Finn Stepputat

PhD Cultural Sociology, MSc Economic Geography, BA Spanish Language and Culture
Senior Researcher, research unit on Migration
T: +45 3269 8685, E: , F: +45 3269 8600
Personal CV

Expertise

Issues related to violent conflict such as forced migration, relief, resettlement, rehabilitation and state formation. Also more generally stateformation, sovereignty, citizenship and democratization in areas of weak and contested state authority.

Selected projects and programmes

Shifting Sovereignties and Power, 2010-11.

Knowledge production in the security-development nexus, 2010-11.

Governing the Dead. Authority and dead bodies in public spaces, 2009-11.

Selected publications

Stepputat, Finn. (2012). Knowledge production in the security-development nexus: An ethnographic reflection, Security Dialogue 43(5): 439-455

Stepputat, Finn. (2008). Forced Migration, Land and Sovereignty, Government and Opposition 43(2): 337-57

Stepputat, Finn. (2007). The Security-Development Nexus. Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Uppsala and Cape Town: Nordic Africa Institute and HSRC Press. Co-edited with Lars Buur and Steffen Jensen

Stepputat, Finn. (2007). Fragile States and Insecure People. Violence, Security and Statehood in the Twenty-first Century. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. Co-edited with Louise Andersen and Bjørn Møller

Stepputat, Finn. (2006). Sovereignty Revisited, Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 295-316. Co-authored with Thomas Blom Hansen

Stepputat, Finn. (2005). Sovereign Bodies. Citizens, Migrants and States in the Post Colonial World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Co-edited with Thomas Blom Hansen

Selected commissioned work

An Analysis of Concerted Civil-Military Planning and Action. Commissioned by the Danish Government (2008-09). Read more here.

Study on Fragile Situations and Aid. Commissioned by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2008). Read more here.

Independent Evaluation. Swiss Humanitarian Aid in Angola 1995-2006. Commissioned by the Swiss Development Cooperation, SDC (2007-08). Download here.

MS in Conflict? The Experience and Policies of MS in Relation to Violent Conflict. Commssioned by Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke/Danish Cooperation (2005).

Dynamics of Return and Sustainable Reintegration in a 'Mobile Livelihoods' Perspective. Commisisoned by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2004). Download here: graphics/Publications/WP2004/fst_dynamics.pdf

Selected research related activities

PhD Supervisor (5)

External PhD examiner (Universities in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Spain)

Referee (American Ethnologist; Journal of Refugee Studies; Journal of Latin American Studies, Bulletin of Latin American Studies, Journal of International Peace Operations; Norwegian Research Council; Security Dialogue, a.o.)

Post-doctoral grant 2006-07, Agrarian Studies. Yale University

Top