Ulrikke Bryn Wethal

Postdoctoral Fellow - Senter for utvikling og miljø
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Visiting address Sandakerveien 130 Bygg 2 0484 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1116 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Academic Interests

  • Meat consumption in Norway
  • Sustainable, circular and reduced consumption
  • Social practices, systems and consumption
  • Disruption and social practices
  • Chinese-African relations (particularly Mozambique)
  • Economic-, development- and labour geography

Courses taught

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
Tags: Sustainable consumption, Africa, Asia, Poverty and Development, Rights, China, Global South, Mozambique

Publications

  • Hoff, Sindre Cottis; Böcker, Lars & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2024). Post-/pandemic mobility adaptations and wellbeing in Oslo, Norway: A longitudinal mixed-methods approach. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. ISSN 1361-9209. 129, p. 1–16. doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2024.104147. Full text in Research Archive
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Cezne, Eric & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). Reading Mozambique's mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: Evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments. African Affairs. ISSN 0001-9909. 121(484), p. 343–370. doi: 10.1093/afraf/adac019. Full text in Research Archive
  • 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
  • Hoolohan, Claire; Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid; Devaux, Fanny; Domaneschi, Lorenzo; Dubuisson-Quellier, Sophie & Schafer, Martina [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). COVID-19 and socio-materially bounded experimentation in food practices: insights from seven countries. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. ISSN 1548-7733. 18(1), p. 16–36. doi: 10.1080/15487733.2021.2013050. Full text in Research Archive
  • Volden, Johannes & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). What Happens When Cultured Meat Meets Meat Culture? (Un)Naturalness And (Un)Familiarity In The Meat Of Today And Tomorrow. 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. 185–206.
  • 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.
  • 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. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2019). Building Africa’s Infrastructure: Reinstating History in Infrastructure Debates. Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 46(3), p. 473–499. doi: 10.1080/08039410.2019.1616609.
  • 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.
  • 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), p. 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), p. 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), p. 383–403. doi: 10.1080/02589001.2017.1323379. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2015). Searching for sustainability in Mozambique's development strategy. In Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (Ed.), Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities. Routledge. ISSN 978-0-415-74732-5.
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2015). Global sustainability and the rise of the south: development patterns and emerging challenges. In Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (Ed.), Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities. Routledge. ISSN 978-0-415-74732-5.
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2015). Emerging economies and challenges to sustainability. In Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (Ed.), Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities. Routledge. ISSN 978-0-415-74732-5.

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  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2015). Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-74732-5. 304 p.

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  • 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 .
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Lokale initiativ for bærekraftig forbruk og kommunens rolle .
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Trashtalk: Nordmenn er best i verden på forbruk, men er det egentlig noe å skryte av? [Radio]. Switch - Menneskelige perspektiver på globale problemer.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Sofies grønne skifte. Episode 10. Forbruk: La oss snakke om overforbruk. [Internet]. Podcaster UiO.
  • 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.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Vi skal ta skreddersømmen fra gutta i Barcode og gi den til syfolket. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Switch - Menneskelige perspektiver på globale problemer.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). Panelsamtale: Kan popkultur bidra til at flere switcher perspektiv?
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hansen, Arve (2023). Why overconsumption must be understood as a societal challenge. sciencenorway.no.
  • 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.
  • Westskog, Hege; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Leikanger, Iris (2023). Include og noen av prosjektene.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). Overforbruk: Grønnvasker vi oss selv med deling og gjenbruk?
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). Hvordan kan vi få bukt med den norske bruk-og-kast-mentaliteten?
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). Ombruk i Asker kommune.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hoff, Sindre Cottis (2022). Lokale initiativer for bærekraftig forbruk: Asker kommune.
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). Meat consumption and reduction in Norway: Social sites, materials, agency.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hoff, Sindre Cottis (2022). Lokale initiativer for bærekraftig forbruk: Asker kommune.
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). Negotiating sustainable consumption in everyday life: Projects, practices and provision .
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hansen, Arve (2022). Å uffe seg over høyt forbruk fører ikke til endring. Forskersonen.no.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). Ubehagelige samtaler: Forbruk.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). Frokost i Klimahuset: Hvordan endret forbruket seg under koronakrisen?
  • Hansen, Arve; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Volden, Johannes & Sundet, Øyvind (2022). Kjøttskam eller ribbeglede?
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hoff, Sindre Cottis (2022). Everyday life and the circular economy: Exploring households’ (lack of) engagement with circular consumption in Asker, Norway .
  • 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.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2022). The Norwegian sausage: Exploring meaning and materiality in ‘convenient’ meat consumption .
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). Vi må ta et oppgjør med eget forbruk. [Business/trade/industry journal]. KLIMA - Et magasin om klimaforskning fra CICERO.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). OMigjen Asker - Innsikt fra intervjudata .
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). Boundary traffic in the home-as-office.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Volden, Johannes R.; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hansen, Arve (2020). Everyday Life in a Pandemic: Norway.
  • 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). Flau formidling om kolonialisme og sensur. 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). Securing local linkages in Chinese construction projects: Experiences from Mozambique.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2016). 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). Fremvoksende undergang. Aftenposten Viten. ISSN 2464-3033.
  • Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2014). Emerging Economies and the Oxymoron of Sustainble Development. Routledge Sustainability Blog.
  • 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.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hoff, Sindre Cottis (2022). Lokale initiativer for bærekraftig forbruk: Asker kommune. Include.
  • Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2018). When China Builds Africa. Linking construction projects and economic development in Mozambique. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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Published Aug. 30, 2011 11:37 AM - Last modified Sep. 29, 2022 3:30 PM