Ståle Wig

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Social Anthropology
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Visiting address Moltke Moes vei 31 Eilert Sundts hus 9. etg. 0851 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1091 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Academic interests

Economic anthropology, ethics, labor, markets, the state, social change, volunteering, aid work, absurdity

Regional focus: Cuba, Southern Africa, Lesotho

Courses taught

ANTH4610 - Work, Capital and Business

SOSANT 1300 - Economic anthropology

SOSANT2530 - Development

SOSANT4110 - Teori og Metode

SOSANT1200 - Politisk antropologi

MNKOM 3000/4000 - Formidling og vitenskapsjournalistikk

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Background

Ph.D in Social Anthropology, University of Oslo (2020). Thesis: "Into the light. Rifts and relations in Cuba's market transformation". 

MA in Social Anthropology, Univeristy of Oslo (2013). Thesis: “Awareness, morality and agency in development: New Lessons from Lesotho.” (Shortlisted for the MA Thesis Award, Norsk Forening for Utviklingsforskning)

The Research School, Centre for Development and the Environment, UiO

Author, Kagge publishers (2013, 2022)

Tags: Development, Ethics, Economic anthropology, State, Absurdity, Africa, Lesotho, Cuba

Publications

Wig, Ståle. (2024). "Infrabanking. Mobilizing capital in communist Cuba". Economic Anthropology. 11(1): 59–70.

Wig, Ståle. (2022). Havanna taxi. Liv og løgn på det nye Cuba. [Havana taxi. Life and lies in the new Cuba.] Kagge Publishers.

Wig, Ståle. (2021). "Imagined individuality: Cultivating separated personhood in Cuba and beyond." Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 90: 58-69.

Martin, Keir, Sylvia Yanagisako and Ståle Wig (2021). "Battlegrounds of dependence: Reconfiguring labor, kinship and relational obligation." Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 90: 1-10.

Wig, Ståle, and Nefissa Naguib. (2021). "The poetics of Deep Reading: A Field Guide to Getting Lost in a Book." Teaching Tools. Fieldsights, February 23. 

Wig, Ståle (2022). Beggars will change the way you think. [Video] TEDx Conferences.

  • Wig, Ståle (2023). Infrabanking: Mobilizing capital in communist Cuba. Economic Anthropology. doi: 10.1002/sea2.12303. Full text in Research Archive
  • Martin, Keir James Cecil; Wig, Ståle & Yanagisako, Sylvia (2021). Battlegrounds of dependence. Reconfiguring labor, kinship and relational obligation. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. ISSN 0920-1297. 2021(90), p. 1–10. doi: 10.3167/fcl.2021.900101. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wig, Ståle (2021). Imagined individuality: Cultivating separated personhood in Cuba and beyond. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. ISSN 0920-1297. 2021(90), p. 58–69. doi: 10.3167/fcl.2021.900106. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wig, Ståle (2016). The dawn of something unknown. Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 43(3), p. 511–520. doi: 10.1080/08039410.2016.1226270. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wig, Ståle & Svensen, Henrik (2016). Trøbbel i tårnet - Om hvorfor akademia må tenke nytt om forskningsformidling. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 32(3), p. 195–208. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2016-03-03.
  • Wig, Ståle (2016). The Purchase of Volunteerism - Uses & Meanings of Money in Lesothoʹs Development Sector. In Prince, Ruth & Brown, Hannah (Ed.), Volunteer Economies. The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. James Currey Publishers. ISSN 9781847011398. p. 75–95.

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  • Wig, Ståle (2022). Havanna taxi - liv og løgn på det nye Cuba. Kagge Forlag AS. ISBN 9788248928478. 352 p.
  • Wig, Ståle (2014). Seierherren. En uautorisert biografi om Jonas Gahr Støre. Kagge Forlag AS. ISBN 9788248914389. 280 p.

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Published Nov. 18, 2014 10:53 AM - Last modified Jan. 16, 2024 1:55 PM