MA, PhD
Programmes
Statslig og ikke-statslig vold i Sydafrika: Politi, selvtægt og
bander i Sydafrika
Education
1996: Masters in History and International
Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark
2002 PhD in International Development Studies,
Roskilde University, Denmark
Occupation
History
1997-2001:
PhD-researcher. Institute for Development Studies, Roskilde
University and Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen.
2000: Three month research fellowship
at Centre for Development Research. Policy paper on Armed
Civilians.
2001-2: Six month research fellowship at Centre for
Development Research. Initial programme preparation.
2002-3: Research Coordinator at Centre for youth
Research, Roskilde University. Project on police and immigrant
youth in Denmark.
2002 - 2004: Post-doc researcher. Title:
"Security and State Formation on the South African Frontier".
Project start 1 June 2002. Affiliated to the Wits Institute for
Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg
2005 -: Senior Researcher,
Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture.
Teaching experience
1996-1997: Teaching and planning a semester course in
"Nationalism and Minorities in Europe", at Denmarks International
Study Programme for American Exchange students.
1997-2001: Supervising Masters students and planning
a semester course in "Collective Identity and Violence in
Transitional Societies" Roskilde University.
2003: External Associate Professor at Institute of
Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
2001- : External Associate Professor
(Ekstern Lektor) at International Development Studies, Roskilde
University
2006: External Associate
Professor at Institute for Political Science, University of
Copenhagen
2006 -: External Associate Professor,
Center for African Studies
Fieldwork experience
1992: Fieldwork in Paris and Algeria. 2 months.
1993: Internship with Danish Cambodia Consortium, 5
months
1995: Fieldwork in Cape Town for Masters. 2
months.
1997: Fieldwork in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Phd. 2
months.
1998/99: Fieldwork in Cape Town. Phd. 18
months.
2002: Fieldwork in Mpumalanga. Post-doc. 3
months.
2003/04: Fieldwork in Mpumalanga. Post-doc. 11
months
2006: Fieldwork Mpumalanga. 4 months
2009/10: Fieldwork in Manila, 7 months
Publications
Books
(2009) Human Rights and State Violence: State officials in the
South./Jensen, Steffen Bo Jensen; Jefferson, Andrew. London
Routledge.
(2008) Gangs, Politics & Dignity in Cape town./Jensen,
Steffen Bo. Oxford: James Currey Publishers, 212 s.
(2007) The Swecurity-Development Nexus: Expressions of
Sovereignty and Securitization in South Africa. /Jensen, Steffen
Bo; Buur, Lars; Stepputat, Finn. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrika
Institutet, 284 s.
Reports
(2001) Claiming Community-Nogotiating Crime: State formation,
neighborhood and gangs in a Capetonian Township./Jensen, Steffen
Bo. Ph.D Thesis, Institute for Development Studies, Roskilde
University.
Book Chapters
(2009) Introduction./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In Jensen, Steffen Bo
Jensen; Jefferson, Andrew (eds) Human Rights and State Violence:
State officials in the South. London Routledge.
(2009) The Vision of the State: Audiences, Enchantments and
Policing in South Africa./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In Jensen, Steffen Bo
Jensen; Jefferson, Andrew (eds) Human Rights and State Violence:
State officials in the South. London Routledge.
(2008) Policing Nkomazi: crime, masculinity and generational
conflicts./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Global Vigilantes. red. / David
Pratten; Atreyee Sen. New York: Columbia University Press, s.
47-68
(2008) Security and Violence on the Frontier of the State:
Vigilant citizens in Nkomazi, South Africa./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In:
Violence and Non-Violence: African Perspectives. red. / Louise
Bethlehem; Ruth Gunio; Pal Ahluwalia. London: Routldge.
(2007) Introduction: The Security-Development Nexus/Jensen,
Steffen Bo; Buur, Lars; Stepputat, Finn. In: The
Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and
Securitization in Southern Africa. red. / Lars Buur; Finn
Stepputat; Steffen Jensen. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrika Institutet, s.
9-36
(2007) The Nationalist Imperative: South Africanisation,
Regional Integration and Mobile Livelihoods./Jensen, Steffen Bo;
Buur, Lars. In: The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of
Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Uppsala:
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, s. 63-85
(2007) Through the Lens of Crime: Land Claims and Contestations
of Citizenship on the frontier of the South African State./Jensen,
Steffen Bo. In: The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of
Sovereignty and Securitazation in Southern Africa. red. / Lars
Buur; Steffen Jensen; Finn Stepputat. Uppsala: Nordiska
Afrikainstitutet, s. 193-211.
(2005) Above the law: practices of sovereignty in Surrey Estate,
Cape Town./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Sovereign Bodies: red. / F.
Stepputat; T. Hansen. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
(2001) The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the
south african state./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: States of imagination:
ethnographic explorations of the post-colonial state. red. /T.
Hansen; F. Stepputat. Durham: Duke University Press.
Journal Articles
(2010) The Security and Development Nexus in Cape Town: War
on Gangs, Counterinsurgency and Citizenship/Jensen, Steffen
Bo. In Security Dialogue, vol. 47, 1: 77-98
(2009) Gendered Connections./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In
Critique of Anthropology, vol. 29, no. 1.
