Profile Christian Lund

Educations: PhD, International Development Studies, Roskilde University

Research interest:

In my research I attempt a detailed analysis of how public authority and the state are formed through debates and struggles over property. My work particularly explores how state policies have a tendency to revive and fuel competition between and among customary and other authorites and how new institutions form.

Couses taught:

The PhD writing seminar at the Graduate School of International Development Studies, Roskilde University

(see web-page: http://www.ruc.dk/isg/forskning/skoler/graduateschool_IU/)

Personal webpages:

http://christian-lund.dk/

http://forskning.ruc.dk/site/research/lund_christian(2500)/

Selected publications:

Politics of Possession, Blackwell, London. 2010. (co-edited with Thomas Sikor)

Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa. Cambridge/New York, Cambridge University Press. 2008

Twilight Institutions. Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa. London, Blackwell, 2007 (Book edition of Special issue of Development and Change vol. 37, no. 4, 2006).

‘Bawku is still volatile. Ethno-political conflict and state recognition in Northern Ghana.' Journal of Modern African Studies vol. 41, no. 4, 2003. pp. 587-610

‘A question of honour. Property disputes and brokerage in Burkina Faso.' Africa vol. 69, no. 4. 1999. pp. 575-94

Law, Power and Politics in Niger - Land Struggles and the Rural Code Hamburg/New Brunswick: LIT Verlag/Transaction Publishers. 1998.