I have several fields of study that I both teach, supervise and research in. Key words are place development, community planning, local and regional development and regionalisation. In both teaching and research, I am interested in how places change and develop, and in particular the role planning has and can have in creating even better places to both live and work in for us and for future generations. I think planning theory is exciting and like to convey how society can be seen as complex and how we can then relate to it in places and regions. 

I am also interested in mobility in the sense of how mobility connects and leads to changes and new questions we have to deal with, whether we are talking about regional, national or international mobility. Commuting, leisure mobility, labour migration, international migration, relocation, etc. fall under this. I work with these academic interests both in teaching, supervision and research. Geographically, they cover both urban and rural contexts. In the discipline of geography, I work in economic, political and social geography. I often try to link cultural, political and economic factors in my research and teaching. 

I have a great commitment to teaching and therefore work a lot with it, both as a teacher, supervisor and as part of a team that works with study quality and the development of new offers. I have been vice dean for education at the Faculty of Social Sciences for six years.

Currently, I am working on the following research and dissemination projects:

• Book about places under pressure and the role of community planning.
• Coworking as a strategy for place development
• Analysis of understandings of quality in research policy
• The role of population projections in municipal planning
• The place based, sense of place and the importance of the relational

 

Research report

• Kari Anne Klovholt Drangsland; Bente Beckstrøm Fuglseth; Knut Bjarne Hidle (2009). Sosiokulturell stedsanalyse av Haugenstua. (external link)
• Kerstin Potthoff; Ivar Svare Holand; Knut Bjarne Hidle et al. (2020). Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol.74, No. 2, May 2020. (external link)
• Kerstin Potthoff; Arnt Fløysand; Knut Bjarne Hidle et al. (2020). Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol.74, No. 5, December 2020. (external link)
• Svein Ingve Nødland; Knut Hidle; Gro Kvaale (2007). Organisasjoner for identitet og integrering. (external link)
• Hilde Lidén; Ketil Eide; Knut Hidle et al. (2013). Levekår i mottak for enslige mindreårige asylsøkere. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Knut Hidle (2001). Humanistisk, postmoderne og poststrukturalistisk geografi. (external link)
• Knut Hidle (2001). Postmodernisme, poststrukturalisme og geografi. (external link)
• Knut Hidle (2000). Humanistisk geografi, postmodernistisk og poststrukturalistisk geografi. (external link)
• Knut Hidle (2000). Place and the Concept of Diaspora - A Methodological Approach. (external link)
• Knut Hidle (2000). Romlige identiteter - Om identitet og det romlige. (external link)
• Hans Kjetil Lysgård; Ståle Angen Rye; Knut Hidle (2001). Transnational student mobility. How transnational networks and mobility influence students’ geographical life path and work related career plans. (external link)
• Arild Aurvåg Farsund; Knut Hidle; Hans Kjetil Lysgård (2006). Norwegian City Regions and Functional Integration: The Cases of Everyday Regional Interaction and Business Policy. (external link)
• Winfried Ellingsen; Knut Hidle (2011). Mobile homing - The culture of second home mobility. (external link)
• Arnt Fløysand; Knut Hidle; Stig-Erik Jakobsen (2011). Innovasjon – ide og materie. (external link)
• Knut Hidle; Hans Kjetil Lysgård; Ståle Angen Rye et al. (2011). Transnational migration and connectivity: How skilled labour migrants connect to places and cultures. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Carina Reierson Ausda; Knut Hidle (2016). Hvordan håndtere hytteturisters midlertidige tilstedeværelse?  En studie av kommunene Mandal og Bykle.. (external link)
• Fredrik Løkting Hasselberg; Knut Hidle (2016). Produksjon av makt. En studie av interessekonflikten tilknyttet Nussir ASAs gruveplaner i Repparfjord. (external link)
• Eivor Bjørnarsdotter Bø; Knut Hidle (2015). Meningsinnhold og planstrategi i områdesatsingen Ytre Arna, Bergen - Kan meningsinnhold og planstrategi ses i sammenheng?. (external link)
• Martin Tengesdal Torstenbø; Knut Hidle (2013). Utfordringer ved offentlig-privat nettverksstyring - et casestudie fra planleggingen rundt Damsgårdssundet, Bergen. (external link)
• Ingrid Foss Ballo; Knut Hidle (2013). The introduction of smart meters in Norway: Challenging a sense of home?. (external link)
• Tarje Iversen Wanvik; Knut Hidle (2013). Corporate Social Responsibility - re-territorialisation of global business. Grounding foreign companies in local context through CSR - the case of Norwegian Business in Indonesia. (external link)
• Thomas Lønning Bjørnstad; Knut Hidle (2018). Bybanens betydning for stedsforståelse. Hverdagspraksis og stedskonstruksjoner på Nesttun i Bergen.. (external link)
• Lars Petter Klem; Knut Hidle (2018). Et attraktivt, levende og ekskluderende byrom. En studie av gårdeierstrukturens betydning i revitaliseringen av Torggata i Oslo. (external link)
• Mikal Christophersen Haugen; Knut Hidle (2018). Mobilisering gjennom regionalt utviklingsarbeid - En case-studie av forprosjektet Lister regionalpark. (external link)
• Niclas Per Schjetne; Knut Hidle (2017). Nye og gamle identiteter på Straume: en stedsanalyse. (external link)

