Arve Hansen

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Academic Interests

  • Consumption and sustainability
  • Development and emerging economies
  • The new middle classes in Asia
  • Food and meat consumption
  • Mobilities
  • The socialist market economy
  • Vietnam

Hansen is SUM's Head of Teaching.

He also leads SUM's research group on sustainable consumption and energy equity and the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies (with Kenneth Bo Nielsen).

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Background

  • PhD in Human Geography (2016), Research Fellow, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, 2011-2016
  • MSc Globalisation and Development, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 2009-2010
  • MA Peace, Conflict and Development, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain, 2006-2008
Tags: Energy and Climate, Consumption and Wellbeing, Vietnam

Publications

  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Hansen, Arve & Sandnes, Thea (2024). Swamped in dinosaurs with LED lights: negotiating sustainability in a high-consumption society. Consumption and Society. doi: 10.1332/27528499Y2024D000000008.
  • Hansen, Arve (2024). Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life. Positions. ISSN 1067-9847. 32(1), p. 49–67. doi: 10.1215/10679847-10889947.
  • Hansen, Arve; Pitkänen, Outi Milja Kristiina & Nguyen, Binh (2023). Feeding a tourism boom: changing food practices and systems of provision in Hoi An, Vietnam. Food, Culture, and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. ISSN 1552-8014. doi: 10.1080/15528014.2023.2263986. Full text in Research Archive
  • Knutsen, Hege Merete; Hansen, Arve; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Potapohn, Manoj (2023). Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry. Journal of Contemporary Asia. ISSN 0047-2336. doi: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2254774. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hansen, Arve; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Efstathiou, Sofia & Volden, Johannes Rudjord (2023). Towards plantification: contesting, negotiating and re-placing meaty routines. Consumption and Society. doi: 10.1332/WPKF9257.
  • Sundet, Øyvind; Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Performing meat reduction across scripted social sites: exploring the experiences and challenges of meat reducers in Norway. Consumption and Society. doi: 10.1332/ZGZV3476. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). The new middle classes: Consumption, development and sustainability, Handbook of International Development and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 9781800883772.
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). ‘It's just pølse’: Convenient meat consumption and reduction in Norway. Appetite. ISSN 0195-6663. 188. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2023.106611. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Capitalism, Consumption, and the Transformation of Everyday Life: The Political Economy of Social Practices. In Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Ed.), Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-031-11069-6.
  • Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2023). Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life. In Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Ed.), Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-031-11069-6.
  • Hansen, Arve (2022). Driving Doi Moi: Motorbikes, Cars, and Capitalism in Vietnam's Socialist Market Economy. In London, Jonathan (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam. Routledge. ISSN 9781315762302.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Ellsworth-Krebs, Katherine; Hansen, Arve; Changede, Sejal & Spaargaren, Gert (2022). Reworking boundaries in the home-as-office: boundary traffic during COVID-19 lockdown and the future of working from home. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. ISSN 1548-7733. 18(1), p. 325–343. doi: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2063097. Full text in Research Archive
