-2003);Consultant for International Studies, Study Department / UiT (1998-2002);University College, Department of Health and Social Sciences / Harstad University College (1998);Research Assistant ISS / UiO (1997)"
Research Interest
"Key words for my research interests: Identity processes, materiality, nature understandings, human-animal relations and cultural nature, climate change, power relations, postcolonial relations, center-periphery; industrialization, tourism, cultural industries, outdoor life, urban and urban development, branding, polar, arctic. Research groups: ""Narrating the Post-Colonial North"", ""Place, Power and Mobility"" and ""Border Culture / Border Poetics""."
Publications
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Bærenholdt JO, Gregson N, Everts J, Granås B, Healey RL. Performing Academic Practice: using the master class to build postgraduate discursive competences. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 2010 May 1;34(2):283-98.
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Granås B. Ambiguous place meanings: living with the industrially marked town in Kiruna, Sweden. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. 2012 Jun 1;94(2):125-39.
