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- Blog ! . All commentaries will be published here. [24.10.06]

- The AppleTree.Poem about understanding. [21.09.05]

- To-stemthet. Poem about togetherness. [15.12.04]

- Transforming Ethnic Nationalism - the politics of ethno-nationalistic sentiments in Kosovo published here in full version (205 pages) in PDF format. [31.05.03]

- Is Kosovo Modern Enough? Article written for the JAVA Magazine. [19.04.02]

- Field Research in Conflict Societies - Methodological Problems. Article for the Post-Graduate Student's Year Book 2002. [08.04.02]

- The Potential of the 'Kosovar' Identity in Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Kosovo. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference in New Mexico, USA. [14.02.02]

- The concept of Ethnicity, State and Nationalism applied on Kosovo. Written for JAVA in Kosovo. [28.01.02]

- Chapter 1 - Introduction of thesis on "Transforming Ethnic Nationalism" Draft v. 3.1 [22.01.02]

- Transformimi i Nacionalizmit Etnik-Bashkimit Etnik si dhe Mundësia e Paraqitjes së Identitetit 'Kosovar' [Transforming Ethni Nationalism and the Formation and Potential of the 'Kosovar' Identity]. Published in JAVA Magazine in the Albanian dialect 'Gheg' (as spoken in Kosovo) [02.01.02]

-The Norwegian Language Debate. Written for JAVA magazine in Kosovo that promotes the usage of the Northern Albanian 'Gheg' in Kosovo as opposed to the official Albanian language in Albania.

- Dynamic Classification of Ethnic Incorporation. Revitalising Handelmann's table in order to see changes in ethnic incoporation. [17.12.01]

- Transforming Ethnic Nationalism Draft paper (v.2.9) Published for Public Review (17 p). [16.12.01]

- Photos from six months stay in Kosovo working for the OSCE [16.12.01]

- The usage of the Albanian Flag in Kosovo - traces of transformation in ethno-nationalistic sentiments? One of the key points in my thesis. [April 2001]

- Albansk Nasjonalisme og ideen om Stor-Albania: en oppklaring av albansk regional politikk i Serbia, Makedonia og Kosovo [Albanian Nationalism and the idea about 'Greater Albania': analysing the regional albanian politics in Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo].[April 2001]

We live in a global economy - ATTAC too! Comment about the recent development of the ATTAC movement. [16.04.01]

- Popular Patriotic Songs in Kosovo. Some of the most popular modern songs in Kosovo today translated into english (preliminary translation). [December 2000]

 

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Writings

All development commentary, incl work in progress is on the Blog; blog.aaasmnundandersen.net

Books

Articles

  • Imposing Good Governance - Is Kosovo Modern Enough? This article considers the introduction of new bureacratic structures in Kosovo, and the danger that it will become an 'empty shell', without the necessary modern bureaucratic culture to make it work as intended. To be published in the Java Magazine, Kosovo. Written in Oslo, April 2002.
  • Field Research in Conflict Societies - Methodological Problems [Feltarbeid i konflikt-samfunn - forskningsetiske dillemmaer ved deltagende observasjon som metode]. To be published in the Post-Graduate Student's Year Book 2002 at the Insitute of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. April 2002 [Norwegian only].

Political Comments

  • The Norwegian Language Debate. Written for the weekly JAVA Magazine in Kosovo. The JAVA magazine writes in the Gheg language that is based upon the northern Albanian dialect as opposed to the official Albanian written language. The official Albanian written language is widely perceived as being based primarily on the southern Albanian 'Tosk' dialect (where the Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha was born). In Kosovo, the cultural differences between Albanians in Kosovo and Albanians in Albania is about to be acknowledged and a discussion about the written language used by Albanians in Kosovo is in the horizon. The process of developing the 'New Norwegian' Language in the middle of the 19th century in Norway has quite some smilarities to what Kosvo now might face. 26.12.01
  • Tyrkias politiske spill med Vesten, PKK og Hezbollah [Turkeys political game with the West, PKK and Hezbollah]. A political article about Turkey's arrest of the PKK leader and the brake-down of the Hezbollah terrorist organisation in light of Turkeys ambitions to apply for membership in the European Union. Written from the town Dogubeyazit in Eastern Turkey. Published by the Norwegian daily Dagsavisen in February 2000 (Norwegian only).

Poetry

  • The AppleTree. A poem about understanding the world. Oslo, September 2005.
  • To-stemthet [Two-some-beeing]. A poem about togetherness. Dakar, October 2004 (Norwegian only).

  • Self-Critisism. Poem about the ambivalence of optimal living. Pristina - Kosovo, December 2000.

  • I am Dionysian. Declaration of living (poem), in Nietzsche's sense. Pristina - Kosovo, December 2000.

  • Planeten Du er Svevende, Universets Ekspansjon [something like 'The Planet you are floating, the Expansion of the Universe']. Short poetry about the stereotypes of success and its social implications. Oslo, Summer 2000 (Norwegian only).

Short-stories

  • The Revenge of the East. A Poetic short-story about cultural imperialism and its strange interceptions. Dharamsala - India, May 2000

Animations

  • The Sunday Trip fun. Now in Flash Movie format! You can still see the old interactive one here. The concept was born in Aarhus, Denmark 1997. My first interactive artstory ...and certainly not the last...

Sounds