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Anna Eriksen Rio
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Anna Eriksen Rio is a Research Fellow at NUPI working on the project Public-Private Development Interfaces in Ethiopia (DEVINT).
Her PhD project focuses on special economic zones, private security and development strategies in Ethiopia. At NUPI, she is part of the Research group on Global Order and Diplomacy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from University of the St Andrews, Scotland, and a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
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Education
2018-2019 MSc in International Relations, the London School of Economics and Political Science
2014-2018 MA (hons.) in International Relations, University of St Andrews
Work Experience
2022- Research Fellow, NUPI
2021-2022 Research and communcations advisor, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), UiO
2020-2021 Research assistant, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), UiO
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Clear all filtersRevisiting the Case of Ethnography and International Relations
This article revisits the debate on the role of ethnography in International Relations. It primarily does this by elucidating three points of tension in the literature on ethnography in International Relations. Firstly, it tackles the challenges related to ‘getting on’ with ethnography after the reflexive methodological developments that have taken place within anthropology since the 1980s. Secondly, it investigates how to overcome certain matters of scale and how to conceptualise the ‘international’ methodologically, or more specifically, ethnographically. When looking at issues that somehow exist and operate on the international scale, the ethnographic task of immersion in local scenes does sometimes seem like an ill-suited approach. However, I argue, this problematisation is dependent on a certain methodological understanding of what the international is. I attempt to formulate an alternative methodological approach that takes seriously the idea that international relations always can be accessed locally. This paper suggests that one of the main solutions to the obstacle of scale is methodologically abandon the imaginary of totalities as a higher level. In this way, ethnography can enable important understandings of social relations that exist across scales of local and global.
Angst i Athen: En forskerspires frykt for å feile
Møt Claudia Aanonsen, doktorgradsstipendiat ved NUPI, som for første gang skal delta på en internasjonal forskerkonferanse. Hun gruer seg, og er e...
The Humanitarian-Development Nexus: A Bridge Too Far?
In their basic and caricature forms, development aid and humanitarian assistance highlight important differences that materialize in attitudinal, institutional, and funding obstacles in the implementation of the humanitarian-development nexus. While the nexus is implemented in order to respond to new types of crises characterised by the protracted nature of the conflicts, cooperation across the aisle has proved hard to achieve in practice. However, policymakers and practitioners have different perspectives on the nexus, and depending on the individual practitioners tasked with implementing the nexus, it can still work. To achieve this, boundary work is needed in order to overcome the distinct segments of the nexus’ constituent parts working in silos. To foster such boundary work, actors responsible for implementing the nexus in practice should be given greater autonomy so that the nexus is better sensitised to local actors, contexts and concerns, rather than being driven by headquarters’ policy demands.
Public–Private Development Interfaces in Ethiopia (DEVINT)
Private actors are increasingly operating in the name of development and in partnership with international development actors. This project (DEVINT) will explore the nexus of private actors and public...
Research group for Global Order and Diplomacy
Research group for Global Order and Diplomacy