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Charlotte Hidle

Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Media and Communication
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Visiting address Gaustadalléen 21 Forskningsparken 0349 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo
Other affiliations Faculty of Humanities (Student)

Ph.D. Project: The Coast as Affective Chronotope: Time, Place, and Affect in Rhetorical Argumentation

The project investigates how time, place, and affect play in political argumentation and public debate. Specifically, how "The Coast" as a historical and social imaginary became a central pivot in the debate on ground rent tax on Norwegian aquaculture in 2023. Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of chronotope is understood here as a merging of argumentative places (topoi) and place-as-argument on one side and temporal narratives in political argumentation on the other. These dimensions illustrate that the debate focused more on what the coast is, has been, and should be in the future, rather than on redistribution and natural resources. I connect this argumentative chronotope to theories of affect in political debate in order to understand arguments and alliances that do not immediately appear rational: What motivated local workers to participate in protests and torch marches against a tax aimed at superprofits for some of the country's richest? Why did a debate on taxes for the aquaculture industry dominate the Norwegian public sphere for so long?

The project is rooted in qualitative rhetorical studies on political communication. It consists of qualitative rhetorical analysis of debates in parliament, corpus analyses of hearing responses and media texts, and field method interviews in aquaculture regions along the coast. The aim is to expand our understanding of the geographical and historical tensions in Norwegian politics, how arguments circulate, and how power is distributed. Subsequently, I will investigate how "the coast" functions as a mobilizing and potentially polarizing pivot in the debate about the ground rent tax on aquaculture.

 

Appointments and affiliations

  • Awarded Fulbright Fellowship 2024/2025
  • Awarded SYLFF Fellowship 2025 (Sasakawa Young Leaders Scholarship Fund)
  • Visiting Researcher at Pennsylvania State University, Center for Democratic Deliberation, spring 2025.
  • Board member Rhetoric Society Europe 2023-2025
  • Mentor Ta Ordet! and Nordic Speech Fest

Previous Teaching 

 

Tags: Rhetoric, Political communication, Democracy, Climate politics, Digital Humanities

Publications

  • Hidle, Charlotte & Ihlen, Øyvind (2026). “The Coast” as an affective chronotope. Argumentation and Advocacy. ISSN 1051-1431. p. 1–20. doi: 10.1080/10511431.2026.2727329. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Hidle, Charlotte (2026). Inn i prosaens sak. In Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Hidle, Charlotte (Ed.), Sak. Prosa. Forskning.. Cappelen Damm Forskning. ISSN 9788202921316. p. 9–19. doi: https:/www.cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog/book/292. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte & Offerdal, Truls Strand (2026). Problemet med virkeligheten : Hvordan forske på sakprosa i en post-digital tekstkultur. In Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Hidle, Charlotte (Ed.), Sak. Prosa. Forskning.. Cappelen Damm Forskning. ISSN 9788202921316. p. 249–272. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Hidle, Charlotte (2026). Sak. Prosa. Forskning. Cappelen Damm Forskning. ISBN 9788202921316. doi: 10.23865/cdf.292. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Hidle, Charlotte (2026). Oppdrett i offentligheten. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2026). "The Coast" as Argument, Place and Public. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2025). Feltnotater fra et fascistisk statskupp. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2024). Laksebaroner, naturverdi og fellesskap: Digital sporing av argumenter i innføringen av «lakseskatt» i Norge. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2023). Who speaks up in the in public hearings on climate and environmental issues? Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2023). Gestene og gjestene. Kairos (Oslo). ISSN 2703-822X. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2023). Alle kan repareres. Kairos (Oslo). ISSN 2703-822X. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2023). Retorikk og fortellerkunst. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2023). What role does communication play in the world of food and where exactly is the food of the future? Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2023). Topical circulation. Tracing rhetorical argumentation through policy process and political debate. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2023). Topical Circulation: Tracing argumentation through political process in "Scandinavian emerging scholars and their Ph.D. projects – an overview". Res Rhetorica. 10(4), p. 151–154. Full text in Research Archive
  • Tønnesson, Johan Laurits; Grape, Signy; Bratberg, Øivind & Hidle, Charlotte (2022). Om tekstanalyse. [Radio]. Podkasten SAKLIG! fra Forskningsmljøet Norsk sakprosa, UiO. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2022). Er fraværet av felles doxa en barriere for klimapolitikken? Full text in Research Archive
  • Hidle, Charlotte (2022). Klimakur vs. klimaku: En retorisk dokumentanalyse av kostholdstiltaket i Klimakur 2030. CICERO Senter for Klimaforskning. Full text in Research Archive

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