Publications

ANJA NYGREN
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1. Articles in scientific journals with referee practice

Nygren A, Kröger M & Gills B 2022. Global extractivisms and transformative alternatives. The Journal of Peasant Studies (in press).

Nygren A 2021. Water and power, water’s power: State-making and socionature shaping volatile rivers and riverine people in Mexico. World Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105615

Massarella K, Nygren A, Fletcher R, Büscher B, et al. 2021. Transformation beyond conservation: How critical social science can contribute to a radical new agenda in biodiversity conservation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49: 79-87. https://doi.org/10.10.1016/jcosust.2021.03.005.

Horton, A., Nygren, A., Diaz-Perera, M.A. & Kummu, M. 2021. Flood severity along the Usumacinta River, Mexico: Identifying the anthropogenic signature of tropical forest conversion. Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hydroa.2020.100072https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hydroa.2020.100072.

Coates R & Nygren A 2020. Urban floods, clientelism, and the political ecology of the state in Latin America. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 110(5): 1301-1317. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1701977

Kröger M & Nygren A 2020. Shifting frontier dynamics in Latin America. Journal of Agrarian Change 20(2): 364-386. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12354

Nygren A & Quesada F 2020. Imagining cities of inclusion – Formulating spaces of justice. Urban Planning 5(3), 200-205, https://org/10.17645/up.v5i3.3465

Quist LM & Nygren A 2019. Debating the unknowns of marine oil exploration in Mexico. The Extractive Industries and Society 6: 855-862. https://doi.org/1016/j.exis.2019.06.005

Nygren A 2018. Inequality and interconnectivity: Urban spaces of justice in Mexico. Geoforum 89:145-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.06.015

Nygren A & Wayessa G 2018. At the intersections of multiple marginalizations: Displacements and environmental justice in Mexico and Ethiopia. Environmental Sociology 4(1): 148-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2017.1419418

Räsänen A, Nygren A, Monge Monge A, Käkönen M, Kanninen M & Juhola S. 2018. From divide to nexus: Interconnected land use and water management changes shaping risks and vulnerabilities. Applied Geography 90: 106-114.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.11.00

Nygren A 2018. Globaali eriarvoisuus ja haavoittuvuuden politiikka. In:  https://politiikasta.fi/globaali-eriarvoisuus-ja-haavoittuvuude-politiikka

Räsänen A, Juhola S, Monge Monge A, Käkönen M, Kanninen M & Nygren A 2017. Identifying mismatches between institutional perceptions of water-related risk drivers and water management strategies in three basin areas. Journal of Hydrology 550: 704-715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.05.040

Nygren A 2016. Socially differentiated urban flood governance in Mexico: Ambiguous negotiations and fragmented contestations. Journal of Latin American Studies 48(2): 335-365. https://doi.org/1017/S0022216X15001170

Wayessa G & Nygren A 2016. Whose decisions, whose livelihoods? Resettlement and environmental justice in Ethiopia. Society & Natural Resources 29(4): 387-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2015.1089612

Rinne P & Nygren A 2016. From resistance to resilience: Media discourses on urban flood governance in Mexico. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 18(1): 4-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2015.1021414

Räsänen A, Juhola S, Nygren A, Kallio M, Monge Monge A, Käkönen M & Kanninen M 2016. Non-climatic factors, multiple stressors and human vulnerability: A systematic review. Regional Environmental Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-016-0974-7

Sletto B & Nygren A 2015. Unsettling neoliberal rationalities: Engaged ethnography and the meanings of responsibility in the Dominican Republic and Mexico. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39(5): 965-983. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12315

Quist L-M & Nygren A 2015. Contested claims over space and identity between fishers and the oil industry in Mexico. Geoforum 63: 44-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.05.015

Nygren, A. 2015. Governance and images: Representations of certified southern producers in high-quality design markets. Environmental Values 24(3): 391-412.https://doi.org/10.3197/096327114X13947900181798

Nygren, A. 2014. Eco-imperialism and environmental justice. In Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change (Eds S. Lockie et al.): 58-69. Routledge.

Bieri, M. and Nygren, A. 2011. The challenges of certifying tropical community forests: A case study from Honduras. The Journal of Environment & Development 20(2): 145-166.

