Jeg er sosialantropolog og arbeidet mitt utforsker etnografiske tilnærminger til tillit, sosiale og politiske prosesser knyttet til utvikling og skogbevaring, og sosial og urban ulikhet i Latin-Amerika.
Vitenskapelige publikasjoner
Ystanes, Margit (2022). The Politics of Innocence: Empathy, Indifference and the 2016 Rio Olympics. Møter og mangfold: Religion og kultur i historie, samtid og skole. ISBN: 978-82-02-75389-4. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. 6. s 129 - 147.
Ystanes, Margit (2018). Lives Uprooted: Urban Inequality and Olympic Evictions in Rio de Janeiro. Alternautas. ISSN: 2057-4924. 5 (1).
Ystanes, Margit (2016). Violence, Fear and Impunity in Post-War Guatemala. Violent Reverberations: Global Modalities of Trauma. ISBN: 978-3-319-39048-2. Palgrave Macmillan.
Ystanes, Margit; Broch-Due, Vigdis (2016). “Introduction: Introducing Ethnographies of Trusting”. Trusting and its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust. ISBN: 978-1-78533-099-5. Berghahn Books. Introduction. s 1 - 36.
Ystanes, Margit (2016). “Unfixed trust: Intimacy, blood symbolism, and porous boundaries in Guatemala”. Trusting and its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust. ISBN: 978-1-78533-099-5. Berghahn Books. Chapter 1. s 37 - 59.
Ystanes, Margit (2014). “Saving Guatemala's ‘Mayan Forest’: The Environmental Crisis and Contested Development”. Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism. ISBN: 9781472425386. Ashgate. Chapter 7. s 121 - 142.
Bråten, Eldar; Ystanes, Margit (2007). "Kritisk selvstendighet" gjennom fjernundervisning. Om re-mediering av undervisning - og læring gjennom samarbeid. Refleksjoner over prosjekterfaringer 2006. ISBN: 978-82-91308-45-6. Norgesuniversitetet. Kapittel 3. s 35 - 46.
Ystanes, Margit (2021). (Mis)trusting Development. Social Struggles and Forest Conservation in Guatemala. ISBN: 3030893197. Palgrave Macmillan.
Ystanes, Margit; Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (2018). The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change. ISBN: 978-3-319-61535-6. Palgrave Macmillan. s 289.
Ystanes, Margit; Broch-Due, Vigdis (2016). Trusting and its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust. ISBN: 978-1-78533-099-5. Berghahn Books. s 294.
Ystanes, Margit; Nordström, Paulina Emilia; Pull, Karl Emil; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan Storm; Huidobro-Goya, Jose Alejandro (2022). Film screening about urban development: struggles for social justice and housing rights.
Ystanes, Margit; Huidobro Goya, José Alejandro (2021). Foto og video i etnografisk feltarbeid.
Ystanes, Margit (2021). (Mis)trusting Development: Social Struggles and Forest Conservation in Guatemala.
Vattøy, Kim-Daniel; Topphol, Arne Kåre; Gamlem, Siv Therese Måseidvåg; Ystanes, Margit; Rogne, Wenke Mork (2021). Orientering frå Arbeidsgruppa for utvikling av fellesemna i 5MAGLU.
Ystanes, Margit (2020). (Mis)trusting Development: Social Struggles and Forest Conservation in Guatemala.
Ystanes, Margit (2020). The Politics of Innocence and Outrage: Social Injustice and the 2016 Olympics.