Academic article

• Jørn Cruickshank; Knut Hidle; Winfried Ellingsen (2009). Hyttemobilitet som samfunnslim- et innspill til norsk distriktspolitikk. (external link)
• Knut Hidle; Arild Aurvåg Farsund; Hans Kjetil Lysgård (2009). Urban-rural flows and the meaning of borders. Functional and symbolic integration in Norwegian city-regions. (external link)
• Jørn Cruickshank; Winfried Ellingsen; Knut Hidle (2013). A crisis of definition : culture versus industry in Odda, Norway. (external link)
• Jesse Benjamin Schrage; Håvard Haarstad; Knut Bjarne Hidle (2023). The strategic value of contradictions: exploring the practices of climate planning in Bergen, Norway. (external link)
• Knut Hidle; Einar Leknes (2014). Policy strategies for new regionalism: different spatial logics for cultural and business policies in Norwegian city regions. (external link)
• Knut Hidle; Jørn Cruickshank; Liv Mari Nesje (2006). Market, commodity, resourse, strength. -Logics of Norwegian rurality. (external link)
• Knut Hidle (2019). How national parks change a rural municipality's development strategies ? The Skj?k case, Norway. (external link)
• Maja Povrzanović Frykman; Eugene Guribye; Knut Hidle et al. (2019). How Does Place Matter to Highly Skilled Migrants? Work/Non-work Experiences of International Physicians in Norway and Sweden. (external link)
• Knut Hidle; Winfried Ellingsen; Jørn Cruickshank (2010). Political conceptions of second home mobility. (external link)
• Winfried Ellingsen; Knut Hidle (2013). Performing home in mobility: second homes in Norway. (external link)
• Knut Hidle; Roger Henning Normann (2013). Who can govern? Comparing network governance leadership in two Norwegian city-regions. (external link)
• Edwige Enam Yawa Yekple; Ragnhild Overå; Knut Bjarne Hidle (2024). Living together but gates apart: aspirations and place caring practices among residents living outside a gated community in Peri-urban Accra.. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Arnt Fløysand; Knut Hidle; Stig Erik Jakobsen (2013). Hvordan forhold seg til ideer og materie I studier av innovasjonspraksis?. (external link)
• Arild Aurvåg Farsund; Knut Hidle; Hans Kjetil Lysgård (2008). The Development of City-Regions in Norway. (external link)
• Marry-Anne Karlsen; Kari Anne Klovholt Drangsland; Knut Hidle (2014). The conditions for hospitality in the Norwegian asylum reception system. (external link)
• Knut Hidle; Winfried Ellingsen (2011). Hyttemobilitet som kulturfenomen. (external link)
• Roger Henning Normann; Birgit Abelsen; Arild Aurvåg Farsund et al. (2013). Regional samhandling for innovasjon. (external link)
• Knut Hidle (2013). Second homes in Norway - changing cabins, changing ruralities. (external link)
• Arnt Fløysand; Knut Hidle; Stig-Erik Jakobsen (2013). Hvordan forholde seg til ideer og materie i studier av innovasjonspraksis?. (external link)

Media interview

• Knut Hidle (2004). Ikke lett å være annerledes. (external link)

