Andy Lautrup

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My research is focused on the social and cultural consequences of the climate crisis in a Scandinavian welfare state context. Anchored in ethnographic fieldwork, I explore how the climate crisis affects ideas about what a good life and a good society is and what it takes to achieve them. My expertise is tied to youth climate activism and protest forms in the Scandinavian welfare states.

 

Through my PhD research, I collaborated with young climate activists in Norway’s oil capital Stavanger to create knowledge about local protest forms and possibilities for change in light of the oil industry’s vast significance for Stavanger. My PhD dissertation is available here.

 

Currently, I am a postdoc in the research project OIKOS, which investigates the climate crisis as a care crisis. With point of departure in young people’s climate activism in Denmark, I explore care as both an activist principle of organization and way to relate to climate and environmental crises.

 

In my analyses I draw on environmental humanities, anthropology, science and technology studies as well as cultural theory – particularly queer theory and intersectional feminism. I further work informed by insights from climate and environmental justice and I am preoccupied with bridging theory and practice by creating mutual exchanges between academic research environments and the activist environments that my research is empirically grounded in.

 

I work with the potential of interdisciplinary, collaborative research and writing, and I have experience developing ideas, conducting research, writing and publishing in smaller and bigger collectives (see my list of publications)

 

My pronouns are they/them

 

Key words for research and supervision

Climate crisis, activism, protest forms, protest and complicity, care, critical studies of the Nordic welfare states, Nordic exceptionalism, climate and environmental justice, child figures, climate and reproduction, environmental humanities, petro cultures, energy humanities, queer theory, ethnographic methods, ethnographic field work, feminist and anti-colonial science and technology studies, collaborative writing.

 

Courses at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

Climate crisis and care crisis in modern literatur. Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen (co-lecturer). Co-taught with Isak Winkel Holm, Mikkel Krause Frantzen and Ida Bencke

 

Other courses

Society and Technology. MSc-level mandatory course, Business IT, IT University of Copenhagen (co-lecturer). Co-taught with Rachel Douglas-Jones and Katinka Amalie Schyberg

Organizational Change. BSc-level mandatory course, Business IT, IT University of Copenhagen (teaching assistant and co-lecturer). Co-taught with Jan Pries-Heje, Raluca Stana, Caroline Anna Salling and Atifa Rasooli

Environmental Anthropology. BSc and MSc-level elective course, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (course manager and lecturer)

Anthropology as a Profession. BSc-level mandatory course. Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (co-lecturer). Co-taught with Cecilie Rubow, Camilla Kehlet and Kamilla Hasager Jensen

 

PhD course organization

Feminist and postcolonial STS Co-organized with Simy Kaur Gahoonia, Barbara Nino Carreras, Caroline Anna Salling, Katja Sara Pape de Neergaard, Katrine Meldgaard Kjær and Rachel Douglas-Jones (ETHOSlab). IT University of Copenhagen.

Change and Continuity Co-organized with Steffen Dalsgaard and Katinka Amalie Schyberg. IT University of Copenhagen.