Åsne Håndlykken-Luz

Åsne Håndlykken-Luz

Associate Professor
Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Sports and Educational Science
Campus Drammen
+47 31 00 97 95 / +47 467 74 560
Associate professor at Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies, Human Rights and Multiculturalism master's program. Research leader Strategic Research area (SFO DSS), Democracy, societal organisation and governance. My research explores urban cultures, urban experiences and politics, with a particular focus on everyday experiences, the role of the senses, social inequalities, citizenship, human rights, heritage, urban militarization and urban change in cities in the global south, and beyond. I was a research fellow at USN (2018-2021) and worked on the PhD project “Licence-to-kill: Residents’ experiences of living in a ‘pacified’ favela in Rio de Janeiro, 2011–2018”. From 2011 to 2014 I was a research fellow at the University of Bergamo in Italy and Universidade Federal Fluminense. I hold a master’s degree in European Studies on Society, Science and Technology from the University of Maastricht and I have undertaken ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa and Brazil.

Responsibilities

Course coordinator

Teaching and supervision Master's level

 

Teaching and supervision PhD level

Teaching and workshops staff and researchers

  • Developing Doctoral Supervision (DDS) and Diversity in PhD supervision
  • EDUC Gender methodologies (digital course)

Competences

  • Global cultural studies
  • Urban sociology and urban anthropology
  • Everyday urban politics
  • Visual anthropology and visual methods
  • Decolonizing methodologies
  • Ethics
  • Studies on Society, Science and Technology (STS)
  • Cities in the global South
  • Postcolonial and decolonial perspectives
  • Citizenship
  • Power and space
  • Peripheries
  • Social inequalities

Research interests

Urban cultures, urban experiences and politics, with a particular focus on everyday experiences, space, visual methods, the role of the senses, decolonial perspectives, social inequalities, citizenship, human rights, social justice, ethics, racism, power, social movements, social media, Southern black atlantic, planetary humanism, peripheries, global south, urban militarization and urban change in cities.

Research groups and networks

Human Rights and Diversities

Cross-disciplinary Research on Latin America (CLA) 

CV

Professional experience

  • Associate professor Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies, Human Rights and Multiculturalism master's program (2023-)
  • Research leader Strategic Research area Democracry, Social Organisation and Governance (2025-)
  • Deputy head Strategic Research area Democracy, Social Organisation and Governance (2023-2024)
  • Senior advisor unit for analysis, strategy and institutional governance,  (2023)
  • Assistant professor Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies (2022)
  • Senior advisor, Research and Innovation Unit (2022)
  • PhD research fellow, Culture Studies, USN (2018-2021)
  • Visiting scholar Universidade de Lisboa, IGOT, The Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (2019)
  • PhD researcher, ISCTE, Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, Department of sociology (2019)
  • Senior advisor, rectorate, USN (2018-2021)
  • Senior advisor, Department of research and innovation, USN (2016-2018)
  • Assistant project manager KLOK (Kvinnelige forskere, Læring, Organisasjon og Kjønnsbalanse), USN, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2015-2016)
  • Research fellow, Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones, the University of Bergamo (2010-2014). 
  • Guest researcher, Institute of Art and Social communication, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil (2011-2013)
  • Guest researcher, Faculty of Philology, Hermeneia research centre for Literary studies and Digital technology, Universidade de Barcelona, Spain

Education

  • PhD Culture studies, USN (2022)
  • MA European Studies on Society, Technology and Science, Governance of Innovation and Technological Cultures in the Global South and North, from the University of Maastricht (2010). Fieldwork in South Africa.
  • BA Culture and history of ideas, University of Oslo (The National University of Singapore (NUS), University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa, University of Bamako, Mali).
  • BA Fashion design, Nouvelle Couture, cultures, technology, sustainability and identities, Ecole Supérieure de l’Art et Technique de la Mode, Paris (2005).

 

Languages:

English, French, Brazilian Portuguese (fluent)

Spanish, Italian, German (basic)

Ongoing projects:

Cracking the Coloniality of Norwegian Monocultural Academia in. Tavares, V. Intersectional Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Norwegian Higher Education by Routledge. by with K. G. Eriksen, G. Mezzanotti, Å. Håndlykken-Luz,  S. M. Llort and D. F. Nunes  (in press)

Knowledge unchained, advocacy unbound: pluriversal perspectives on the role of artivism in human rights advocacy in higher education. In Journal of Human Rights Practice Activist Pedagogies Special Collection (in review)

Field notes – extracts: visual notes from a longitudinal ethnographic research of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas (in review)

Favelas 4D' senseable city mapping, borderising bodies and algorithmic policing in Rio de Janeiro (in progress)

Publications in the Norwegian Research Information Repository