(2008) Revolutionaries, Barbarians or War Machines:? Gangs in
Nicaragua and South Africa/Jensen, Steffen Bo: Rodgers, Dennis. In
Socialist Register 2009.
(2006) Capetonian back streets: territorializing young
men./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Ethnography, vol. 7, nr. 3:
275-303.
(2006) Sundhedssystemer og Sundhedspraksisser i Nkomazi/Jensen,
Steffen Bo; Enos Sikhauli. In Den Ny Verden, 39, 3: 69-78
(2005) The South African transition: from development to
security?/Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Development and change, vol. 36,
nr. 3, maj. s. 551-570.
(2004) Claiming Community: Local politics on the Cape Flats,
South Africa./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Critique of Anthropology,
vol. 24, nr. 2, s. 179-207.
(2004) Et liv som kriminel: Farvede unge mænds strategier i Cape
Town./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Den Ny Verden, vol. 37, nr. 3, s.
73-84.
(2004) Everyday policing and the occult: Notions of witchcraft,
Crime and the People./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Buur, Lars. In: African
Studies, vol. 63, nr. 2, s. 193-212.
(2004) Introduction: Vigilantism and the Policing of Everyday
Life in South Africa./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Buur, Lars. In: African
Studies, vol. 63, nr. 2, s. 139-152.
(2004) The Occult and Everyday Policing: Notions of the People
and crime./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Buur, Lars. In: African Studies,
vol. 63, nr. 2, s. 193-211.
(2004) Et Liv som Kriminel: Farvede Unge Mænds Strategier i Cape
Town/Jensen, Steffen Bo. In Den Ny Verden, vol.37, 3: 74-84.
Reprinted in Social Kritik, vol. 116: 48-55
(2003) Politireform i overgangssamfund./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In:
Den Ny Verden, vol. 36, nr. 1.
(2000) Kidnapningen af Renata: Et symbol på volden i
Sydafrika./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: I'Afrika, vol. 1, nr. 2.
(2000) Of drug dealers and street gangs: power, mobility and
violence on the cape flats./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Focaal, vol.
36.
(1999) Discourses of Violence: Coping with Violence on the Cape
Flats./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Social Dynamics, vol. 25, nr. 2, s.
75-97.
(1999) Hvorfor er du her egentlig...?!: feltarbejde i voldelige
områder./Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Den Ny Verden, vol. 3.
(1996) Jeg vil ikke være en nar: rapportering fra feltarbejde i
Sydafrika./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Simon Turner. In: Social Kritik, vol
45-6: 109-124
Working Papers and Reports
(2009) Torture in South Africa: Exploring Torture, Cruel,
Inhuman and Degrading Threatment through the Media/Jensen, Steffen
Bo; Amanda Dissel; Sandra Roberts. Published on line at CSVR Website,
April 2009.
(2008) Diary Studies: Methods for understanding poor people's
coping with crisis after conflict./Jensen, Steffen Bo; Finne
Jakobsen, Stine; Rønsbo, Henrik. Praxis Paper no. 7, online
publication published on the RCT website, June 2008.
(2008) Learning from the ECAP-MWCC-RCT network./Jensen, Steffen
Bo; Finne Jakobsen, Stine; Rønsbo, Henrik; Panigua, Walter;
Sideris, Tina; Buch, Lotte. Methodology Paper on Collaborative
Research, online publication published on the RCT website, April
2008.
(2003) Claiming Community: Government, Township politics, and
the Specter of Crime./Jensen, Steffen Bo. IIS Working Paper, June
2003.
(2003) Konflikt på gadeplan: Når politi og etnisk ungdom mødes.
/Jensen, Steffen Bo; Jespersen, Susanne Branner; Henry, Anthony
Ansel; Katznelson, Noemi. Roskilde University: Centre for Youth
Research.
(2001) Demobilizing Armed Civilians. /Jensen, Steffen Bo;
Stepputat, Finn. Centre for Development Research.
Book Reviews
(2009) The Number: One man's search for identity in the
Cape underworld and prison gangs. Review of The Number: One
man's search for identity in the Cape underworld and prison gangs,
by Jonny Steinberg, Jonathan Ball: Cape Town./Jensen,
Steffen Bo; Andrew Jefferson. In Kronos, 31
(2008) History Making and Present Day Politics: The meaning of
Collective Memory in South Africa.
Review of History Making and Present Day Politics: The meaning
of Collective Memory in South Africa, by Hans Erik Stolten
(ed.). Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, 2007; pp. 376./Jensen,
Steffen Bo. In: Review of African Political Economy. Online
publication p. 350-352.
(2003) Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South
Africa.
Review of Transnationalism and New African Immigration
to South Africa, edited by Jonathan Crush and David McDonald,
Toronte and Capetown: Canadian Association of African Studies and
Southern African Migration Project, 2002, pp. 187.
/Jensen, Steffen Bo. In: Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 16,
nr. 1, pp. 105-106.
(1997) Apartheid Diskurser
Review of Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse, by
Aletta Norval, London 1996, Verso./Jensen,
Steffen Bo. In GRUS, vol. 53. s. 97-103.