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Starting in 2022 and until end 2029, I will combine working as Academic Director of in a 50 per cent position with my work as Professor of social anthropology at the Department of social anthropology.

I am a social anthropologist and in my research I work mainly on Southern Africa and Mozambique. Particular interests include the issues of inequality, egalitarianism, urban transformation, future practices, violence, state, memory and tradition within political anthropology.

In the period October 2018 until end 2023, I am the project leader and PI for a large-scale research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council entitled "". The project will probe urban developments in Accra, Johannesburg and Maputo in relation to the formation, trajectories and dynamics of enclaving and it has researchers from Ghana, Mozambique, Norway, South Africa and United Kingdom as participants. I am also involved in the research group at the Department, in addition to participate in the two research projects hosted by Christian Michelsen Institute and " hosted by School of Global Studies, Universitety of Gothenburg.

From October 2019 until 1. January 2022 I was the Executive Director of -- a global research programme on inequality tied to both the and the University of Bergen.

In March 2014 I started as Associate Professor (from August 2016 as Professor) at the Department and in the period until May 2019 I worked work mainly with Bruce Kapferer's large ERC-funded project on . From August 2010 to end February 2014 I worked on my postdoctoral research project entitled "Social imaginaries of death, suffering and accumulation. Urban spaces of insecurity and poverty in Mozambique and Zimbabwe".

During the spring of 2010 I completed my PhD project on colonial and postcolonial politics, state formation and the traditional field in Mozambique initiated in Sept. 2004. 17 April 2010 I defended my PhD thesis entitled Violent becomings.State formation and the traditional field in colonial and postcolonial Mozambique.

Prior to my PhD project, I wrote a Master’s thesis (Cand. Polit.) in Social anthropology at ���ϳԹ���Դ entitled "'Till the soil but do not touch the bones'. Memories of violence in Mozambican re-constructive practices" (2002). The thesis sought to explore the social impact and contemporary importance of violence related to Mozambique’s civil war from 1976/77 to 1992 as well as to identify post-conflict processes of dealing with such violence.

Selected recent communication/events for a broader (non-Norwegian) audience

2026 Interview by Edward Wallace for the article “” on Theoutpostnews.com, published 20 April 2026.

2025 Moderator and host during a range of events during the Holberg week, 3-6 June.

2024      hosted by and in conversation with Dean Siri Gloppen, the Faculty of social sciences, ���ϳԹ���Դ. 05 December 2024.

2024 "". Article in the "FMSH Le Journal" on a research project funded by Le Centre universitaire de Norvège en France (CUNP) and La Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH).

2024 Moderator for the Nils Klim-seminar: “The challenge of transformation: Nurturing collective convivial commons”. Held at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA), Oslo, 20 November 2024. 

2024 Moderator and conversation partner with 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate, Prof Achille Mbembe at the event “The Holberg Laureate Live: Apartheid After South Africa”. Held at the House of Literature, Oslo. 7 June 2024.

2024 Moderator and host during a range of events during the Holberg week, 4-7 June.

2024 Interview on Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) website featured in the article “” in relation a course on “Reading and concentration” (Lesing og konsentrasjon) for students. 16.01.24.

2024 Interview on Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) evening news (��ø�Ի岹�������𱹲���) in relation a course on “Reading and concentration” (Lesing og konsentrasjon) for students. 14.01.24.

2023 The Chinese news site "The Paper" (text in Mandarin), 19.09.23.

2023 g Week, 7.-12.06.2023.

2020 Presenter in virtual seminar  organized by Carmeliza Rosário. 3 December 2020, Bergen Global.

2020 Moderator and leader of the discussion during the opening session entitled . 5 February 2020, University of Bergen.

2019 . Broadcasted 26 October 2019 and available for streaming (from Norwegian IP addresses). Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

2019 [Together with Ernesto Séman] "" (Columbia University), Litteraturhuset in Bergen, 17 October 2019.

2019 Book launch of "" and on-stage interview with Martin Fischer, Bergen Global, 14 Mai 2019.

2019 [Together with Yael Harlap] (Princeton University), Litteraturhuset in Bergen, 24 April 2019.

2018 [Together with Yael Harlap and Rand Gressgård] .

2014 [Together with Sindre Bangstad] , Litteraturhuset in Oslo, 20 May 2014.

