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    - Knowledge Aesthetics and The Business of Human Science in a Danish Consultancy
    by Lise Røjskjær Pedersen
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    PhD Dissertation from Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen

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    - Militant Imagery, Online Communication, and the Islamic State
    by Simone Molin Friis
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    PhD Dissertation from Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Science, University of Copenhagen.

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    - On the PCC, power and sociality in Zona Sul, São Paulo
    by Frida Sofie Gregersen
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

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    - A Tale of Three Cities and Their Quest for Urban Resilience
    by Anne Bach Nielsen
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

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    - CURATORIAL CHALLENGES IN THE EXHIBITION OF ART FROM SOUTH AFRICA
    by Vibe Nielsen
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    PhD thesis from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

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    - Anthropological Excursions in the Danish Island of Bornholm
    by Lars Christian Kofoed Rømer
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    PhD thesis from Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Science, University of Copenhagen

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    by Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen
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    PhD Dissertation from Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen

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    - The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), democracy and the politics of resilience in Turkey
    by Leor Uesterbay
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

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    - An Ethnography of Sino-Danish Perioperative Care Collaborations
    by Signe Lindgård Andersen
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

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    - Everyday Life and Family Relationships among Children and their Mothers at a Women’s Refuge
    by Sofie Henze-Pedersen
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology

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    - Group structure, integration and solidarity
    by Snorre Ralund
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    Doctoral Thesis from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology

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    by Yi Ma
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

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    - Security and Defence Cooperation After the Brexit Referendum
    by Øyvind Svendsen
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

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    - Productions of violence and peace in rural south India
    by Frauke Tom H Mennes
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

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    by Yevgeniy Golovchenko
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

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    by Sofie Dencker-Larsen
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology

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    - A methodological globalist analysis of China’s economic and social development since 1978
    by Mikkel Delholm
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology

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    by Livia Rohrbach
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

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    by Kitt Plinia Nielsen
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

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    - QUANDARIES IN DANISH HOME CARE
    by Loa Kristine Teglgaard Christensen
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

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    by Marc Jacobsen
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    Doctor of Philosophy from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

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    - Comparing the experiences of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand in the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism
    by Priya Dershini Parmalingam
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

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    by Benjamin Carl Krog Egerod
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    Doctor of Philosophy from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

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    - Authenticity and Morality among Anthropological Consultants
    by Jazmin Cullen
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

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    - How internal responses to reforms have affected the hierarchy in Danish Universities
    by Jonas Krog Lind
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science

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    - Prototyping and Materialization Processes Among Local Media Houses and Bloggers in Denmark
    by Maria Eitzinger
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

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    - Exploring Disability and Ethnicity in the Danish Welfare State
    by Thomas Scott Hughes
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology

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    by Xuan Li
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Sciene

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    - Redefining the Role of the Internal Market
    by Tobias Liebetrau
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    PhD Dissertation from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Sciene

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    by Hjalte Bonde Meilvang
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    PhD thesis from University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science.This thesis explores the politics of numbers through the concepts of quantification, objectivity, controversiality and relevance. Quantification means that the focus is not on numbers as such but on all the steps involved in rendering something in numeric form. Controversies are public disputes about a quantification. Relevance means that number makes a difference, affecting how political issues are interpreted and handled. Finally, numbers are objective when they are taken for granted, when the production process of quantification fades from view.It is often argued that such objectivity is made. Numbers never arrive from nowhere but are produced by someone according to some procedure. Work needs to be done for quantitative information to appear as objective information. When objectivity-making succeeds, however, numbers become politically relevant due to the political attractiveness of seemingly neutral descriptions. The politically relevant numbers are those that appear objective, whereas controversial numbers make less of a political difference. This, however, only captures one aspect of the politics of numbers. Politics is about dissent, contestation and conflict, and quantification does not succeed only when it manages to suppress or supersede conflictual politics. To get at this, the thesis explores a number of dynamics between relevance and controversiality.The first is controversial relevance. When something matters, it matters in a way that some will contest. In many contexts, numbers will do political work in spite of critique and controversiality. Controversies cannot be eliminated but if they can be managed, they do not preclude relevance. Secondly, the importance of avoiding controversiality sometimes causes relevance to be traded away in managed irrelevance, where politically relevant use of numbers is eschewed in order to evade critique. Finally, controversies can enable relevance. Because quantification is an authoritative form of information, arguing that something should be quantified signals seriousness about addressing it, opposing the quantifier to those who want to ‘ignore’ the issue by leaving it unmeasured. In this case, debate and contestation about numbers will underline the politically relevant difference between quantification opponents and proponents. A dynamic I term relevant controversiality. The politics of numbers is not always a politics of objectivity. There are limits to objectivity.

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