Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge"
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1968 and its other worlds: Global events and (anti-)state dynamics in France, Mozambique and Vanuatu
Rio, Knut; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)This article de-centres the moment, event and impact of 1968 and expands it temporally and spatially. Taking a longue durée approach charting a trajectory from the 1960s into the 1980s, we analyse statist and anti-statist ... -
Ambulerende omsorg. Eller, spekulasjon i møte med byers oppløsning og framtidens slutt i Maputo
Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Nassone, Abel Março (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Grell ulikhet i globale storbyer forklares ofte som et resultat av strukturell eller nyliberal vold og antropologiske analyser skildrer gjerne mangeartede eksklusjonsmønstre, dehumanisering og vold. Selv om slike framstillinger ... -
Civil war and the non-linearity of time: approaching a Mozambican politics of irreconciliation
Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)At least 1 million people died during the Mozambican civil war (1976/7-92). Unfolding after gaining independence from Portugal (1975) and alongside experiments with Afro-socialism in the 1980s, the war, despite its brutality, ... -
Cracks in the System and Anthropology. A response to Bråten
Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Llera Blanes, Ruy Jesus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We begin by thanking our colleague Eldar Bråten for taking the time to read and comment on our article with such thoroughness. We continue right away with a response. A key aspect of Bråten’s critique is his claim that it ... -
Effervescence and Ephemerality: Popular Urban Uprisings in Mozambique
Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06-25)This article analyses the large-scale popular urban uprisings that shook Mozambican cities on 1 and 2 September 2010, following the government’s announcement of successive rises in the price of public transport fares and ... -
Emergent Police States. Racialized Pacification and Police Moralism from Rio’s Favelas to Bolsonaro
Salem, Tomas; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Pacifying Police Units, rolled out in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics, were part of a police intervention conceived to end the logic of war that characterized the city’s public security policies. As ... -
An Introduction to Egalitarian Thought and Dynamics
Rio, Knut Mikjel; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Kapferer, Bruce (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this introduction we approach egalitarianism as an upsetting force that in various ways has shaped much of modern, especially Western, human history. We outline philosophical trajectories from the Enlightenment onward; ... -
Just Out of Reach. Imminence, Meaning, and Political Ontology in Mozambique
Sumich, Jason; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The leader of Mozambique’s Renamo party, Afonso Dhlakama, died on May 3, 2018. His death both necessitates an ethnographic, regionally comparative rethinking of the analytical approach to the dominant Mozambican political ... -
A lesser human? Utopian registers of urban reconfiguration in Maputo, Mozambique
Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-24)In the age of climate change, human life’s pliability is also re‐shaping anthropological debates. For debates centring on the urban domain, questions revolve around flexibility, adaptability and resilience, while in work ... -
Urban polarisering: Antropologiske bidrag
Møgster, Trine Olsen; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Dette spesialnummeret er viet antropologiske studier av urbane formasjoner og fokuserer særlig på polarisering og det sosiale livet som utspiller seg i møte med denne. Særlig søker vi å utforske og sammenligne de mangeartede ... -
Utopian confluences: anthropological mappings of generative politics
Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Blanes, Ruy Llera (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-24)In this introductory essay, we introduce the possibility of an anthropology of generative politics, focusing in particular on its utopian unfoldings. We depart from the recognition that the current global political landscape ... -
Valuable Subversions: Gendered Generativity and Sorcerous Production in Central Mozambique
Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-11-25)How is one to analyze the existence of a subterranean dwarfish couple (zwidoma) occupying the space underneath cooking places and whose central purpose is to reinforce a market woman’s sales—but simultaneously feeding off ... -
Violent Becomings. State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (Ethnography, theory, experiment ; vol. 4, Book; Peer reviewed, 2016)