2012 "". Interview done with Bruce Kapferer for a history of the discipline project organized by the Norwegian Anthropological Association.

Spring 26: Joint course leader and lecturer “SANT 215: Comparative Ethnography: Africa and Oceania”. 7 lectures and examination.

Spring 25: Joint course leader and lecturer “SANT 215: Comparative Ethnography: Africa and Oceania”. 7 lectures and examination.

Spring 24: Joint course leader and lecturer “SANT 215: Comparative Ethnography: Africa and Eurasia”. 7 lectures and examination.

Spring 24: Developed and ran the extra-curricular course Lesing og konsentrasjon (Reading and concentration) to enhance the understanding of academic texts for BA students.

Spring 23: Joint course leader and lecturer “SANT 215: Comparative Ethnography: Africa and Eurasia”. 7 lectures and examination.

Spring 22: Supervisor for 14 BA students on SANT 260 “Bachelor essay in social anthropology.

Spring 20: Guest lecture "Urbanisering i det globale sør" at Volda University College (Høgskulen i Volda), 18 March 2020

Autumn 18, 19, 20, 21: Guest lecture "Uprisings, resistance and postcolonial politics" on the “Power: Its articulations and disguises" course, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Spring 18: Course leader (together with Knut Rio) and lectures on , ���ϳԹ���Դ

Autumn 17: Guest lecture "Uprisings, resistance and postcolonial politics [in Norwegian]"on the “Makt: Uttrykk og tilsløring [Power: Expressions and concealment]" course, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Spring 13: Course leader and lectures "Anthropology, Intervention and Development", ���ϳԹ���Դ

Autumn 12: Course leader "Contested Resources: Ecological Anthropology in Global Perspective", including lectures and examination, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Spring 11: Course leader "Project Proposal and Project Seminar for the Anthropology of Development", including lectures, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Autumn 10: 3 lectures "Introducing Anthropology and its Subjects: History, Poverty and Social Transformation", ���ϳԹ���Դ

Autumn 10: Course leader "Contested Resources: Ecological Anthropology in Global Perspective", including lectures and examination, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Spring 10: Examiner bachelor level course "Anthropology, intervention and development" (SANT 220), ���ϳԹ���Դ

01.01.09-28.02.09: Assistant professor [universitetslektor], ���ϳԹ���Դ

Autumn 08: Supervision of 11 bachelor-level students in anthropology (SANT 250), including also examination, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Autumn 08: Organizer/lecturer bachelor level course (SANT 250) in essay-writing in anthropology including teaching, supervision and examination, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Spring 08: Supervision of 20 bachelor-level students in anthropology (SANT 250), including also examination, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Spring 07: Organizer/lecturer bachelor level course (SANT 112) on the regional ethnography of Southern Africa, including examination, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Autumn 06: Supervision of 2 bachelor-level students (SANT 250) in anthropology, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Autumn 06: Organizer/lecturer bachelor level course (SANT 250) in essay-writing in anthropology including teaching, supervision and examination, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Spring 06: Supervision of 16 bachelor level students in anthropology, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Spring 06: Organizer/lecturer bachelor level course (SANT 250) in essay-writing in anthropology including teaching, supervision and examination, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Autumn 05: Organizer/tutor, M. Phil course "Anthropology and development", ���ϳԹ���Դ

Spring 05: Examination M. Phil course SANT 308, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Autumn 04: Organizer/tutor, M. Phil course "Anthropology and development", ���ϳԹ���Դ

Autumn 03: Organizer/tutor, bachelor level seminar on essay writing in anthropology, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Spring 02: Organizer/tutor, bachelor level seminar on essay writing in anthropology, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Spring 00 and spring 01: Organizer/tutor, bachelor level seminar on anthropological literature, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Examination and supervision
2004-2019: Examiner for a total of 36 Master degree and M. Phil dissertations at the Dept. of Social Anthropology, ���ϳԹ���Դ

2004-2019: Evaluator of a total of 18 pre-fieldwork project descriptions for Master degree and M.Phil students, ���ϳԹ���Դ

2010-: Completed supervision of a total of 14 MPHL and MA students and 2 PhD students. As per May 2020 I am supervising 3 MA students, being the main supervisor for 4 PhD and the co-supervisor for another 2 PhD students, ���ϳԹ���Դ

Books and special issues

[Forthcoming 2027, co-edited with Sindre Bangstad] Engaging Mbembe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, p. 254.

