About
Vigh is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Head of the PhD programme in Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the same university.
Vigh’s main research field lies within Political Anthropology with a special focus on crisis, conflict and crime. Regionally he focuses on Europe and West Africa. He is involved in the following research projects: Youth, mobilisation and social navigation, ethnographic criminology, racialization and globality, crisis and chronicity, and illuminations of illegality.
Selected publications
- Vigh, H. (2018) ‘Lives opposed: perceptivity and tacticality in conflict and crime.’ Social Anthropology – Anthropologie Sociale 26 (4): 487-501.
- Jensen, S. & H. Vigh (eds.) (2018) Sporadically Radical: Ethnographies of Organised Violence and Militant Mobilization. Critical Anthropology Series. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. 290pp.
- Vigh, H. (2017) ‘Caring through Crime: ethical ambivalence and the cocaine trade in Bissau.’ International African Institute 87(3): 479-495.
- Vigh, H. (2015) ‘Militantly Well.’ HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5(3): 93-110.
- Vigh, H. (2006) Navigating Terrains of War: Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 268pp.