Research groups
The research at the Department of Social Anthropology comprises several subjects. Many of our researchers are interested in related topics.
Human-made chemical substances permeate and transform human and non-human lives and environments in the 21st century and have thus become an important theme in Social Anthropology.
This group seeks to ethnographically explore the performative effect of ascribing ‘dependence’ to others as a means of politically shaping the world we live in.
Students and teachers at SAI experiment, often collaboratively, with forms of ethnographic writing and dissemination, stretching the boundaries of conventional academic language.
A network for researchers interested in engaging with questions that relate to resource politics.