  • Greene, Mary; Hansen, Arve; Hoolohan, Claire; Süßbauer, Elisabeth & Domaneschi, Lorenzo (2022). Consumption and shifting temporalities of daily life in times of disruption: undoing and reassembling household practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. ISSN 1548-7733. doi: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2037903. Full text in Research Archive
  • Volden, Johannes & Hansen, Arve (2022). Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel . Mobilities. ISSN 1745-0101. doi: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1985381. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hansen, Arve; Jakobsen, Jostein & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). New Geographies of Global Meatification: The BRICS in the Industrial Meat Complex. In Hansen, Arve & Syse, Karen Lykke (Ed.), Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISSN 978-1-5381-4265-3. p. 35–58.
  • Hansen, Arve (2021). Eating a Capitalist Transformation: Economic Development, Culinary Hybridization, and Changing Meat Cultures In Vietnam. In Hansen, Arve & Syse, Karen Lykke (Ed.), Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISSN 978-1-5381-4265-3. p. 99–120.
  • Hansen, Arve & Syse, Karen Lykke (2021). New Meat Engagements: Cultures, Geographies, Economies. In Hansen, Arve & Syse, Karen Lykke (Ed.), Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISSN 978-1-5381-4265-3. p. 1–16.
  • Hansen, Arve (2021). Negotiating Unsustainable Food Transformations: Development, Middle Classes and Everyday Food Practices in Vietnam. European Journal of Development Research. ISSN 0957-8811. 34, p. 1441–1459. doi: 10.1057/s41287-021-00429-6. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hansen, Arve (2020). Consumer Socialism: Consumption, Development and the New Middle Classes in China and Vietnam. In Hansen, Arve; Bekkevold, Jo Inge & Nordhaug, Kristen (Ed.), The Socialist Market Economy in Asia: Development in China, Vietnam and Laos. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-981-15-6247-1.
  • Bekkevold, Jo Inge; Hansen, Arve & Nordhaug, Kristen (2020). Making sense of the socialist market economy. In Hansen, Arve; Bekkevold, Jo Inge & Nordhaug, Kristen (Ed.), The Socialist Market Economy in Asia: Development in China, Vietnam and Laos. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-981-15-6247-1.
  • Bekkevold, Jo Inge; Hansen, Arve & Nordhaug, Kristen (2020). Introducing the socialist market economy. In Hansen, Arve; Bekkevold, Jo Inge & Nordhaug, Kristen (Ed.), The Socialist Market Economy in Asia: Development in China, Vietnam and Laos. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-981-15-6247-1.
  • Hansen, Arve; Tuan Anh, Nguyen & Linh, Luu Khanh (2020). Commercialising the xe om: Motorbike Taxis, GrabBike and Shared Mobilities in Hanoi. In Kesselring, Sven; Freudendal-Pedersen, Malene & Zuev, Dennis (Ed.), Sharing Mobilities: New Perspectives for the Mobile Risk Society. Routledge. ISSN 9781138593824.
  • Hansen, Arve & Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). Meatification and everyday geographies of consumption in Vietnam and China. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. ISSN 0435-3684. doi: 10.1080/04353684.2019.1709217. Full text in Research Archive
  • Efstathiou, Sophia; Korsnes, Marius; Gabrielsen, Ane Møller; Finstad, Terje; Giæver, Fay & Driessen, Clemens [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2019). lnvestigating the elasticity of meat consumption for climate mitigation: 4Rs for responsible meat use. In Vinnari, Eija & Vinnari, Markus (Ed.), Sustainable governance and management of food systems. Wageningen Academic Publishers. ISSN 978-90-8686-341-9. p. 19–25. doi: 10.3920/978-90-8686-892-6_1.

