Finn Stepputat

Dr. Finn Stepputat is Emeritus Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. Besides DIIS, he has worked at the universities of Yale, Copenhagen, Roskilde and Utrecht, and as a consultant to the UN and NGOs. With a background in Economic Geography and Cultural Sociology, he has published extensively on issues of violent conflict, such as displacement, humanitarian aid, repatriation, disarmament, state building, civil-military relations, counterinsurgency, trade, logistics, and the politics of dead bodies. Geographically, he has focused on Guatemala, Peru and other areas in Latin America, in addition to Somaliland and the wider Horn of Africa. Among his publications feature the influential edited volumes States of Imagination.Ethnographic Explorations of the Post-colonial State (Duke UP, 2001), Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants and States in the Post-colonial World, (Princeton UP, 2005) and Governing the Dead. Sovereignty and the Politics of Dead Bodies (Manchester UP, 2014).