Journal review

• Knut Hidle (2014). Å finne sted: Metodologiske perspektiver på stedsanalyser. (external link)
• Knut Hidle (2014). Politics, planning and homes in a world city. (external link)
• Arne Isaksen; Michaela Trippl; Knut Hidle (2018). Njøs, Rune 2018. The Role of Multilevel Dynamics and Agency in Regional Industrial Renewal. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Knut Hidle (2004). Migrasjon og stedsmyte Sted, migrasjonserfaringer og romlige forståelser i Kristiansand. (external link)
• Tarje Iversen Wanvik; Knut Hidle (2017). Contested energy spaces. Disassembling energyscapes of the Canadian North. (external link)

Non-fiction book chapter

• Knut Bjarne Hidle (2023). Stedets territorialitet. Hvordan etablering av nasjonalparker kan utfordre lokale strategier for stedsutvikling. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

 

PUBLICATIONS

International journals

Edwige, Y., Overå, R. and Hidle, K. (2024) Living together but gates apart: Hopes, aspirations, and place caring practices among residents living outside a gated community in peri-urban Accra. GeoJournal Vol. 89, nr. 147

Schrage, J., Haarstad, H., & Hidle, K. (2023). The strategic value of contradictions: exploring the practices of climate planning in Bergen, Norway. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2232098

Hidle, K. (2019) How national parks change a rural municipality's development strategies – The Skjåk case, Norway. Journal of Rural Studies.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.10.001

Povrzanović Frykman, M., Guribye, E., Hidle, K. and Mozetič, K. (2019) How Does Place Matter To Highly Skilled Migrants? Work/non-work experiences of international physicians in Norway and Sweden. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. DOI: 10.2478/njmr-2019-0026, 9(3).

Hidle, K. and Leknes, E. (2014) Policy strategies for New Regionalism: Different spatial logics for cultural and business policies in Norwegian city regions. European Planning Studies, 22:1, 126-142.

Cruickshank, J. Ellingsen, W. and Hidle, K. (2013) A Crisis Of Definition: Culture Versus Industry In Odda, Norway. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography.95 (2): 147-161.

Hidle, K. and Leknes, E. (2012) Policy strategies for New Regionalism: Different spatial logics for cultural and business policies in Norwegian city regions. European Planning Studies. DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.741565.

Hidle, K. and Normann, R. (2012) Who Can Govern? Comparing Network Governance Leadership in Two Norwegian City-Regions. European Planning Studies, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.722924.

Ellingsen, W. and Hidle, K. (2012) Performing home in mobility - second homes in Norway. Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment, DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2011.647330.

Hidle, K., Cruickshank, J. and Ellingsen, W. (2010): Political Conceptions of Second Home Mobility. Sociologia Ruralis Vol. 50, nr 2: 139-155

Hidle, K., Farsund, A., Lysgård, H.K. (2009): Urban-Rural Flows and the Meaning of Borders - Functional and symbolic integration in Norwegian city-regions. European Urban and Regional Studies. 16(4): 409-421

Hidle, K. (2007): Mobilitet og det multikulturelle byrom: Hva skjer med stedsmyten, grenser og forskjellighet? Eksempler fra Kristiansand, Norge. Nordisk Museologi nr. 2:2007.

Hidle, K., Cruickshank, J. and Nesje, L.M. (2006): Market, commodity, resource, strength. – Logics of Norwegian rurality. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift Vol. 60, nr. 3. pp 189-198. Oslo. ISSN 0029-1951.

 

 

Norwegian journals

 

Hidle, K. (2009): Territorialitetens kategoriske grenser og mobilitetens ambivalens. – Romlighetens strukturerende betydning I sysselsettingsperspektivet med bosetting av flyktninger i norske kommuner. Norsk Tidsskrift for Migrasjonsforskning. Vol 10, nr 2: 67-79.

Hidle, K. og Nesje, L.M 2006: Hverdagsmobilitet i fem norske byregioner in Plan– Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, byplan og regional utvikling, Nr. 3-4/2006, ss. 66-71.

Cruickshank, J., Hidle, K. og Ellingsen, W. (2009) Hyttemobilitet som samfunnslim – et innspill til norsk distriktspolitikk. Utmark nr. 1/2009. Lillehammer.

 

 

 

Chapters in books

 

Hidle, K. (2023) Stedets territorialitet. Hvordan etablering av nasjonalparker kan utfordre locale strategier for stedsutvikling. In J. Cruickshank and J. Aasetre (ed.) Innføring i samfunnsgeografi, pp. 299-314. Fagbokforlaget, Bergen. 

