Kristin Asdal
Kristin Asdal is Centre Director and professor at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo. She is the author of Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital and The Great Economization of the Ocean (MIT Press 2023) with Tone Huse, and Doing Document Analysis: A practice-oriented method (SAGE Research Methods 2022) with Hilde Reinertsen.
Kristin has longstanding connections to Ecole des Mines from when she first came to stay with Bruno Latour in 1999/2000 in connection with her thesis. Kristin is currently PI of the project Valuethreads with project partner Liliana Doganova on valuation practices and procedures building in part from her ERC-project “The Good Economy”. In her contribution Kristin will draw from this research and her earlier work on “the little tools of democracy”, her book (in Norwegian) The Nature of Politics and the Politics of Nature (Universitetsforlaget 2011) together with her ongoing book project on the coming into existence of parliamentary democracy investigated through the controversy over whaling: Assembling Leviathan (with Bård Hobæk). Precursors to this book is published in Science as Culture (2016) and Social Studies of Science (2021), also with Bård Hobæk.
Speakers in Session 3: Extending questions about nature