[Forthcoming 2026, co-edited with Austin Dziwornu Ablo and Sandra Manuel] Enclaving: Materialising Detachment and Attachment across African Cities. Special issue of Africa, 96(3).

2026a [co-edited with Sindre Bangstad] . Oslo: Cappelen. [in Norwegian]

2025a . Special Issue of FOCAAL, 103: 1-78. [Open Access] 

2022a [co-edited with Trine Olsen Møgster] , 33(3).

2022b [co-edited with Knut M. Rio and Bruce Kapferer] . Special issue of Social Analysis, 66(3): 1-168. [Open access]

2022c [co-edited with Sindre Bangstad] . Oslo: Cappelen. [in Norwegian]

2021a [co-edited with Ruy Llera Blanes] . Special section of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 29(1): 5-173.

2019a [co-edited with Sheila Pereira Khan and Maria Paula Meneses] . Leiden: Brill, pp. 294. [] 

2016a . New York: Berghahn Books, p. 320. []

2016b [co-edited with Vigdis Broch-Due] . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 279.

2016c [co-edited Synnøve Bendixsen] . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 303.

2015a [co-edited with Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland] Navigating Colonial Orders: Norwegian Entrepreneurship in Africa and Oceania. New York: Berghahn Books, p. 404.

2009a [co-edited with Bruce Kapferer] . New York: Berghahn Books, p. 330.

Journal articles

[Forthcoming 2026, with Austin Dziwornu Ablo and Sandra Manuel] Enclaving: Materialising Detachment and Attachment across African Cities. Africa, 96(3).

[Forthcoming 2026, with Abel Nassone] Text, Art and Ambulation against Detachment. Alternatives to Enclaving in Maputo. Africa, 96(3).

2026b [with Ernest Teye Ayumu and Austin Dziwornu Ablo] "(Un)affordable" public housing in a rapidly urbanising context. International Journal of Housing Policy, 26(1): 18–41.

2025b . Focaalblog 24. December 2025. [Open Access]

2025c . FOCAAL, 103: 1-14. doi:10.3167/fcl.2025.1030101. [Open Access]

2024a [with Egna Rachel Sidumo] . , 48(1). []

2022d [with Trine Olsen Møgster] [in Norwegian]. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift, 33(3): 191-209. [Open access]

2022e [with Abel Março Nassone] [in Norwegian]. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift, 33(3): 210-226. [Open access]

2022f [with Knut M. Rio and Bruce Kapferer] . Social Analysis, 66(3): 1-21. [Open access]

2022g Social Analysis, 66(3): 104-125. [Open access]

2022h . Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(S1): 50-64. . []

2022i [with Ruy L. Blanes] Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 30(1): 140-147. doi:10.3167/saas.2022.300111

2022j [with Austin Dziwornu Ablo] . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research: 1-17. DOI:10.1111/1468-2427.13085

2021b [with Jason Sumich] Current Anthropology, 62(3): 287-308. DOI: 10.1086/714268.

2021c . Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 29(1): 87-107

2021d [with Ruy Llera Blanes] . Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 29(1): 5-17. []

2021e "Letter from Maputo: Migration, Ambulation and Urban Reconfiguration".  1(1): 86-93.

2020a [with Tomas Salem]  , 6(1): 86-107. [

2020b [with Morten Nielsen and Jason Sumich] . Urban Studies, .

2019b [with Knut Rio] . History and Anthropology, 30(5): 622-643. DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2018.1524759 ]

2019c [with Sindre Bangstad and Heiko Henkel] . Focaalblog 14 March 2019. [Open Access]

2019d [with Sindre Bangstad and Heiko Henkel] , 83: 98-113. [Open Access]

2018a [with Knut Rio] . Anthropology Today, 34(2): 9-13. [

2018b [with Inge Tvedten, Fábio Ribeiro and João Graça]  [Open Access]

2016d . , 4(1): 41-66. [

2015b "The Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique" by Juan Obarrio. [Review article]. , 88(2):565-575.

2014a . Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, DOI:10.1080/00141844.2014.929596. [

2014b [with Inge Tvedten and Sandra Roque] . Urban Studies, 51(13):2752-2769, DOI: 10.1177/0042098013512872.

