Received Sylff fellowship in 2022, 2023
Current affiliation: Department of Social Anthropology
Anna Kristine Johansen is a PhD candidate (2022-2026) in Social anthropology at the University of Oslo. She holds BA degrees in International Studies and Sociology from the University of Oslo and Université de Paris 8, as well as an MA degree in Social anthropology from the University of Oslo. Anna’s past ethnographic research has focused on academic freedom in Cameroon and issues of race, class, and gender in a Parisian suburb.
Her current ethnographic research is set in São Tomé and Príncipe, where her PhD project examines the long-standing legacy and impact of plantation regimes in present agricultural production and social life. By focusing, in particular, on organic palm oil production in a site that is called a plantation and that exists in the remnants of former plantation zones, this project seeks to understand how histories of colonialism and exploitation are reiterated and transformed in current agricultural economic practices and relationships to land in STP.