Nygren, A. 2011. Culture, exchange. and global ecology: What role for anthropologists? Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 36(2) 40-43.

Valkila, J. and Nygren, A. 2010. Impacts of Fair Trade certification on coffee farmers, cooperatives and laborers in Nicaragua. Agriculture and Human Values. 27(3): 321-333.

Nygren, A. & Myatt-Hirvonen, O. 2009. The life here is just scraping by: Livelihood strategies and social networks among peasant households in Honduras. The Journal of Peasant Studies 36(4): 827-854.

Nygren, A. 2009. Invited commentary on Participatory mapping, performance and the politics of authenticity in post-colonial landscapes (B. Sletto). Current Anthropology 50(4): 467-468.

Nygren, A. and Rikoon, S. 2008. Political ecology revisited: Integration of politics and ecology does matter. Society & Natural Resources 21(9): 767-782. 

Tahkokallio, L. and Nygren, A. 2008. New forms of environmental governance? A case study of Costa Rican environmental NGOs. Journal of Development in Practice 18(3): 345-356. 

Nygren, A. 2008. Invited commentary on Tourism as science and science as tourism: Imagining, experiencing, and portraying environment, society, self and other in Papua New Guinea (P. West). Current Anthropology 49(4): 615-616. 

Kukkonen, M.; Rita, H.; Hohnwald, S. and Nygren, A. 2008. Treefall gaps of certified, conventionally managed and natural forests as regeneration sites for Neotropical timber trees in northern Honduras. Forest Ecology and Management 255(7): 2163-2176. 

Nygren, A., Lacuna-Richman, C., Keinänen, K. and Alsa, L. 2006. Ecological, socio-cultural, economic, and political factors influencing the contribution of non-timber forest products to local livelihoods. Small-Scale Forest Economics, Management and Policy 5(2): 249-270.

Nygren, A. 2006. Representations of tropical forests and tropical forest-dwellers in travel accounts of National Geographic. Environmental Values 15(4): 505-525.

Nygren, A. 2006. Invited commentary on Happy coincidence? Symbiosis and synthesis in anthropological and indigenous knowledges (V. Strang). Current Anthropology 47(6): 997-998.  

Nygren, A., Dario, R and Canales, M.M.  2006. Forestería comunitaria en Honduras: El análisis de los interesados. Recursos Naturales y Ambiente 46-47: 13-20.

Nygren, A. 2005. Community-based forest management within the context of institutional decentralization in Honduras. World Development 33(4): 639-655.

Nygren, A. 2004. Contested lands and incompatible images: The political ecology of struggles over resources in Nicaragua’s Indio-Maíz reserve. Society & Natural Resources 17(3): 189-205. 

Nygren, A. 2004. Competing claims on disputed lands: The complexity of resource tenure in the Nicaraguan interior. Latin American Research Review 39(1): 123-153.

Nygren, A. 2004. Ympäristökonfliktit ja konfliktien hallinta: Yhteisömetsätalous Hondurasissa. Alue ja Ympäristö 33(2): 21-32.

Nygren, A. 2003. Violent conflicts and threatened lives: Nicaraguan experiences of wartime displacement and postwar distress. Journal of Latin American Studies 35(2): 367-393.

Nygren, A. 2003. Development discourses and peasant-forest relations: Natural resource utilization as a social process. In Forestry documentation for a summit. USAID. Invited reprint from Development and Change 2000, 31(1): 11-34.

Nygren, A. 2000. Environmental narratives on protection and production: Nature-based conflicts in Río San Juan, Nicaragua. Development and Change 31(4): 807-830. 

Nygren, A. 2000. Development discourses and peasant-forest relations: Natural resource utilization as a social process. Development and Change 31(1): 11-34.

Nygren, A. 1999. Local knowledge in the environment-development discourse: From dichotomies to situated knowledges. Critique of Anthropology 19(3): 267-288. 

Nygren, A. 1999. Struggles over resources on the Nicaraguan forest-frontier. Practicing Anthropology 21(3): 17-21. 

Nygren, A. 1999. Conflicts over access: Settlers and protected area management in Nicaragua. Yearbook of the Finnish Society for Development Research VII: 23-38.

Nygren, A. 1998. Environment as discourse: Searching for sustainable development in Costa Rica. Environmental Values 7(2): 201-222. 

