News about Anthropology

New projects will map conflicts over coastal protection in Denmark and environmental mobilisation in Indonesia

Two projects at the Department of Anthropology have received grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark earmarked green research.

Studying Gender While ‘Studying Up’: On Ethnography and Epistemological Hegemony

Assistant Professor Samantha Dawn Breslin has contributed the article 'Studying Gender While ‘Studying Up’: On Ethnography and Epistemological Hegemony' to the journal Anthropology In Action.

Managing Sacralities: Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

Professor Oscar Salemink co-edited the volume Managing Sacralities: Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage with Ernst van den Hemel and Irene Stengs.

Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed the chapter 'Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda' to the book Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World.

Textures of precarity

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed the article ‘Textures of precarity: Repurposing in a Ugandan refugee settlement’ to a special issue of Anthropology Today

Gender configurations and suicide in northern Uganda

In collaboration with Henry Oboke, Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has written the chapter ‘Gender configurations and suicide in northern Uganda’, which is included in the book Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of…

International journal to strengthen the dialogue between research and business

The international Journal of Business Anthropology relocates to the Department of Anthropology at UCPH.

Enchanted Ecologies and Ethics of Care

Associate Professor Stine Krøijer and Associate Professor Cecilie Rubow have edited the special section ‘Enchanted ecologies and ethics of care’ of the American journal Environmental Humanities, Volume 14, Issue 2. The…

Calibrating logics

Professor Ayo Wahlberg has contributed to the journal ‘Health’ with the article ‘Calibrating logics: How adolescents and young adults calibrate often-competing logics in their daily self-management of type 1 diabetes’.

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam

Professor Tine Gammeltoft and Professor Oscar Salemink both contributed chapters to the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam, edited by Jonathan London. The book offers an authoritative overview of the global…

How do we ensure local support for green energy production?

Huge Power-to-X investments in new hydrogen-based fuels shall propel the green transition in Denmark towards 2050. But how do we prevent local conflicts over new production plants?

Creative Peacebuilding and Resistance in Indonesia

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler contributed as guest editor and author to a special issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology with the article 'Creative Peacebuilding and Resistance in Indonesia'. Official…

The Force of Love

The Force of Love: Type II Diabetes in Vietnam as Tentatively Transformative Experience Professor Tine Gammeltoft contritubed to ETHOS - Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology with the article 'The Force…

New intervention to strengthen efforts against diabetes in Vietnam

As one of four new Danida-supported projects involving researchers from the Department of Anthropology, a collaborative health anthropological project addresses diabetes among pregnant women in Vietnam.

Research project will crack the code behind green neighbourhood communities

With support from THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS, new research anchored at the Department of Anthropology will examine how to create green neighbouring communities in housing associations.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: We are living in an overheated world

The Norwegian social anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen has been proclaimed Honorary Doctor at UCPH. At the heart of his research is the 'overheated globalisation', which he explains here.

Living with chronic disease: Three questions that still need answering

We still lack knowledge on how best to help patients with chronic diseases. Ayo Wahlberg, who just completed a large-scale study on the everyday lives of people living with chronic disease, calls for new initiatives.

Viral Loads

Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto people’s lived realities in countries around the world.

Viral Loads

Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto people’s lived realities in countries around the world.

A view from anthropology: Should anthropologists fear the data machines?

Researchers and students at anthropology have just published a joint paper in the journal Big Data & Society. The paper is online first, and will eventually become part of a special issue on "Machine Anthropology",…

Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory and vernacular heritage practices

Oscar Salemink and Marina Svensson are coeditors of a theme issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies 27(8) titled "Heritagizing Asian Cities: Space, memory, and vernacular heritage practices".

Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory and vernacular heritage practices

Edited by Oscar Salemink and Marina Svensson, theme issue of International Journal of Heritage Studies 27(8), 2021

Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory and vernacular heritage practices

The IJHS is the main outlet for what is called “critical heritage studies” and has under the editorship of Professor Laurajane Smith become one of the most prestigious journals in heritage studies.

Sacred but not holy: Awe, spectacle, and the heritage gaze in Danish religious heritage contexts

Professor Oscar Salemink, PhD fellow Rasmus Rask Poulsen and PhD fellow Sofie Isager Ahl published an open access article titled “Sacred but not holy: Awe, spectacle, and the heritage gaze in Danish religious heritage…