Adam Moe Fejerskov

Primary research areas

Adam Fejerskov studies the terrains and ramifications of contemporary global inequalities. He examines how inequalities flow from and are manifested in a diverse cast of issues, from emerging technology, science and knowledges to humanitarianism and aspirations of global development. Adam is interested in how global and local politics and relations are shaped by imaginaries of progress and future. He has published books in English and Danish on issues of new technology, inequality, power, ideas, norms, and poverty. Adam's most recent book is 'The Global Lab: Inequality, technology and the new experimental movement' (Oxford UP, 2022).

Adam is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Progress in Development Studies and the Danish journal Samfundsøkonomen. He sits on the Development Policy Council (appointed by the Danish Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy), the Danish Emergency Relief Fund, in EADI’s Executive Committee, and on the advisory board of several international journals.  

Adam co-coordinates DIIS Tech, a new venture (2021-2024) that situates research on technology and international politics as a key priority for the institute. Here, Adam works with how emerging technologies produce new inequalities and exacerbate existing ones, and the role of private actors herein, from Silicon Valley start-ups to private foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also PI of an international research project on global norms and violence against women in Ethiopia (GLOW). The project brings together African and European researchers to study the meeting of global norms embedded in agendas such as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and local realities, cultures, and ideas. The project builds on previous work conducted by Adam and colleagues that challenges dominant theoretical notions of how ideas and practices move around the world (including the book 'Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance: The Delusion of Norm Diffusion' from 2019).