PhD Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
Violence and conflict, gender, political anthropology, migration, torture and social suffering, asylum, radicalization.
Violence and Conflict | Migration | Inclusion of immigrants
Nerina 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 & Nina Gren
Mission Impossible?Nerina Weiss
Good radicals? Trajectories of pro-Kurdish political and militant mobilisation to the wars in Syria, Turkey and Iraq Critical Studies on Terrorism , 2020Nerina Weiss
The trauma of waiting: understanding the violence of the benevolent welfare state , 2020 I: Edited by Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren and Martin Joormann Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern EuropeNerina Weiss
Social organization and family life , 2018Mette-Louise Johansen, Therese Sandrup and Nerina Weiss
Introduction: The Generative Power of Political Emotions , 2018Nerina Weiss
The Many Layers of Moral Outrage: Kurdish Activists and Diaspora Politics , 2018Nazand Begikhani, Wendelmoet Hamelink & Nerina Weiss
Theorising women and war in Kurdistan: A feminist and critical perspective , 2018Nazand Begikhani, Wendelmoet Hamelink, Nerina Weiss
Women and War , 2018Nerina Weiss
Gender roles , 2018Nerina Weiss
De gode radikale i kampen mot IS , 2017Ludvig 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 environments , 2016Nerina Weiss
Ønsket om å bli som andre barnNerina Weiss
On Blurriness and Boundaries , 2014Nerina Weiss
The power of dead bodies , 2014Maria Six-Hohenbalken and Nerina Weiss
Violence Expressed. An Anthropological Approach , 2011Maria Six-Hohenbalken and Nerina Weiss
Introduction , 2011Nerina Weiss
Tense Relations: Dealing with narratives on Violence in Eastern Turkey , 2011Nerina Weiss
Falling from grace: Gender norms and gender strategies in Eastern Turkey , 2010Nerina Weiss
Von Erzählern und Provokateuren. Die Anthropologie in Norwegen , 2009Nerina Weiss and Kieymet Ceviz
Weggefahren aber nie angekommen: KurdInnen im Industrieviertel , 2008Nerina Weiss
Grenzüberschreitung und Abgrenzung auf Zypern , 2008Nerina Weiss
Review of Olsen and Øian (red.) Hvorfor skyter de? , 2008