Vindegg speaks Nepali and his doctoral research is based on work in Nepal, making up a combined eighteen months of field research, using participant observation and interviews as methods.

He has investigated the impact of electricity shortage on a textile industry (MA), as well as the broader social and political impacts of regimes of energy distribution (PhD), showing how energy access becomes entangled with state relations, infrastructural stability, and development.

More recently, Vindegg has expanded his research interests to include climate adaptation and food.

Vindegg's BA, MA and PhD degrees are all from the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Department of Anthropology at Durham University. Before joining CICERO, Vindegg worked as a senior lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology in Oslo.

Articles

Out stealing firewood

Published 6.10.2022

October comes over. The electricity prices headline the front page of your wallet. In the special offer counter of your local grocery store you spot vegan hot dogs, 40% off. They expire today. Perfect.

Energy consumption

Clean cooking: A recipe for a better world

Published 6.10.2022

Switching cooking in developing countries to cleaner forms of energy will lead to better health and lower greenhouse gas emissions. The 4CImpacts project looks at how gas use can be scaled up in Tanzania, and what consequences it will have for the climate, health and society.

Adaptation | Energy consumption | Just transition | Health

Projects

Include

The research center Include will generate knowledge about how we can realize a socially just low-emission society through inclusive processes and close collaboration between research and the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Just transition

4CImpacts - Universal Energy Access: Clean cooking and climate change impacts

Lack of access to clean cooking technology is the single largest environmental risk factor for disease and disability in countries relying on traditional biomass fuels for household energy due to household air pollution.

Adaptation | Air pollution | Health

Research groups

Climate and society

In the Climate and society group, we do research on and for transformation processes towards a low-emission and climatically adapted society. In doing so, we analyze interactions between relevant processes and actors at different scales in order to produce high-quality research that is applicable for various societal actors.