Thomas Blom Hansen

Thomas Blom Hansen is a Danish anthropologist and leading contemporary commentator on religious and political violence in India. He has worked on religious identities, local political organization and informal networks in Bombay and pursued an interest in the anthropology of politics, the postcolonial state and sovereignty. More recently he has done research on religious revival and the everyday meanings of freedom and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa. Hansen is part of an international research network entitled “The Religious Lives of Migrants,” funded by the Ford Foundation and the Social Science Research Council in New York, which explores religious meanings and institutions among international migrants in a global and comparative perspective.

Hansen has held academic positions at Yale University, University of Edinburgh, University of Natal (Durban), Roskilde University (Denmark), and Copenhagen University. He is currently Senior Research Scientist at Yale University, Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam where, since February 1, 2008, he is also Dean of the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences. [ [http://www.ishss.uva.nl/News/newdean.htm ISHSS News] ]

elected Publications

* "The Saffron Wave. Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India" (Princeton University Press, 1999)
* "Wages of Violence. Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay" (Princeton University Press, 2001)
* (Co-edited with Finn Stepputat) "States of Imagination. Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State" (Duke University Press 2001)
* (Co-edited with Finn Stepputat) "Sovereign Bodies. Citizens, Migrants and states in the postcolonial world" (Princeton University Press, 2005)

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External links

* [http://www.yale.edu/anthro/people/thansen.html Yale University Faculty Page]
* [http://www.assr.nl/scholars/staff/blomhansen.html University of Amsterdam Staff Page]