Lars Buur

PhD, Ethnography & Social Anthropology
Senior Researcher, research unit on Politics and development
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Personal CV

Expertise

Research and Consultancy work on State Formation and Sovereignty, Productive Sector Development, and Informal Economy and Politics in Southern Africa.

Selected projects and programmes

• Elites Production and Poverty: A Comparative Study (specific on Mozambique).
• Markets for Peace? Informal Economic Networks and Political Agency.
• Long termed research project on post-conflict state formation and sovereignty in sub-Saharan Africa.

Selected publications

Strategic privatisation: rehabilitating the Mozambican sugar industry. In Review Of African Political Economy. 2011 Vol. 38(128): 235-256 (with Carlota Mondlane and Obede Baloi).

Xiconhoca: Mozambique’s Ubiquitous Post-Independence Traitor.In Traitors:Suspicion, Intimacy and the Ethics of State-Building. PENN Press. 2010 Pp. 24-47

Domesticating Sovereigns: The Changing Nature of Vigilante Groups in South Africa. In Domesticating Vigilantism in Africa. James Currey. 2010 Pp. 26-50.

The politics of gradualismo: popular participation and decentralised governance in
Mozambique. In Rethinking Popular Representation. 2009 Palgrave. P. 99-118.

The Horror of the Mob: The Violence of Imagination in South Africa. In Critique of Anthropology, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 5-24. 2009.

The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Eds. with Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat. South Africa: HSRC Press. 2007.

Selected commissioned work

2011, Policy Brief, Budget support lessons from post-conflict support to Mozambique, with J. Flentø

2011, Working Paper, Engaging in productive Sector Development: Comparisons between Mozambique and Ghana, with L. Whitfield

2010 Policy Brief, Recurrent cost boom threatens Millennium Development Goals, with O.Therkildsen

2008 Policy Brief, Fragile Situations, commissioned by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark (DIIS).

2007 Responsible for Case Study: Huambo Province. Independent Evaluation. SDC Humanitarian Aid un Angola 1995-2006.

2005 - 2008 Leading Consultant for Ibis-Mozambique, District Development projects in Niassa Province.

2000 Briefing paper: Truth and Reconciliation for Aid Policy & Practice. CDR, Copenhagen.

Selected research related activities

Research Associate: Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg, South Africa and Centro de Estudos de Democracia e Desenvolvimento, Maputo, Mozambique.

2005- External examiner Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark and The Research Council of Norway.

2006-2009 Board member, Danish Institute for International Studies.

2007-2009 Network coordinator, Markets for Peace? Informal economic networks and political agency, FSE sponsored research network DIIS, Copenhagen.

Supervisor (Masters and PhD: Center for Africa Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark.

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