Curriculum Vitae Inger Birkeland

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1 Curriculum Vitae Inger Birkeland PERSONAL INFORMATION NAME: Inger Birkeland ACADEMIC DEGREE: Dr.polit. (PhD) POSITION: Postdoctoral Research Fellow WORK PLACE : Universitety of Bergen, Department of Geography WORK ADRESS: Fosswinckelsgt 6, 5008 Bergen, Norway [email protected] PHONE WORK: (dept.) (direct) MOBILE PHONE: DATE OF BIRTH: 16. January 1964 EDUCATION 2002: PhD (Dr.polit.) in human geography, Universitety of Oslo 1994: Cand.Philol. (master s degree) in human geography, Universitety of Oslo 1989: Cand.Mag. (bachelor degree) in human geography, Universitety of Oslo 1987: Ex.phil. (preparatory philosophy), University of Oslo 1986: Høgskolekandidat i reiselivsfag (bachelor degree in tourism studies), Lillehammer University College 1984: Årsenhet i tekstilforming (one year textile crafts), Telemark University College 1983: Exchange student with AFS, Centralia High School, Missouri, USA 1982: Examen Artium, (secondary school), Notodden Videregående Skole POSITIONS HELD : Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Universitety of Bergen (4 years with 25 % work at the department : Senior lecturer, Arts and Cultural Administration, Telemark University College : Researcher, Telemark Research Institution : Researcher, Telemark Research Institution : Research Fellow at the Dept. of Sociology and Human Geography, funding from the University of Oslo (with 25 % teaching) : Research Fellow at the Dept. of Geography, funding from the University of Bergen (with 25 % teaching) : Lecturer, Tourism Studies, Finnmark University College : Research Assistant, Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo (50 %) EVALUATION WORK Application and project evaluations for Norwegian Research Council: for the research programmes Sami Research and Women s and Gender Research (since 2003) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching: I have broad experience from teaching graduate and post-graduate courses in higher education in human geography, tourism studies and cultural studies. Particular teaching experience in: Cultural and Social Geography, Landscape Geography, Theory of Science and Research Design for Geographers, Qualitative Curriculum Vitae - Inger Birkeland October

2 Method, Feminist Studies, Cultural Analysis and Cultural Planning. I have teaching experience from University of Bergen, University of Oslo, Telemark University College and Finnmark University Colleges, and have given lectures and seminars at many other places, in Norway and abroad. Supervision: Much experience in supervision of students at all level, supervision of master thesis projects at Department of Sociology and Human Geography at University off Oslo and Department of Arts and Humanities, University College Telemark. One of the supervised students is now PhD-student in Cultural Studies at Linköpings University, Sweden. Other supervision: individual and group supervision on bachelorprogrammes in Arts and Cultural Administration, University College Telemark, and Tourism Studies, University College Finnmark Censorships: I am appointed censor at: Department of Geography, NTNU, Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Master programmen in Tourism Studies, Univeresity College Finnmark, Master programme in Cultural Studies, University College Finnmark, Master programme in Urbanism, Oslo School of Architecture and Design LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY Speak and write English very well. Understand German. COURSES / OTHER EDUCATION Ecotherapy, 5-day course organized by Footprint Education Ltd., held at Knoydart in Scotland, October 2004 PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS - Place Research Network - PECSRL (The permanent European conference for the study of the rural landscape) - Nordic Landscape Research Network (with the Landscape Research Group) - Norwegian Associaton of Geographers OFFICES HELD Board member, Association of Norwegian Geographers, Board member, Gransherad Forest owner s association and Agder-Telemark Skogeierforening LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS, EDITED BOOKS Birkeland, Inger (2005) Making Place, Making Self: Travel, Subjectivity and Sexual Difference. Aldershot: Ashgate Birkeland, Inger (2002) Stories from the north. Travel as place-making in the context of modern holiday travel to the North Cape, Norway. Dissertation for the PhD-degree. Report nr 2/2002. Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo Birkeland, Inger og Bjørg L. Hanssen (eds)(2000) Menneskers rom (People s Spaces). Oslo: Unipub forlag Curriculum Vitae - Inger Birkeland October

