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Award

2023.04.24

A new land reform can address climate challenges facing the agricultural sector, researchers argue

Rewetting low-lying organic soils that are currently under agricultural cultivation has a…

FROM KYIV TO UCPH

2022.12.02

Searching the formula of happiness in times of war

Being granted a fellowship for displaced Ukrainian scholars, Iryna Ignatenko will spend a year at…

Award

2022.11.30

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…

GREEN GRANTS

2022.11.09

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…

Journal

2022.08.18

International journal to strengthen the dialogue between research and business

The international Journal of Business Anthropology relocates to the Department of Anthropology at…

Power-to-X

2022.06.27

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 Denmar…

GRANT

2022.05.10

Wildfires: When nature strikes back politically

With support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, anthropologists will investigate how the…

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…

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…

Interview

2021.11.24

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: We are living in an overheated world

The Norwegian social anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen has been proclaimed Honorary Doctor at…

The good life

2021.11.12

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…

GRANT

2021.11.11

New project uncovers digital upheavals in South Africa

With support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, a new project at the Department of…

2021.10.25

Honorary Doctor Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Staff, students and interested parties are invited to this Special Edition of Department Day, 11…

Grant

2021.10.20

New project maps illegal mining and global environmental crime

With a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, researchers from the UCPH will study how…

New publication

2021.10.08

Viral Loads

Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto…

Department of Anthropology

Atreyee Sen awarded prize for best journal article

Anthropological image wins best scientific photo of the year award

Researchers receive grant to develop digital tool for ethnographic research

An ode to people who work in labs

Who are the people behind human trafficking?

A new land reform can address climate challenges facing the agricultural sector, researchers argue

Searching the formula of happiness in times of war

Ida Marie Lind Glavind receives The Margaret Clark Award

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

International journal to strengthen the dialogue between research and business

How do we ensure local support for green energy production?

Wildfires: When nature strikes back politically

New intervention to strengthen efforts against diabetes in Vietnam

Research project will crack the code behind green neighbourhood communities

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: We are living in an overheated world

Living with chronic disease: Three questions that still need answering

New project uncovers digital upheavals in South Africa

Honorary Doctor Thomas Hylland Eriksen

New project maps illegal mining and global environmental crime

Viral Loads

Selected publications

Stealing and redacting: fieldwork among transnational thieves in Eastern Romania

The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection

Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards

FRAGILE FUTURES: Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso