Department of Social Anthropology
Recent Submissions
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God will reward you: Muslim practices of caring for precarious migrants in the context of secular suspicion
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years, Muslims have become more visibly invested in humanitarian work in France. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Marseille, this article examines local initiatives to care for precarious others whose lives are ... -
Life of the Urban poor during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
(Master thesis, 2021-12-15) -
Send in the clowns!
(Master thesis, 2021-11-25) -
"Welcome to reality!" Populism and mistrust among the Sweden Democrats
(Master thesis, 2021-11-25)This thesis explores populist tendencies in political representatives from the Sweden Democrats (SD) in a Swedish city. Through ethnographic data and drawing on Ernesto Laclau’s theory on populist reason, I show how the ... -
The temporality of humanitarianism: Provincializing everyday volunteer practices at European borders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While recognizing that ‘volunteering for refugees’ is entangled in ethical and political power dimensions, this article will discuss how we can ethnographically explore the everyday humanitarian practices of volunteers as ... -
‘The Community’ as a Multivocal Concept: Everyday Urban Life and Grassroots Politics in Caracas’ Informal Neighbourhoods
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article analyses the multivocal meanings of the concept ‘the community’ as embedded and employed in everyday- and political discourses in working class and shantytown neighbourhoods (barrios) in the capital city of ... -
Donas da Terra (Female Owners of the Land). Decolonizing historical representations through an ethnography of memories of women of power and authority in Zambezia, Mozambique
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-24)This thesis discusses the missing or underrepresented women of power and authority within the written history of Mozambique’s Zambezi region. It argues that several generations of scholars, both within colonial and ... -
"Different strokes for different folks" in egalitarian intentional communities: searching for the good life in practical utopias
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-10-22)This thesis explores egalitarian social experiments in a section within the Intentional Communities (ICs) movement in the United States of America. The central ethnographic investigation of the thesis concerns an analysis ... -
Traces of Grace : An Autoethnographic Exploration of Faith as Embodied Knowledge
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-09-28)In my PhD-thesis I explore the embodiment of the Christian faith and spirituality, from the perspective of faith as an embodied knowledge, incorporating my own spiritual seeking in the endeavour to understand other people’s ... -
The Organic Island: An ethnographic study of subsistence economics and creative resilience in the Lau Islands of Fiji
(Master thesis, 2021-08-02)This thesis focuses on the multifaceted dimensions of sociality found in subsistence economic activities in the Lau Islands of Fiji. Primarily based on fieldwork conducted on the island of Cicia, I examine how land and sea ... -
Hverdagsliv i en Vestlandsk Industribygd: En etnografisk undersøkelse av hverdagspraksiser i endring.
(Master thesis, 2021-08-02)Denne avhandlingen omhandler hverdagspraksiser i Høyanger kommunes tettsted. Tettstedet er lokalisert innerst i Høyangerfjorden i Sognefjorden, hvor kommunens sentrum ligger. Gjennom deltakende observasjon og samtaler har ... -
Belonging, Hope, and the Future in South Caucasus. A Study of The First Post-War Generation of Abkhazia
(Master thesis, 2021-08-03)This thesis is an exploration of how various forms of belonging are being expressed among young adults in Abkhazia, a politically disputed state situated in South Caucasus. Abkhazia is de jure part of Georgia. In 1992, a ... -
Portals to the unseen Re-inventing ayahuasca practices, shamanism, and the anthropologist in the entheogenic field
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Just Out of Reach. Imminence, Meaning, and Political Ontology in Mozambique
(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
(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 ... -
Utopian confluences: anthropological mappings of generative politics
(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 ... -
Rooted flexibility: social reproduction, violence and gendered work in the Indian city
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Drawing on feminist marxist and feminist geography scholarship the article develops the concept 'rooted flexibility' to examine the latent frictions between flexible labour regimes and the rooted, gendered demands of social ... -
Crisis and retirement: Alienation in Kerala’s tea belt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the ... -
Re-analysing the Baining: The Mytho-Poetics of Race, Gender and Art
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article criticises primitivist caricatures of the Baining in Melanesia as a society that lacks exegesis, symbolic logics, religion, structures of power and control, and even an interest in play. The mytho-poetics of ...
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