Ulrikke Bryn Wethal

• 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. doi: 10.1093/afraf/adac019.
• 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. doi: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2063097. Vis sammendrag

  The COVID-19 crisis has led to an unprecedented acceleration in the number of people working from home (WFH). This article applies a practice theoretical lens to expand the pre-pandemic telework literature which often overlooks how WFH is part of complex socio-material arrangements. Based on 56 household interviews in the UK, the United States, and Norway during lockdown in Spring 2020, we reveal the everyday realities of WFH, exploring their implications for the future of work. Developing the concept of boundary traffic, which refers to the additional interaction and collision of a range of everyday practices normally separated in time and space when working outside the home, we provide some insights into how disruption and de- and re-routinization vary by household type, space, and employer’s actions. Much teleworking scholarship highlights technological and spatial flexibility of work, without recognizing the mundane realities of WFH when there is no space for a large computer monitor, preferences to be with children even when a secluded home office is available, or a feeling that important social connections diminish when working on a virtual basis. We discuss the future of work in relation to digitalization, social inequality, and environmental sustainability and conclude by stressing how WFH cannot be understood as merely a technical solution to work-life flexibility. Rather, lockdown-induced WFH has deeply changed the meaning and content of homes as households have resolved the spatial, material, social, and temporal aspects of boundary traffic when embedding work into the domestic practice-bundle.

• Hoolohan, Claire; Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid; Devaux, Fanny; Domaneschi, Lorenzo; Dubuisson-Quellier, Sophie & Schafer, Martina [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). COVID-19 and socio-materially bounded experimentation in food practices: insights from seven countries. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. ISSN 1548-7733. 18(1), s. 16–36. doi: 10.1080/15487733.2021.2013050. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption to previously settled everyday routines, prompting a period of forced experimentation as people have adjusted to rapid changes in their private and working lives. For discussions regarding consumption, this period of experimentation has been interesting, as the apparent instability has disturbed the ongoing trajectory of consumption practices, and with it has created possibilities for a transition toward sustainability. In this article, we examine food practices (e.g., food shopping, preparation, and eating) in seven countries (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, UK, and Vietnam) to assess what we can learn to accelerate transitions toward sustainable consumption. Grounded in a practice theoretical approach, our empirical analysis shows how disruption of everyday routines has generated socio-materially bounded experimentation. We demonstrate commonalities across contexts in how lockdown measures have restricted the performance of previously taken-for-granted practices. We also show diversity in experimentation as food consumption is entangled in other everyday practices. Our study, on one hand, portrays how the adaptation of food practices allows disruption to be managed, demonstrating creativity in working within and around restrictions to continue to provide services for everyday life. On the other hand, we reveal that the capacity of experimentation is not evenly distributed among people and this variation helps in identifying the wider socio-material conditions that constrain and enable opportunities for readjustment. Understanding disparities that affect experimentation (e.g., integration of food practices with work and caring practices) is informative when thinking about how to stimulate sustainability transformations in food practices and provides critical reflections on strategies to enable sustainable consumption.

• 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. I Hansen, Arve & Syse, Karen Lykke (Red.), Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISSN 978-1-5381-4265-3. s. 185–206.
• Hansen, Arve; Jakobsen, Jostein & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). New Geographies of Global Meatification: The BRICS in the Industrial Meat Complex. I Hansen, Arve & Syse, Karen Lykke (Red.), Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISSN 978-1-5381-4265-3. s. 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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Electricity plays a vital role in everyday life. However, electricity-dependent practices are often taken for granted, and the complex underlying infrastructure tends to be invisible – until power supply is disrupted. Drawing on qualitative interviews with rural Norwegian households, this article takes practices as the starting point for examining how daily life changes during power outages and how households experience the consequences of such outages. The aim is to use households’ perspectives to understand the consequences of power outages, and show how disruption influences relations between infrastructures, practices, customers and providers. Using the three elements of practice – materials, competences, meanings – I demonstrate how power failures temporarily break the linkages between elements in electricity-dependent practices, and how households forge linkages between other items and technologies, embodied knowledge and competences, and new meanings, in order to continue daily life. This re-assembling of elements in practices demonstrates the complexity of power-outage consequences, and explains how rural Norwegian households can cope relatively well with lengthy power outages. The analysis also sheds light on the difficulties of trying to reduce consequences to monetary terms. Rather than worrying about the economic costs of power outages, households focus on maintaining their daily routines. The ability to adapt during outages demonstrates a relatively high level of flexibility, but this does not mean that households do not value having secure power supplies.

• 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.
• Efstathiou, Sophia; Korsnes, Marius; Gabrielsen, Ane Møller; Finstad, Terje; Giæver, Fay & Driessen, Clemens [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2019). lnvestigating the elasticity of meat consumption for climate mitigation: 4Rs for responsible meat use. I Vinnari, Eija & Vinnari, Markus (Red.), Sustainable governance and management of food systems. Wageningen Academic Publishers. ISSN 978-90-8686-341-9. s. 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), s. 325–351. doi: 10.1017/S0022278X18000150. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Based on a qualitative study of Chinese-led construction projects in Mozambique, this article explores how Chinese engagement in the construction sector affects workplace regimes. The study addresses the following set of questions: What characterises these workplace regimes, and why do the workplace regimes give rise to resentment and tension amongst Mozambican workers? Furthermore, how is labour agency constrained or enabled within these workplace regimes? The data reveals that Chinese companies in Mozambique are granted great freedom to develop workplace regimes as they see fit, characterised by functional flexibility, low pay and few benefits. Furthermore, the creation of a divided workplace, with separate workplace regimes for Chinese and Mozambican workers, exacerbates resentment amongst Mozambican workers. The Mozambican workers employ multiple strategies to express their discontent, but labour agency is constrained by weak national institutional support, and lack of alternative employment opportunities in the local labour market.

• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2015). Searching for sustainability in Mozambique's development strategy. I Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (Red.), 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. I Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (Red.), 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. I Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (Red.), 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 s.

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• 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. [Fagblad]. KLIMA - Et magasin om klimaforskning fra CICERO.
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). Reworking boundaries in the home-as-office: Boundary traffic during Covid-19 lockdown and the future of working from home .
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). OMigjen Asker - Innsikt fra intervjudata .
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). Bærekraftig forbruk – hvilken rolle kan og bør kommunen spille? .
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). Bærekraftig forbruk – hvilken rolle kan lokale initiativer spille? .
• 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 (2018). 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). Utviklingspoddensialet: Statsbudsjett, Kina i Afrika og superheltene Nadia og Denis. [Internett]. Podcast.
• 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 (2018). When China Builds Africa. Linking construction projects and economic development in Mozambique. Reprosentralen, University of Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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