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Steffen Jensen

MA, PhD

Education
1996: Masters in History and International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark
2002 PhD in International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark

Occupation History                   
1997-2001: PhD-researcher. Institute for Development Studies, Roskilde University and Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen.

2000: Three month research fellowship at Centre for Development Research. Policy paper on Armed Civilians.

2001-2: Six month research fellowship at Centre for Development Research. Initial programme preparation.

2002-3: Research Coordinator at Centre for youth Research, Roskilde University. Project on police and immigrant youth in Denmark.

2002 - 2004: Post-doc researcher. Title: "Security and State Formation on the South African Frontier". Project start 1 June 2002. Affiliated to the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg

2005 -: Senior Researcher, Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture.

Teaching experience
1996-1997: Teaching and planning a semester course in "Nationalism and Minorities in Europe", at Denmarks International Study Programme for American Exchange students.
1997-2001: Supervising Masters students and planning a semester course in "Collective Identity and Violence in Transitional Societies" Roskilde University.
2003: External Associate Professor at Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
2001- : External Associate Professor (Ekstern Lektor) at International Development Studies, Roskilde University
2006: External Associate Professor at Institute for Political Science, University of Copenhagen
2006 -: External Associate Professor, Center for African Studies

Fieldwork experience
1992: Fieldwork in Paris and Algeria. 2 months.
1993: Internship with Danish Cambodia Consortium, 5 months
1995: Fieldwork in Cape Town for Masters. 2 months.
1997: Fieldwork in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Phd. 2 months.
1998/99: Fieldwork in Cape Town. Phd. 18 months.
2002: Fieldwork in Mpumalanga. Post-doc. 3 months.
2003/04: Fieldwork in Mpumalanga. Post-doc. 11 months
2006: Fieldwork Mpumalanga. 4 months
2009/10: Fieldwork in Manila, 7 months

Publications

Books
(2009) Human Rights and State Violence: State officials in the South./Jensen, Steffen Bo Jensen; Jefferson, Andrew. London Routledge.

(2008) Gangs, Politics & Dignity in Cape town./Jensen, Steffen Bo. Oxford: James Currey Publishers, 212 s.

(2007) The Swecurity-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in South Africa. /Jensen, Steffen Bo; Buur, Lars; Stepputat, Finn. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrika Institutet, 284 s.

Reports
(2001) Claiming Community-Nogotiating Crime: State formation, neighborhood and gangs in a Capetonian Township./Jensen, Steffen Bo. Ph.D Thesis, Institute for Development Studies, Roskilde University.

Book Chapters
(2009) Introduction./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In Jensen, Steffen Bo Jensen; Jefferson, Andrew (eds) Human Rights and State Violence: State officials in the South. London Routledge.

(2009) The Vision of the State: Audiences, Enchantments and Policing in South Africa./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In Jensen, Steffen Bo Jensen; Jefferson, Andrew (eds) Human Rights and State Violence: State officials in the South. London Routledge.

(2008) Policing Nkomazi: crime, masculinity and generational conflicts./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Global Vigilantes. red. / David Pratten; Atreyee Sen. New York: Columbia University Press, s. 47-68

(2008) Security and Violence on the Frontier of the State: Vigilant citizens in Nkomazi, South Africa./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Violence and Non-Violence: African Perspectives. red. / Louise Bethlehem; Ruth Gunio; Pal Ahluwalia. London: Routldge.

(2007) Introduction: The Security-Development Nexus/Jensen, Steffen Bo; Buur, Lars; Stepputat, Finn. In: The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. red. / Lars Buur; Finn Stepputat; Steffen Jensen. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrika Institutet, s. 9-36

(2007) The Nationalist Imperative: South Africanisation, Regional Integration and Mobile Livelihoods./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Buur, Lars. In: The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, s. 63-85

(2007) Through the Lens of Crime: Land Claims and Contestations of Citizenship on the frontier of the South African State./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitazation in Southern Africa. red. / Lars Buur; Steffen Jensen; Finn Stepputat. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, s. 193-211.

(2005) Above the law: practices of sovereignty in Surrey Estate, Cape Town./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Sovereign Bodies: red. / F. Stepputat; T. Hansen. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

(2001) The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the south african state./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: States of imagination: ethnographic explorations of the post-colonial state. red. /T. Hansen; F. Stepputat. Durham: Duke University Press.

Journal Articles
(2010) The Security and Development Nexus in Cape Town: War on Gangs, Counterinsurgency and Citizenship/Jensen, Steffen Bo. In Security Dialogue, vol. 47, 1: 77-98

(2009) Gendered Connections./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In  Critique of Anthropology, vol. 29, no. 1.

