I study the everyday politics of rights to, access to and use of land and resources. With a background in Political Ecology, International Development Studies and Public Administration, my main research interests revolve around resource rights, climate politics, state-making and landscape change. 

Currently, I am working on a collaborative action research project, Storytelling Landscape Change (2021-2025), in which we explore the role of storytelling in the co-creation of landscapes in Denmark. The project is implemented in collaboration with three municipalities and the Danish Nature Agency, and we investigate how stories and narratives about the landscape and its history, as well as citizens' and public authorities' stories about each other emerge in negotiations about the landscape. Likewise, we explore how storytelling can create new landscapes, and through the concept of 'more-than-human landscape co-creation' we explore what role non-human actors/agents have in this process. I am particularly interested in questions concerning the right to land and resources, and how it changes in the co-creation process between landowners, other citizens and public institutions when new green projects are being implemented.

In a new project, Green Rural Subjects (2025-2028), I take this interest further as I explore to what extent the increasing concentration of land ownership coupled with climate and biodiversity projects impacts state-citizen relations. Based on my previous research I explore this in Denmark and Colombia, respectively, and look into how different social, political and historical contexts shape state-citizen relations in the light of green transition projects, as well as how it impacts citizen supprt for and engagement with green transition projects.

I am part of the management group og the UCPH Green Solution Centre's Living Lab Land Use Change for the Green Transition (2024-2025). With point of departure in the area Åmosen on Western Zealand we explore imaginaries, values and interests among local landowners, other citizens and interest groups in relation to rewetting and associated land use changes, as well as what imaginaries the actors have about the future landscape.

Previously, I have worked on resource rights, ethnic recognition and collective territories in the context of sand extraction in Colombia, as well as carbon dioxide removal through biochar and carbon capture and storage (CCS), and what role the promise of negative emissions play in Danish climate policy.

Danish

English

Spanish

In spring 2025 I teach the course Climate, Environment and Nature: Basic Anthropological Concepts, and in the autumn 2025 I co-teach the course Kulturøkologisk Klimalaboratorium (in Danish).

I supervise thesis students from the programmes in Anthropology and Global Development.