3 Birkeland, Inger Jøran (1994): "I sitt andre hjem" - Om hotellarbeid og kvinnelivsformer ( In theis other home About hotell work and women s lifemodes). Master thesis in human geography, University of Oslo ARTICLES FOR JOURNALS AND EDITED BOOKS, REFEREED Birkeland, Inger (in work) Senses of Place: The Place of Nature in Place-Making Processes, Manuscript for Norwegian Journal of Geography Birkeland, Inger og Jorunn Eikjok (2004) Natur, kjønn og kultur. Om behovet for dokumentasjon av samisk naturforståelse i et kjønnsperspektiv (Nature, Gender and Culture: On the need to document sami concepts of nature in a gender perspective). In: Diedut nr 5/2004, Nordic Sami Institute, Kautokeino Birkeland, Inger J. (2004) Mennesket som et bevegelig sted: Feriens steder og regionale endringer (The Human Being as a moving place: Holiday places and regional change). In: Nina Gunnerud Berg (ed.) Mennesker, steder og regional utvikling. Oslo: Abstrakt Birkeland, Inger (2002) Reisen mot nord: Sted som metafor for kvinnelig subjektivitet (The journey to the north: Place as metaphor for female subjectivity. In: Kvinneforskning 2/2002) Birkeland, Inger (2002) Kjønn og kunnskapsmakt: Det mannlige blikket (Gender and the power of knowledge: The male gaze). In: Kunnskapsmakt redigert av Siri Meyer og Sissel Myklebust. Oslo: Ad Notam/Gyldendal Birkeland, Inger (2000) Luce Irigaray: Mors makt (Luce Irigaray: Mother s power). In: Neumann, Iver B. (ed) Maktens strateger. Oslo: Pax Birkeland, Inger (2000) Representasjoner av Nordkapp og norsk natur (Representations of North Cape and Norwegian Nature ). In: Birkeland og Lien Hanssen: Menneskers rom. Oslo: Unipub forlag Birkeland, Inger (1999) The Mytho-Poetic in Northern Travel. In: Crouch, David (ed.) Leisure/Tourism Geographies. Practices and Geographical Knowledge. London: Routledge Birkeland, Inger J. (1998) Nature and the Cultural Turn in Human Geography. In: Norwegian Journal of Geography, vol 52 ( ) Birkeland, Inger (1997) Visuell erfaring som situert kunnskap (Visual experience as situated knowledge). In: Sosiologi i dag nr 1/97 Birkeland, Inger (1997) The geographer as tourist/traveller. In: Limstrand, Ingunn: The Research Process: The Researcher's Tasks, Roles and Experiences. Report from a Research Course in Geography, Bårdshaug, september Papers from the Department of Geography, University of Trondheim Birkeland, Inger (1995): Om å skrive feministisk geografi (On writing feminist geography). I: Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidskrift, nr 21 Birkeland, Inger Jøran (1994): The Feminine Hotel and the Man-Made Cultural Landscape. In: Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidskrift, nr 19 Curriculum Vitae - Inger Birkeland October

4 OTHER (WEBSITES, ONLINE ARTICLES, NEWSPAPER ARTICLES) The homepage opened 14. May 2006 as part of the ongoing research project Place Planning: Water, Art and Regional Vitality in Tinn and Rjukan, Norway. I am responsible for all content on the homepage, webdesign by photo artist Per Berntsen. Reisen til et annet sted en kvinnelig pilegrims beretning. Online essay published in: Utmark nr 1/2002 ( Luce Irigaray: Kjønnsforskjell, rom og makt. Essay in the Norwegian weekly newspaper Morgenbladet, 18. February 2000, on the French feminist Luce Irigaray s views on gender, space, and power. CONSULTANCY AND RESEARCH (selection) Part Report 1 for an appointed commitee for planning a doctoral programme in Cultural Studies at the University College Telemark (2005) I was appointed secretary for the committee and researched and wrote the first part report. Birkeland, Inger, Lars Håkonsen, Knut Løyland og Hallvard Vike (2003) Tjenesteproduksjon og folkestyre. Om offentlige styringsformers muligheter og begrensninger. Telemark Research Institution. Work Report nr 9/2003 (Public Services and Local Government: Public Administration s Possibilities and Restraints, Work report for The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities) Bolkesjø, Torjus and Inger Birkeland (2002) Kvinner i fiskerinæringa. Telemark Research Institution, Report nr 193/2002, (Women entrepreneurs in the Norwegian fisheries, Report for The Norwegian Industrial and Regional Development Fund) Nondal, T.J. and Birkeland, I.J. (1993): Markedsføringsapparatet i norsk reiseliv - en kartlegging av system og funksjonsmåte. The Institute of Transport Economics, Report nr 205/1993) (Marketing in Norwegian Tourism; A Survey of System and Functionality, Report for Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry) Birkeland, I. and Nymoen, M. (1989): Eksempelsamling norske reiselivstiltak: Utvalgte prosjekter med vekt på organiserte aktivitets- og opplevelsestilbud. The Institute of Transport Economics, Report 29/1989) (New Norwegian tourism products with a focus on activity- and adventure tourism, Report for Association for Marketing of Norwegian Tourism) SCIENTIFIC PAPERS PRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND RESEARCH COURSES - Landscape, Art, and the (Re)animation of Place, Paper presented at the conference Sensi/Able Spaces Conference and Art Exhibition, Reykjavik, June Et kritisk blikk på økofeminismen: Finnes det en essensiell sammenheng mellom kvinner og natur (Is there an essential relationship between women and nature?) Lecture presented at the the cross-disciplinary seminar Nature in Feminism at the Centre for Women s and Gender Studies at the University of Bergen, 26. April 2006 (Inger Birkeland also responsible for the organization of the seminar) - Rom, sted og kjønn: Begrepsavklaringer og bruksanvisninger ( Space, Place and Gender ). Lecture presented at the seminar Space and Gender at the Centre for Women s and Gender Studies at the University of Bergen 15. March Kulturell og økologisk omstilling: Hva er det og hvorfor? Om nye perspektiver på stedsutvikling i Tinn og Rjukan (Cultural and ecological restructuring: New perspectives on Place Planning in Tinn and Rjukan), paper presented at a research seminar 3. February 2006, Department of Geography, Universitetet i Bergen Curriculum Vitae - Inger Birkeland October

