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Helle Malmvig
Senior Researcher
Peace and violence
Bio
Primary research areas
Helle Malmvig’s research focuses on international politics of the Middle East. She is particularly interested in aesthetic and popular cultural discourses and practices of war, ethnic and sectarian identity politics, and visual and aesthetic modes of resistance and counter-conducts, particularly in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Israel Palestine and Iran.
Current research
Visuality, sound, violence and war
Currently Helle Malmvig is particularly interested in how warfare is performed audially and visually in popular culture and by the hyperreal practices of soldiers and militias themselves.
Aestheticization and humorization of international politics
This project in the making is interested in the implications of what Malmvig calls ‘humorization of politics’, and how that relates to postmodern conditions of truth and the spectacle of politics.
Featured publications
Billede/illustration af Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright-licens
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license
Journal Article
2020
the audio-visual performance of war by Shia Militias in Iraq and Syria
Helle Malmvig
Journal Article
2016
Helle Malmvig
Book
2011
a discourse analysis of interventionary and non-interventionary practices in Kosovo and Algeria
Helle Malmvig
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license
Forskningsartikel
2020
Helle Malmvig & Tamirace Fakhoury
Expertise
Research and activites
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Chapter2023The green zones of Baghdad and Mogadishu as heterotopic spacesHelle Malmvig, Jethro Norman, Antonio De Lauri, Iva Jelusic, Heidi Mogstad & Eva Johais
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Web Article2023the Green Zones of Baghdad and MogadishuHelle Malmvig & Jethro Norman
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Journal Article2022The Productive power and limitations of humourous practices in an age of entertainment politicsHelle Malmvig
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Book Chapter2021the Complex Relationships Between State/Non-state Armed Actors in Syria’s WarHelle Malmvig
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2020the audio-visual performance of war by Shia Militias in Iraq and SyriaHelle Malmvig
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseForskningsartikel2020Helle Malmvig & Tamirace Fakhoury
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Journal Article2019The sectarian taboo, music videos and the securitization of sectarian identity politics in Hezbollah’s legitimation of its military involvement in SyriaHelle Malmvig
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Report2019The Regional Order in the Middle East and North Africa after 2011Raffaella del Sarto, Helle Malmvig & Eduard Soler
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Working papers etc.2018Helle Malmvig, Virginie Collombier, Maria-Louise Clausen, Hiba Hassan & Jan Pet Khorto
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseReport2018Al Jazeera Studies Centre report in new series with John Hopkins University, Washington. (New Balance of Power in the Middle East: Regional Actors, Global Powers, and Middle East Strategy)Helle Malmvig
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DIIS Report2018Fragmentation of the Syrian state since 2011Helle Malmvig
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DIIS Book2017Between Regional Autonomy and Intervention in the Middle East and North AfricaRasmus Alenius Boserup, Waled Hazbun, Karim Makdisi & Helle Malmvig
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Book Chapter2017Regional actors involvement in the battle for SyriaHelle Malmvig
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Chapter2016Helle Malmvig, Eduard Soler i Lecha & Jordi Quero
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Journal Article2016Helle Malmvig
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Journal Article2016Theorising the Subjects and Practices of resistance in Global PoliticsHelle Malmvig, Louiza Odysseos & Carl Death
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Journal Article2015How we may take sectarian identity politics seriously in the Middle East without playing to the tunes of regional power elitesHelle Malmvig
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Book Chapter2015Between Clumsy Hans and Thumbelina?Helle Malmvig
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Journal Article2014Governmentality, Counter-conduct, and Simulation in European Democracy and Reform Promotion in the Arab WorldHelle Malmvig
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DIIS Working Paper2013Danish Middle East policy from WWII to the Arab uprisingsHelle Malmvig
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DIIS Report2013Middle East regional security in the wake of the Arab uprisings and the Syrian civil warHelle Malmvig
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Journal Article2013regional order after the Arab uprisingsHelle Malmvig
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DIIS Policy Brief2022The NATO mission in Iraq is facing a number of challengesMaria-Louise Clausen & Helle Malmvig
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseDIIS Policy Brief2020Local actors and foreign powers are scrabbling for influence in Iraq and SyriaHelle Malmvig & Jakob Dreyer
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license
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DIIS Policy Brief2018Security Sector ReformLouise Riis Andersen & Helle Malmvig
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DIIS Policy Brief2016Geopolitics and non-Western Intervention in SyriaHelle Malmvig
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DIIS Policy Brief2014backing the Kurds in the fight against IS in Iraq and SyriaHelle Malmvig & Hetav Rojan
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DIIS Policy Brief2011the need for an international solutionHelle Malmvig
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DIIS Policy Brief2011what should the EU do in Tunisia now?Ulla Holm, Helle Malmvig & Fabrizio Tassinari
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DIIS Policy Brief2006EU-GCC relations in a changing security environmentHelle Malmvig
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DIIS Policy Brief2004NATO's Mediterranean dialogue and the democratisation of the Middle EastHelle Malmvig