My fieldworks concern classic themes associated with indigenous peoples such as land rights, political processes, natural resource management, cultural heritage, world heritage and self-determination. My approach to these themes often concern how history, land, environment and identity are enacted.

Nature practices and rights in sub-Arctic Norway. ‪Professor of Anthropology, University of Oslo‬ - ‪‪Cited by 961‬‬ - ‪Arctic. Indigeneity. Resource management. Museums....

Gro WEEN, Professor | Cited by 318 | of University of Oslo, Oslo | Read 47 publications | Contact Gro WEEN

We observe how the threat of extinction has initiated commotion where nature, economies, legal instruments, politics and science have come into play, in ways that reveal differences in the Norwegian and American constellations of interests and powers, manifested as differences in natural resource management regimes' hierarchies of positions.

To investigate what it means to repatriate knowledge, we must understand the processes involved in repatriating museum objects, including what it involves to become a museum object. Such knowledge may produce new insights into our disciplinary histories as well as our current practices of anthropological knowledge production.

Gro Ween. Professor, Section of Ethnography, Numismatics and Classical Archaeology, and University Science History

Gro Ween Drawing on current changes in nature practices in the County of Finnmark in Northern Norway we reflect upon the ways in which indigenous and non-indigenous locals, in a period of transition, engage with and relate to their environment in a place which is often described by outsiders as remote.

Gro Birgit Ween is an Associate Professor at the Cultural History Museum at the University of Oslo and Keeper of the Arctic and Australian Collection. She received her D.Phil from Oxford University and has since then held three postdoctoral fellowships.

2012年3月13日 · Exploring the ways in which World Heritage sites are brought into existence provides the opportunity for a closer view of exactly how Indigenous rights are relevant. The three Norwegian Sámi cases examined confirm the need to maintain two perspectives of the use of Indigenous rights.