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  • Hansen, Arve (2023). The stubbornness of meaty routines: Meat consumption and reduction in Norway.
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Consumption and societal transformation: Capitalist development and everyday practices.
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Consumer Socialism and Vietnam's New Middle Classes.
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Development and geographies of middle-classness: Insights from Vietnam.
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Consumption, sustainability, and health .
  • Hansen, Arve; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Efstathiou, Sophia & Volden, Johannes (2023). Transforming Society Podcast: Towards plantification by normalising less meat-intensive diets. . [Radio]. Transforming Society. Bristol University Press .
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Fastlåste mat(u)vanar: Kan vi endre kjøtforbruket?
  • Hansen, Arve; Sundet, Øyvind; Volden, Johannes & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Friday tacos and outdoor barbeques: Re-configuring ‘institutionalized meals’ towards meat reduction in Norway .
  • Korsnes, Marius; Hansen, Arve; Sundet, Øyvind; Volden, Johannes & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). The Circulation of Meat: How contemporary food practices reproduce the demand for meat in Norway.
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Fem kjappe til Asia-eksperten.
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Paneldiskusjon om nordmenn sitt forbruk og artstap .
  • Fosse Kristoffersen, Mina & Hansen, Arve (2023). No pork, no life? Exploring the practices and negotiations of meat reducers in South Korea.
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Replacing meat in contemporary Vietnam: Foodways, materials, and provisioning systems .
  • Hansen, Arve & Haanæs, Øystein Rygg (2023). Ekspertintervju: Kjøttvaner er vonde å vende. [Journal]. Energi og klima.
  • Hansen, Arve & Ording, Oda (2023). Avdekket veggis-gåte: - Overraskende. [Newspaper]. Dagbladet.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hansen, Arve (2023). Why overconsumption must be understood as a societal challenge. sciencenorway.no.
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Kva skal til for å endre kjøtforbruket?
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Confronting sustainability crises: Towards a critical geography of sustainable consumption .
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Meat consumption and reduction in Norwegian households.
  • Hansen, Arve; Sundet, Øyvind; Volden, Johannes & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Hvorfor er det så vanskelig å spise mindre kjøtt? Forskersonen.no.
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Intervju om ny president i Vietnam. [Radio]. Nrk nyhetsmorgen.
  • Hansen, Arve (2023). Kvifor er det så vanskeleg å redusere kjøtforbruket?
  • Brauteset, Bjørn & Hansen, Arve (2022). Towards a Green China. [Internet]. https://newbooksnetwork.com/towards-a-green-china.
  • Hansen, Arve; Helland, Gudrun Cecilie Eikemo; Jakobsen, Jostein; Mohamed, Lobna; Roalkvam, Sidsel & Sandåker, Anne-Line [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). Skal vi spare oss til fant? Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
  • Hansen, Arve (2022). Forbruk - den store elefanten i bærekraftsrommet.
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). Meat consumption and reduction in Norway: Social sites, materials, agency.
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). Negotiating sustainable consumption in everyday life: Projects, practices and provision .
  • Hansen, Arve (2022). Researching sustainable consumption in Vietnam and Norway: Consumers, political economy and everyday practices.
  • Hansen, Arve (2022). Household consumption and the net-zero society: The cases of Norway and Vietnam.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hansen, Arve (2022). Å uffe seg over høyt forbruk fører ikke til endring. Forskersonen.no.
  • Hansen, Arve; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Volden, Johannes & Sundet, Øyvind (2022). Kjøttskam eller ribbeglede?
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). Negotiating sustainable consumption in everyday life: Projects, practices and provision .
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). The power of the pølse: Foodscapes, convenience food and everyday geographies of meat consumption and reduction in Norway.
  • Hansen, Arve (2022). National development and contested (de)meatification in Vietnam and Norway.
