Henrik Vigh

Henrik Vigh

Professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-4760-5595

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


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    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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  2. Published

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

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

    Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

  3. 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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

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    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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

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    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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research

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    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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  7. 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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  8. 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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  9. Published

    Peripheral Participants: Thinking through distortion, displacement, nullification

    Vigh, Henrik, 2018

    Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Research › peer-review

  10. 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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

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