Jonas Fossli Gjersø | Universitetet i Stavanger

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Fakultet for utdanningsvitenskap og humaniora

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø is an Associate Professor of History researching subjects related to empire, abolition and energy. He is the Current Debates Editor for The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History and is currently serving as the department's Academic Programme Director for History (studieprogramleder for historie).

His PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2015) considered British imperialism in East Africa, whilst his postdoctoral research project at the University of Oslo investigated Norwegian and international petroleum history. His publications include The Scramble for East Africa (2015) and The Great Leap Offshore (2023). His op-eds and book reviews have featured in International Affairs, Historisk Tidsskrift, Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, OpenDemocracy, Impakter Magazine, Dagsavisen, Aftenbladet and he has appeared on BBC World, NRK Dagsnytt 18, NRK P2 Ekko, NRK P2 Studio 2, NRK Rogaland, Fortid, the Land & Climate Review Podcast and Historikeren.

Dr Gjersø has taught international, imperial and economic history at the LSE, Goldsmiths - University of London, the University of Oslo, BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo & in Stavanger, at the University of Stavanger (UiS) and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). These courses include: From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century (LSE), International History since 1890 (LSE), Empires in Comparative Perspective: Imperium Romanum to Pax Americana (Goldsmiths), Key Issues in Modern International and Transnational History (Uni. Oslo), Neighborhood Bully? Stormaktene og Midtøsten siden 1945 (Uni. Oslo), Krig og konflikt. Stormaktene, Europa og verdensherredømme i det 20. århundret (Uni. Oslo), Fra Ekofisk til Equinor: Norge og oljen (Uni. Oslo), Moderne historie (Uni. Stavanger), Teknologiens kulturhistorie (Uni. Stavanger), Global Political Economy (BI Oslo & Stavanger); Geopolitics and Global Challenges (NTNU).

At UiS he is the Course Convenor for Modern History (emneansvarlig for (L)HIS165 Moderne historie) and the undergraduate dissertation seminar (emneansvarlig for HIS290 Bacheloroppgave i historie). He is happy to supervise projects broadly related to his research interests.

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Publikasjoner

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2025) 1.1 Two Wars and a Pandemic: Global Shipping Markets in the Early-2020s. I: Miranda Schreurs; Espen Moe; Thomas Michael Sattich; Shaohua Yan; Marco Grasso, De Gruyter Handbook of Ocean Governance and Maritime Affairs. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). ISBN 9783111195544. s.15-29. DOI: 10.1515/9783111195544-003

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2022) The Great Leap Offshore: Sino-Norwegian Relations and Petro-Knowledge Transfers, 1976-1997. I: Enterprise & Society. ISSN 1467-2227. Volum 24. s.617-641. DOI: 10.1017/eso.2022.4

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2021) Plus ça change? Fra abolisjonisme til migrasjonskrise. I: Fortid. ISSN 1504-1913. Volum 18. s.56-62.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2015) The Scramble for East Africa: British Motives Reconsidered, 1884–95. I: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. ISSN 0308-6534. Volum 43. s.831-860. DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2015.1026131

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2015) Continuity of moral policy: a reconsideration of British motives for the partition of East Africa in light of anti-slave trade policy and imperial agency, 1878-96. London School of Economics and Political Science.

Formidling

Jean Christine Cena; Jonas Fossli Gjersø; Gro Holm (2026) Trump forsyner seg av verda - Ekko - NRK Radio.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2025) Decolonising Academia. Informasjonsmøte for Studentenes og Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond (SAIH) Stavanger; 2025-02-05.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2025) ‘Imperium in Imperio’? Subaltern Coloniality and Balfour’s Promise of a ‘New Palestine’ in East Africa, 1903. The Private Side of Politics in British History Symposium; 2025-06-05.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2025) Trump setter all militær hjelp til Ukraina på pause, hva betyr dette for Europa og Norge?. Utsnitt tv intervju; 2025-03-04.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2024) Det siste koloniprosjektet. s.4-4.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2024) Crude [Post] Colonialism? The North Sea as an Arena for the Interaction between Colonial and Post-Colonial Capitalist Institutions. Empire and Capitalism in the North Sea Workshop; 2024-05-14 - 2024-05-15.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2024) Gaza and the Mode of Settler Colonial Elimination. Akademisk boikott av israelske universiteter; 2024-05-08.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2024) Arnljot Løseth: Den industrielle revolusjonen: Storbritannia i eit europeisk og globalt perspektiv 1600–1914. I: Historisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0018-263X. Volum 103. s.173-175. DOI: 10.18261/ht.103.2.7

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2024) Historikarar for akademisk boikott.

