Dan Vesalainen Hirslund

Primary fields of research

My work centers on political and economic anthropology with a regional specialization in South Asia and in particular Sri Lanka and Nepal. I have worked within the fields of refugee studies, political activism, revolutionary movements and am currently involved in a project on the social economy of debt in capitalist industries in Kathmandu. At ToRS, I am part of the Global South Asian research and study programme.

Current research

Currently, my research engagements cover three registers

One is an extension of my PhD project that looks into 21st century Maoism in South Asia and its transformations from a rural to an urban movement in Nepal. I am interested in convergences between capitalist restructuring of labor forms, and the formation of an urban precariat through its participation in regional democratization processes.

Second is a project for which I received 2 year funding from the Danish Research Council in late 2014, looks at the social power of monetary debts among precariat laborers in Kathmandu. Through an examination of how credit ciruclates in contexts of insecure employment the aim is to look at the kind of alliances, or solidarities, that both vertical and horizontal debt relations generate for the urban working poor.

Third is an examination of deepening precarisation in welfare economies with a focus on Denmark. This engagement will result in a book publication in 2018 together with Julie Rahbæk Møller and Karen Lisa Salamon examining a wide range of precarious labor in Denmark. I am also engaged in analyses of the peculiarity of academic precarity in relation to the expanding group of non-tenured postdocs.

CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dan Vesalainen Hirslund

Uddannelse

2012 PHD i Antropologi, KU

2006 Master i Antropologi, KU

Ansættelser 

Postdoc, Center for Tværkulturelle Studier, KU (marts 2015 -

Postdoc, Global Development Studies Institut for Antropologi, KU (november 2014 - januar 2015)

Ekstern lektor, Institut for Antropologi, KU (september 2014 - november 2014)

Adjunktvikar, Institut for Antropologi, KU (august 2013 - juli 2014)

Ekstern Lektor, Institut for Antropologi, KU (september 2012 - juli 2013)

PhD Studerende, IA og Rehabiliterings- og Forskningscentret for Torturofre (maj 2008 - september 2012)

Projektleder, Dansk Røde Kors Asyl (oktober 2007 - april 2008)

Forskningsassistent, Rehabiliterings- og Forskningscentret for Torturofre (november-december 2006)

Freelancefotograf (januar 2004 - december 2008)

Assistancekoordinator, SOS International A/S (september 2001 - maj 2005)

Undervisningserfaring

2018, fall “Modern Politics of South Asia”,  Global South Asian Studies, ToRS, UCPH

2018, spring “Globalization and Development”,  Global South Asian Studies, ToRS, UCPH

2017, spring "Theory of Science", Global South Asian Studies, ToRS, UCPH

2017, spring "Economic Cultures", Komparativ Kultur, ToRS, UCPH

2015, fall Tutoring “Kultur- og Samfundsanalyse”, MA in “Tværkultur”, ToRS, UCPH

2015, fall “Politics and Public Space in Modern Asian Cities”, Global Urban Studies, ToRS, UCPH

2015, fall “Introduction to the Formation of South Asia”, Global South Asian Studies, ToRS, UCPH

2015, fall “South Asian Cultures,” Global South Asian Studies, ToRS, UCPH

2014, efterår Specialeseminar IA

2014, efterår Bachelor Analyse IA

2014, forår Specialeseminar, kandidatniveau, IA

2014, forår Bachelor analyse og koordinering, bachelorniveau, IA

2013, efterår Bachelor analyse og koordinering, bachelorniveau, IA

2013, efterår Kvalitative og Kvantitative Metoder, bachelorniveau, IA

2013, forår Critical Political Anthropology, bachelor- og kandidat, IA

2013, forår Introductory Political Anthropology, bachelor- og kandidat, IA

2013, efterår Introduktion til antropologi, Master i sundhedsantropologi, IA

2010, forår Politisk Antropologi I, bachelor- og kandidat, IA

2008, efterår Samfundsmæssige Problemstillinger, bachelorniveau, IA

2008, efterår Antropologisk Projektdesign, bachelorniveau, IA

Feltarbejdserfaring

2018, juli-august postdoc feltarbejde Kathmandu

2017, november-december postdoc feltarbejde Kathmandu

2016, januar-juni postdoc feltarbejde Kathmandu

2015, januar postdoc feltarbejde Kathmandu

2012, April opfølgende phd feltbesøg i Kathmandu (Nepal)

2009, Jan-Okt PhD feltarbejde i Kathmandu (Nepal), FKK bevilling

2006, Nov-Dec Brugerdesign, Frederiksberg og København, Antropologerne.com

2000, Jan-Jun Specialefeltarbejde, Puttalam, Sri Lanka

1998, Forskningsassisten “Et døgn på Rådhuspladsen”, Kirsten Marie Raahauge & Katja Kvale

Forskningsprojekter


2017-2021 Building a Classed City? Research project under Don Kalb’s Frontlines of Value project at University of Bergen

2017-2020 Partnership Development Grant. Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Construction, Finance and Law as Domains of Social Transformation. Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. PI: Sara Shneiderman, UBC.

2015-2017 Solidarity of Debt in Kathmandu (postdoc), ToRS.

2014-2017 Comparative Anthologies of Revolutionary Politics, UCL.

2006-2012 Violent Organization of Political Youth, Henrik Vigh og Steffen Jensen, Rehabiliterings- og Forskningscentret for Torturofre.