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. 2018
  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Published

    Peripheral Participants: Thinking through distortion, displacement, nullification

    Vigh, Henrik, 2018

    Research output: Other contributionNet publication - Internet publicationResearchpeer-review

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

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