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Nerina

Last

Weiss

Email

Nerina.Weiss AT fafomail.no

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Position/Title

Senior Researcher

Area of expertise

political anthropology, torture, migration, violence and conflict, radicalization, Turkey, Kurds, Scandinavia

Policy Area

Migration

Radicalization

Asylum

Scandinavia

Teaching

‘Anthropological history and ethnographic method’ (University of Oslo)

Regional Ethnography of the Middle East (University of Oslo)

Anthropology of Violence (University of Vienna)

Qualitative Research Methodology (University of Vienna)

 

Recent Publications

2014   On Blurriness and Boundaries In: Ivana Macek (ed.): Engaging Violence: Trauma, Memory and Representation. Routledge

2014    The power of dead bodies In: Steffen Bo Jensen and Henrik Rønsbo (eds.): Histories of Victimhood: Assemblages, Transactions and Figures. Penn Press

Forthcoming Ønsket om å bli som andre barn. Hverdagen til barn med endelig avslag på sin asylsøknad. In: Synnøve K. Bendixsen, Christine M. Jacobsen og Karl Harald Søvig (eds): Eksepsjonell velferd? Irregulære migranter i det norske velferdssamfunnet. Oslo: Gyldendal

2012    Ambivalent Victims: Conflict, Gender and Expressions among Kurdish Activists in Eastern Turkey. PhD thesis. Department of Social Anthropology. Oslo: University of Oslo

2011    (Co-editor with Maria Six-Hohenbalken) Violence Expressed. An Anthropological Approach. London: Ashgate Publishing