News about Anthropology

Anthropologist to explore “out of the way” places’ dreams of becoming tech landscapes

What does it mean for “out of the way” places to build technological futures, and how can these futures reproduce or reconfigure social and economic inequalities? This is what Samantha Dawn Breslin will explore thanks t…

Young people find cocaine use increasingly common in party settings

Cocaine use is becoming normalised in parts of party culture, according to a new study of Roskilde festival attendees.

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents Ethnote at Maastricht University Ethnography group's monthly sessions

During the latest monthly session of the Maastricht University Ethnography Group, Emilie Munch Gregersen presented digital fieldnote app Ethnote

Atreyee Sen is featured in a recently published ethnographic volume on disappearance

CGC researcher, Atreyee Sen, has authored a chapter in a recently published book on disappearance in different social, cultural and political contexts.

‘Who Has Taken My Son?’: Pervasive Missingness, Custodial Disappearances and Revolutionary Violence in Urban India

Associate Professor Atreyee Sen has contributed the chapter ‘Who Has Taken My Son (Amar Cheleke Ke Nilo)?’: Pervasive Missingness, Custodial Disappearances and Revolutionary Violence in Urban India to the book An…

‘Our Society Works’: Disaster Solidarity and Models of Social Life in the Elbe River Valley

Disasters have often been analysed as periods of exception that shine light on otherwise opaque circumstances of social life. However, less focus has been placed on the different forms that such revelatory experiences…

Digital diaspora: The case of Farkhunda and Afghan women's resistance

In their chapter, Waltorp and Ben Haddou discuss communication that is political in nature among members of the Afghan diaspora in Denmark, and what social media platforms afford in terms of this communication and its…

New paper: "Computerantropologi"

Kristoffer Albris has recently published an article in the Danish language journal Tidsskriftet Antropologi entitled "Computerantropologi", which discusses the potentials for combining computational and digital methods…

Copenhagen Conversations – On Time

Talk on 'time' with Joel Robbins, Cambridge, and Francois Hartog, EHESS, Paris.

Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education

What does it mean to produce trustworthy code for computer scientists? Based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork in an undergraduate computer science program in Singapore, this article explores what it means for compute…

Ayo Wahlberg is new Head of Department of Anthropology

Professor Ayo Wahlberg will commence as Head of Department at the Department of Anthropology on 1 November 2023.

Vladimir Ariza-Montañez: Social disease and humanitarian interventions in Colombia

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Obituary - Oscar Salemink

It is with great sadness that we say farewell and give our thanks to our esteemed colleague Professor Oscar Salemink, who passed away on 23 September 2023.

Green versus Green: Can wind turbines and nature interests go hand in hand?

A new project at the Department of Anthropology will investigate how different interests can come together in the development of energy parks.

Presentation of EthNote at MEGA seminar

On Monday the 21st of August 2023, DISTRACT members Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Munch Gregersen gave a presentation on methods used to collect ethnographic data at the People’s Meeting including the digital…

‘I can’t remember how many I killed’ …: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube

‘‘I can’t remember how many I killed’ …: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube’ (Bräuchler 2023) looks at memory work conducted in a YouTube video featuring two former child soldiers in Maluku, Eastern Indonesia,…

Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has contributed the chapter ‘Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia’ to the book Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia: Hierarchies, Conflicts,…

Researchers will explore and develop a new ecological ethics

With support from VELUX FONDEN, a collaboration between anthropologists and theologians will pave the way for a new ecological ethics that focuses on the interaction between nature and human interests.

Eva Iris Otto defends PhD thesis

On the 22nd of June, 2023, PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto successfully defended her thesis entitled Coding [values]: App-making in the Danish digital attention economy. On the committee of Eva's defence was Professor Ayo…

Reading Desires: Romanian Pimps Striving for Success in the Transnational Street Economy

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has published the article 'Reading Desires: Romanian Pimps Striving for Success in the Transnational Street Economy' in Migration & Society.

The “Transnational Business of Death” Among Somali Migrants in the Streets of Athens

Assistant Professor Anja Simonsen has published the article ’The “Transnational Business of Death” among Somali Migrants in the Streets of Athens’.

Tahriib: Journeys into the Unknown. An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration

Assistant Professor Anja Simonsen has just published the book Tahriib: Journeys into the Unknown. An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration.

Transnational Street Business: Migrants in the Informal Urban Economy

Camilla Ida Ravnbøl and Assistant Professors Anja Simonsen and Trine Mygind Korsby have co-edited a special issue of Migration & Society, entitled 'Transnational Street Business: Migrants in the Informal Urban Economy'.

Festivalmennesket - DISTRACT presentation at the BLOOM festival

On May 28th 2023, DISTRACT researchers were part of a symposium at the science festival BLOOM. Professor Morten Axel Pedersen, PhD student Sofie Astrupgaard, and research assistant Emilie Gregersen talked about people's…