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Wildfires in Amazon: When nature strikes back politically

Photo: Tine Gammeltoft

New intervention to strengthen efforts against diabetes in Vietnam

Foto: Foto: Anette Høite Hansen

Research project will crack the code behind green neighbourhood communities

Hanne Mogensen

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: We are living in an overheated world

Photo: Manenberg

New project uncovers digital upheavals in South Africa

Foto: Colourbox

Living with chronic disease: Three questions that still need answering

Photo: Muntaka Chasant

New project maps illegal mining and global environmental crime

Windmills - Colourbox

Green network to strengthen cross-disciplinary research into green transition

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2022.05.10

Wildfires: When nature strikes back politically

With support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, anthropologists will investigate how the extensive rainforest wildfires in 2019 in Amazon politically affected Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru.
Grants
2022.01.05

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.
Grant
2021.11.25

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.

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Selected publications

  • Commentary: Clear and Present Danger—Dodging and Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Everyday Life

    2022.04.11
    Associate Professor Atreyee Sen contributed to the book 'Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives' by…
  • Religious Spaces, Urban Poverty and Interfaith Relations in India

    2022.04.11
    Associate Professor Atreyee Sen contributed to the journal Current History, published by University…
  • Where Floods Are Allowed

    2022.03.23
    Assistant Professor Kristoffer Albris contritubed to the book Defining Disaster: Disciplines and…

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Class of '21

Multimodal Anthropology Class of ’21 

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