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Åshild Kolås
Programme Leader CRPB
Email: Ashild@prio.no
Work phone: 4722 54 77 68
Mobile phone: 47906 05 553
Profile
Research
Events
Publications
Current Research

Pastoralism in China: National Policies and Local Practices.
IDSA-PRIO Institutional Cooperation.

Languages spoken:

Fluent in English and Norwegian, some German, Chinese and Tibetan

Working experience:

1995-96: Project Secretary, UN Association of Norway
since 1997: Researcher, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo

Fieldwork:
1991/92:India and Tibet, 15 months (funded by the Research Council of Norway)
1996: Tibet and Nepal, 3 months (funded by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies)
1998/99: China, 3 months (funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
2002/03: China, 1 year (funded by the Research Council of Norway)

Education:

Dr. polit. in Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 2005
Cand.polit. in Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 1994

Books and reports
Kolås, Åshild, 2008. Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition. A Place Called Shangrila. London: Routledge.
Tønnesson, Stein & Åshild Kolås, 2006. 'Burma and Its Neighbours: The Geopolitics of Gas' in Austral Policy Forum. Melbourne, Nautilus Institute, RMIT University, 24 August.
Tønnesson, Stein & Åshild Kolås, 2006. 'Energy Security in Asia: China, India, Oil and Peace'. Oslo: PRIO.
Kolås, Åshild & Monika Thowsen, 2005. On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Articles
Kolås, Åshild & Camilla Buzzi, 2009. 'Suverenitetens grenser' [The Limits of Sovereignty], Ny Tid, 17-23 April 2009.
Kolås, Åshild, 2009. 'Veien etter Indias 9/11' [In the Aftermath of India's 9/11 ], Ny Tid, 6-12 March.
Kolås, Åshild, 2007. 'Burma in the Balance: The Geopolitics of Gas', Strategic Analysis 31(4): 625–643.
Kolås, Åshild, 2007. 'China in African Oil: Guilty as Charged?', EPS Quarterly 20(2): 6–8, June.
Kolås, Åshild, 2005. 'Militant islamisme og 'legitim' vold' [Militant Islamism and 'Legitimate' Violence], Babylon. Tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika 3(2): 24–31.
Kolås, Åshild, 2004. 'Tourism and the Making of Place in Shangri-La', Tourism Geographies 6(3): 262–279.
Kolås, Åshild, 2003. 'Modernising Tibet: Contemporary Discourses and Practices of “Modernity', Inner Asia 5: 17–37.
Kolås, Åshild, 2003. '"Class" in Tibet: Creating Social Order Before and During the Mao Era', Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 10(2): 181–200.
Kolås, Åshild, 2003. 'Vill Vest i Kina' [China's Wild West], Verdensmagasinet X 12(5): 24–25, October 2003.
Kolås, Åshild, 2003. 'Teaching Tibetan in Tibet: Bilingual Education is Survival', Cultural Survival Quarterly 27(3): 67–71, 15 September.
Kolås, Åshild & Monika P. Thowsen, 2003. 'Dilemmas of Education in Tibetan Areas Outside the TAR' in Jørund Buen & Bjørn Kjellgren, eds, China at the Turn of the 21st Century. Stockholm: Nordic Association for China Studies (131–148).
Kolås, Åshild, 1998. 'Chinese Media Discources on Tibet: The Language of Inequality', Tibet Journal 23(3): 70–77, 1.1.1998 00:00:00.
Kolås, Åshild, 1996. 'Tibetan Nationalism: The Politics of Religion', Journal of Peace Research 33(1): 51–66.
Other
Kolås, Åshild, 2009. 'Lost in a State of Exceptions: Ewenki Reindeer Herders in China', presented at Annual conference of the Norwegian Association for Development Research, Agder University, Kristiansand, 24 November.
Kolås, Åshild, 2008. Review of Charlene Makley, ed., 'The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China' in Asian Studies Review 32(2008): 537–539.
Alte, Maria Indiana, 2008. 'The Framing of a Social Movement: Actors' Perspectives on Joining, Leaving and Refraining from Membership in the Naxalite Movement in South India', Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Oslo. Supervisors: Åshild Kolås & Scott Gates. Defended Spring 2008.
Kolås, Åshild & Camilla Buzzi, 2008. 'Northeast India and Myanmar: Looking East towards a Dead-End?', presented at Borders and Beyond: The Northeast in India’s Security and Foreign Policy, Department of Political Science, Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam, India, 21 February.
Kolås, Åshild, 2008. 'Hill-valley Dynamics in Northeast India: A Research Agenda', presented at Asian Borderlands Research Network International Conference on Northeast India and its Transnational Neighbourhood, Guwahati, Assam, India , 18 January.
Kolås, Åshild, 2005. 'Different Cultures, Different Rights: Approaches to Culture in a Minority Rights Framework', presented at Cultural and Minority Rights, EU Research Training Network on Applied Global Justice, Oxford, 3–5 June.
Kolås, Åshild, 2004. 'Ethnic tourism in Shangrila. Representations of place and Tibetan identity', Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Supervisors: Thomas Hylland Eriksen, UiO; Stein Tønnesson, PRIO (completed August 2004), . .
Kolås, Åshild, 2003. 'Ethnic Tourism in China: Renegotiating the Meanings of "Minzu"', presented at the Nordic Conference on China Studies, Association for China Studies, University of Oslo, 19 June.