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Geir Heierstad

Geir Heierstad

Job title
  • Institute director nibr
Visiting address
  • Holbergs gate 1, 0166 Oslo
  • Office number: HG469
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 950 85 622
  • Office: +47 672 35 671
E-mail
  • geir.heierstad@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Heierstad works on anthropological approaches to modernity and the transformation of caste in West Bengal, as well as urban renewal and political culture in India. He also researches and lectures on Indian security policy and its foreign affairs.

Field of study

Security policies   Globalization   Development aid   Political Culture   Modernity and postmodernity   Indigenous People   Sustainable developement   Town planning   Climate change   South Asia

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Research projects

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Publications and research

Scientific publications

Lid, Stian ; Heierstad, Geir (2019). Kommunal skreddersøm eller one size fits? Den norske kommunen som velferdsleverandør og terrorkontrollør. Lid, Stian; Heierstad, Geir (Ed.). Forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme. Norske handlemåter i møtet med terror. p. 91-113. Gyldendal Akademisk.
https://www.gyldendal.no/Faglitteratur/Sosial-og-h

Lid, Stian ; Heierstad, Geir (2019). Forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme. Den gjenstridige forebyggingen nå og i framtiden. Lid, Stian; Heierstad, Geir (Ed.). Forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme. Norske handlemåter i møtet med terror. p. 15-48. Gyldendal Akademisk.
https://doi.org/10.7577/nibr/rapport/2016/12

Lid, Stian ; Heierstad, Geir (2019). Samordning og samrøre, eller kunsten å kjenne sin plass. Lid, Stian; Heierstad, Geir (Ed.). Forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme. Norske handlemåter i møtet med terror. p. 175-197. Gyldendal Akademisk.
https://www.gyldendal.no/Faglitteratur/Sosial-og-h

Lid, Stian ; Heierstad, Geir (2019). Forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme. Norske handlemåter i møtet med terror. ISBN: 9788205518346. 264 p. Gyldendal Akademisk.
https://www.gyldendal.no/Faglitteratur/Sosial-og-h

Heierstad, Geir (2017). Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition. Branding the Potters of Kolkata. ISBN: 9781783085163. 219 p. Anthem Press.
http://www.anthempress.com/caste-entrepreneurship-

Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Heierstad, Geir (2016). India's democracies : diversity, co-optation, resistance. ISBN: 9788215026893. 239 p. Universitetsforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/10852/50264

Heierstad, Geir ; Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2016). On the Diversity of India’s Democracies. Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Heierstad, Geir (Ed.). India's democracies : diversity, co-optation, resistance. p. 13-29. Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215026886-2016-02

Heierstad, Geir (2016). Foreign Affairs and Federal Actors in the Indian Democracy. Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Heierstad, Geir (Ed.). India's democracies : diversity, co-optation, resistance. p. 135-157. Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215026886-2016-07

Heierstad, Geir (2016). The commodification of caste and politics in Kolkata's Kumartuli. Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Heierstad, Geir; Chandra, Uday (Ed.). The Politics of Caste in West Bengal. p. 240-263. Routledge.

Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Heierstad, Geir ; Chandra, Uday (2016). The Politics of Caste in West Bengal. ISBN: 9781138921481. 265 p. Routledge.



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Textbooks

Heierstad, Geir ; Flåten, Lars Tore; Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2014). Indiske utfordringer. ISBN: 9788202431907. 250 p. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.



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Research reports

Lid, Stian ; Winsvold, Marte; Søholt, Susanne ; Hansen, Stig Jarle; Heierstad, Geir ; Klausen, Jan Erling (2016). Forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme – Hva er kommunenes rolle?. ISBN: 9788283091366. 283 p. By- og regionforskningsinstituttet NIBR.
http://www.hioa.no/Om-HiOA/Senter-for-velferds-og-

Heierstad, Geir (2009). Images of Kumartuli Kumars – The Image-Makers of Kolkata. 244 p. Unipub forlag.



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Dissemination

Heierstad, Geir (2023). Decarbonising Norway – Fuelling the Green Shift. The 89th International Forum on China Reform - China in Comprehensively Deepening Reform & Opening-up and the World. China Institute for Reform and Development.

Lid, Stian ; Heierstad, Geir (2022). On the Dark Side of the Welfare State - Countering Violent Extremism in Norway. Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism.

Heierstad, Geir (2019). Citizenship in the age of Smart Urbanism : the case of Bhubaneswar, India. EURA - UAA Conference City Futures IV: Creating Just and Sustainable Cities. EURA.

Heierstad, Geir (2019). Smart by på indisk. Spireforum: Smarte byer - hva er det egentlig?. Spire.

Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus; Flåten, Lars Tore; Heierstad, Geir ; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2017). De usikre alliansenes tid.

Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Heierstad, Geir ; Flåten, Lars Tore; Samuelsen, Guro Warhuus (2017). Demokratisk jubileum med bismak.

Camilla, Wernersen; Heierstad, Geir (2017). 20.000 kvinner og barn utsatt for slaveri i India.
https://www.nrk.no/norge/20.000-kvinner-og-barn-ut

Heierstad, Geir (2017). India's urban agenda - growth and climate change. Conference on Conservation Science and Sustainable Development. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (AT.

Heierstad, Geir (2017). Samskaping for det grønne skiftet - paneldebatt. CIENS-konferansen 2017. CIENS.

Mathur, Mihir; Bharti, Neha; Vedeld, Trond ; Phansalkar, Aditi; Heierstad, Geir (2017). Climate services in India: An institutional overview. Workshop - Governance of climate services in India and Norway. NIBR-HiOA.



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