Ståle Wig

Book manuscript (in progress). "Into the light. An ethnography of market transformation."

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

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

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 (2016). The Purchase of Volunteerism - Uses & Meanings of Money in Lesothoʹs Development Sector, In Ruth Prince & Hannah Brown (ed.),  Volunteer Economies. The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa.  James Currey Publishers.  ISBN 9781847011398.  PART TWO Unequal Economies.  s 75 - 95 Show summary

  Across Africa today, as development activities animate novel forms of governance, new social actors are emerging, among them the volunteer. Yet, where work and resources are limited, volunteer practices have repercussions that raise contentious ethical issues. What has been the real impact of volunteers economically, politically and in society? The interdisciplinary experts in this collection examine the practices of volunteers - both international and local - and ideologies of volunteerism. They show the significance of volunteerism to processes of social and economic transformation, and political projects of national development and citizenship, as well as to individual aspirations in African societies. These case studies - from South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Sierra Leone and Malawi - examine everyday experiences of volunteerism and trajectories of voluntary work, trace its broader historical, political and economic implications, and situate African experiences of voluntary labour within global exchanges and networks of resources, ideas and political technologies. Offering insights into changing configurations of work, citizenship, development and social mobility, the authors offer new perspectives on the relations between labour, identity and social value in Africa. Ruth Prince is Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at the University of Oslo; with her co-author Wenzel Geissler, she won the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize for their book The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Hannah Brown is a lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University.

• Wig, Ståle (2016). The dawn of something unknown. Forum for Development Studies.  ISSN 0803-9410.  43(3), s 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), s 195- 208 . doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2016-03-03

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• Sterri, Aksel Braanen & Wig, Ståle (2021). Det er ikke dine penger. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Wig, Ståle (2020, 26. juni). Dette bestemmer hva jobben din er verdt. Rørsla Podcast. [Radio].  Rørsla.
• Wig, Ståle (2020, 26. juni). Forsker kaller det «arbeidslivets tragiske tommelfingerregel»: Jo viktigere jobben din er, jo mindre sannsynlig er det at du har høy lønn. [Tidsskrift].  Fri Fagbevegelse.
• Wig, Ståle (2020). Hul applaus. Morgenbladet.  ISSN 0805-3847.
• Wig, Ståle (2020). The applause for society’s vital workforce rings hollow. Give them a raise instead. Open Democracy.  ISSN 1476-5888. . doi: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/the-applause-for-societys-vital-workforce-rings-hollow-give-them-a-raise-instead/
• Wig, Ståle (2018). Dagsnytt Atten. NRK - Dagsnytt atten. . doi: https://radio.nrk.no/podcast/dagsnytt_atten/nrkno-poddkast-3720-134426-19042018171800
• Wig, Ståle (2018). En fortelling om to øyer. Morgenbladet.  ISSN 0805-3847. . doi: https://morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/2018/04/en-fortelling-om-oyer
• Wig, Ståle (2018). "Når arbeidet blir Gud". Morgenbladet.  ISSN 0805-3847. . doi: https://morgenbladet.no/ideer/2018/08/robotene-tar-jobbene-vare-kan-bli-det-beste-som-har-skjedd-oss-skriver-stale-wig
• Wig, Ståle (2018, 19. april). Urix Spesial: "Cuba". [TV].  NRK, URIX.
• Wig, Ståle (2018). Vil gi mer bistand som kontantstøtte. Vårt land.  ISSN 0805-5424. . doi: https://www.vl.no/nyhet/vil-gi-mer-bistand-som-kontantstotte-1.1185616?paywall=true
• Wig, Ståle (2016). Cubas frelse kommer ikke fra Det hvite hus. NRK Ytring.
• Wig, Ståle (2016). Det nye Cuba. NRK Ytring. . doi: https://www.nrk.no/ytring/det-nye-cuba-1.13258687
• Wig, Ståle (2016, 20. mars). Obama på Cuba - NRK Ytring. [Radio].  NRK.
• Wig, Ståle (2016). Obama-flørt med bismak. Dagens næringsliv.  ISSN 0803-9372.
• Wig, Ståle & Svensen, Henrik (2016). En kur mot tåkeprat. Morgenbladet.  ISSN 0805-3847.
• Wig, Ståle (2015). Byggesett for en ny regjering. Agenda Magasin.
• Wig, Ståle (2015). Myten om arbeidets verdi. Klassekampen.  ISSN 0805-3839.
• Wig, Ståle (2015). Watching and wondering: What we can learn from Fredrik Barth. Savage Minds.
• Wig, Ståle (2014). "Divorce your theory": A conversation with Paul Farmer (part one). Savage Minds.
• Wig, Ståle (2014). "Divorce your theory": A conversation with Paul Farmer (part two). Savage Minds.
• Wig, Ståle (2013). Betalte frivillige - og andre provokasjoner blant bistandsarbeidere i Lesotho. Betwixt & Between.  ISSN 1504-2618.
• Wig, Ståle (2013). Den vennlige kjempen. VG : Verdens gang.  ISSN 0805-5203.
• Wig, Ståle & Eckbo, Norith (2013). Formidlingsrevolusjonen. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116.

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