Department of Social Anthropology
Recent Submissions
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Civil war and the non-linearity of time: approaching a Mozambican politics of irreconciliation
(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
(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 ... -
An Ethnography of Energy: Manifestations of Spirits in Norwegian Spiritualism
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“We are nothing without our Islands”: Challenges and Crises in the Marshall Islands
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Abstract: This thesis explores the themes of challenges and crises in the Marshall Islands. Through ethnographic data based on participant observation primarily in Majuro, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), I study ... -
Middleman Minority Nation : Globalization and Social Democracy in Singapore
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-05-06)The Singaporean state is a social democracy with middleman minority characteristics. This thesis argues that it is the fusion of these two – the culture of the middleman minority, and the statist corporatism of social ... -
Notes on a more equitable higher education
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The Human Version 2.0: AI, Humanoids, and Immortality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article investigates new ethnography on AI development relating to imaginaries of technoscientific forms of immortality. As a Think Piece in Analytics, it engages in a somewhat experimental comparative endeavor as I ... -
The Instability of Values: Tradition, Autonomy and the Dynamics of Sociality in the Philippine Highlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)What can we learn about values and how they shape sociality by looking at a murder? In this article, I look closer at the different and conflicting values involved in the social events leading up to an accidental killing ... -
Violent masculinities: Gendered dynamics of policing in Rio de Janeiro
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Historically, policing in Rio de Janeiro has been shaped by the equation of racialized violence and masculinity. Attempts to reform the police have paradoxically drawn on forms of male violence that are centered on the ... -
The neo‐nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed
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Ensomhetens kultur
(Master thesis, 2021-12-15) -
“The Streets Will Always be Ours:” Collective Action and Protest Practices in Barcelona
(Master thesis, 2021-12-15)By focusing on collective action in public space, and how it is used to organise collective actions, this thesis explores the streets in Barcelona's role in maintaining the political struggle between the Spanish State and ... -
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 ...
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