Nina Grønlykke Mollerup

Kort præsentation

Min forskning handler om medier og deres rolle i samfundsmæssige forandringer, specielt i forbindelse med konflikt og undertrykkelse med fokus på marginaliserede mennesker og aktører, der udfordrer status quo. Jeg er specialiseret i Mellemøsten og har udført etnografiske feltarbejder i Egypten, Syrien og i Øresundsregionen.

Jeg er uddannet antropolog fra Københavns Universitet (2009). Jeg har undervist i antropologi, visuelle metoder og sociale strukturer i Mellemøsten. Jeg er medarrangør af e-seminarrækken under Media Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (www.media-anthropology.net/). Jeg deltager i forskningsprojekterne DIGINAUTS og Images of Conflict, Conflicting Images.

Mit nuværense postdoc projekt, Navigating uncertainties, making places familiar: Migrants’ media use during flight, arrival and beyond, er en del af DIGINAUTS og varer fra oktober 2018-september 2020.

Primære forskningsområder

• Aktivisme og modstand
• Journalistik
• Mellemøsten
• Flygtninge
• Sociale bevægelser
• Konflikt og vold
• Undertrykkende samfund
• Medieantropologi
• Mediers materialiteter
• Globale flow
• Futuremaking

Aktuel forskning

In the continuously and rapidly shifting circumstances of borders closing, laws changing and other obstacles appearing and disappearing, migrants navigate in uncertainty and precarity as they move through and to unfamiliar places. In this vulnerable situation, migrants increasingly use digital media when moving, countering language barriers, creating knowledge and building bonds and trust (Crawley et al. 2017; Gillespie, Osseiran, and Cheesman 2018; Van Liempt and Zijlstra 2017). Their digital media use is intrinsically entangled with policy changes, technological developments and volunteer initiatives. This research project positions media related practices (Hobart 2010) of migrants in the context of the complex interplay between policy, technology and activism and approaches media as place-making (Moores 2012; Mollerup 2015). The project seeks to ethnographically examine (1) how migrants in the Oresund Region use media related practices to navigate shifting and uncertain circumstances, including during their journey to the Oresund Region and (2) how these practices interplay with policy, technology and volunteer initiatives. The project will pay particular attention to when migrants have carried out their journeys in order to contextualise these with specific policy changes, technological developments and establishment of volunteer initiatives. The project will contribute to DIGINAUTS by ethnographically shedding light on the interplay of migrants’ media related practices with policy, technology and volunteer initiatives through careful collaboration with other DIGINAUTS researchers.