About
Bengt Andersen is a social and urban anthropologist. He has done fieldwork in urban regions in the USA (Kentlands, Gaithersburg, MD) and in Norway. Andersen has published on topics like architecture and planning, segregation, marginalization and inclusion, integration, everyday life cities and suburbia, youth, urban unrest, urban policy, social sustainability, place-attachment, well-being and belonging, as well as heritage and marketing.
Bengt Andersen is a social and urban anthropologist at AFI, Oslo Metropolitan University. He has done felt work in urban regions in the USA (Kentlands, Gaithersburg, MD) and in Norway. Andersen has published on topics like architecture and planning, segregation, marginalization and inclusion, integration, everyday life cities and suburbia, youth, urban unrest, urban policy, social sustainability, place-attachment, well-being and belonging, as well as heritage and marketing.
He is currently part of a Nordic research project. The project investigates the tensions between Nordic openness and security that characterize surveillance practices at the Nordic borders. The project studies the legal, public and institutional discourse on new digital surveillance practices, enabled by advanced technologies, like automated border control gates, biometric scanning, facial recognition, automated plate number recognition, and the practices and organization of surveillance work – through both analogue and digital technologies – at the borders. The project involves a group of researchers from Sweden, Norway and Denmark with backgrounds in design studies, organization studies, information systems, anthropology, sociology, law and science and technology studies.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Social anthropology Criminology Architecture and design Economics Social sciences Sociology Human geography Basic biosciences Urbanism
Subject areas
Urban Anthropology Town planning Segregation Architecture Youth Research Urban studies Urban governance
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Digital Nordic Borders
Our project investigates the tensions between Nordic openness and security that characterize surveillance practices at the Nordic borders, with a particular focus on new forms and tools of digital surveillance.
Completed research projects
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Possible consequences of moving patterns for people who have been granted a start-up loan in Oslo municipality
The project examines who the initial loan recipients were and are in Oslo, and what the consequences of selective relocation are for districts and sub-districts in Oslo.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Andersen, Bengt
; Skrede, Joar; Grevstad-Nordbrock, Ted
(2024).
The significance of culture for social sustainability – a discussion of cultural security and insecurity in neighbourhoods.
14 p.
Local Environment : the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability.
Vol. 30.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2424427
Andersen, Bengt
; Skrede, Joar
(2023).
Intervju som metode.
ISBN: 9788202753375.
142 p.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://cappelendamm.no/_intervju-som-metode-bengt
Mouratidis, Konstantinos;
Andersen, Bengt
(2023).
What makes people stay longer in the densifying city? Exploring the neighbourhood environment and social ties.
Housing Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2023.2185593
Andersen, Bengt
; Skrede, Joar
(2022).
By eller forstad? En diskusjon av barnefamiliers flyttemotiver.
Nordic Journal of Urban Studies.
Vol. 2.
https://doi.org/10.18261/njus.2.1.1
Skrede, Joar;
Andersen, Bengt
(2022).
Visualising the past for the future: a social semiotic reading of urban heritage.
18 p.
Social Semiotics.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2022.2035654
Skrede, Joar;
Andersen, Bengt
(2022).
The Emotional Element of Urban Densification.
Local Environment : the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability.
Vol. 27.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2022.2034769
Andersen, Bengt ; Lorenzen, Sara Berge (2021). Ballens uforutsigbare vei mot mål: Medvirkning som maktspill. Hagen, Aina Landsverk (Ed.). Ung medvirkning: Kreativitet og konflikt i planlegging. p. 223-246. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Andersen, Bengt
(2021).
Introduksjon til ung medvirkning, kreativitet og konflikt i
planlegging.
Hagen, Aina Landsverk; Andersen, Bengt (Ed.).
Ung medvirkning: Kreativitet og konflikt i planlegging. p. 11-41.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.150
Hagen, Aina Landsverk ; Andersen, Bengt (2021). Ung medvirkning: Kreativitet og konflikt i planlegging. ISBN: 9788202748821 . 311 p. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Fagerlid, Cicilie; Andersen, Bengt ; Dalseide, Astri Margareta (2021). Engaging with mixed-use design. The case of the urban library in Oslo. Stender, Marie; Bech-Danielson, Claus; Hagen, Aina Landsverk (Ed.). Architectural Anthropology: Exploring Lived Space. p. 122-134. Routledge.
