Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Associate Professor

Academic Interests
Contemporary rural social movements in India with a particular focus on questions of land acquistion, displacement and resistance. Research interests also include Indian politics in general as well as migration and dispora politics.
I also currently coordinate Asianettverket, the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies
Courses taught
- SAS 2504 - Politisk kultur i India (Norwegian)
- SAS 3500 - India i dag - vekst, miljø, demokrati (Norwegian)
- SUM 3000 - Development and environment: From theory to practice
- SUM 4011A - Research Methods (I)
- SUM 4011B - Research Methods (II)
- SUM 4012 - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Environment
Background
- MA in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen in 2005.
- PhD in anthropology from the University of Oslo in 2014.
Publications
- Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Compounding aspirations: grounding hegemonic processes in India's rural transformations. Revue canadienne d'études du développement. ISSN 0225-5189. . doi: 10.1080/02255189.2019.1666706
- Jakobsen, Jostein; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald & Vaidya, Anand (2019). Mapping the World’s Largest Democracy (1947–2017). Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 46(1), s 83- 108 . doi: 10.1080/08039410.2018.1465461 Full text in Research Archive.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Orchestrating Anti-Dispossession Politics: Caste and Movement Leadership in Rural West Bengal. Journal of Contemporary Asia. ISSN 0047-2336. . doi: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1608285
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald & Vaidya, Anand (2019). Indian Democracy and Its Prospects: 2019 and Beyond, In Alf Gunvald Nilsen; Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Anand Vaidya (ed.), Indian Democracy: Origins, Trajectories, Contestations. Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745338927. Conclusion. s 170 - 177
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald & Vaidya, Anand (2019). Trajectories and Crossroads: Indian Democracy at 70, In Alf Gunvald Nilsen; Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Anand Vaidya (ed.), Indian Democracy: Origins, Trajectories, Contestations. Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745338927. Introduction. s 1 - 12
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2018). Political Dynasticism: Networks, Trust, Risk. Studies in Indian Politics. ISSN 2321-0230. 6(2), s 157- 167 . doi: 10.1177/2321023018797407
- Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2017). Wheels of change: cars, automobility and development in Asia, In Arve Hansen & Kenneth Bo Nielsen (ed.), Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia: Wheels of Change. Routledge. ISBN 9781138930704. Chapter 1. s 3 - 14
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2017). Unclean Slates: Greenfield Development, Land Dispossession, and EIA Struggles in Goa. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. ISSN 0085-6401. 40(4), s 844- 861 . doi: 10.1080/00856401.2017.1370185 Full text in Research Archive.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Bedi, Heather P. (2017). The Regional Identity Politics of India’s New Land Wars: Land, Food, and Popular Mobilisation in Goa and West Bengal. Environment and planning A. ISSN 0308-518X. 49(10), s 2324- 2341 . doi: 10.1177/0308518X17719884 Full text in Research Archive.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Bedi, Heather P. & Da Silva, Solano Jose Savio (2017). Enabling the Great Goan Land Grab. Economic and Political Weekly. ISSN 0012-9976. 52(41)
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Da Silva, Solano Jose Savio (2017). Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa, In Tereza Kuldova & Mathew Akkanad Varghese (ed.), Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-47622-3. 4. s 53 - 74
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Majumder, Sarasij (2017). ‘Should the Son of a Farmer Always Remain a Farmer?’ The Ambivalence of Industrialisation and Resistance in West Bengal, In Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Patrik Oskarsson (ed.), Industrialising Rural India: Land, policy and resistance. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138936713. 4. s 63 - 82
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (2017). Law-Struggles, Law-Making and the Politics of Hegemony in Neoliberal India: Towards a Critical Perspective on the 2013 Land Acquisition Act, In Anthony P D'Costa & Achin Chakraborty (ed.), The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198792444. Kapittel 5. s 129 - 150
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Oskarsson, Patrik (2017). Industrialising Rural India: Land, Policy and Resistance, In Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Patrik Oskarsson (ed.), Industrialising Rural India: Land, policy and resistance. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138936713. 1. s 3 - 18
- Hansen, Arve; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Wilhite, Harold Langford (2016). Staying Cool, Looking Good, Moving Around: Consumption, Sustainability and the ‘Rise of the South’. Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 43(1), s 5- 25 . doi: 10.1080/08039410.2015.1134640 Full text in Research Archive.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). Mamata Banerjee: Redefining Female Leadership, In Arild Engelsen Ruud & Geir Heierstad (ed.), India's democracies : diversity, co-optation, resistance. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 978-82-15-02689-3. 5. s 101 - 134
