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

Background

  • MA in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen in 2005.
  • PhD in anthropology from the University of Oslo in 2014.

 

Tags: Poverty, Rights, Gender, Asia, India

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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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