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. 2024
  2. Accepted/In press

    Our Other Others: On perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease

    Korsby, Trine Mygind & Vigh, Henrik, 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  3. 2023
  4. E-pub ahead of print

    Tangier heat: On migrant vulnerability and social thermology

    Richter, L. & Vigh, Henrik, 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ethnography.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  5. 2022
  6. Published

    Illegal Ecologies: From Irregular Mining to the Dumping of E-waste

    Vigh, Henrik, 2022, In: Commodity Frontiers Journal. 4, Fall, p. 29-35

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  7. 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

  8. 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 articlepeer-review

  9. 2021
  10. Published

    La Muerte Social y las Violentas Oportunidades de Vida

    Vigh, Henrik, 7 Mar 2021, In: Encartes. 4, 7, p. 229 264 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Bandits Fall from Grace: Liberation heroes and alter-politics in Bissau

    Vigh, Henrik, 2021, In: Terrain. 74.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Constant Crisis

    Orning, H. J. & Vigh, Henrik, 2021, Medieval and Modern Civil Wars: A Comparative Perspective. Sigurðsson, J. V. & Orning, H. J. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 1-33

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

  13. Published

    Critical Stasis and Disruptive Performances: ICJ and the Anwar, R. trial in Koblenz

    Koleva, P. M. & Vigh, Henrik, 2021, In: Theoretical Criminology. 25, 3, p. 437-453

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  14. 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

  15. Published

    Who Is the Enemy? Multipolar micropolitics

    Sigurdsson, J. V. & Vigh, Henrik, 2021, Medieval and Modern Civil Wars: A Comparative Perspective. Sigurđsson, J. V. & Orning, H. J. (eds.). Boston: Brill, p. 34-61 27 p.

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

  16. 2019
  17. Published

    Anthropological Criminology 2.0: Ethnographies of global crime and criminalization

    Sausdal, D. & Vigh, Henrik, Dec 2019, In: Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 85, p. 1-14

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialpeer-review

  18. Published

    Displaced Without Moving: Loyalism and democratic haunting in Northern Ireland

    Vigh, Henrik, 2019, Historical Perspectives on Democracies and their Adversaries. Augusteijn, J., Hijzen, J. & de Vries, M. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 215-235 (Palgrave Studies in Political History).

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

  19. Published

    Introduction: Anthropological criminology 2.0

    Sausdal, D. & Vigh, Henrik, 2019, In: Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 85, p. 1-14

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  20. 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 articlepeer-review

  21. 2018
  22. 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

  23. 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 articlepeer-review

  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

    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 articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Peripheral Participants: Thinking through distortion, displacement, nullification

    Vigh, Henrik, 2018

    Research output: Other contributionNet publication - Internet publicationResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    Social Closure and Militant Openings: Tangentiality, homology and the struggle for social being

    Vigh, Henrik, 2018, Sporadically Radical: Ethnographies of Organised Violence and Militant Mobilization. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, p. 39-61 (Critical anthropology, Vol. 5).

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

  28. Published

    Sporadically Radical: Ethnographies of Organised Violence and Militant Mobilization

    Jensen, S. (ed.) & Vigh, Henrik (ed.), 2018, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum. 274 p. (Critical anthropology, Vol. 5).

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  29. Published

    The Anthropology of Crime

    Vigh, Henrik & Sausdal, D. B., 2018, Handbook of political anthropology. Wydra, H. & Thomassen, B. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 441-461

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

  30. 2017
  31. 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 articlepeer-review

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. Published

    Radicalized Youth: Oppositional poses and positions

    Utas, M. & Vigh, Henrik, 2017, Africa’s Insurgents: Navigating an Evolving Landscape. Bøås, M. & Dunn, K. C. (eds.). Lynne Rienner Publishers

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

  35. 2016
  36. Published

    Displaced without Moving

    Vigh, Henrik & Helweg Ovesen, S., 2016, An Age of Our Own Making. Helweg Ovesen, S. & Soh Bejeng Ndikung, B. (eds.). The Green Box, p. 31-38

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

  37. 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 articlepeer-review

  38. Published

    Life's Trampoline: On Nullification and Cocaine Migration in Bissau

    Vigh, Henrik, 2016, Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of social Regeneration. Cole, J. & Groes, C. (eds.). University of Chicago Press

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

  39. Published

    Mobilização e mobilidade social: uma análise da milícia Aguenta

    Vigh, Henrik, 2016, In: Soronda. 1, a, p. 145-176 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  40. 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 articlepeer-review

  41. 2015
  42. 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 articlepeer-review

  43. Published

    Editorial

    Grassing, E., Horstmann, A., Segal, L. B., Stade, R. & Vigh, Henrik, Dec 2015, In: Conflict and Society. 1, 1, p. 1-3 3 p., 1.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  44. Published

    Mobile Misfortune

    Vigh, Henrik, 11 Jun 2015, In: Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research. 7, 2, p. 233-253 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  45. 2014
  46. 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

