Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (born 1972) is an anthropologist by training and affiliated with the Department of social anthropology at the University of Bergen, as well as the Christian Michelse Institute, Bergen, Norway. Since first visiting Mozambique in 1998, his research has focused extensively on issues such as civil war, violence, memory, state formation and the traditional field -- most carried out in Chimoio, Manica province or in Maputo.

In 2016, his book "Violent Becomings: State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique" is being published (Berghahn Books, New York) dealing with the trajectories of violence in the country in a historical and anthropological perspective. Bertelsen also co-edits two other anthologies published in 2016 -- "Violent Reverberations: Global Modalities of Trauma" (co-edited with Vigdis Broch-Due, Palgrave Macmillan, New York) and "Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference" (co-edited with Synnøve Bendixsen, Palgrave Macmillan, New York).

He has also co-edited and co-edited "Navigating Colonial Orders. Norwegian entrepreneurship in Africa and Oceania" (Berghahn Books, New York, 2015) together with Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland, as well as "Crisis of the state. War and social upheaval" together with Bruce Kapferer (Berghahn Books, New York, 2009). He also contributes regularly with chapters in international anthrologies as well as with articles in peer-reviewed international and Norwegian journals. Bertelsen is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.