Ansvarsområder
* Samfunnsfag: Globale utfordringer (Social studies, global challenges)
* Bærekraftig utvikling og samfunn (Sustainable development and society, master level, course responsible)
* Exploring the interface: Materials and materiality in ecology and culture studies (PhD, course responsible)
* member of research groups Kulturarv i bruk and SAMD (Forskergruppe innen samfunnsfagsdidaktikk).
Kompetanse
Nature-society interrelationships; people and place; materials and materiality; industrial heritage; multivocality; cultural analysis/cultural theory; sustainability; cultural sustainability; place pedagogy; posthumanism; interdisciplinarity; feminist critique of science.
CV
2018-: Professor in Human Geography, USN
2012-2017: Associate Professor in Cultural Analysis, USN (HIT)
2009-2012: Associate Professor in geography, USN (HIT)
2005-2009: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Bergen
2003-2005: Senior lecturer in Cultural Analysis, USN (HIT)
2001-2003: Research scientist, Telemark Research Institution
1996-2001: Doctoral Research Fellow at the Dept. of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo (incl 48 weeks maternity leave, 1999)
1994-1995: Lecturer, Tourism Studies, Finnmark University College
Education:
2025: Gestalt Therapy, 120 stp, Norwegian Gestalt Institute AS
2002: Dr.polit. (PhD) in human geography, University of Oslo
1994: Cand.Philol. (MA) in human geography, University of Oslo
Publikasjoner
Bøker og monografier
Birkeland, Inger, Steffen Johannesen, Guro Nordby and Benjamin Richards (eds.) (2025) Multivocality in World Heritage. Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site, Norway. Routledge. (ISBN 9781032804170 hardback)
Birkeland, Inger, Constanza Parra, Rob Burton and Katriina Siivonen (eds.)(2018, 2. utg. 2019) Cultural Sustainability and the Nature-Culture Interface: Livelihoods, Policies, Methodologies. Routledge Series in Culture and Sustainability. London: Routledge (ISBN 9781138650497 hardback, ISBN 9780367855796 paperback)
Birkeland, Inger (2014) Kulturelle hjørnesteiner: Teoretiske og didaktiske perspektiver på klimaomstilling. Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk (ISBN 9788202426163)
Birkeland, Inger (2005) Making Place, Making Self: Travel, Subjectivity and Sexual Difference. Aldershot: Ashgate (ISBN 9781138255234)
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 (red.)(2000) Menneskers rom. Oslo: Unipub forlag (ISBN 9788274770492)
Artikler
Strogan, J., Johannessen, S., Birkeland, I., Mikalsen, V. and Kennedy, A. (2024) Chapter 9 Understanding Social and Environmental Change. Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage site, Norway (pp 197-220). In: Heritage Place Lab. A Model for Research-Practice Collaboration in the Context of World Heritage. Report of the Pilot Phase 2021-2022. ICCROM, World Leadershop Programme (WHL)
Birkeland, Inger (2024) Bokomtale: Håndbok i økopsykoterapi relevant for gestaltterapeuter. Norsk Gestalttidsskrift nr 1/2024
Birkeland, Inger and Eriksen, Mina B. (manuscript) Picture Environmental Citizenship as a Tree.
Strogan, Juliana, Steffen F. Johannessen, Inger Birkeland, Vicky Mikalsen, and Audhild Kennedy (2023) Inclusive management: accommodating site complexity and pluralities in local values in the Rjukan-Notodden Industrial World Heritage Site, Norway. In: Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Vol. 13 No. 3, pp. 517-533.
Birkeland, Inger (2023): Discovering Ecologies of Learning in Place-conscious Education. In: New Perspectives on Humanities Education: Use of Resources from Kindergarten to Higher Education, eds: Karl Chr. Alvestad, Kari H. Norberg and Hege Roll-Hansen. London, Routledge
Murtnes, Åsve; Kari Anne Jørgensen og Inger Birkeland (2019) Steder i naturen: Sted, natur og materialitet på ungdomstrinnet. I: Utmark nr 1/2019
Birkeland, Inger, Steffen F. Johannessen og Ellen Schrumpf (2019) Innledning: Fra industri til industriarv, temanummer av Tidsskrift for kulturforskning, redigert av Inger Birkeland, Steffen F. Johannessen og Ellen Schrumpf, vol 18, nr 2.