  47. 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 articlepeer-review

  48. Published

    Origin and Evolution of European Community-Acquired Methicillin- Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Stegger, M., Wirth, T., Andersen, P. S., Skov, R. L., De Grassi, A., Martins Simões, P., Tristan, A., Petersen, A., Aziz, M., Kiil, K., Cirkovic, I., Udo, E. E., del Campo, R., Vuopio-Varkila, J., Ahmad, N., Tokajian, S., Peters, G., Schaumburg, F., Olsson-Liljequist, B., Givskov, M. & 9 others, Driebe, E. E., Vigh, Henrik, Shittu, A., Ramdani-Bougessa, N., Rasigade, J., Price, L. B., Vandenesch, F., Larsen, A. R. & Laurent, F., 26 Aug 2014, In: mBio (Print). 5, 5, p. 1-12 12 p., e01044-14.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  49. 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 articlepeer-review

  50. 2013
  51. Published

    Den ontologiske blænding: om den ontologiske vendings metodiske og politiske problemer

    Sausdal, D. B. & Vigh, Henrik, 2013, In: Tidsskriftet Antropologi. 67, p. 101-119 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  52. 2012
  53. Published

    Adaptive lives. Navigating the global food crisis in a changing climate

    Nielsen, J. Ø. & Vigh, Henrik, 2012, In: Global Environmental Change. 22, 3, p. 659-669 111 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  54. Published

    Critical States and Cocaine Connections

    Vigh, Henrik, 2012, African Conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks. Utas, M. (ed.). London: Zed Books, p. 137-157 21 p.

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

  55. 2011
  56. Published

    Vigilance: On Conflict, Social Invisibility, and Negative Potentiality

    Vigh, Henrik, 2011, In: Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. 55, 3, p. 93-114 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  57. Published

    Wayward Migration: On Imagined Futures and Technological Voids

    Vigh, Henrik, 2011, Migration and Culture. Cohen, R. & Jónsson, G. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 688-706 19 p.

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

  58. 2010
  59. Published

    Youth Mobilisation as Social Navigation: Reflections on the concept of dubriagem

    Vigh, Henrik, 2010, In: Cadernos de Estudos Aricanos. 18/19, p. 139-164 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  60. 2009
  61. Published

    Conflictual Motion and Political Inertia: on Rebellions and Revolutions in Bissau and Beyond

    Vigh, Henrik, 2009, In: African Studies Review. 52, 2, p. 143-164 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  62. Published

    Motion Squared: A Second look at the Concept of Social Navigation

    Vigh, Henrik, 2009, In: Anthropological Theory. 9, 4, p. 419-438 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  63. Published

    Wayward Migration: On Imagined Futures and Technological Voids

    Vigh, Henrik, 2009, In: Ethnos. 74, 1, p. 91-109 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  64. 2008
  65. 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 articlepeer-review

  66. Published

    Crisis and Chronicity

    Vigh, Henrik, 2008, In: Ethnos. 73, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorial

  67. 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

  68. Youth soldiers

    Vigh, Henrik, 2008, New encyclopedia of Africa. Miller, J. C. (ed.). Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman

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

  69. 2007
  70. Published

    Et barn på 34: om krig og social reintegration i Guinea Bissau

    Vigh, Henrik, 2007, Unge liv i Syd: Beretninger om børn og unge i udviklingslande. Valentin, K. & Christiansen, C. (eds.). København: Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsforlag, p. 195-210

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

  71. Published

    Usynlighed

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

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  72. 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 article

  73. Published

    Usynlighed: Globaliseringens Blinde Vinkler

    Vigh, Henrik, 2007, In: Den Ny Verden - Tidsskrift for internationale studier. 40, 2

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorial

  74. Published

    Usynlighed: Globaliseringens Blinde Vinkler (Redaktør)

    Vigh, Henrik (ed.) & Turner, S. (ed.), 2007, In: Den Ny Verden – Tidsskrift for internationale studier. 40, 2, 40.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  75. 2006
  76. 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

  77. Published

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

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

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  78. Published

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

    Christiansen, C. (ed.), Vigh, Henrik (ed.) & Utas, M. (ed.), 2006, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. 272 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  79. 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

  80. 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 articlepeer-review

  81. 2004
  82. 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 articlepeer-review

  83. Published

    Vold

    Vigh, Henrik (ed.), 2004, København: Foreningen Stofskifte. 171 p. (Tidsskriftet Antropologi, Vol. 46).

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  84. 2003
  85. Published

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

    Vigh, Henrik, 2003, København: Institut for Antropologi. 250 p. (Ph. D.-række / Institut for Antropologi, Vol. 24).

    Research output: Book/ReportPh.D. thesis

  86. 2002
  87. Published

    Vold (Redaktør)

    Vigh, Henrik (ed.) & Danneskiold-Samsøe, S. (ed.), 2002, In: Tidsskriftet Antropologi. 46

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

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