2012a Moving at the margins to re-centre anthropology. Interview with Bruce Kapferer. ,  23(2): 182-197. [See also fully referenced version of the same interview

2011a . Journal of Southern African Studies, 37(3): 611-626.

2010a [with Sindre Bangstad] '. Anthropology Today, 26(1): 8-12.

2009b . Social analysis, 53(3): 123-147.

2007a ' ['To die here does not cost much'. Violence, legal anthropology and sovereignty in postcolonial Mozambique]. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 18(3-4):280-295. [in Norwegian]

2006a [with Kjetil Fosshagen, Anette Fagertun and Inger Lise Teig] [Anthropology and the state. An introduction] Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 17(3-4):186-200. [in Norwegian]

Chapters in anthologies
[Forthcoming 2026] Irreconciliation, Violent Extractivism, and Breath: A View from Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. In Kerry Chance (ed.) Habitable Air: Urban Inequality in the Time of Climate Change. New York: Berghahn Books.

2026c [with Aghi Bahi] Incompleteness, the invisible-pawn and conviviality. Francis Nyamnjoh’s figure of the human and its methodological horizons. In Divine Fuh and Billan Omar (eds) The Conviviality of Incompleteness: Celebrating Francis Nyamnjoh. HUMA African Intellectual Biographies, vol. 1. Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, pp. 17-28.

2026d [with Sindre Bangstad] Det svarte Atlanterhavets tenker. In Sindre Bangstad and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (eds) . Oslo: Cappelens upopulære skrifter, pp. 7-33. [in Norwegian]

2025e "Numbers in flux: Visible and invisible, present and absent". In David Henig, Jaroslav Klepal and Ondřej Žíla (eds) . Routledge. 

2022k [with Sindre Bangstad] Å tenke verden fra Afrika: En introduksjon til Achille Mbembe. In Sindre Bangstad and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (red.) . Oslo: Cappelens upopulære skrifter, pp. 7-28. [in Norwegian]

2020c [with Sindre Bangstad] Mørkets hjerte skapt igjen og igjen. Fortellingene om eks-soldatene Joshua French og Tjostolv Moland i Kongo. In Marta Tveit (ed) Maskespillet i Kongo. Hvordan løslatelse av to norske leiesoldater ble et nasjonalt anliggende. Oslo: Frekk forlag, pp. 150-167. [In Norwegian]

2019e From Celebrating Female Emancipation to Emplacing Emperor Ngungunyane: Remoulding the Past in Mozambican National Narratology. In Sheila Pereira Khan, Maria Paula Meneses and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (eds) . Leiden: Brill, pp. 76-95. [Open Access]

2019f [with Sheila Pereira Khan and Maria Paula Meneses] Introduction: Situating Mozambican Histories, Epistemologies, and Potentialities. In Sheila Pereira Khan, Maria Paula Meneses and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (eds) . Leiden: Brill, pp. 1-38. [Open Access]

2019g . In Annelin Eriksen, Ruy Llera Blanes and Michelle MacCarthy (eds) . New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 193-200 [Open Access]

2018c Composing texts and the composition of uprisings: Notes on writing the postcolonial political. In Morten Nielsen and Nigel Rapport (eds) . London: Routledge, pp. 56-72.

2017a . In Knut Rio, Michelle MacCarthy and Ruy Llera Blanes (eds) . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37-65. [Open Access]2017b . In Luís de Brito (ed.) (2008-2012). Maputo: IESE, pp. 124-152 [Open Access]

2016e [with Vigdis Broch-Due] Violent Reverberations: An Introduction to our Trauma Scenarios. In Vigdis Broch-Due and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (eds) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-21.

2016f Multisemic speech genres as vehicles for re-inscribing meaning in post-conflict societies. A Mozambican case. In Vigdis Broch-Due and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (eds) . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 193-217.

2016g [with Synnøve Bendixsen] Recalibrating alterity, difference, ontology. Anthropological engagements with human and non-human worlds. In Bjørn Enge Bertelsen and Synnøve Bendixsen (eds) .  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-40.

2015c Navigating Colonial Orders: Norwegian Entrepreneurship in Africa and Oceania, ca. 1850 to 1950. In Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (eds) . New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-37.

2015d Colonialism in Norwegian and Portuguese: The Plantation Madal in Mozambique. In Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (eds) . New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 291-320.

2015e [with Alessandro Zagato]  . In Alessandro Zagato (ed.) . New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-11.