Mari Wigdel; Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2023) Sovjetisk krigsgrav skiltet som «russisk» – ukrainere reagerer.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2023) BBC World News - TV Interview - '150 years since closure of Zanzibar slave market'. World Business Report; 2023-06-05.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2023) Has Equinor made Norway dependent on oil?.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø; Ada Elisabeth Nissen (2023) Political Advantage, Political Risk: The Nascent Stage of Statoil’s International Expansion, 1978-1999. Nordic Civil Societies Workshop ‘A Nordic Worldview?’; 2023-01-09 - 2023-01-10.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2022) Imperialism and development: the east African groundnut scheme and its legacy. I: International Affairs. ISSN 0020-5850. Volum 98. s.1825-1826. DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiac178

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2022) ‘Imperium in Imperio’? Balfour’s Promise of a ‘New Palestine’ in East Africa, 1903. Anglophone Political Cultures (NTNU); 2022-12-09.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2022) Tore Linné Eriksen: En kort introduksjon til den nye imperialismen 1870–1920. I: Historisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0018-263X. Volum 101. s.363-365. DOI: 10.18261/ht.101.4.7

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2022) The Great Leap Offshore: Sino-Norwegian Relations and Petro-Knowledge Transfers, 1976-1997. Nordiska Historikermötet 2022; 2022-08-08 - 2022-08-11.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2022) Russland som stormakt - NRK Dagsnytt 18.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2022) Det norsk-kinesiske energisamarbeidet, 1976-1997. Seminar om norsk-kinesiske relasjoner ; 2022-05-04.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2022) Capitalocene Dissent. Greenhouse Seminar; 2022-03-16.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2022) Kappløpet om Øst Afrika. UiS Åpen dag; 2022-03-08.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2022) Russland som imperium - Radiointervju NRK Rogaland 16. mars 2022.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2022) Folkeretten et blindspor overfor det russiske imperiet – kun makt virker.

Jonas Gjersø (2021) Tore Linné Eriksen: Afrika: Fra de første mennesker til i dag. I: Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS). ISSN 0040-716X. Volum 62. s.128-129. DOI: 10.18261/issn.1504-291X-2021-01-12

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2021) The Scramble for [East] Africa. Basiskurs i universitetspedagogikk; 2021-11-29 - 2021-11-30.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2020) Radiointervju om slavehandelens historie, rasisme og veltingen av Colston-statuen i Bristol..

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2019) Radiointervju om slaveri og slavehandel.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2019) A Far Eastern North Sea: Statoil in China, 1976-90. European Business History Association Congress 2019; 2019-08-29 - 2019-08-30.

Jon H. Rydne; Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2019) Boris Johnson & Co.: Romantiserer brutal fortid.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2019) Pax Americana – hva er det?. Aktualitetssymposiet ISV; 2019-04-02.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2018) På forskerfronten - Jonas Fossli Gjersø.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2017) The Scramble for East Africa. IAKH Research Seminar; 2017-10-24.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2016) Jeremy Corbyn – a mainstream [Scandinavian] social democrat.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2016) Britain and the Scramble for East Africa. I: Africa at LSE.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2016) Immigration: A Very Anglo-American Hypocrisy. I: Impakter.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2015) En uventet seiersgang?. Volum 24. september. s.36-36.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2015) Jeremy Corbyn – en uventet seiersgang?.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2015) ‘Continuity of Moral Policy’: Anti-Slave Trade Policy, Imperial Agency and the Partition of East Africa, 1885-96. Cambridge-LSE PhD Conference; 2015-05-15 - 2015-05-16.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2015) The Scramble for East Africa: British Motives Reconsidered, 1884-96. Africa Research Forum, University of Cambridge; 2015-10-14.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2014) Back to the future for economic inequality.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2014) Når ‘food bank’ blir årets nyord.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2014) Israel - the last of the settler colonies.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2013) Moral Imperialism and the Annexation of East Africa. HY509 International History Research Seminar, LSE; 2013-10-01.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2013) Rethinking the Annexation of East Africa. Imperial Obsessions: David Livingstone, Africa and world history: a life and legacy reconsidered; 2013-04-19 - 2013-04-21.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2012) Anti-slavery and British policy in East Africa, 1888-1896. CAS@50: Cutting Edges and Retrospectives Conference; 2012-06-01.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2012) Ideas-based foreign policy and the annexation of East Africa. HY509 International History Research Seminar, LSE; 2012-11-01.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2011) Deciphering Livingstone’s Field Diary. I: Africa at LSE.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø (2011) Blogging: using the Internet in your interests. 6th LSE International PhD Conference and Workshop,; 2011-09-01.

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