PhD theses

 PhD Theses

This is a list of all the PhD theses from the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. 

Buying PhD theses from the PhD School in Anthropology:

All theses will be published as e-books, available from Campus Print Webshop. Also available at The Royal Library.

 

Vladimir Ariza-Montañez
Nutritional Citizenship: Anticipation and Responsibility in Childhood Malnutrition Programs in Colombia 

Sarah Seddig
Bodies of Data: Friction and Value at the Reproductive Technology Frontier in Kenya

Line Kvartborg Vestergaard 
Towards an Alternative Economy: Doughnut Economies in Practice and the Affective Dynamics of Change in Amsterdam 

Julie Nygaard Solvang
Scrap(ped): The Global Movement and Afterlives of Discarded Electronics

 

 

Erika Skov
Politics of Passage: Political subjectivity and civic responses to transit migration in Mexico

Ida Vandsøe
Imagine Worldbuilding: Dementia and Family Caregiving in Pandemic Denmark

Rikke Haugaard
CULTIVATING THE DANGER ZONE: Body, Water and Agility in Naval Special Warfare Training

 

 

 

 

Maia Ebsen 
Politics of Tinkering - Craftwork and the resurgence of cooperativism in contemporary Denmark

Asmus Randløv Rungby
Parliament of Cats: Democracy, Organizational Work and Mutual Felinity in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Caroline Johanne Lillelund 
Distinctly Indian? On the value of difference and contemporary art

Stine Illum
A Significant Threat: Countering Terrorism in the Good City

Matti Weisdorf 
For the Love of the Living: A Rubber-boot Quest for the Biocene in Aarhus, Denmark

Pia Juul Bjertrup
(In)visible epidemics: Negotiating Hierarchies and the Quest for Recognition in Burkina Faso

 

 

Signe Lindgård Andersen
Traveling Fast-Track Surgery. An Ethnography of Sino-Danish Perioperative Care Collaborations

Leor Üstebay 
Radical politics in times of populism: The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), democracy and the politics of resilience in Turkey

Sofie Isager Ahl
Regeneration - Gensidigt helende praksisser i en ny jordbrugsbevægelse

 

 

 

Frida Sofie Gregersen 
Diluted Crime: On the PCC, power and sociality in Zona Sul, São Paulo
ISBN 978-87-7209-363-5

Marie Kofod Svensson
At the Heart of Living In-between: Paradoxes, (In)visibility, and Blurred Futures in Families Living with Congenital Heart Defects
ISBN 978-87-7209-358-1

Loa Kristine Teglgaard Christensen 
Crafting Valued Old Lives: Quandaries in Danish Home Care
ISBN 978-87-7209-349-9

Frauke Mennes 
The scapegoat: Productions of Violence and Peace in Rural South India
ISBN 978-87-7209-385-7

 

 

 

Ida Hartmann 
Serving God and the Nation: Religious citizenship and societal upheaval in contemporary Turkey
ISBN 978-87-7209-323-9

Thomas Scott Hughes 
Fracturec by Categories - Exploring Disability and Ethnicity in the Danish Welfare State
ISBN 978-87-7209-289-8

Jazmin Mølgaard Cullen 
The Insight Job: Authenticity and Morality among Anthropological Consultants
ISBN 978-87-7209-287-4

Vibe Nielsen 
Demanding Recognition: Curatorial Challenges in the Exhibition of Art from South Africa
ISBN 978-87-7209-290-4

Maria Eitzinger
Making it in the Media: Prototyping and Materialization Processes Among Local Media Houses and Bloggers in Denmark
ISBN 978-87-7209-297-3

 

 

Camilla Ida Ravnbøl
Bottle Hunters. An Ethnography of Law and Life Among Homeless Roma in Copenhagen
ISBN 978-87-7209-218-8

Andrea Verdasco
Coming of age in asylum. Belonging, temporality and social relations among young refugees in Denmark
ISBN 978-87-7209-222-5

Maj Hedegaard Heiselberg
A Family Mission. An Anthropological Account of Family Life, Parenting and Gender in Danish Families Going Though Military Deployment.
ISBN 978-87-7209-207-2

Mette My Madsen
Fællesskabets ingeniører. En antropologisk analyse af sociale studiestartsaktiviteter for ingeniørstuderende
ISBN 978-87-7209-208-9

Lars Christian Kofoed Rømer
Tales in an Underground Landscape
Anthropological Excursions in the Danish Island of Bornholm
ISBN 978-87-7209-158-7

Lise Røjskjær Pedersen
Fact Finders. Knowledge Aesthetics and The Business of Human Science in a Danish Consultancy.
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Natasja Kingod
The Tinkering M-Patient. An (Auto-) Praxiographic Study of Attuning to a Life with Type 1 Diabetes through Online and Offline Support
ISBN 978-87-7209-133-4

Line Richter
Gaps in a Bordered World
Malian men trying to make it to and in Europe
ISBN 978-87-7209-137-2

Sofie Rosenlund Lau
A Matter of Course: An Ethnographic Assemblage of the Routinization of Statins in Denmark
ISBN 978-87-7209-119-8

Ida Marie Savio Vammen
The Madness of Migration
An Ethnographic Account of Senegalese Migrants' Mobility and Lives in Buenos Aires
ISBN 978-87-7209-100-6

 

 

Anja Simonsen
Tahriib: The  Journey into the Unknown: An Ethnography of mobility, insecurities and uncertainties among Somalis en route.
ISBN 978-87-93476-88-2

Christina Leeson
Anthropomorphic Robots on the Move. A Transformative Trajectory from Japan to Danish Healthcare.
ISBN 978-87-93476-71-4

Iben Louise Karlsen
Sikkerhedskulturelle forhåbninger. Et antropologisk perspektiv på sikkerhedskultur i en vindmølleproduktion.
ISBN 978-87-7209-038-2

Thomas Randrup Pedersen
Soldierly Becomings: A Grunt Ethnography of Denmark´s New ´Warrior Generation´.
ISBN 978-87-7209-046-7

Daniela Lazoroska 
EATING THE FAVELA. THE TASTE THE GOOD LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL.
ISBN 978-87-7209-064-1

Kristoffer Albris 
Disasters as Usual: The public Life of Recurring Floods in Dresden.
ISBN 978-87-7209-016-0

Sandra Lori Petersen
The Margins of Me: Soundscapes on French Radio.
ISBN 978-87-7209-054-2

 

 

Ida Sofie Matzen
Extremist of Love: Cosmological Activism amon Sufi Muslims in Contemporary Lahore, Pakistan
ISBN: 978-87-93476-60-8

Marie Kolling
New Homes, New Lives? Slum Upgrading, Consumptions Dreams and Debt in Brazil
ISBN: 978-87-93476-02-8

Trine Brinkmann
When to Whisper? Moving refugee psychotraumatology beyoud the clinic in welfare state Denmark.
ISBN 978-87-93476-21-3

Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum
From Buga-Buga Soldiers to Officers and Gentlemen
ISBN: 978-87-7611-990-4

Lise Rosendal Østergaard
Fragile encounters: exploring public healthcare in Boulgou Province, Burkina Faso
ISBN: 978-87-7611-972-0