2014c Maize mill sorcery. Cosmologies of substance, production and accumulation engaged in central Mozambique. In Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad (eds) . Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 199-220.

2014d El género del derecho: Política, memoria y agencia en los tribunales comunitarios de Mozambique. In Rachel Sieder and John-Andrew McNeish (eds). Mexico City: Centro de investigaciones y estudios superiores en antropología social (CIESAS), pp. 113-146. [Spanish edition of 2013a.]

2013a The gender of law: politics, memory and agency in Mozambican community courts. In Rachel Sieder and John-Andrew McNeish (eds) . In the series "". London and New York: Routledge, pp. 82-108.

2010b Securitisation of the social and state transformation from Iraq to Mozambique. In John-Andrew McNeish and Jon Harald Sande Lie (eds.), . Critical interventions series. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 84-98.

2009c Kolonialisme på portugisisk og norsk. Plantasjen Madal i Mosambik ['Colonialism - Portuguese and Norwegian. The Madal plantation in Mozambique'], in Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland and Knut Rio (eds.) . Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press, pp. 251-276. [in Norwegian]

2009d Sorcery and death squads. Transformations of state, sovereignty, and violence in postcolonial Mozambique, in Bruce Kapferer and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (eds.) . New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 210-240.

2009e [with Bruce Kapferer] The crisis of power and reformations of the state in globalizing realities, in Bruce Kapferer and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (eds.) . New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-26.

2007b Violence, sovereignty and tradition. Understanding death squads and sorcery in Chimoio, Mozambique, in Armando Marques Guedes and Maria José Lopes (eds.) . Coimbra: Edições Almedina, pp. 201-261.

2004a 'It will rain until we are in power'. Floods, elections and memory in Mozambique, in Harri Englund and Francis B. Nyamnjoh (eds.) . Postcolonial Encounters Series. London and New York: Zed Books, pp. 169-191.

2004b , in Camille Goirand (ed.) Lusotopie 2003. Violence et politique dans les espaces lusophones. Paris: Éditions Karthala and Centre d'Étude d'Afrique Noire (CEAN), pp. 263-281.

Book reviews, dictionary entries, reports and other shorter texts

2026f “Foreword: Conviviality as rehumanising deadened streets”. In Matsuri Nakamura Being Together in Mobility. Flexible Kinship and Conviviality in the Cape Town CBD. Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, pp. xi-xvi.

2024b [with Antonella Di Trani and Morten Nielsen] "". FMSH Le Journal 1(2): 21-21.

2024c "Global Revolutionary Aesthetics and Politics after ‘68" edited by Martin Munro, William J. Cloonan, Barry J. Faulk, and Christian P. Weber (book review). Journal of Postcolonial Writing. DOI:  

2024d "" by Arianna Huhn (book review). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 30(1): 18-19. DOI: 

2020d "Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique" by David Morton (book review). The American Historical Review, 125(5): 2048-2049. DOI: 

2020e "Cities of Entanglements. Social Life in Johannesburg and Maputo through Ethnographic Comparison" by Barbara Heer (book review). .

2020f "Faith in Flux. Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique" by Devaka Premawardhana (book review). DOI:10.1163/15700666-12340152.

2020g  (op-ed). Morgenbladet, 18 March 2020.

2020h "Afrika: Fra de første mennesker til idag" by Tore Linné Eriksen (book review).  [newspaper], 15.02.20, pp. 12-13.

2020i . Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 31(1-2): 151-54.

2020j  (book review). , 33 (1-2): 212-215.

2019h (book review). American Historical Review, 124(3):1190-1191. (OPEN ACCESS)

2019i [with Thomas Hylland Eriksen] . Morgenbladet [newspaper], 15.03.19.

2019j "En ukuelig humanist" [On Paul Gilroy] (op-ed). Klassekampen [newspaper], 03.06.2019.

2018d Foreword, in Bernhard Weimer "Vampires, Jihadists and Structural Violence in Mozambique. Reflections on Violent Manifestations of Local Discontent and their Implications for Peacebuilding". , pp. 5-5.

2017c " Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift, 28(1): 59-62. DOI:10.18261/ISSN.1504-2898-2017-01-08

2017d ", 116(462): 152-154. (Advance Access published 15 December 2016 -- available at DOI:10.1093/afraf/adw076)

2017e [with Annelin Eriksen and Knut Rio] Vurderer verden med Vestens verdier (comment). Dagens Næringsliv, 20.10.2017, page 30.

