Publications by Mats Utas

2012

African conflicts and informal power: Big Men and networks. (Editor). Zed Books. pp. 1-256.

Introduction: Bigmanity and network governance in Africa. In African Conflicts and informal power: big men and networks. Ed. Mats Utas. London: Zed books. Pp. 1-34.

Special issue. Urban Forum vol. 23, Issue 4. (editor with Ilda Lindell).

Networked City Life in Africa: Introduction (authored with Ilda Lindell). In Urban Forum vol. 23, Issue 4.

Beyond “Gender and Stir”: reflections on gender and SSR in the aftermath of African conflicts, NAI Policy Dialogue No. 9 – the Nordic Africa Institute (editing and joint introduction with Maria Eriksson Baaz). pp. 1-74.

”Young Women in African Wars”. In Beyond “Gender and Stir”: reflections on gender and SSR in the aftermath of African conflicts, eds. Maria Eriksson Baaz and Mats Utas, NAI Policy Dialogue No. 9– the Nordic Africa Institute (with Chris Coulter and Mariam Persson).

Urban Youth and Post-Conflict Africa: on policy priorities. NAI Policy Notes 2012/4.

Electoral Violence in Africa. NAI Policy Notes 2012/3. With Eldridge Adolfo, Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs and Daniel Nyström.

Review essay: Danny Hoffman, The war Machines: young men and violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. In Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 85, No. 2. Pp 581-586.

2011

Big Men, networks and African conflicts. SNDC Africa Programme Report no. 7, 2011. Pp. 1-35.

Utas, M (2011) 'Victimcy and Social Navigation: From the Toolbox of Liberian Child Soldiers' in Podder, S and Ozerdem, A (eds). Child Soldiers: From Recruitment to Reintegration. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 213-230.

Remobilisation and the “politricks” of ex-combatants in the 2007 general elections (authored with Maya M. Christensen). In Conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Africa: lessons from Sierra Leone. Ed. Takehiko Ochiai. Research Institute for Social Sciences, Ryukoku University/Showado, 2011. Pp. 173-204 [in Japanese].

Making Jew-Man Business: filming post-war youth in Sierra Leone. The Rise of Africa: Miracle or Mirage, Nordic Africa Institute Annual Report. Pp. 32-35, 2011.

2010

2007

The Mano River Basin Area: formal and informal security providers in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. FOI. 2007. pp 1-112. (with Magnus Jörgel).

Watermelon politics in Sierra Leone: hope amidst vote buying and remobilized militias. African Renaissance. 4(3/4) 2007. pp. 62-66.

Freetown – Berättelser från den osynliga staden. In Den Ny Verden (tidsskrift for internationale studier), 40(2) 2007. pp. 27-37.

Fighting (in) the badlands of modernity: youth combatants and the Liberian Civil War. In Journal of Social Sciences & Management. Vol. 1, No 1 2007. pp. 37-44.

Young Women in African Wars. NAI Conflict Policy Notes no. 1, November 2007. (with Chris Coulter and Mariam Persson). http://www.sweden.gov.se/content/1/c6/08/51/14/7251cd8b.pdf 

Sierra Leones vacklande demokrati (Sierra Leone’s faltering democracy). In Tidningen Kulturen, Issue 20-21, July 2007.

Presidential elections in Sierra Leone. In NAI Newsletter, 20 June 2007.

Rethinking Africa: a contribution to the Swedish Government White Paper on Africa (co-editor and co-author) May 2007.

Diamanter är för evigt – men Sierra Leonsk ungdom är utbytbar (Diamonds are forever, but Sierra Leone’s youth is disposable). NAI web April 2007. http://130.238.24.99/events/evenemang/blood_diamond/utas_
kommentar.pdf 
 

2006

War, violence and videotapes: media and localized ideoscapes of the Liberian Civil War. In Violence, Political Culture and Development in Africa. Ed. Preben Kaarsholm, James Currey. 2006. pp 161-180.

Youth(e)scapes (Introduction co-authored with Henrik Vigh and Catrine Christiansen). In Navigating youth – generating adulthood: social becoming in an African context, Nordic Africa Institute Publ. 2006. pp 9-28.

Navigating youth – generating adulthood: social becoming in an African context, Nordic Africa Institute Publ. (co-editor), 2006. pp 1-272.

Der Staat als Feind. In Der Überblick, 3, 2006, pp 6-9.

2005

Gute Jungs, böse Jungs. In Jungle World, no. 31, August 3, 2005 (re-published in (WOZ) Die Wochenzeitung, October 6, 2005).

Victimcy, Girlfriending, Soldiering: Tactic Agency in a Young Woman’s Social Navigation of the Liberian War Zone. In Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 78, no 2, 2005. pp 403-430.

Building a future? The reintegration and re-marginalisation of youth in Liberia. In No Peace, No War: an anthropology of contemporary armed conflicts. Ed. Paul Richards, James Currey and Ohio University Press, 2005. pp. 137-154.

Agency of Victims: Young Women’s Survival Strategies in the Liberian Civil War. In Makers and Breakers: Children and Youth as Emerging Categories in Postcolonial Africa . Eds. Filip De Boeck & Alcinda Honwana, James Currey, 2005. pp. 53-80.

2004

Fluid Research Fields: Studying Excombatant Youth in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil War. In Children and Youth on the Front Line: Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement . Eds. Jo Boyden & Joanna de Berry, Berghahn 2004. pp. 209-236.

Patience my ass. In Jungle World, no. 51, December 8, 2004.

Assiduous exile: strategies of work and integration among Liberian refugees in Danane, Ivory Coast. In Liberian Studies Journal, vol 29, no 2, 2004. pp. 33-58.

The violent logic of marginality: youth and the Liberian Civil War. In News from the Nordic Africa Institute no. 2 May 2004. pp 23-25.