Anna Frohn Pedersen

Anna is a postdoc at the Chair of International Business, Society and Sustainability. Her research interests include resource extraction, rural livelihoods, the sustainable development goals, social and environmental justice and global value chains, with a special focus on the extractive industries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Anna’s research is situated between political ecology, anthropology and human geography, engaging ethnographic, multimodal and participatory methodologies. Currently, Anna is interested in the increasing demand for critical minerals and its impacts on the extractive industries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Anna holds a BSc and MSc in Anthropology from University of Copenhagen, an MA in Visual Anthropology from University of Manchester and a PhD in Geography from Humboldt University.

 

Publications

Pedersen, Anna. F. (2023). Elusive Gold and Uncertainty in Artisanal and Small-scale Mining. Ethnos. DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2023.2292464

Coenen, Johanna; Sonderegger, Gabi; Newig, Jens; Challies, Edward; Bager, Simon; Meyfroidt, Patrick; Friis, Cecilie; Lumholt, Louise B.; Paitan, Claudia P.; Corbera, Esteve; Roux, Nicolas; Laroche, Perrine; Pedersen, Anna F.; Qin, Siyu; Zähringer, Julie. (2023). Towards Institutional Fit in the Sustainability Governance of Global Commodity Flows. Ecology and Society 28(2). DOI: 10.5751/ES-14133-280224

Lumholt, Louise M. B.; Corbera, Esteve; Coenen, Johanna; Persson, Joel; Pedersen, Anna. F; Mertz, Ole. (2022). Telecoupling as a Tool for Improved Causality Attribution in Land System Science. Journal of Land Use Science. 17(1): 386-406. DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2022.2086640

Pedersen, Anna F.; Nielsen, Jonas Ø.; Friis; Cecilie (2022). Gold, Friction and Resistance in a Globalised Land System: The Case of Tanzania. Journal of Land Use Science. 17(1): 609-628. DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2022.2063958

Pedersen, Anna F.; Nielsen, Jonas Ø.; Mempel, Finn; Bager, Simon Laursen; Jønsson, Jesper Bosse; Corbera, Esteve. (2021). The Ambiguity of Transparency in the Artisanal and Small-scale Mining Sector of Tanzania. The Extractive Industries and Society. 8 (4): 101004. DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2021.101004

Pedersen, Anna F.; Nielsen, Jonas Ø.; Friis; Cecilie; Jønsson, Jesper Bosse (2021). Mineral Exhaustion and its Livelihood Implications for Artisanal and Small-scale Miners. In Environmental Science & Policy 119, pp. 34–43. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.02.002.

Andersen, Astrid O.; Bruun, Thilde B.; Fenger, Milja; Egay, Kelvin; Klee, Simone; Pedersen, Anna F.; Lund Pedersen, Lærke; Suárez Villanueva, Victor. (2016). Negotiating Development Narratives within Large-scale Oil Palm Projects on Village Lands in Sarawak, Malaysia. Geographical Journal. 182 (4): 364–374. DOI: 10.1080/23308249.2016.1209160 

 

Outreach

Reports and policy briefs

Pedersen, Anna F. (2021). Empowering Women in Tanzania’s Artisanal and Small-scale Mining Sector. COUPLED Policy Brief. No. 1. June.

Coenen, Johanna; Pedersen, Anna Frohn; Laroche, Perrine, Bager, Simon Laursen. (2020). Misfits in Telecoupling Research. COUPLED Report.

Busck-Lumholt, Louise; Coenen, Johanna; Pedersen, Anna Frohn; Persson, Joel

Malik, Sahar; Corbera, Esteve. (2019). Exploring Impacts and Causality in Telecoupling Research: Emerging evidence and knowledge gaps. COUPLED Report.

Coenen, Johanna; Sonderegger, Gabi; Newig, Jens; Challies, Edward; Bager, Simon; Meyfroidt, Patrick; Friis, Cecilie; Busck Lumholt, Louise; Parra Paitan, Claudia; Corbera, Esteve; Roux, Nicolas; Laroche, Perrine; Pedersen, Anna Frohn; Qin, Siyu. (2021). Fit for Purpose? Scale-sensitive Sustainability Governance in Telecoupled Systems. COUPLED Synthesis paper.

 

Films

One gram of gold (2021) https://filmfreeway.com/projects/2340806 (Password: Nyarugusu2019)

Gold (2019)  https://60sec.org/epidemic

Far away from Syria (2015)  https://granadacentre.co.uk/project/a-place-elsewhere/

 

About Anna’s work

Humboldts17 (2021). ‘Wie können wir Minenarbeitern einen nachhaltigen Lebensunterhalt ermöglichen?’

https://humboldts17.de/de/expeditionen/expeditionen/alles-haengt-mit-allem-zusammen/wie-koennen-wir-minenarbeitern-einen-nachhaltigen-lebensunterhalt-ermoeglichen

 

Teaching

Designing a Qualitative Research Project (BA, Summer Semester)

Political Ecology: Resource Extraction (BA, Summer Semester)