2016h 'In Step with the Times. Mapiko Masquerades of Mozambique' by Paolo Israel (book review). , 51(1): 210-212.

2015f [with Abel Chauque] '.' Cities Alliance and CMI. CMI Brief, vol. 14, no. 3, 4 pages.

2015g [with Abel Chauque] ''. Cities Alliance and CMI. CMI Brief, vol. 14, no. 3, 4 pages.

2015h "Strategies for preventing terrorism" by Tore Bjørgo (book review). , 26(1): 75-78.

2015i . .

2013b [with Inge Tvedten and Sandra Roque] Cities Alliance and CMI. CMI Brief, volume 12, no. 7, 4 pages.

2013c [with Inge Tvedten and Sandra Roque] Cities Alliance and CMI. CMI Brief, volume 12, no. 7, 4 pages.

2013d [with Bruce Kapferer] How to approach the state in anthropology? A response to Thomas Blom Hansen. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift,  24(2):137-139.

2013e [with Inge Tvedten and Sandra Roque] Cities Alliance and CMI. CMI Brief, vol. 12, no. 2, 4 pages.

2013f [with Inge Tvedten and Sandra Roque] Cities Alliance and CMI. CMI Brief, vol. 12, no. 2, 4 pages.

2012b [with Inge Tvedten] (op. ed.) Aftenposten [newspaper], 03.12.12.

2012c "Tilbake til Durkheim. Staten og antropologien" by Iver B. Neumann (book review). Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift,  23(2): 198-200.

2012d Eusébio (Eusébio da Silva Ferreira) in , vol. 2. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel Akyeampong. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 316-317.

2012e Ngungunyane in , vol. 4. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel Akyeampong. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 465-466.

2011b [with Eyolf Jul-Larsen] . CMI Report R 2011:5. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute, p. 33.

2011c "Fear of Small Numbers. An Essay on the Geography of Anger" by Arjun Appadurai (book review). , 34(1):177-179.

2010d [with Sindre Bangstad] Der kannibaler truer? op. ed. [newspaper], 11.02.2010, p. 22-23.

2009f Lusotopie, 16(2):198-201.

2009g "Langtvekkistan. Grunnlagsproblemer for studiet av asiatiske og afrikanske samfunn" by Arild Engelsen Ruud (book review). Forum for Development Studies, 36(2):213-216.

2008 " (book review). Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift,  19(2-3):199-200.

2007c [with Bård Kårtveit] [op. ed.]. Dagbladet [newspaper], 23.10.07.

2006b [with Sindre Bangstad] [op. ed.]. Bergens Tidende [newspaper], 15.12.06.

2005 . Commissioned study for Chr. Michelsen Institute in June 2005 being an assessment of the applicability of Paul Collier et al.'s "Breaking the conflict trap" to the case of Mozambique. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute, p. 83.

Theses
2010a Violent becomings.State formation and the traditional field in colonial and postcolonial Mozambique. PhD thesis. Dept. of social anthropology, University of Bergen, p. 362.

2002 Till the soil but do not touch the bones. Memories of violence in Mozambican re- constructive practices. Master thesis in social anthropology. Bergen: University of Bergen, p. 239.

For a list of all publications, papers, interviews and public debates,

For an alternative presentation, see where some unpublished papers are also available.

2018-2025: Project leader for and researcher in the Norwegian Research Council-funded project , ���ϳԹ���Դ.

2014-2019: Participant in the ERC-funded project , ���ϳԹ���Դ.

2012-2015: , CMI.

2011-2016: Participant in the project , headed by prof. Annelin Eriksen, ���ϳԹ���Դ.

2010-2014: Social imaginaries of death, suffering and accumulation. Urban spaces of insecurity and poverty in Mozambique and Zimbabwe (postdoctoral project). Dept. of social anthropology, University of Bergen.

2004-2010: An ambivalent heritage: Violent transformations of tradition in local and national contexts in Mozambique (PhD project). Dept. of social anthropology, University of Bergen and .

2005-2010: . Project under , and ���ϳԹ���Դ. 

2009-2011: Participant in the project , CMI.

2004-2010: Affiliated with the project at the Dept. of social anthropology, University of Bergen.