Culture, Mobility and Power (CAMP)

Black Lives Matter demontration. Photo: Nicole Baster (Unsplash)

CAMP encompasses researchers in the Department of Anthropology who analyse the cultural, religious, economic, policy and gendered dimensions of power relations.

CAMP’s anthropological approaches share a basis in ethnography, and have in common a focus on power, culture and mobility as social processes that are deeply intertwined in everyday life.

Our aim is to examine how state and non-state actors legitimise the distribution of authority and resources through the effective adaptation of force, persuasion, materiality and governance.

Contact

Anja Simonsen
E-mail: anja.simonsen@anthro.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 34 92

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Henrik Vigh
E-mail: hv@anthro.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 34 91

Highlighting the pervasiveness of power, mobility and cultural contestations in our ethnographic locations

CAMP

Our main concern

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Research focus

In general, the CAMP researchers study classifications and power differences implicit in social relationships and in their cultural representations and enactments, along with their historical, temporal, spatial and institutional effects.

We are concerned with the ways in which communities engage with nationalism, ethnicity and migratory and transnational networks.

Blog

Researchers connected to the research group have created a blog titled 'Conflict, Crime, Power and Politics'.
Find the blog here

Activities

Our cluster provides rich empirical and theoretical grounding as brought out in its publications, and creates intellectual and experiential resources for broad-based teaching themes in the department.

CAMP’s research and teaching practices contribute towards planning student careers in academia, development, humanitarian work, state and local governance, international diplomacy, governmental and nongovernmental organisations, cultural and research institutes, transnational advocacy and consultancies, among others.

The group has several individual and collective research projects as well as centres.

Upcoming events 

SEMINAR                   16.12.24
Unpacking ‘Decolonisation’: Tracing Its Past, Present, and Intervening Periods

Migrant boat
Confiscated migrant boat in Lampedusa, Italy

Projects associated with CAMP

Apply to join CAMP as an MA student

The Culture, Mobility and Power (CAMP) researcher group is inviting applications to participate in CAMP from MA students in anthropology who are interested in any of the topics covered by the researcher group. Membership would entitle you to participate in academic seminars, retreats and other events, and would be a way to explore, or prepare for, an eventual academic career.

If you are interested, please send an application of 400 words (one page) max. to Henrik Vigh: hv@anthro.ku.dk 

The application should cover main features in your CV; a brief description of your master’s topic and its connection to the CAMP themes; and your expectations/aspirations for the future as an anthropologist.

Centres associated with CAMP

Centre for Global Criminology (CGC)

The Centre for Global Criminology studies crime, criminalisation and other border and boundary crossing phenomena around the world.

Go to the center website here

Our researchers

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Anja Simonsen Associate Professor Somali refugees in East Africa and Europe, biometric technologies, migration, European Search and Rescue, Death in the Mediterranean +4535323492 E-mail
Ayo Marie Degett Industrial PhD Refugees, South Sudan, Sudan, participation, humanitarian action, forced migration, Uganda +4551208221 E-mail
Birgit Bräuchler Associate Professor Media and digital anthropology, conflict and peace studies, human and cultural rights, activism and brokerage, environment, Southeast Asia, Indonesia +4535331308 E-mail
Christina Jerne Assistant Professor Organised crime, gangs, political economy, social movements, diverse economies +4535331995 E-mail
Henrik Vigh Professor Political anthropology, peace & conflict studies, crisis and chronicity, undocumented migration, social becoming, mobility and mobilization, Europe... +4541111430 E-mail
Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum Assistant Professor Project management, research, teaching, intercultural communication, publishing +4535330856 E-mail
Inge-Merete Hougaard Postdoc Political ecology, land and resource rights, landscape changes, climate policy, recognition policy, green transition, agriculture, sand mining +4535322344 E-mail
Jens Sejrup Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Japanese Studies +4535334055 E-mail
Julie Nygaard Solvang PhD Fellow +4535328848 E-mail
Karen Waltorp Associate Professor - Promotion Programme Visual and multimodal anthropology, the digital and emerging technologies, future anthropologies, gender, urban anthropology, migration, Islam in/a... E-mail
Karen Fog Olwig Professor Emeritus Migration, family and kinship, transnational networks, narratives, the Carribean, Denmark +4535323479 E-mail
Matthew Alexander Halkes Carey Associate Professor Morocco, politics, lying, mistrust, pragmatic anthropology +4535321579 E-mail
Rebecca Solovej PhD Fellow Migration, Border violence, Humanitarianism, Care, Search and Rescue (SAR), the Mediterranean Sea E-mail
Stine Krøijer Associate Professor - Promotion Programme Political anthropology, nature-culture, cosmology, time, multispecies ethnography, anarchism, autonomy, indigenous peoples, the Amazon, Scandinavia +4535321581 E-mail
Tilde Siglev Visiting PhD Student E-mail
Trine Mygind Korsby Assistant Professor +4535323481 E-mail

External researchers 

Martin Lundsteen Postdoc, Department of Social Anthropology,
University of Barcelona
Email