CMI Staff
Magister Karin Ask
Thematic research group:
Rights, Democracy and Development
Keywords:
Feminist theory, Gender analysis, Plural law, Human Rights, Islam, Migration,
Geographic keywords:
Southern and Central Asia
Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh.
Researcher
E-mail: karin.ask@cmi.no
Phone: +47 47938047 Mob: +47 90853376
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Social anthropologist with twenty five years experience from applied and academic work on gender and migration patterns in South Asia. Thematic foci of recent projects; Gender assistance in reconstruction and peacebuilding, Women's access to justice under plural law ; Women and human rights under Islamic law. Ethnographic competence based on longer anthropological field work in Pakistan, and several shorter field studies and commissioned evaluations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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Current and recently completed projects:
Courts and the Poor
Start: Jan. 2005 (Current)
Keywords: Poverty, social transformation, social rights, courts, judiciary, legal system, legal culture, access to justice
Geography: Latin America; Argentia, Chile, Brazil, Colombia; Africa; South Africa, Malawi; Asia; India, Pakistan, Lebanon
Gender (in)justice - Pakistan
Start: Nov. 2003 (Current)
Keywords: Honur killings; Pakistani plural legal traditions; Jirga; Sharia courts; the Hudood Ordinance; and the Zina laws.
Geography: Asia: Pakistan.
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Publications by category:
Books and Anthologies
Women and Islamization, Contemporary Dimensions of Discourse on Gender Relations
Ask, Karin, Marit Tjomsland (1998)
Oxford: Berg 199 p.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
"Women Gender and Human Rights: Afghanistan"
Ask, Karin (2008)
in Suad Joseph: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Leiden: Brill vol. 6
Tradition and Change: Afghan Women in an Era of War and Displacement
Ask, Karin (2005)
in Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud, eds.: Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East. Two Hundred Years of History.. Oxford: Berg pp. 191-205
Legal Pluralism and Transitional Justice in Afghanistan. A Gender Perspective.
Ask, Karin (2005)
in Lone Lindholt and Sten Schaumburg- Müller ,eds.: Human Rights in Development Yearbook 2003: Human Rights and Local/Living Law. Leiden/Boston/Oslo: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/ Nordic Human Rights Publications pp. 347-369
Solidaritet med Afghanske kvinner- til kva pris?
Ask, Karin (2000)
in Kvinneforsking vol. 24 no. 2
Repayment of old loans through new loans: is "cross-finiancing" a problem for the Grameen Bank?
Ask, Karin, Arne Wiig and Erlend Sigvaldsen (1995)
in Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute 46 p.
Veiled experiences: Exploring female practices of seclusion
Ask, Karin (1995)
in Kirsten Hastrup & Peter Hervik (eds.): Social experience and antropological knowlegde. London: Routlegde pp. 65-77
Ishq aur Mohabbat: Ideas about love and friendship in a northern Pakistani community
Ask, Karin (1993)
in Broch-Due, Vigdis, Ingrid Rudie & Tone Bleie (eds.): Carved flesh cast selves. Gendered symbols and social practices. Oxford/ Providence: Berg Publisher pp. 207-223
Reports
Kjønns- og likestillingsrettet utviklingssamarbeid. Kartlegging av kompetansemiljø i Norge
Ask, Karin og Siri Lange (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute 45 p. (Commissioned by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry)
Afghanistan and Civil Society
Harpviken, Kristian Berg, Arne Strand, Karin Ask (2002)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute 22 p.
Afghanistan og framtida: mennesklege ressusar og utfordringar.
Ask, Karin (1995)
Bergen pp. 31-33
Socio-economic effects of training programs for refugees. An evaluation of Norwegian Refugee Council's and Norwegian Church Aid's income generating programs in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Ask, Karin, Are Knudsen and Astri Suhrke (1993)
Oslo: Norwegian Refugee Council 58 p.
CMI Reports
Humanitarian challenges in Afghanistan: Administrative structures and gender and assistance
Strand, Arne, Karin Ask and Kristian Berg Harpviken (2001)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2001:4) 32 p.
Repayment of old loans through new loans. Is cross-financing a problem for Grameen Bank?
Ask, Karin, Arne Wiig and Erland Sigvaldsen (1997)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1997:5) 54 p.
Women and islamisation- carving a new space in muslim societies
Ask, Karin and Marit Tjomsland (1997)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1997:3) 141 p.
CMI Working Papers
Kjønns- og likestillingsrettet utviklingssamarbeid
Ask, Karin, Siri Lange (2008)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2008: 4) 39 p.
Other External Publications
Retorikk og realiteter. Kvinners erfaring med Sharia i Pakistan
Ask, Karin (2003)
in Babylon. Tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika vol. 1 no. 2 pp. 42-54
Conference Papers
"Mind the Gap! On the Mischiefs of Interaction Between Local and Global Law. A Gender Perspective on the Changing Afghan Framework for Negotiations of Gender Justice.
Ask, Karin (2006)
Presented at: NORASIA IV, September 2006
Religious representations of the female , legal pluralism and human rights in Afghanistan: a gender perspective
Ask, Karin (2005)
Presented at: the Conference Religion and Gender at the University of Lancaster, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster May 2005
The shaping of civil society in war-torn Afghanistan; Gender relationships as focal points
Ask, Karin (2002)
Presented at: EASA Conference; panel on Political Religion and Civil Society, Krakow, July 2000
Gendering humanitarian assistance: A discussion of humanitarian intervention and local negotiation in two Afghan communities
Ask, Karin (2002)
Presented at: EASA Conference, Copenhagen, August 2002
