News about Anthropology

Global Art in Local Art Worlds

Professor Oscar Salemink and Assistant Professor Jens Sejrup co-edited, Global Art in Local Art Worlds. They answer the question whether tectonic geopolitical shifts are attended by corresponding geocultural changes.

This Land Is Not For Sale

Together with Lotte Meinert, Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has co-edited and co-written the book This Land Is Not For Sale: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda, recently published by Berghahn Books in the series…

The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting

Postdoc Alessandro Moretti has come out with the monograph The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting published by Routledge, which presents a study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK who sell tickets to concerts,…

An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies

Associate Professor Karen Waltorp has co-edited the book An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies, authored the preface and in collaboration with Maja Hojer Bruun, the chapter 'Drones as a gendered matter of concern'

Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life

Associate Professor Karen Waltorp has edited the book Energy Futures. She contributed the chapter ‘Imagining energy futures beyond colonial continuation‘.

SODAS researchers receive Carlsberg grant to develop the Ethnoplatform

SODAS PhD August Lohse and professor Morten Axel Pedersen have received a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to develop the Ethnoplatform

An ode to people who work in labs

With a short film, Postdoc Thomas Hughes has delivered an atypical anthropological product at the outskirts of academia – even though the film is celebrating science.

Who are the people behind human trafficking?

With support from the EU, a new anthropological project will paint a more accurate picture of human traffickers through fieldwork in Romania and Portugal.

Searching the formula of happiness in times of war

Being granted a fellowship for displaced Ukrainian scholars, Iryna Ignatenko will spend a year at the Department of Anthropology looking into ‘Danish happiness’.

Christmas for an anthropologist – an introspective ethnography

AnthroStory byf Quentin Gausset about Christmas, ambiguous feelings, and existential thoughts.

Ida Marie Lind Glavind receives The Margaret Clark Award

This year’s award recipient of The Margaret Clark Award is Ida Marie Lind Glavind, PhD student at the Department of Anthropology.

New Grant: Preventing local conflicts over storm surge protection

Assistant professor at SODAS and Department of Anthropology Kristoffer Albris has received a 2.9 million grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s (DFF) pool for green research

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…

In a way home

AnthroStory by Aja Smith about settling into a new place and when you can say you belong

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?