Morten Axel Pedersen

Morten Axel Pedersen

Professor

After having worked in Mongolia and elsewhere in Inner Asia for two decades, I have for the last five years been doing research in Denmark. As co-PI in the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), I work on quali-quantitative methods, computational anthropology, and data ethics & politics. Simultaneously with my role in the new field of social data science, I conduct ethnographic research among neo-orthodox Lutheran Christians  and national-conservative intellectuals in Denmark.

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia

    Pedersen, Morten Axel, 2011, Cornell University Press. 272 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  2. Published

    Comparative Relativism: Symposium on an Impossibility: Temanummer: Common Knowledge vol. 17 no. 1 2011

    Jensen, C. B. (ed.), Pedersen, Morten Axel (ed.) & Winthereik, B. R. (ed.), 2011, Duke University Press. 204 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  3. Published

    Common Nonsense: A review of certain recent reviews of 'the'ontological turn'

    Pedersen, Morten Axel, 2012, In: Anthropology of This Century. 5

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  4. Published

    A Day in the Cadillac: The Work of Hope in Urban Mongolia

    Pedersen, Morten Axel, 2012, In: Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice. 56, 2, p. 136-151 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    "The Task of Anthropology is to Invent Relations": 2010 Meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory: Proposing the Motion

    Pedersen, Morten Axel, 2012, In: Critique of Anthropology. 32, 1, p. 59-65 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Roads that Separate: Sino-Mongolian Relations in the Inner Asian Desert

    Pedersen, Morten Axel & Bunkenborg, Mikkel, 14 Sep 2012, In: Mobilities. 7, 4, p. 555-569 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Times of Security: Ethnographies of Fear, Protest, and the Future

    Holbraad, M. (ed.) & Pedersen, Morten Axel (ed.), 2013, London: Routledge. 239 p. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology; No. 12).

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  8. Published

    Trans-temporal Hinges: Reflections on an Ethnographic Study of Chinese Infrastructural Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia

    Pedersen, Morten Axel & Nielsen, M., 2013, In: Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. 57, 1, p. 122-142 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    The Politics of Ontology

    Holbraad, M. (ed.) & Pedersen, Morten Axel (ed.), 13 Jan 2014

    Research output: Other contributionNet publication - Internet publicationCommunication

  10. Published

    Complementary Social Science? Quali-Quantitative Experiments in a Big Data World

    Blok, Anders & Pedersen, Morten Axel, 2014, In: Big Data & Society. 1, 2, p. 1-6 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

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