In defense of porridge: perspectives on domestication from the North

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Notes on contributors

Marianne Elisabeth Lien is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She has published extensively on domestication, food production and food consumption, salmon aquaculture and human-animal relations. Her most recent books are Becoming Salmon; Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish (University California Press 2015), and Domestication Gone Wild, Practices and Policies of Multispecies Relations (Duke University Press 2018, co-edited with H. A. Swanson and G. B. Ween).

Thomas Stolp Jacobsen is a PhD student at the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. He is currently engaged in research on the Norwegian state’s handling of Chronic Wasting Disease, a lethal and highly contagious prion-disease among wild reindeer in Southern Norway. With a focus on mitigating efforts which include killing reindeer to save them, Jacobsen engages topics such as indeterminacy, violence, and conflicting nature enactments in the anthropocene.