  • Hansen, Arve (2022). How meat consumption has changed in Vietnam. [Radio]. Tra Da Chats.
  • Hansen, Arve (2022). (Un)sustainable consumption and everyday life.
  • Hansen, Arve (2022). The geographies of everyday meat consumption in Norway: Stubborn food practices and meat-intensive foodscapes.
  • Hansen, Arve; Pitkänen, Outi & Nguyen, Binh (2021). Feeding a tourist boom: Food and sustainable development in Hoi An .
  • Hansen, Arve & Nguyen, Le Thi (2021). Demeatifying Vietnam? Vegetarian food practices and foodscapes in Hanoi’s meat boom .
  • Greene, Mary; Hansen, Arve; Hoolohan, Claire; Süssbauer, Elisabeth & Domaneschi, Lorenzo (2021). Consumption and shifting temporalities of daily life during disruption: Undoing and reassembling household practice during COVID-19.
  • Hansen, Arve; Nguyen, Binh & Pitkänen, Outi (2021). Feeding (and eating) a tourist boom: Geographies of food and development in Hoi An, Vietnam .
  • Binh, Nguyen Ngoc & Hansen, Arve (2021). Fighting traffic gridlocks: Hanoi needs more than one hero. Hanoi Times.
  • Binh, Nguyen Ngoc & Hansen, Arve (2021). Giao thông đô thị ở Hà Nội: Giải pháp từ góc nhìn đa chiều. Kinh Te Do Thi.
  • Do Ta, Khanh; Hansen, Arve & Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid (2021). Come governare il COVID-19: le politiche di controllo della pandemia in Viet Nam. RISE - Quarterly journal on the international relations and international political economy of South-East Asia. ISSN 2531-324X. 6(1).
  • Hansen, Arve & Binh, Nguyen Ngoc (2021). Chuyên gia Na Uy hiến kế cho giao thông Hà Nội. Vietnamnet.
  • Hansen, Arve; Korsnes, Marius; Sundet, Øyvind; Volden, Johannes R. & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). Holdningsendring alene gir ikke kjøttkutt. SUM-bloggen.
  • Hansen, Arve; Korsnes, Marius; Sundet, Øyvind; Volden, Johannes R. & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). Kjøttkutt krever politisk styring! Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
  • Bekkevold, Jo Inge; Hansen, Arve & Nordhaug, Kristen (2021). The Socialist Market Economy in China, Vietnam and Laos: A development model to embrace? Developing Economics.
  • Nordhaug, Kristen; Hansen, Arve & Bekkevold, Jo Inge (2020). Sosialistisk markedsøkonomi: Utviklingslandenes nye supermodell? Bistandsaktuelt. ISSN 1501-0201.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Hansen, Arve & Volden, Johannes R. (2020). Everyday life in a Pandemic. Endringer i sosiale praksiser: Tilpasning, eksperimentering og bærekraft.
  • Volden, Johannes R.; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hansen, Arve (2020). Everyday Life in a Pandemic: Norway.
  • Hansen, Arve & Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). COVID-19 and the Asian meat complex. East Asia Forum.
  • Hansen, Arve (2020). Utan mindre forbruk er det grøne skiftet ein illusjon. SUM-bloggen.
  • Hansen, Arve (2020). Leninistisk pandemisuksess i Vietnam. Asiapunkt.
  • Hansen, Arve (2020). Forbruksignoransen. Spire.
  • Hansen, Arve (2020). Intervju på NRK Radio om forbruksbaserte klimamålingar.
  • Hansen, Arve (2019). Small is beautiful? Norwegian agriculture between success and failure .
  • Hansen, Arve & Jakobsen, Jostein (2019). Geographies of Asian Meatification . Terra Nullius: Repossessing the Existent.
  • Hansen, Arve (2019). The meat of the Anthropocene: Food, capital and the globalisation of industrialised animal killing.
  • Hansen, Arve (2019). Hanoi på to og fire hjul. Geografisk Orientering. ISSN 0105-4848. 5, p. 22–25.
  • Hansen, Arve (2019). Panel participant during session "The role of energy and infrastructure in reaching social, environmental and economic Development".
  • Hansen, Arve (2019). Berekraftig forbruk i byen: Byrom og kvardagskonsum.
  • Hansen, Arve (2019). Det sosiale overforbruket. Samfunnsgeografen. ISSN 0802-9091. p. 4–7.
  • Hansen, Arve; Nguyen, Tuan Anh & Luu, Khanh Linh (2019). Meals on wheels: Competing forms of food delivery in Hanoi’s system of moto-mobility .
  • Hansen, Arve (2019). Meat, capitalism and spatial transformations: Meatification and everyday geographies of consumption in China and Vietnam .
  • Hansen, Arve (2019). Consumer socialism: Consumption, development and the new middle classes in China and Vietnam .
  • Do Ta, Khanh; Hansen, Arve; Hardy, Andrew; Pham Quynh, Phuong; Shum, Melody & Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2020). Vietnam's Covid-19 strategy: Political mobilisation, targeted containment, social engagement. CRISEA.
  • Do Ta, Khanh; Hansen, Arve & Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid (2020). Governing Covid-19 in Vietnam: The politics of pandemic control. CRISEA.

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