Roger Norum / Researcher-at-Large

Rachel Carson Center
Leopoldstr. 11a, 4. OG
80802 Munich

Room: 420 
Phone: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 72371

Email: norum.ro [at] lmu.de

Roger Norum is a social anthropologist who researches various aspects of mobility, media and the environment. His current comparative work focuses on the praxeological and affective dimensions of everyday life among transient and precarious communities. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in South Asia and the European Arctic since 2008.

Recent publications (all co-authored/edited) include Geopolitics and Tourism: Assemblages of Power, Mobility and the State (forthcoming), Anthropocene Ecologies: Entanglements of Tourism, Nature and Imagination (2019) and Migrantes (2019). He is founding editor of the Palgrave book series Arctic Encounters, and is on the editorial boards of the journals Digital, Culture and Society, Teaching Anthropology and Time and Mind.

He earned his undergraduate degree in Arabic and Turkish from Cornell and his doctorate in Social Anthropology from Oxford, where he was Junior Dean at St Hugh’s College. Away from his desk, Roger plays flatpicking guitar, learns languages and collects sofas.

Professional Appointments

2020-2024. Senior Fellow. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich

2019-ongoing. Docent (Geography) and University Lecturer (Cultural Anthropology), Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu (currently on leave)

2015-2018. Project Coordinator, ENHANCE ITN (Environmental Humanities Doctoral Training Network), University of Leeds, UK

2014-2016. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of English, University of Leeds, UK

Publications

Monographs, Edited Volumes and Edited Special Issues

2019. Anthropocene Ecologies: Entanglements of Tourism, Nature and Imagination. London: Routledge (edited with Mary Mostafanezhad)

2019. Migrantes. Barcelona: Ediciones Ekaré (with Alejandro Reig)

2016. Political Ecology of Tourism: Communities, Power and the Environment. London: Routledge (with Mary Mostafanezhad, Eric Shelton and Anna Thompson-Carr)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2020. “Trading silence for a voice: An ethnography of lack for the contemporary classroom.” Teaching Anthropology 9(1), pp. 93-97

2019. “The anthropocenic imaginary: political ecologies of tourism in a geological epoch.” Journal of Sustainable Tourism 27:4, pp. 421-435 (with Mary Mostafanezhad)

2019. “Bin ich ein Berliner? Graffiti as layered public archive and socio-ecological method.” Special issue of Green Letters 20(2): 83-102 (with Daniele Valisena)

2018. “From welcome to well ... come: The mobilities, temporalities and geopolitics of contemporary hospitality.” In Fennia 196:1, pp. 111-117. *invited response

2016. “The chronopolitics of exile: Hope and heterotemporality in the Thai-Burma border-zone.” Critique of Anthropology 36:1, pp. 61-83 (with Mary Mostafanezhad and Tani Sebro). *invited special issue

Book Chapters

2017. Studying mobilities: Theoretical notes and methodological queries, in Ethnography and Experiment: Methodologies of Mobility. Elliot, A., Norum, R. and Salazar, N.B. (eds). Oxford: Berghahn (with Alice Elliot and Noel Salazar)

2017. Nepal. In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism. London: SAGE, pp. 878-880 (with Molly Clark-Barol)