Marta Tveit

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Academic interests

My work has generally centered on (de)coloniality and identity in relation to climate change and nature-culture, with a cosmopolitan approach to both Nordic and (Sub-Saharan) African contemporary texts and discourses.
My recently concluded PhD-research took an ecocritical look at African and Norwegian speculative fiction. Artifacts thematizing the future, and the people who create them, can tell us something about how current global crises are comprehended, contemplated and reimagined in different cultural contexts. We need to further understand what "wicked problems" look like through (g)local prisms, in order to better understand presents. My research mapped two emerging subgenres, and explored their engagement with the nonhuman through refusals, repentances and (re)emerging ecosophies. It asks: what work is futuring doing now that the alarming realities of climate change are upon us? 

Background

My academic background is in media-studies and African-studies, where I focused on  East and southern Africa. Additionally, I have a  few years behind me as a freelancer in journalism and content-production. Among other projects, I have created a podcast-series about young Norwegian-African identity, a series about being young and queer in Zimbabwe (SAIH) and edited the anthology "Foul play in the Congo" on the French and Moland case (see digital portfolio here). 

Education

  • MSc | University of Oxford, 2016 - 2017 MSc African Studies
  • MA | SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies, 2013 - 2014, MA Global Media and Postnational Communication
  • BA | University College Maastricht, 2009 - 2013, BA Liberal Arts and Sciences

 

Tags: Environmental Humanities, sub-saharan Africa, decolonial studies, climate fiction, Identity, Future Studies

Publications

  • "“Safe in each other’s scaly arms”: Solace, Oddkinship, and the Third Position in African Speculative Texts." In Animals in Science Fiction, edited by Nora Castle and Giulia Champion, February 2024.
  • "Notat om Underingslitteratur", Klassekampen, mars 2022. 
  • "I lyset fra Mars", Morgenbladet, Februar 2022. ("Bokanmeldelse: Ny antologi med norsk science fiction viser kunnskap om sjangerens tradisjon og vilje til å utvide den.")
  • "Makeshift Modernity" - article. Africa is a Country, 2021. ("The rise of African Speculative Fiction and other exciting cultural production indicates that modernity is not an exercise in “catching up” with Europe, but an entirely new condition.")
  • "Decolonization: The view from the North" ECDPM Great Insights Magazine, March 2021.
  • “Vi må snakke om French og Moland” - introduction , Maskespillet i Kongo. Forlaget Frekk: 2020.
  • Full portfolio: www.martatveit.com

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