Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Forsker og nettverkskoordinator

Faglige interesser
Sosiale bevegelser i det rurale India med et særlig fokus på tvangsekspropriering, protest og motstand. Mine forskningsinteresser inkluderer også indisk politikk generelt, samt Sørasiatisk migrasjon og diasporapolitikk.
Undervisning
- SAS 2504 – Politisk kultur i India
- SAS 3500 – India i dag – vekst, miljø, demokrati
- SUM 3000 - Development and environment: From theory to practice (engelsk)
- SUM 4011A - Research Methods (I) (engelsk)
- SUM 4011B - Research Methods (II) (engelsk)
- SUM 4012 - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Environment (engelsk)
Bakgrunn
- MA i antropologi fra Københavns Universitet i 2005.
- Doktorgrad i sosialantropologi fra Universitet i Oslo i 2014.
Verv
- Varamedlem i styret ved SUM, 2008 - 2011
- Styremedlem, Idegruppen Nord / Sør, 2009 - 2011
- Styreformann, Nordic Forum for South Asia, 2010 - 2014
- Koordinator, Asianettverket, 2015 -
Publikasjoner
- Jakobsen, Jostein; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald & Vaidya, Anand (2018). Mapping the World’s Largest Democracy (1947–2017). Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. s 1- 26 . doi: 10.1080/08039410.2018.1465461 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
- 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 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
- 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 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
- 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 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
- 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
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Women’s Activism in the Singur Movement, West Bengal, In Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Anne Waldrop (ed.), Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India. Anthem Press. ISBN 9781783082698. 13. s 203 - 218
- 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.
- 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. Vis sammendrag
- Holsten, Hilde Hartmann; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Hansen, Arve (2016, 28. september). How cars have transformed China. [Tidsskrift]. NordicScience. Vis sammendrag
- 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.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Food and the Indian Elections. Matlære.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). God jul og god regeringsførelse. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Hvad nu, Congress?. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 14. mai). I beste fall en unnlatelsessynd av Modi. Vårt Land.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 12. mai). I dag stenger de stemmeurnene. Stavanger Aftenblad.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). India’s Future Foreign Policy.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). India's Regional Parties Before and After the Election.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Indiens nye stærke mand. RadikalPortal.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Indiens særlige stater. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 19. juni). Indisk leder i kompliceret linedans. Politiken.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 11. april). Indiske velgere svikter Gandhis parti. Dagsavisen.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Meningsmålinger og det indiske valg. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 02. september). Militant hinduisme. [Radio]. Religionsrapport DR P1.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Modi-ficeret hindutva. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Modis oversøiske venner. Fokus India.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 10. oktober). Nye muligheter for indiske kvinner. [Tidsskrift]. Kilden.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 13. april). Nyhetene. [TV]. TV2 Nyhetskanalen.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 15. mai). Orientering. [Radio]. DR P1.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 04. april). Orientering. [Radio]. DR P1.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 05. februar). Rahul er den nye Gandhi. Stavanger Aftenblad.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014). Saving the Farmland: The Making of Popular Anti-Land Acquisition Politics in Singur, West Bengal. Series of Dissertations submitted to the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. 481.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 07. april). Tesælger udfordrer Indiens gamle parti. Politiken.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2014, 19. mai). Utfordringer i kø for Modi. Dagens Næringsliv.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Flåten, Lars Tore; Heierstad, Geir & Jensenius, Francesca (2014). En splittende valgkandidat. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Flåten, Lars Tore; Heierstad, Geir & Jensenius, Francesca (2014). Hvem kan danne regjering i India?. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Flåten, Lars Tore; Heierstad, Geir & Jensenius, Francesca (2014). India-Norges framtid. Ytring : NRK.
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Flåten, Lars Tore; Heierstad, Geir & Jensenius, Francesca (2014). India's tredje front. Ny Tid. ISSN 0809-9049. 62(15)
Publisert 15. aug. 2011 14:42
- Sist endret 28. mai 2015 10:04