Birkeland, Inger (2018) Making sense of the future: Valuing industrial heritage in the Anthropocene. In: Future Anterior, Special issue: Utopian currents in heritage, edited by Liz Stainforth and Helen Graham, 14(2) pp. 61-70
Parra, Constanza, Inger Birkeland, Rob Burton and Katriina Siivonen (eds.)(2018) Introduction: Culture, Sustainability and the Environmental Realm. In: Cultural Sustainability and the Nature-Culture Interface: Livelihoods, Policies, Methodologies. Routledge Series in Culture and Sustainable Development. London: Routledge
Inger Birkeland (2018) Heritage and Society. In: The SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, edited by Sandra L. López Varela. Wiley-Blackwell pp 823-827
Palang, Hannes, Katriina Soini, Anu Printsmann & Inger Birkeland (eds) (2017) Landscape and cultural sustainability, Special issue of Norwegian Journal of Geography, 71(3)
Birkeland, Inger (2015) Valuing industrial heritage in the Anthropocene. In: TICCIH Bulletin (The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage) nr 69, 3rd quarter 2015
Birkeland, Inger (2015) The Potential Space for Cultural Sustainability: Narrating the future of a post-industrial town. In: Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability: Between Past and Future, edited by Elizabeth Auclair and Graham Fairclough. Routledge Series in Culture and Sustainable Development. London: Routledge
Soini, Katriina and Inger Birkeland (2014): Exploring the scientific discourse on cultural sustainability. Geoforum, Volume 51, January 2014, pp 213–223
Birkeland, Inger (2012) Rom, sted og kjønn: Begrepsavklaringer og bruksanvisninger, In: Rom for barnehage, edited by Atle Krogstad, Geir Karsten Hansen, Karin Høyland og Thomas Moser. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget
Birkeland, Inger and Astri Aasen (2012) Ecopsychology and Education: Place literacy in early childhood education. In: Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis, edited by Mary-Jayne Rust & Nick Totton. London: Karnac Books
Birkeland, Inger (2011) Place pedagogies and learning landscapes. In: IGU CGE Newsletter (International Geographical Union Commision on Geographical Education) 2011 (8)
Birkeland, Inger (2009) Kulturell bærekraft: Kulturarven som kilde til lokalsamfunnslæring. In: PLAN nr 3/2009, temanummer i anledning Kulturminneåret 2009.
Birkeland, Inger (2008). Cultural Sustainability. In: TAKU, a journal of The Art and Cultural Professionals' Trade Union 2008 (4). Finland
Birkeland, Inger (2008): Cultural Sustainability: Industrialism, Placeless-ness and the Re-animation of Place. I: Ethics, Place & Environment, vol. 11, nr. 3 (283-297).
Birkeland, Inger (2007) Culture, Cultural Policy, and Ecological Sustainability. In: Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy, nr 2 2007
Birkeland, Inger (2008) Sensing Places: The Politics of Authentic Place. In: Mobility and Place: Enacting Northern European Peripheries, edited by Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt and Brynhild Granås. Aldershot: Ashgate 2008
Birkeland, Inger og Jorunn Eikjok (2004) Natur, kjønn og kultur. Om behovet for dokumentasjon av samisk naturforståelse i et kjønnsperspektiv. In: Diedut nr 5/2004, Nordisk Samisk Institutt, Kautokeino
Birkeland, Inger J. (2004) Mennesket som et bevegelig sted: Feriens steder og regionale endringer. In: Mennesker, steder og regionale endringer, edited by Nina Gunnerud Berg, Britt Dale og Hans Kjetil Lysgård. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag
Birkeland, Inger (2002) Reisen mot nord: Sted som metafor for kvinnelig subjektivitet. I: Kvinneforskning 2/2002, Temanummer Reiser i tid og rom
Birkeland, Inger (2002) Kjønn og kunnskapsmakt: Det mannlige blikket. In: Kunnskapsmakt, redigert av Siri Meyer og Sissel Myklebust. Oslo: Ad Notam/Gyldendal
Birkeland, Inger (2000) Luce Irigaray: Mors makt. In: Maktens strateger, redigert av Iver B. Neumann. Oslo: Pax
Birkeland, Inger (2000) Representasjoner av Nordkapp og norsk natur 1860-1900. In: Menneskers rom, redigert av Inger Birkeland og Bjørg Lien Hanssen. Oslo: Unipub forlag
Birkeland, Inger (1999) The Mytho-Poetic in Northern Travel. In: Leisure/Tourism Geographies. Practices and Geographical Knowledge, edited by David Crouch. London: Routledge
Birkeland, Inger J. (1998) Nature and the ”cultural turn” in human geography. In: Norwegian Journal of Geography, vol 52 (229-240)
Birkeland, Inger (1997) Visuell erfaring som situert kunnskap. In: Sosiologi i dag nr 1/97
Birkeland, Inger (1997) The geographer as tourist/traveller. I: Limstrand, Ingunn: The Research Process: The Researcher's Tasks, Roles and Experiences. Report from a Research Course in Geography, Bårdshaug, september 1996. Papers from the Department of Geography, University of Trondheim
Birkeland, Inger (1995): Om å skrive feministisk geografi. I: Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidskrift, nr 21
Birkeland, Inger J. (1994): The Feminine Hotel and the Man-Made Cultural Landscape. I: Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidskrift, nr 19