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). Managing 'Communities' of Resistance: Negotiating Caste and Class in an Anti-land Acquisition Movement in West Bengal, In Uday Chandra & Daniel Taghioff (ed.), Staking Claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199467773. 5. s 165 - 199
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). The Politics of Caste and Class in Singur’s Anti-Land Acquisition Struggle, In Kenneth Bo Nielsen; Geir Heierstad & Uday Chandra (ed.), The Politics of Caste in West Bengal. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-13-892148-1. 6. s 125 - 146
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). The everyday politics of India’s “land wars” in rural eastern India. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. ISSN 0920-1297. 2016(75), s 105- 118 . doi: 10.3167/fcl.2016.750108
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Heierstad, Geir & Chandra, Uday (2016). Introduction, In Kenneth Bo Nielsen; Geir Heierstad & Uday Chandra (ed.), The Politics of Caste in West Bengal. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-13-892148-1. Introduction. s 1 - 18
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (2016). Conclusion, In Alf Gunvald Nilsen & Kenneth Bo Nielsen (ed.), Social Movements and the State in India: Deepening Democracy?. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-59132-6. 12. s 269 - 275
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Oskarsson, Patrik (2016). Development deadlocks of the New Indian State. Economic and Political Weekly. ISSN 0012-9976. 51(4), s 67- 69
- Nilsen, Alf Gunvald & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). Social Movements, State Formation and Democracy in India: An Introduction, In Alf Gunvald Nilsen & Kenneth Bo Nielsen (ed.), Social Movements and the State in India: Deepening Democracy?. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-59132-6. 1. s 1 - 23
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Between peasant utopia and neoliberal dreams: industrialisation and its discontents in emerging India, In Arve Hansen & Ulrikke Bryn Wethal (ed.), Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-74732-5. 6. s 79 - 91
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). 'Community' and the Politics of Caste, Class, and Representation in the Singur Movement, West Bengal, In Alf Gunvald Nilsen & Srila Roy (ed.), New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199457557. 8.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Law and Larai: The (De)Judicialisation of Subaltern Resistance in West Bengal. Journal of Contemporary Asia. ISSN 0047-2336. 45(4), s 618- 639
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Mopa Airport Woes. Economic and Political Weekly. ISSN 0012-9976. 50(24)
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (2015). Law struggles and hegemonic processes in neoliberal India: gramscian reflections on land acquisition legislation. Globalizations. ISSN 1474-7731. 12(2), s 203- 216 . doi: 10.1080/14747731.2014.937084
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Wilhite, Harold Langford (2015). The rise and fall of the ‘people's car’: middle-class aspirations, status and mobile symbolism in ‘New India’. Contemporary South Asia. ISSN 0958-4935. 23(4), s 371- 387 . doi: 10.1080/09584935.2015.1090951
- Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Cars of Future Past in Vietnam and India. Tvergastein. ISSN 1893-5605. 4, s 72- 79
- Madsen, Stig Toft & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Hindutva and Its Discontents in Denmark, In Ester Gallo (ed.), Migration and Religion in Europe: Comparative Perspectives on South Asian Experiences. Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4094-2973-9. 8. s 155 - 170
- Nilsen, Alf Gunvald; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Vaidya, Anand (ed.) (2019). Indian Democracy: Origins, Trajectories, Contestations. Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745338927. 193 s.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2018). Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India. Anthem Press. ISBN 9781783087471. 240 s.
- Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (ed.) (2017). Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia: Wheels of Change. Routledge. ISBN 9781138930704. 202 s.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Oskarsson, Patrik (ed.) (2017). Industrialising Rural India: Land, policy and resistance. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138936713. 200 s.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Heierstad, Geir & Chandra, Uday (ed.) (2016). The Politics of Caste in West Bengal. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-13-892148-1. 265 s.
- Nilsen, Alf Gunvald & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (ed.) (2016). Social Movements and the State in India: Deepening Democracy?. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-59132-6. 379 s.
- Flåten, Lars Tore & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Kashmir i fokus igjen. Asiapunkt.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Jensenius, Francesca R.; Frøystad, Hanne Kathinka & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2019). Valgvake - valget i India.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Indias geopolitiske spagat. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Modis æra. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Jensenius, Francesca R. & Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus (2019). Modi er kommet for å bli. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus & Jensenius, Francesca R. (2019). Er valget i India slutten på dynastiet?. Avisa Vårt land.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus & Jensenius, Francesca R. (2019). Indisk spenning. Dagsavisen. ISSN 1503-2892.
