Ulrikke Bryn Wethal
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Centre for Development and Environment

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Email
u.b.wethal@sum.uio.no
Phone
+47 22858951
Username
Visiting address
Sandakerveien 130
Bygg 2
0484 OSLO
Postal address
Postboks 1116 Blindern
0317 OSLO
Other affiliations
Department of Education
(Student)
Academic Interests
- Consumption and sustainability
- Social practices, systems and consumption
- Chinese-African relations (particularly Mozambique)
- Economic-, development- and labour geography
- Industry, production and employment in low- and middle-income countries
- Globalisation, competition and business strategies
Courses taught
- Centre for Development and the Environment (master): SUM4200, SUM 4026, SUM 4028, SUM 4019, SUM 4100, SUM 4910
- Human Geography (bachelor and master): SGO 1001, SGO2200, SGO 3300, SGO 4604, HGO4605
- Develeopment studies (bachelor): UTV 1000, UTV 2000, UTV 3091
Background
- PhD (2012-2017): Human geography, UIO. Title When China builds Africa. Linking construction projects and economic development in Mozambique.
- MA (2009-2011): Human geography, UIO. Title Strategies of Avoidance – value chain reactions in the Durban clothing industry
- BA (2005-2009): African Studies, Sub-Saharan Africa, UIO
Publications
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2020). Practices, provision and protest: Power outages in rural Norwegian households. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 62 . doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2019.101388 Show summary
- Efstathiou, Sophia; Korsnes, Marius; Gabrielsen, Ane Møller; Finstad, Terje; Giæver, Fay; Driessen, Clemens; Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2019). lnvestigating the elasticity of meat consumption for climate mitigation: 4Rs for responsible meat use, In Eija Vinnari & Markus Vinnari (ed.), Sustainable governance and management of food systems. Wageningen Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-8686-341-9. Kapittel 1. s 19 - 25 Show summary
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2019). Building Africa’s Infrastructure: Reinstating History in Infrastructure Debates. Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 46(3), s 473- 499 . doi: 10.1080/08039410.2019.1616609 Show summary
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2018). Beyond the China factor: challenges to backward linkages in the Mozambican construction sector. The Journal of Modern African Studies. ISSN 0022-278X. 56(2), s 325- 351 . doi: 10.1017/S0022278X18000150 Full text in Research Archive.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2017). Passive Hosts or Demanding Stakeholders? Understanding Mozambique’s Negotiating Power in the Face of China. Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 44(3), s 493- 516 . doi: 10.1080/08039410.2017.1317660 Full text in Research Archive.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2017). Workplace regimes in Sino-Mozambican construction projects: resentment and tension in a divided workplace. Journal of Contemporary African Studies. ISSN 0258-9001. 35(3), s 383- 403 . doi: 10.1080/02589001.2017.1323379 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
- Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2015). Emerging economies and challenges to sustainability, In Arve Hansen & Ulrikke Bryn Wethal (ed.), Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-74732-5. 1.
- Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2015). Global sustainability and the rise of the south: development patterns and emerging challenges, In Arve Hansen & Ulrikke Bryn Wethal (ed.), Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-74732-5. 19.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2015). Searching for sustainability in Mozambique's development strategy, In Arve Hansen & Ulrikke Bryn Wethal (ed.), Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-74732-5. 16.
- Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (ed.) (2015). Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-74732-5. 304 s.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2020). Exploring the multiscalar politics of construction: Agency and the integration of Mozambican actors in Chinese-led construction projects in Mozambique.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Hansen, Arve & Volden, Johannes R. (2020). Everyday life in a Pandemic. Endringer i sosiale praksiser: Tilpasning, eksperimentering og bærekraft.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2018, 04. oktober). The Belt and Road Podcast: Chinese Infrastructure Building and Its Effects On Economic Development - A Case Study In Mozambique. [Internett]. Podcast.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2018, 09. oktober). Utviklingspoddensialet: Statsbudsjett, Kina i Afrika og superheltene Nadia og Denis.. [Internett]. Podcast.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2018). When China Builds Africa. Linking construction projects and economic development in Mozambique. Full text in Research Archive.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Jakobsen, Jostein; Hansen, Arve & Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (2017). Flau formidling om kolonialisme og sensur. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Jakobsen, Jostein; Hansen, Arve & Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (2017). Kvalitetssikring, ikke begrensning av debatt. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Jakobsen, Jostein; Hansen, Arve & Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (2017). Redelighet, ikke sensur. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2016, 07. januar). Zimbabwe - Kinas første koloni i Afrika?. [Radio]. Ekko Hovedsending, NRK Radio.
- Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2015). Framveksande forvirring?. Bistandsaktuelt. ISSN 1501-0201.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hansen, Arve (2015). Can aid green the South?. Development Today. ISSN 0803-6209. 19-20
- Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2014). Emerging Economies and the Oxymoron of Sustainble Development. Routledge Sustainability Blog.
- Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2014). Fremvoksende undergang. Aftenposten Vitenskap. ISSN 2464-3033.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2014). Perspektiv Afrika: Tar Kina over?.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2013). (Old patterns and) New trends in the global aid architecture – the scope and the challenges.
- Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2012). 'Discourses on Permanent Work and Casualization: The Norwegian Model and Temp Agencies'.
- Aase, Maren; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2011). Collaborative and Comparative Research on China: Ideas for Discussion.
Published Aug. 30, 2011 11:37 AM
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