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Bengt Andersen

Bengt Andersen

Stillingstittel
Research Professor
Besøksadresse
Stensberggata 26, 0170 Oslo
Telefon
Mobil: +47 997 46 839Kontor: +47 672 38 586
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Affiliation

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.

Disciplines

Research groups

Research projects

Active research projects

  • DigiKrim: Digital Arenas and Youth Crime in Norwegian Cities

    The DigiKrim project examines how digital and physical arenas interact in the development of crime among children and young people in Norwegian cities – and explores potential preventative measures.

  • Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces

    Who is able to move freely and safely through public spaces? This project examines how sexual harassment occurs and is experienced in streets, on public transport, in parks and other public spaces in Norway – and how such experiences affect safety, participation and freedom of movement.

Publications and research

These publications are obtained from Norwegian Research Information Repository. The list may be incomplete.