Nordic Himalaya Research Network (NHRN) First Inaugural Meeting

On May 7, 2018, the inaugural meeting for the newly established Nordic Himalaya Research Network was held at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen

Judith Pettigrew, Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal’s Civil War

When, on February 4 1996, an obscure faction of Nepal’s left-movement, submitted a 40-point memorandum to the government with the threat of initiating an armed revolt unless its ambitious demands for a completely restructured polity were immediately addressed, few had anticipated the decade-long militarized conflict that was to engulf most of the country and which left over 16,000 people dead and 1,300 missing. The history of Nepal’s Maoist uprising is yet to be written, in part because its e..

ETIK 3.0: Blindheder og visioner i tænkningen

Dan V. Hirslund: Ethics 3.0. Blindness and Visions of Anthropological Knowledge This article formulates a notion of ethics based on the interests that our concepts represent. It identifies a distinction between two dominant understandings of ethics in (Danish) anthropology. Ethics 1.0 creates the fundament for the construction of anthropological knowledge in the dialectical and inductive meeting between fieldworker and informant. Ethics 2.0 seeks to protect “the field” against the anthropological intervention, and it teaches us to “take care” of our fields. Adding to these, the article presents the idea of Ethic 3.0. The aim of this ethic is to explore how the theoretical and methodological construction of research fields is embedded in political and economic interests outside of academic institutions. Based on an ethic deconstruction of my own PhD project and its indirect alliance with a political fear of radicalization, the article seeks to craft a critical but constructive opening for the continued relevance of anthropological knowledge. Keywords: ethics, anthropology, radicalisation, concepts, fields of interest, visionary theory   Dan V. Hirslund: Etik 3.0. Blindheder og visioner i tænkningen Denne artikel formulerer et etikbegreb baseret på de interesser, vores begrebsapparat repræsenterer. Artiklen identificerer en adskillelse mellem to dominerende etikforståelser i antropologien. Etik 1.0 rammesætter grundlaget for konstruktionen af antropologisk viden i det dialektiske og induktive møde mellem feltarbejder og informant. Etik 2.0 søger at beskytte „felten“ mod antropologens intervention og lærer os at „passe på“ vores felter. I tillæ hertil formulerer artiklen ideen om Etik 3.0. Denne etik har til formå at undersøe, hvordan den teoretiske og metodiske konstruktion af forskningsfelter er indlejret i politiske og øonomiske interesser, der ræker langt ud over universiteternes mure. Med afsæ i en etisk dekonstruktion af mit eget ph.d.-projekt og dets indirekte alliance med en politisk bekymring for radikalisering søer artiklen at bane en kritisk, men konstruktiv åning for den fortsatte relevans af antropologisk viden. Søgeord: etik, antropologi, radikalisering, begrebsøkonomi, interessefelter, viden som utop

Judith Pettigrew, Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal’s Civil War

When, on February 4 1996, an obscure faction of Nepal’s left-movement, submitted a 40-point memorandum to the government with the threat of initiating an armed revolt unless its ambitious demands for a completely restructured polity were immediately addressed, few had anticipated the decade-long militarized conflict that was to engulf most of the country and which left over 16,000 people dead and 1,300 missing. The history of Nepal’s Maoist uprising is yet to be written, in part because its e..