Education
2008 March
- Present: PhD Fellow, International Development Studies, Dep.
of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde
University. RCT
(Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture
Victims)
2006 April: Cand. Scient. in Social
Anthropology (equivalent to Masters degree),
University of Copenhagen,
Denmark.
2002: November:Bachelor in Social
Anthropology, University of Copenhagen,
Denmark.
1998 - 1999: Three semesters Ethnology, Basel
University, Schwitzerland.
Work experience
2008 Jan. -
2008 Dec. :Lauritzen
Consult,Quality
manager
2007 Aug. - 2008 Jan.: Ethnology,
Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen.
External
lecturer
2007 Mar - 2008 Jan.: NIRAS A/S.
Allerød. Project
organization and management
consultant
2006 Nov. - 2007 Feb.:Rehabilitation and
Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT).
Research assistant.
Publications
2011: "Domesticating vigilantism in Africa. T.G. Kirsch, T.
Grätz (eds.). Oxford: James Currey, 2010" (Book review). Journal of
Modern African Studies, 49 (4): 685-686.
2010: "Outwitting the Professor of Politics?
Mungiki narratives of Political Deception and their role in Kenyan
Politics" Journal of Eastern African Studies vol. 4 no.
3
2010:"Mungiki as youth movement: Revolution,
Gender and Generational Politics in Nairobi, Kenya." Young vol. 18
no. 3 pp. 301-319.
2010: "The City is Our forest! The affective
urban politics of the Mungiki Movement in Nairobi, Kenya" Africa
Programme Report no. 6, Swedish National Defence
College.
2007:"Struggling for the City: Evictions in
Inner City Johannesburg" in Buur, Jensen & Stepputat (eds.) The
Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and
Securitisation in Southern Africa. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,
Uppsala & HSRC Press, Cape Town.
2006: Dissertation: Living with fear: violence
and the practice of avoidance in inner city Johannesburg.
Specialerækken nr. 393, Institute of Anthropology, University of
Copenhagen.
2003: "Den gode, den onde og den virkelig
sjove indvandrer" in Jordens Folk no. 2.,
2003: "Integration"
With Wangui Kimari:
2010: "'Setting the agenda for our leaders from under a
tree': The People's Parliament in Nairobi." Nokoko Magazine vol. 2
no. 1. Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa,
Canada.