Kari Telle
Current projects
Global Hydroconnectivities beyond Oceans, Seas and Rivers
Support to Norad's Department of Climate, Nature and the Private Sector
Conflict Enclosures
Completed projects
Green economy, low carbon development and international climate change policy
UiO-NCHR Mid-term review of international department ]
Politics of Faith
Regulating Religion: Secularism and Religious Freedom in the Global Era
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative
Transitional Justice, Violence and Reconciliation
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Social anthropologist who works on the 'politics of faith' focusing on the legal regulation of religion, religious minorities, freshwater and natural resources in Indonesia.
Telle is a social anthropologist with research experience in Indonesia since 1994, spanning various aspects of religion (Islam, Hinduism), religious change, ritual, religious minorities, state management of religion, and the global politics of 'religious freedom'.
Telle has conducted extensive ethnographic research on the history and politics of ethnic and religious security groups on the island of Lombok, with a focus on vernacular security, local justice and territoriality, and hybrid policing arrangements.
Other areas of interest include natural resource governance, place and identity in relation to tourism development in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
Telle's current research exmines groundwater and the 'hydrological know-how' developed by communities inabiting low-lying islands in the maritime zone between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Phillipines Indonesian archipelago. Combining anthropological, hydrogeological and archaeological methods, the project explores how springs and freshwater wells have enabled archipelagic interactions, as well as access to water in a context of growing the water consumption and rising seas. This project is part of the Global Hydroconnectivities project, led by Edyta Roszko.
Telle is a member of the editorial committee of Kritisk Etnografi - Swedish Journal of Anthropology and Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift/ Norwegian Journal of Anthropology (NAT)
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