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Astrid Blystad is a professor in the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care and the Centre for International Health, University of Bergen. She received a PhD in anthropology from the same university. She has carried out long-term ethnographic research in East Africa, including more than three years of fieldwork in Tanzania. Her main research interests are the interface of reproductive health, global policy, and gender. She has published extensively within the field. She is head of the research group Global Health Anthropology at the University of Bergen. She may be contacted by e-mail at astrid.blystad@igs.uib.no.

Morten Bøås, PhD, is a research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He has published extensively on African politics and development. His publications include African Guerrillas: Raging against the Machine (Lynne Rienner, 2007, coedited with Kevin Dunn), International Development, vols. I–IV (Sage Publications, 2010, coedited with Benedicte Bull), and The Politics of Origin in Africa (Zed Books, 2013, coauthored with Kevin Dunn). He may be contacted by e-mail at mbo@nupi.no.

Haldis Haukanes received a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1999. She is currently employed as an associate professor in gender and development in the Department of Health Promotion and Development, University of Bergen, Norway. Her recent publications include Parenting after the Century of the Child: Travelling Ideals, Institutional Negotiations, and Individual Responses (Ashgate 2010, edited with Tatjana Thelen) and Recasting Futures and Pasts: Imagination and Memory across Generations in Post-Socialist Europe (theme section in Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2013, edited with Susanna Trnka). She may be contacted by e-mail at haldis.haukanes@iuh.uib.no.

Martha C. Johnson is an assistant professor of government at Mills College. She received a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009. Her research interests and journal publications address food and agricultural policy, aid and state capacity, and women’s participation in executive politics in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on francophone West Africa. She may be contacted by e-mail at majohnson@mills.edu.

Siri Lange is a senior researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She received a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Bergen in 2002. She has published journal articles on themes like community [End Page 98] participation, mining, and health in Tanzania and is presently working on a book manuscript on popular theater and Swahili soap operas. She has conducted more than ten reviews or evaluations of development projects implemented by foreign and local NGOs in Mozambique, Nepal, and Tanzania. She may be contacted by e-mail at siri.lange@cmi.no.

Meg Smaker is a candidate for a master’s degree in the documentary film program of the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Her research and films address illicit trade, subculture fringe groups, piracy, rebel factions, and state building in conflict zones, with a focus on the Middle East and Africa. Her short films include Somalia and the Piracy Bell Curve, Methel Island, Pistols to Porn, Gender Games, and other films. Her films have been shown across the United States at film festivals and have received the California Film Festival Diamond Award and other awards. In addition to her fieldwork in Somalia, she has traveled to more than forty countries and worked in the Middle East for more than half a decade. She may be contacted by e-mail at meighon@hotmail.com.

Marit Tjomsland is an associate professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Development, University of Bergen, Norway. She received a PhD in sociology from the University of Bergen in 2000. She has published a wide range of articles and book chapters based on her research, which has an overarching theme of social change and processes of modernization. She has recently focused on youth studies and is currently working on a project on youth and the Arab Spring revolution in Tunisia. She may be contacted by e-mail at marit.tjomsland@iuh.uib.no.

Mats Utas, PhD, is an associate professor in cultural anthropology and heads the conflict, security, and...

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