Nygren, A. 1998. Struggle over meanings: Reconstruction of indigenous mythology, cultural identity, and social representation. Ethnohistory 45(1): 31-63.

Nygren, A. 1998. From nature/culture to contextualized nature. Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 23(4): 41-44.

Nygren, A. 1996. Ihmiset, ympäristö ja kestävä kehitys. Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 21(1): 27-30.

Nygren, A. 1995. Deforestation in Costa Rica: An Examination of Social and Historical Factors. Forest & Conservation History [Current name: Journal of Environmental History] 39(1): 27-35. 

Nygren, A. 1991. Ethnic identity and interaction of nationalities in a multinational community. Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 16(3): 3-18.

Nygren, A. 1991. La percepción del indígena Bribri sobre el Blanco y sobre sí mismo: Una interpretación sobre el mito ‘El Origen de la Tierra’. Scripta Ethnológica 11: 49‑55.

Nygren, A. 1990. Ensimmäinen kenttätyö: Antropologin initiaatio­riitti. Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 15(1): 42-48. 

Nygren, A. 1988. Stormskär-serien av Anni Blomqvist ur traditions­forskarens synvinkel. Budkavlen 67: 68-81.

Nygren, A. and Nygren, P. 1986. Amazonian intiaanikulttuurit muuttu­­vassa ympäristössä: 1970-80 -lukujen kehitysohjelmien tarkastelua. Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 11(3): 127-134.


2. Scientific books

Kallinen, T., Nygren, A. & Tammisto, T. (Eds) 2012. Ympäristö ja kulttuuri. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, Unigrafia.

Nygren, A. 1995. Forest, power and development: Costa Rican peasants in the changing environment. Helsinki: Finnish Anthropological Society.

Nygren, A. 1993. El bosque y la naturaleza en la percepción del campesino costarricense. Turrialba: CATIE.

Badstue, L.; Nygren, A. and Tomé, C. 1998. Los campesinos de Río San Juan. Managua: DANIDA.


3. Articles in compilation works with
referee practice

Nygren A 2018. Gobernanza neoliberal de riesgos y vulnerabilidades urbanas en México. Durand L et al. (eds) Neoliberalismo y naturaleza en América Latina. México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (forthcoming).

Nygren A, Käkönen M. & Ylhäisi J. 2016. Kehitysmaiden maaseudut [Rural living strategies in developing countries]. In Kehityksen tutkimus [Research on development]. (Eds. J. Koponen et al.): 207-229. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Nygren A, Ylhäisi J, Koponen J. & Käkönen M. 2015. Ympäristö ja kehitys [Environment and development]. In Kehityksen tutkimus [Research on development] (Eds. J. Koponen et al.): 283-309 Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Nygren, A. 2014. Ympäristöantropologia. In Polkuja yteiskuntatieteellisen ympäristötutkimukseen (Ed. I. Massa): 120-134. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Nygren, A. 2014. Ympäristö ja yhteiskunta. In: Johdatus Latinalaisen Amerikan tutkimukseen (Eds E. Vuola and H. Kettunen): 192-202. Tampere: Vastapaino.

Nygren, A. 2013. Ecología política: Análisis contextualizado sobre el medio ambiente y la sociedad. In La naturaleza en contexto: Hacia una ecología política mexicana (Eds L. Durand et al.). México: UNAM.

Nygren, A. 2012. Representations of tropical forests and tropical forest-dwellers in travel accounts of National Geographic. In Indigenous knowledge: Themes in Environmental History. Cambridge: White Horse Press. Invited reprint from Environmental Values 15(4): 505-525.

Nygren, A. 2012. Sertifioitujen metsäntuotteiden matka Hondurasin yhteisömetsistä Euroopan design-markkinoille. In Ympäristö ja kulttuuri (Eds. T. Kallinen, A. Nygren & T. Tammisto): 407-434. University of Helsinki, Unigrafia.

Kallinen, T., Nygren, A. & Tammisto, T. 2012. Johdanto: Luonto-kulttuuri – jaotteluista tilanteellisiin luontosuhteisiin. In Ympäristö ja kulttuuri (Eds. T. Kallinen, A. Nygren & T. Tammisto): 9-35. University of Helsinki, Unigrafia.

