Thomas Randrup Pedersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 98672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Randrup Pedersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Randrup |
| FAMILY NAME | Pedersen |
| SIGNATURE | PEDERSEN T R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9426-4618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Willing
This article addresses the question of culture and subjective life by virtue of exploring soldierly self-fashioning in the context of military subjectification. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Danish combat troops, this study anthropologically investigates contemporary soldiering as a struggle with 'wills'. I examine individual soldiers' mobilisation of 'will' to follow their desires for becoming 'hard men' and 'true warriors' in the context…
Introduction | Will Work
This special issue aims to deepen and diversify anthropological explorations of human volition. While volition is a central theme in philosophy and theology, its anthropological dimensions are less explored. This edited collection seeks to reposition human volition as a pivotal element of anthropological inquiry. The investigation extends into the realms of ethics/morality, freedom, and experience, opening new avenues for research. Comprising fou…
Breaking bad? Down and Dirty with Military Anthropology
This article revisits the debate around the frequent problematisation of anthropological research on 'our troops' within the wider anthropology community. Engaging my research on Danish expeditionary forces and my fellow anthropologists' disheartening responses to that research, this study examines controversies over military anthropology as a fundamental question of the apparent tension between empathy and critique. Drawing upon my uneasy experi…
Ambivalent Anticipations
What if war is not hell? What if war is not entertainment? What if war is, instead, the stuff dreams are made of? What is one then to anticipate of one's tour of duty in a war zone? In this article, I interrogate anticipations in relation to soldierly becomings through deployment to Afghanistan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Danish combat troops, I explore the uneasy coexistence of two anticipatory plotlines: 'the passion' and 'the desert'…
Get real
What if war is not simply a destructive force? What if war might also offer possibilities of regeneration? What if war harbours potential for self-becoming, for realizing one's dreams, and for fulfilling one's desires? The inquiry at hand suggests that Danish warriorhood has been revived with Denmark's military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. Addressing this fundamental transformation of the Danish soldier's operational role and social ident…
Eec-Efta
Journal Article EEC-EFTA: more than just good friends? (CEE-AELE: mariage en vue?) Get access EEC-EFTA: more than just good friends? (CEE-AELE: mariage en vue?)Edited by J. Jamarand Helen Wallace. Bruges: Catherine Press for College of Europe, Bruges. 1988. 374pp. Thomas Pedersen Thomas Pedersen 1University of Copenhagen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 4, Autumn 1989…
The Soviet Union and the Nordic Nuclear Weapon Free Zone proposal
The Soviet Union and the Nordic Nuclear Weapon Free Zone proposal The Soviet Union and the Nordic Nuclear Weapon Free Zone proposal. By Ingemar Lindahl. London: Macmillan. 1988. 226pp. Index. £33.00. ISBN 0 333 43638 5. Thomas Pedersen Thomas Pedersen 1University of Copenhagen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 4, autumn 1988, Pages 668–669, https://doi.org/10.2307/2626…
Get real
What if war is not simply a destructive force? What if war might also offer possibilities of regeneration? What if war harbours potential for self-becoming, for realizing one's dreams, and for fulfilling one's desires? The inquiry at hand suggests that Danish warriorhood has been revived with Denmark's military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. Addressing this fundamental transformation of the Danish soldier's operational role and social ident…
Breaking bad? Down and Dirty with Military Anthropology
This article revisits the debate around the frequent problematisation of anthropological research on 'our troops' within the wider anthropology community. Engaging my research on Danish expeditionary forces and my fellow anthropologists' disheartening responses to that research, this study examines controversies over military anthropology as a fundamental question of the apparent tension between empathy and critique. Drawing upon my uneasy experi…
Ambivalent Anticipations
What if war is not hell? What if war is not entertainment? What if war is, instead, the stuff dreams are made of? What is one then to anticipate of one's tour of duty in a war zone? In this article, I interrogate anticipations in relation to soldierly becomings through deployment to Afghanistan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Danish combat troops, I explore the uneasy coexistence of two anticipatory plotlines: 'the passion' and 'the desert'…
Introduction | Will Work
This special issue aims to deepen and diversify anthropological explorations of human volition. While volition is a central theme in philosophy and theology, its anthropological dimensions are less explored. This edited collection seeks to reposition human volition as a pivotal element of anthropological inquiry. The investigation extends into the realms of ethics/morality, freedom, and experience, opening new avenues for research. Comprising fou…
The Soviet Union and the Nordic Nuclear Weapon Free Zone proposal
The Soviet Union and the Nordic Nuclear Weapon Free Zone proposal The Soviet Union and the Nordic Nuclear Weapon Free Zone proposal. By Ingemar Lindahl. London: Macmillan. 1988. 226pp. Index. £33.00. ISBN 0 333 43638 5. Thomas Pedersen Thomas Pedersen 1University of Copenhagen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 4, autumn 1988, Pages 668–669, https://doi.org/10.2307/2626…
Eec-Efta
Journal Article EEC-EFTA: more than just good friends? (CEE-AELE: mariage en vue?) Get access EEC-EFTA: more than just good friends? (CEE-AELE: mariage en vue?)Edited by J. Jamarand Helen Wallace. Bruges: Catherine Press for College of Europe, Bruges. 1988. 374pp. Thomas Pedersen Thomas Pedersen 1University of Copenhagen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 4, Autumn 1989…
Get real
What if war is not simply a destructive force? What if war might also offer possibilities of regeneration? What if war harbours potential for self-becoming, for realizing one's dreams, and for fulfilling one's desires? The inquiry at hand suggests that Danish warriorhood has been revived with Denmark's military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. Addressing this fundamental transformation of the Danish soldier's operational role and social ident…
Ambivalent Anticipations
What if war is not hell? What if war is not entertainment? What if war is, instead, the stuff dreams are made of? What is one then to anticipate of one's tour of duty in a war zone? In this article, I interrogate anticipations in relation to soldierly becomings through deployment to Afghanistan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Danish combat troops, I explore the uneasy coexistence of two anticipatory plotlines: 'the passion' and 'the desert'…
Breaking bad? Down and Dirty with Military Anthropology
This article revisits the debate around the frequent problematisation of anthropological research on 'our troops' within the wider anthropology community. Engaging my research on Danish expeditionary forces and my fellow anthropologists' disheartening responses to that research, this study examines controversies over military anthropology as a fundamental question of the apparent tension between empathy and critique. Drawing upon my uneasy experi…
The Willing
This article addresses the question of culture and subjective life by virtue of exploring soldierly self-fashioning in the context of military subjectification. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Danish combat troops, this study anthropologically investigates contemporary soldiering as a struggle with 'wills'. I examine individual soldiers' mobilisation of 'will' to follow their desires for becoming 'hard men' and 'true warriors' in the context…
Introduction | Will Work
This special issue aims to deepen and diversify anthropological explorations of human volition. While volition is a central theme in philosophy and theology, its anthropological dimensions are less explored. This edited collection seeks to reposition human volition as a pivotal element of anthropological inquiry. The investigation extends into the realms of ethics/morality, freedom, and experience, opening new avenues for research. Comprising fou…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Global Security and Public Health (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (2 works) · Danish (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (2 works)