5 - Place-making in North Cape Tourism. Paper/lecture presented for staff at Glasgow Caledonian University as part of teacher exchange programme between University College Telemark and Glasgow Caledonian University, 4. May Luce Irigaray og hennes kunnskapssyn (Luce Irigaray and her views on scientific knowledge). Presentation on a meeting in Network for Gender Research, University College Telemark, 12. May Når kartet ikke stemmer med terrenget: Kulturbegrepet i den nye kulturmeldinga ( When the map does not fit the terrain: The Concept of Culture in the new Cultural Politics ). Paper presented at a seminar adressing the Norwegian Parliament s new policy document for cultural politics (st.meld. nr 48: Kulturpolitikk fram mot 2014), University College Telemark, 22. oktober Fortellinger fra nord om stedsdannelse blant feriereisende til Nordkapp og Nord-Norge (Stories from the north: Place-making among tourists and travellers to North Cape and Northern Norway). Paper presented for staff and masterstudents at the Master programme in Tourism Studies, University College Finnmark, 24. March Sustainability, Place and Self: a View from Geofeminism. Paper presented at the symposium Ecofeminism, ecosocial sustainable future, natural resources and gender internordic research perspectives, 11. April 2003, University of Oulu, Finland - Caring Justice? A feminist view on environmental justice. Paper presented at the seminar Just environments and environmental justice organized by the research group Landscape, Law and Justice, Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo, the Norwegian Academy of Science, 4-5. December Does a special connection between women and nature exist? Paper presented at the Emotional Geographies Conference, Centre for Health Research, Lancaster University, September Landscapes of the subjective world: the example of North Cape, Norway. Paper presented at the conference Landscape & Politics. A cross-disciplinary conference. Open University & University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, March Changes in the experiences of nature: the case of North Cape, Norway. Paper presented at The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, Conference 2000: European Landscapes: From Mountain to Sea. Royal Holloway/University of London and University of Wales Aberystwyth, September Mors makt: Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray (Mother s power: Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray). Paper presented at the conference Maktens strateger organised by the makt- og globaliseringsutredningen, 15. September 1999, Oslo - Nature, ethics and place. The example of North Cape, Norway. Paper presented at the 18th Nordic Symposium in Critical Human Geography, Roskilde, September Looking at the Edge of the World. Space and the Feminine in Northern Travel. Paper presented at the IBG / RGS Conference (Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society), at University of Exeter, January The geographer as tourist/traveller. Paper presented at the Norwegian research course in geography: The Research Process: The Researcher's Tasks, Roles and Experiences organised by NTNU/University of Trondheim, September Travel, travellers and travel stories. Paper presented at the Nordic research course in urban and regional research, organised by University of Oslo, Oslo April Hermeneutikk uten et subjekt? Foucault om subjektivitet, makt og kritikk (Hermeneutics without a subject? Foucault on subjectivity, power, and critique). Essay in theory of science, Dr.polit.-programme, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitety of Oslo, Time, space and the feminine. Notes on the travelling subject. Paper presented at the conferance Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland, July Om å skrive feministisk geografi (On writing feminist geography). Paper presented at the Nordic conference "Time and space for feminist geography, March 1995, NTNU/Trondheim Curriculum Vitae - Inger Birkeland October