Knut Gunnar Nustad

Knut Gunnar Nustad is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo's Department of Social Anthropology. His research bridges political anthropology, environmental anthropology, and state formation studies, with regional focus on South Africa, Southern Africa, and Norway.

• Education: BA in Social Anthropology/Psychology/Development Studies (1993, University of Oslo), MPhil (1994) and PhD (1999) in Social Anthropology from University of Cambridge, University Pedagogics (2006, UMB)

Research interests center on:

• Political ecology of conservation and land use
• Anthropology of the state and policy processes
• Informality in political-economic systems
• Human-animal-ecosystem interrelations
• Postcolonial environmental governance
• Temporal dimensions of ecological management

Recent publications analyze trout as a lens for colonial environmental legacies, property conflicts, and multispecies politics in South Africa. He co-edited State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives (2005) and Anthropos and the Material (2019), and leads the Global Trout project at Aarhus University (2019-2022) studying interdisciplinary environmental approaches.