Hietalahti, J. and Nygren, A. 2011. Microcredit as a socio-political institution in South Africa: The complexity of rules, logic and power relations. In Microcredit and international development: Contexts, achievements and challenges (Eds. F. Hossain, C. Rees and T. Knight): 21-51. Abingdon: Routledge.

Mendoza, R. and Nygren, A. 2011. Development, governance and contested power relations: The case of Central American forestry programmes. In: Footprints in forests: Effects and impacts of Finnish forestry assistance (Ed. I. Mustalahti):  146-170. Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

Nygren, A. 2009. Environmental certifications, fair trade and social justice. In: Global social development (ed. M. Perkiö): 187-196. Tampere: Tampere University Press.

Nygren, A. 2009. Poliittinen ekologia. In: Vihreä teoria: Ympäristö yhteiskuntateorioissa (Ed. I. Massa): 151-183. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Nygren, A. 2007. El análisis de los interesados y el manejo de conflictos sobre recursos naturales. In Memorias del Simposio Desarrollo Sustentable: Perspectivas diferentes, decisiones informadas (Ed. J. Oseguera): 55-60. México: Universidad Juarez Autónoma de Tabasco.

Colfer, C., Colchester, M., Joshi, L., Puri, R., Nygren, A and López, C- 2005. Traditional knowledge and human well-being in the 21 century. In Forests in the global balance: Changing paradigms (Eds G. Mery et al). IUFRO, World Series no 17: 173-182.

Nygren, A. 2003. Nature as contested terrain: Conflicts over wilderness protection and local livelihoods in Río San Juan, Nicaragua. In Ethnographies of conservation: Environmentalism and the distribution of power (Eds D.G. Andersson & E. Berglund): 33-47. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Nygren, A. 2001. The diversity of livelihood strategies on the Nicaraguan forest-frontier. In World Forests, Society, and Environment Vol II (Eds M. Palo et al): 314-315. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Nygren, A. 2000. Development discourses and peasant-forest relations: Natural resource utilization as a social process. In Forests: Nature, people, power (Eds M. Doornbos et al.): 11-33. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Nygren, A. 2000. Luontosuhteiden sosiaalinen monimuotoisuus: Uudisasukkaat Keski-Amerikan sademetsissä. In: Arvot ja luonnon arvottaminen (Eds A. Haapala & M. Oksanen): 137-147. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Nygren, A. 1999. Deforestation case study from Alto Tuis, Costa Rica. In World Forests, Society, and Environment (Eds M. Palo & J. Uusivuori): 254-55. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Nygren, A. 1997. Antropologinen kenttätyö – matka toiseuteen? In: Kaukaa haettua: Kirjoituksia antropologisesta kenttätyöstä (Eds A. M. Viljanen & M. Lahti): 158-165. Helsinki: Finnish Anthropological Society.

Nygren, A. 1995. El contexto socio-histórico de la deforestación en Costa Rica: La experiencia del Cantón de Turrialba. In: De bosques y gente: Aspectos sociales de la deforestación en América Latina (Ed. M. F. Paz): 163-200. Cuernavaca: Universidad Nacional de México (UNAM).

Nygren, A. 1993. Traditional use and cultural significance of three Erythrina spp. among the rural population of district of Tuis, Turrialba, Costa Rica. In Erythrina in the New and Old Worlds (Eds S.B. Westley & M.H. Powell): 62-68. Nitrogen Fixing Tree Research Reports.

4. Reviews

Nygren A. 2018. Green Wars: Colonization and Conservation in the Maya Forest (M. Ybarra). Conservation and Society.

Nygren A 2017. Subterranean struggles: New dynamics of mining, oil and gas in Latin America (A Bebbington and J Bury, eds). Journal of Latin American Studies 49(2): 423-25.

Nygren A. 2016. Living with oil: Promises, peaks, and declines on Mexico’s Gulf coast (L Breglia). Journal of Latin American Studies 48: 644-646.

Nygren, A. 2012. Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (J. Auyero & D. A. Swistun). Critique of Anthropology 32: 353-355.

Nygren, A. 2012. Monitasoinen metsien hallinta. Alue ja Ympäristö 41(1): 149–150.

Nygren, A. 2010. The gendered forest. Ethnologia Scandinavica 40: 130-133.