- Flåten, Lars Tore; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus; Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jensenius, Francesca R. (2019). Hindunasjonalistisk parti går mot valgseier. Avisa Vårt land.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019, 06. mai). Ekspert om Kashmir-konflikten: Største inngripen noensinne. VG.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019, 02. mai). Indiske valgkandidater er anklaget for terror, mord, valgsvindel og vold mod kvinder, men de stiller op alligevel. [Internett]. Globalnyt.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019, 30. april). Interviewed on India’s criminal politicians and the Lok Sabha elections by Radio24syv, 24syv Morgen. [Radio]. Radio24syv.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019, 29. april). Interviewed on India’s criminal politicians and the Lok Sabha elections by Radio24syv, Datolinjen. [Radio]. Radio24syv.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019, 24. juli). Interviewed on female foeticide in India by NRK P2, Studio 2. [Radio]. NRK P2.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019, 12. april). Interviewet om det indiske valget i NRK P2, Alltid Nyheter. [Radio]. NRK P2.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019, 13. april). Kjemper om makt og velgere i India. Dagsavisen.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019, 01. februar). Reddito minimo a tutti: va in campagna pure il nipote di Gandhi. Il Fatto Quotidiano.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019, 26. mai). Seieren hans er farlig for muslimer. Vårt Land.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Untitled review of "A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India", by Sirpa Tenhunen. Ethnos. ISSN 0014-1844. 84(4), s 743- 745
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Untitled review of "Costs of Democracy: Political Finance in India", edited by Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal. ISSN 1960-6060.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Untitled review of "Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India", by Michael Levien. Journal of South Asian Development. ISSN 0973-1741. 14(1), s 110- 115
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Untitled review of "Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India", by Benjamin Robert Siegel. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. ISSN 0085-6401. 42(1), s 211- 212
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019, 24. mai). Valgvinneren i India vil gi elektrisitet til alle. Det betyr økte kullutslipp. Aftenposten.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus; Jensenius, Francesca & Flåten, Lars Tore (2019). Demokrati eller autokrati i India?. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
- Jakobsen, Jostein; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald & Vaidya, Anand (2018). Världens största demokrati i praktiken, I: Staffan Lindberg & Lars Eklund (red.), Miraklet Indien och dess baksida. Palmkrons förlag. ISBN 978-91-88785-00-8. 4. s 91 - 121
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Heierstad, Geir; Flåten, Lars Tore & Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus (2017). Demokratisk jubileum med bismak. Avisa Vårt land.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus; Flåten, Lars Tore; Heierstad, Geir & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2017). De usikre alliansenes tid. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
- Heierstad, Geir & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). India's smart cities. Tvergastein. ISSN 1893-5605. (7), s 11- 17
- Holsten, Hilde Hartmann; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Hansen, Arve (2016, 02. oktober). Bilene endrer byene i Kina. [Internett]. Forskning.no. Show summary
- Holsten, Hilde Hartmann; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Hansen, Arve (2016, 28. september). How cars have transformed China. [Tidsskrift]. NordicScience. Show summary
- Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). En mors død. Fokus India.
- Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). Hvem er den indiske bonden?. Rødt!. ISSN 1504-4777. 2016(4), s 116- 121
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). Living With Debt. Anthropology News. ISSN 1541-6151.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). Untitled review of Political Economy of Development in India: Indigeneity in Transition in the State of Kerala, by Darley Jose Kjosavik and Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam. Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 43(3)
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Skatt. FokusIndia.
- Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). India sett fra Rødt. indiafokus.no.
- Waldrop, Anne; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Standal, Karina & Wilhite, Harold Langford (2016). Editor's Introduction. Special Issue on Family and Gender in Globalising India. Asia in Focus. ISSN 2446-0001.
- Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Russerne: de nye hippier?. Fokus India.
- Jensenius, Francesca R.; Heierstad, Geir & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Luften som dreper. Bergens Tidende. ISSN 0804-8983.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Frimærkepolitik. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Ghost Airports. Dhaka Tribune.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015, 31. januar). Indisk avis: Premiereminister i Indien ønsker bedre forhold til Danmark og fyrer derfor topdiplomat. Politiken.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Karunanidhi 92. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Kongrespartiet samler tropperne. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Lufthavnspolitik. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Mer om land – igen. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Mopa. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015, 30. januar). Opplysningen 99,3. [Radio]. Radio Nova.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015, 16. september). P1 Eftermiddag. [Radio]. DR P1.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Review of Dayabati Roy, "Rural Politics in India: Political Stratification and Governance in West Bengal". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. ISSN 0085-6401. 38(2), s 344- 345
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Review of Jamie Cross, "Dream Zones: Anticipating Capitalism and Development in India". Contemporary South Asia. ISSN 0958-4935. 23(2), s 230- 231
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Review of "Night of the Gods: Durga Puja and the Legitimation of Power in Rural Bengal" by Ralph W. Nicholas. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. ISSN 1359-0987. 21(3), s 709- 710
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Shorty Gomes: Vintage Crime Stories Featuring Shorty Gomes, Bombay’s Ace Private Detective [book review]. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015, 16. mai). Styrker samarbeid. Klassekampen.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Thinking Anthropologically About India’s Land Wars.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Tillidslandet. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Women as Activists, Women as Symbols: The Gendered Politics of Mobilisation and Symbolic Representation in the Singur Movement.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Russians: The new hippies?. Dhaka Tribune.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (2015). Law-Struggles, Law-making and the Politics of Hegemony in Neoliberal India: Towards a Critical Perspective on the 2013 Land Acquisition Act.
- Holsten, Hilde Hartmann; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Hansen, Arve (2014, 17. januar). Bilene er på full fart inn i India og Vietnam. [Internett]. Forskning.no.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). An Historic Win? Election Talk and Election Numbers in India's 16th Lok Sabha Election.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Between Peasant Utopia and Neoliberal Dreams: Industrialisation and Its Discontents in Emerging India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 14. mai). En Reagan bak masken?. Vårt Land.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 05. april). En populistisk administrator. Information.
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