(2008) Revolutionaries, Barbarians or War Machines:? Gangs in Nicaragua and South Africa/Jensen, Steffen Bo: Rodgers, Dennis. In Socialist Register 2009.

(2006) Capetonian back streets: territorializing young men./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Ethnography, vol. 7, nr. 3: 275-303.

(2006) Sundhedssystemer og Sundhedspraksisser i Nkomazi/Jensen, Steffen Bo; Enos Sikhauli. In Den Ny Verden, 39, 3: 69-78

(2005) The South African transition: from development to security?/Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Development and change, vol. 36, nr. 3, maj. s. 551-570.

(2004) Claiming Community: Local politics on the Cape Flats, South Africa./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Critique of Anthropology, vol. 24, nr. 2, s. 179-207.

(2004) Et liv som kriminel: Farvede unge mænds strategier i Cape Town./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Den Ny Verden, vol. 37, nr. 3, s. 73-84.

(2004) Everyday policing and the occult: Notions of witchcraft, Crime and the People./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Buur, Lars. In: African Studies, vol. 63, nr. 2, s. 193-212.

(2004) Introduction: Vigilantism and the Policing of Everyday Life in South Africa./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Buur, Lars. In: African Studies, vol. 63, nr. 2, s. 139-152.

(2004) The Occult and Everyday Policing: Notions of the People and crime./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Buur, Lars. In: African Studies, vol. 63, nr. 2, s. 193-211.

(2004) Et Liv som Kriminel: Farvede Unge Mænds Strategier i Cape Town/Jensen, Steffen Bo. In Den Ny Verden, vol.37, 3: 74-84. Reprinted in Social Kritik, vol. 116: 48-55

(2003) Politireform i overgangssamfund./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Den Ny Verden, vol. 36, nr. 1.

(2000) Kidnapningen af Renata: Et symbol på volden i Sydafrika./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: I'Afrika, vol. 1, nr. 2.

(2000) Of drug dealers and street gangs: power, mobility and violence on the cape flats./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Focaal, vol. 36.

(1999) Discourses of Violence: Coping with Violence on the Cape Flats./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Social Dynamics, vol. 25, nr. 2, s. 75-97.

(1999) Hvorfor er du her egentlig...?!: feltarbejde i voldelige områder./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Den Ny Verden, vol. 3.

(1996) Jeg vil ikke være en nar: rapportering fra feltarbejde i Sydafrika./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Simon Turner. In: Social Kritik, vol 45-6: 109-124

Working Papers and Reports
(2009) Torture in South Africa: Exploring Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Threatment through the Media/Jensen, Steffen Bo; Amanda Dissel; Sandra Roberts. Published on line at CSVR Website, April 2009.

(2008) Diary Studies: Methods for understanding poor people's coping with crisis after conflict./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Finne Jakobsen, Stine; Rønsbo, Henrik. Praxis Paper no. 7, online publication published on the RCT website, June 2008.

(2008) Learning from the ECAP-MWCC-RCT network./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Finne Jakobsen, Stine; Rønsbo, Henrik; Panigua, Walter; Sideris, Tina; Buch, Lotte. Methodology Paper on Collaborative Research, online publication published on the RCT website, April 2008.

(2003) Claiming Community: Government, Township politics, and the Specter of Crime./Jensen, Steffen Bo. IIS Working Paper, June 2003.

(2003) Konflikt på gadeplan: Når politi og etnisk ungdom mødes. /Jensen, Steffen Bo; Jespersen, Susanne Branner; Henry, Anthony Ansel; Katznelson, Noemi. Roskilde University: Centre for Youth Research.

(2001) Demobilizing Armed Civilians. /Jensen, Steffen Bo; Stepputat, Finn. Centre for Development Research.

Book Reviews
(2009) The Number: One man's search for identity in the Cape underworld and prison gangs. Review of The Number: One man's search for identity in the Cape underworld and prison gangs, by Jonny Steinberg, Jonathan Ball: Cape Town./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Andrew Jefferson. In Kronos, 31

(2008) History Making and Present Day Politics: The meaning of Collective Memory in South Africa.
Review of History Making and Present Day Politics: The meaning of Collective Memory in South Africa, by Hans Erik Stolten (ed.). Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, 2007; pp. 376./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Review of African Political Economy. Online publication p. 350-352.

(2003) Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa.
Review of Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa, edited by Jonathan Crush and David McDonald, Toronte and Capetown: Canadian Association of African Studies and Southern African Migration Project, 2002, pp. 187. /Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 16, nr. 1, pp. 105-106.

(1997) Apartheid Diskurser
Review of Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse, by Aletta Norval, London 1996, Verso./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In GRUS, vol. 53. s. 97-103.

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