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. 2022
  2. 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

  3. 2021
  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 2019
  8. 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

  9. 2018
  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 proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 2017
  15. 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

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