Hidle, K. (2013) Second homes in Norway – changing cabins, changing ruralities, in Rusten, G., Potthoff, K. & Sangolt, L. (eds.) Norway: Nature, Industry and Society. Fagbokforlaget, Bergen. pp 235-250.

Hidle, K. and Ellingsen, W. (2011) Hyttemobilitet som kulturfenomen. In Gansmo, H.J., Berker, T. and Jørgensen, F.A. (eds.) Norske hytter i endring. Om bærekraft og behag. Trondheim: Tapir forlag. p 91-105.

Farsund, A. Hidle, K, Lysgård, H.K. 2008: The Development of City Regions in Norway: The Importance of Everyday Regional Interaction and Economic Development Policy. In Bukve, O., Halkier, H. and de Souza, P. (eds.) Towards New Nordic Regions. Politics, administration and regional development. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. p. 137-160

Hidle, K. 2007: Place, Geography and the Concept of Diaspora – A Methodological Approach. In: Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Brij Maharaj (eds.), Sociology of Diaspora: A Reader, pp. 94-112. New Delhi: Rawat Publications

 

PhD thesis

 

Hidle, K. 2004: Migrasjon og stedsmyte. Sted, migrasjonserfaringer og romlige forståelser i Kristiansand. PhD-thesis. University of Bergen.

 

 

Reports

 

Drangsland, K.A., Ellingsen, W., Hidle, K. and Karlsen, M-A. (2010) Asylmottak og lokalsamfunn. FoU-rapport nr. 1/2010. Agder Research.

Hidle, K., Ellingsen, W., og Vangstad, A. (2009) Internasjonalisering av arbeidsmarkedet i Agderfylkene. Omfang, strategier og migrasjonsløp. FoU rapport nr. 12/2009. Agderforskning, Kristiansand.

Drangsland, K.A.K., Fuglseth, B.B., og Hidle, K. (2009) Sosiokulturell stedsanalyse av Haugenstua. FoU rapport nr. 11/2009. Agderforskning, Kristiansand.

Hidle, K., Ellingsen, W. og Vangstad, A. (2009) Internasjonalisering av Arbeidsmarkedet. Suksesskriterier som kan bidra til at høykompetent arbeidskraft blir værende i bedrift og region. FoU rapport nr. 4/2009. Agderforskning, Kristiansand.

Hidle, K. og Sørheim, S. (2008) Økt bosetting av flyktninger i Knutepunkt Sørlandet kommunene. Lokale og regionale forutsetninger. FoU-rapport nr. 6/2008. Agderforskning, Kristiansand

Hidle, K. og Vangstad, A. (2008) Arbeidsrettet bosetting av flyktninger i norske kommuner. Forvaltningspraksis, kunnskapsgrunnlag og innspill til metodikk. FoU-rapport nr. 3/2008, Agderforskning, Kristiansand.

Hidle, K. og Normann, R. (2008) Lederholdninger på Sørlandet. Analyse av verdier hos regionale ledere i næringslivet, offentlig sektor og politikk. Prosjektrapport nr. 24/2008. Agderforskning, Kristiansand.

Hidle, K. (2008) Regionalisering og eksogene drivkrefter. Teoretiske og metodologiske innspill. Prosjektrapport nr. 23/2008. Agderforskning, Kristiansand.

Hidle, K. (2008) Regionalitet og regionalisering, Bodø. Prosjektrapport nr. 18/2008. Agderforskning, Kristiansand.

Hidle, K. (2008) Regionalitet og regionalisering, Bergen. Prosjektrapport nr. 16/2008. Agderforskning, Kristiansand.

Hidle, K. (2008) Regionalitet og regionalisering, Ålesund. Prosjektrapport nr. 17/2008. Agderforskning, Kristiansand.

Nødland, S. I, Hidle, K. and Kvaale, G. (2007) Organisasjoner for identitet og integrering. Rapport IRIS 2007/064, International Research Institute of Stavanger og Agder Research. Kristiansand/Stavanger.

Hidle, K, Ellingsen, W, Nesje, L.M. og Vangstad, A. (2007) Entreprenørskap blant etniske minoriteter på Agder. FoU-rapport 1/2007, Agder Research.

Hidle, K. et.al. (2005) Samspill i fem norske byregioner. FoU-rapport 4/2005, Agder Research Foundation.