Nygren, A. 2009. Paikallisen tiedon jatkuvuus ja muuttuvuus arktisissa yhteisöissä (T. Mustonen). Alue ja Ympäristö 38(2): 57-59.

Nygren, A. 2006. Confronting environments: Local understandings in a globalizing world (J. Carrier, ed.). Finnish Anthropology 31(2): 45-47.

Nygren, A. 2005. Contested nature: Promoting international biodiversity with social justice in the twenty-first century (S. R. Brechin et al). Political Geography 24(6): 763-765.

Nygren, A. 2004. Poliittinen ekonomia ja maataloussektorin muutos Meksikossa (P. Valtonen). Sosiologia 41(1): 79-80.

Nygren, A. 2003. After revolution: Mapping gender and cultural politics in neoliberal Nicaragua (F. Babb). Development and Change 34(1): 195-196.

Nygren, A. 2001. Peasants against globalization: Rural social movements in Costa Rica (M. Edelman). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 7(1): 187-188.


5. Other scientific publications

Nygren, A. & Joutsenvirta, T. 2012. Sulautuva opetus: Oppimisen prosessi interaktiivisista luennoista analyyttisiin verkkoesseisiin. Sulatuvaa opetusta ja oppimista (Eds T. Joutsenvirta & L. Myyry): 4-10. Helsingin yliopiston verkkojulkaisu..

Nygren, A. 2005. Konfliktit keskiamerikkalaisessa kontekstissa: Antropologinen analyysi vaihtoehtoisesta riidanratkaisusta. In Konfliktien ratkaisua vai riidan ratkaisua? COMI Publications 2: 81-92. Helsinki: University of Helsinki.

Nygren, A. 1996. Anthropologist, development and social responsibility: A reply to Nichols. ISTF News (International Society of Tropical Foresters), Dec. 4/1996.

Nygren, A. 1995. Etnisyyden määrittely ja käytäntö. In Meikäläisia Muukalaisia: Kulttuurien kohtaaminen käytännössä (Ed. A. M. Åström): 11-27. Helsinki.

Nygren, A, 1988. Suomalaiset nykyhäät. In Monikasvoinen folklore (Ed. I-R. Järvinen et al): 146-160. Helsinki: University of Helsinki.


6. Professional texts, extension materials and public project reports

Kukkonen, M. and Nygren, A. 2009. Metsätyöt pitävät kylän hengissä: Hondurasissa metsien sertifiointi on vähentänyt laittomia hakkuita. Helsingin Sanomat: Tiedepalsta. 03.11.2009.

Coxhead, I., Nygren, A. and Stocking, M. 2005. External evaluation of the Master’s degree programmes at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) in 1) Development Studies 2) Management of Natural Resources and Sustainable Agriculture and 3) Development and Resource Economics. Ås: University of Life Sciences.

Colfer, C., Colchester, M., Laxman J., Nygren A. and Puri, R. 2005. World forests in the global balance: Traditional knowledge and human well-being in the 21st century. Poster in XXII IUFRO World Congress 8-13.08.2005, Brisbane, Australia.

Nygren, A. 2003. Actores múltiples e intereses diversos: Forestería comunitaria en Lepaterique. Tegucigalpa: PROCAFOR.

Nygren, A. 2003. Diversidad de opiniones y responsabilidad social en la forestería comunitaria. Tegucigalpa: PROCAFOR.

Nygren, A. 2003. Guía para el análisis de los interesados, transparencia social y manejo de conflictos sobre recursos naturales. Tegucigalpa: PROCAFOR.

Nygren, A. 2003. Informe sobre el taller ‘El análisis de los interesados y el manejo de conflictos sobre los recursos naturales’. Tegucigalpa: PROCAFOR.

Nygren, A. 2003. Informe sobre el taller ’La situación actual del proceso forestal en Lepaterique. Tegucigalpa: PROCAFOR.

Nygren, A. 1999.  Estrategia participativa. Managua: FINNIDA/PANIF.

Nygren, A. 1999. Estrategia de género. Managua: FINNIDA/PANIF.

Nygren, A. and López, G. 1997. Plantas medicinales y medicina natural. Managua: Educaciòn Campesina.

Nygren, A. 1990. Etnisyys elää. Tiede 2000, 6/1990: 12-17.