Henrik Vigh

Henrik Vigh

Professor

Introductory remarks on publicationslist

Reviews: Navigating Terrains of War: youth and soldiering in Guinea-Bissau (2006) Oxford/New York: Berghahn

"For the increasingly numerous anthropologists [specializing in Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology] Henrik Vigh's book on young combatants in the war in Guinea-Bissau should be compulsory reading material."JRAI

"The book is remarkably successful in this ambitious endeavour [to address the tensions between structure and agency through the author's concept of social navigation] because it combines solidly researched and eloquently formulated ethnography with engagement of a wide range of theory.... it merits a cover-to-cover read."Journal of Peace Research

"In his excellent [book], Vigh offers a sophisticated and highly insightful analysis of mobilization and soldiering among contemporary urban African youths...This is a very welcome empirically based and theoretically sophisticated contribution to our understanding of one of Africa's recent ‘small wars'."Social Anthropology

"Though written accessibly, its principal preoccupations are theoretical. Vigh draws on a range of theorists... [and] social philosophers...Along the way he provides useful excursions through the literature on contemporary violence and African liberation movements...[The book] is among the most exciting and important contributions available today."Ethnos

"Navigating Terrain of Wars represents a vivid effort to understand the complex world of war and poverty. In this masterful work, Vigh [...] poses not only poignant questions respecting the unresolved frustrations of an entire generation that passed politically from left to right, but also provides a serious framework to understand how violence works. This is, undoubtedly, one of the best books I have ever read in these types of topics. Magisterially explained throughout the ten chapters that form the project, Vigh reveals how poverty is conducive to warfare." Essays in Philosophy


  1. Published

    Caring through Crime: Ethical ambivalence and the cocaine trade in Bissau

    Vigh, Henrik, 2017, In: Africa. 87, 3, p. 479-495

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Displaced Utopia: on marginalisation, migration and emplacement in Bissau

    Vigh, Henrik, 2018, In: Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power. 25, 2, p. 192-209 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Introduction: Navigating youth, generating adulthood: Social becoming in an African context

    Vigh, Henrik, Utas, M. & Christiansen, C., 2006, Navigating youth, generating adulthood: Social becoming in an African context. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    From essence back to existence: Anthropology beyond the ontological turn

    Vigh, Henrik & Sausdal, D. B., 1 Apr 2014, In: Anthropological Theory. 14, 1, p. 49-73 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Slow crisis in Bissau and beyond

    Vigh, Henrik, 2022, In: Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought. 12, 3-4, p. 522–536

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Crisis and Chronicity: Anthropological Perspectives on Continuous Conflict and Decline

    Vigh, Henrik, 2008, In: Ethnos. 72, 1, p. 5-25 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Lives Opposed: Perceptivity and tacticality in conflict and crime

    Vigh, Henrik, 2018, In: Social Anthropology - Anthropologie Sociale. 26, 4, p. 487-501

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Life in the Ant Trails: Cocaine and caustic circuits in Bissau

    Vigh, Henrik, 2019, In: Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 2019, 85, p. 15-25

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Usynlighed

    Vigh, Henrik & Turner, S., 2007, In: Den Ny Verden - Tidsskrift for internationale studier. 40, 2, p. 7-14 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  10. Published

    La Marge au Centre: sur les réseaux, la cocaïne et le crime transnational à Bissau

    Vigh, Henrik, 3 Sep 2014, In: Socio. 1, 3, p. 289-313 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    From Warlord to Drug Lord: the life of João Bernardo ‘Nino’ Vieira

    Vigh, Henrik, 2017, Warlord Democrats in Africa: Ex-Military Leaders and Electoral Politics. Themnér, A. (ed.). London: Zed Books, p. 156-176

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Introduction: Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood

    Vigh, Henrik, 2008, Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in an African Context. Christiansen, C. & Utas, M. (eds.). Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, p. 9-30 21 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  13. Published

    Navigating Terrains of War: Youth and soldiering in Guinea-Bissau

    Vigh, Henrik, 2006, Oxford: Berghahn Books. 258 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Militantly well

    Vigh, Henrik, 2017, Values of Happiness: Toward an anthropology of purpose in life. Kavedžija, I., Walker, H. & Robbins, J. (eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 215-236

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Theme Section: The Dialectics of Displacement and Emplacement (Editor)

    Vigh, Henrik (ed.) & Bjarnesen, J. (ed.), 2016, In: Conflict and Society: Advances in Research. 2

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Social Invisibility and Political Opacity: on perceptiveness and apprehension in Bissau

    Vigh, Henrik, Oct 2014, Ethnographic of Uncertainty in Africa. Cooper, E. & Pratten, D. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 111-129 18 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Introduction: The Dialectics of Displacement and Emplacement

    Vigh, Henrik & Bjarnesen, J., 2016, In: Conflict and Society. 2, 1, p. 9-15 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Security and the Anthropology of Potentiality

    Vigh, Henrik, 2022, Translations of Security: A framework or the study of unwanted futures. Berling, T. V., Gad, U. P., Petersen, K. L. & Wæver, O. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 95-103 8 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Global Crime Ethnographies: Three suggestions for a criminology that truly travels

    Vigh, Henrik & Sausdal, D., 2021, The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice. Bucerius, S., Haggerty, K. D. & Berardi, L. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 171-194 23 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Contorted Environments and Distorted Being

    Vigh, Henrik, 2018, Distortion: Social Processes Beyond the Structured and Systemic. Rapport, N. (ed.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 29-44 (Routledge Studies in Anthropology, Vol. 43).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Introduktion til voldens antropologi: Fra erfaring til fællesskab.

    Vigh, Henrik, 2004, In: Tidsskriftet Antropologi. 46, [2002], p. 3-15

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    The Colour of Destruction: on Racialization, geno-globality and the Social Imaginary in Bissau

    Vigh, Henrik, 2006, In: Anthropological Theory. 6, 4, p. 481-500 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Social death and violent life chances

    Vigh, Henrik, 2006, Navigating youth generating adulthood: Social becoming in an African context. Christiansen, C., Utas, M. & Vigh, H. E. (eds.). Nordiska Afrikainstitutet

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  24. Published

    Introduction: Sporadically Radical

    Vigh, Henrik & Jensen, S. B., 2018, Sporadically Radical: Ethnographies of Organised Violence and Militant Mobilization. Jensen, S. & Vigh, H. (eds.). Museum Tusculanum, Vol. 5. p. 7-38 (Critical Anthropology).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Militantly Well

    Vigh, Henrik, 23 Dec 2015, In: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 5, 3, p. 93-110 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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