PhD Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
Violence and conflict, gender, political anthropology, migration, torture and social suffering, asylum, radicalization.
Research areas: Violence and ConflictNerina Weiss is senior researcher at Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Studies. She holds a PhD in social anthropology (University of Oslo 2012), and worked as a Marie Curie IE Fellow at Dignity-Danish Institute against Torture from 2011 to 2013.
Much of her academic and applied research has focused on citizen-state relations, which she explored through a focus on political violence and migration, radicalization, as well as torture and trauma.
Regionally she has worked in the Mediterranean and Middle East, with extensive fieldwork experience from Cyprus and Eastern Turkey, as well as from Denmark, Norway and Austria. She is the co-editor of “Violence Expressed: An Anthropological Perspective” (2012 Routledge).
Nerina Weiss
Good radicals? Trajectories of pro-Kurdish political and militant mobilisation to the wars in Syria, Turkey and Iraq Critical Studies on TerrorismNerina Weiss
Gender rolesMette-Louise Johansen, Therese Sandrup and Nerina Weiss
Introduction: The Generative Power of Political EmotionsNazand Begikhani, Wendelmoet Hamelink & Nerina Weiss
Theorising women and war in Kurdistan: A feminist and critical perspectiveNazand Begikhani, Wendelmoet Hamelink, Nerina Weiss
Women and WarNerina Weiss
Social organization and family lifeNerina Weiss
De gode radikale i kampen mot ISLudvig Foghammar, Suyoun Jang, Gulzhan Asylbek Kyzy, Nerina Weiss, Katherine A. Sullivan, Fawzia Gibson-Fall, Rachel Irwin
Challenges in researching violence affecting health service delivery in complex security environmentsMaria Six-Hohenbalken and Nerina Weiss
IntroductionNerina Weiss and Kieymet Ceviz
Weggefahren aber nie angekommen: KurdInnen im IndustrieviertelNerina Weiss
Grenzüberschreitung und Abgrenzung auf ZypernNerina Weiss
Review of Olsen and Øian (red.) Hvorfor skyter de?Maria Six-Hohenbalken and Nerina Weiss
Violence Expressed. An Anthropological Approach