Geir Heierstad

Senior lecturer - South Asia studies

Norwegian

Email geir.heierstad@ikos.uio.no

Phone 22 85 47 90

Mobile phone 950 85 622

Room 373 PAM

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Visiting address P. A. Munchs hus Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 0371 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1010 Blindern 0315 OSLO

Other affiliations Middle East and Africa

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Academic interests

Political culture in South Asia, democracy

Changing notions of caste

Anthropological theory - modernity and globalisation, oral traditions

India's foreign affairs and security policy

Visual culture, arts and performative tradtions

Contributes to Fokus INDIA - a blog run by students and staff at Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages

Cand.polit. in social anthropology, UiO 2001
Ph.D. in South Asia studies, UiO 2008
Senior Fellow at Department for International Security, Norwegian Insitute for Defence Studies 2009-2011

Tags: South Asia, India, political culture, foreign affairs, security, anthropological theory

Heierstad, Geir (2011). Bardhaman Local, I: Lars Tore Flåten; Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Geir Heierstad (red.), Talking Dirty about Village Politics: Essays in honour of Arild Engelsen Ruud. NoFSA. ISBN 978-82-303-1801-0. Kapitel.
Heierstad, Geir (2011). Forord, I: Lars Tore Flåten; Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Geir Heierstad (red.), Talking Dirty about Village Politics: Essays in honour of Arild Engelsen Ruud. NoFSA. ISBN 978-82-303-1801-0. Forord.
Heierstad, Geir (2010). Demokrati og utenrikspolitikk, I: Arild Engelsen Ruud & Geir Heierstad (red.), Demokrati på indisk. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274774766. Kapittel 9.
Heierstad, Geir (2009). Etnografiske representasjoner, et spørsmål om tid. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 20(3), s 151- 166 . doi: http://www.idunn.no/file/ci/35534929/nat_2009_03_pdf.pdf
Heierstad, Geir (2002). Calcutta - stories of the baajaar. Hovedfagsstudentenes årbok. 13, s 61- 71

Flåten, Lars Tore; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Heierstad, Geir (red.) (2011). Talking Dirty about Village Politics: Essays in honour of Arild Engelsen Ruud. NoFSA. ISBN 978-82-303-1801-0. 81 s.
Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Heierstad, Geir (red.) (2010). Demokrati på indisk. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274774766. 282 s.

Heierstad, Geir (2011). Democratisation of security politics in India?.
Heierstad, Geir (2011). Regional actors in Indian security policy making. Democratisation of security politics in India..
Rønning, Asle & Heierstad, Geir (2011, 03. januar). Den moderne kasten . [Internett]. Forskning.no.
Andersson, Atle & Heierstad, Geir (2010, 13. juni). Blodig maoist fremmarsj i India . Bergens Tidende.
Bendiksen, Kristian & Heierstad, Geir (2010, 09. juli). Indisk streikekultur . [Radio]. NRK P2 Radioselskapet.
Heierstad, Geir (2010). Caste in transition.
Heierstad, Geir (2010). Maoistenes to ansikter. Ny Tid. ISSN 0809-9049. s 40- 41
Heierstad, Geir & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2010). Innledning, I: Arild Engelsen Ruud & Geir Heierstad (red.), Demokrati på indisk. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274774766. Innledning.
Heierstad, Geir (2009). Images of Kumartuli Kumars – The Image-Makers of Kolkata.
Heierstad, Geir (2008, 18. august). - Dette er det beste for Pakistans fremtid . [Internett]. VG.no.
Heierstad, Geir (2008, 05. mai). Ganges i England. [Radio]. NRK P3.
Heierstad, Geir (2005). Changes in Rural West Bengal’s Political Landscape .
Heierstad, Geir (2005). De alliertes råskap . Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
Heierstad, Geir (2004). Ibsen i India . Ny tid. ISSN 0803-3498.
Heierstad, Geir (2003). Nandikar - Staging Globalisation in Kolkata and Abroad.

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