This page contains a selection of Hjalte's research from the last ten years.
Hjalte says
The state has been in the focus of my research. A first phase (1972-79) was the exploration of the development of the British state during the last thousand years, conducted with Thomas Stig Andersen and Jens Herskind at Roskilde University, resulting in three volumes:
"Statens Historie år 1000-2000" vol 1 (1976), vol 2 (1977) and vol 3 (1979) all available at Roskilde University Library.
In the second phase (1994-98) I turned the analysis of the state upside-down and explored how the state fractured in civil war. My main empirical emphasis was on South Africa. The result was a PhD-dissertation defended at the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Aarhus in 1998.
In the third phase (1998-2003) I focused on the impact of emergency aid in civil wars. A major report was commisioned by the Foreign Ministry (Research council for development research) submitted in year 2000. I also studied emergency aid and civil war in Guinea Bissau. Published in Bissau (in Portuguese) in 2002.
My book "Hjælp1" (Help!)) with evidence and personal experiences from Somalia, Afghnistan and Kosovo, published 2003, rounded off my research on emergency aid.
On this page you may download my disertation, reports etc. in pdf-format.
| (1.marts,1995) | EN MODEL FOR STATENS HISTORIE ÅR 1000 - 2000 | Arbejdspapir 23-95, Center for Kulturforskning, Århus Universitet 1995 |
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| (1.maj,1996) | WINNIE MANDELA'S BANNING ORDER: THE TERRITORIALITY OF POWER AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE |
Arbejdspapir 34-96, Center for Kulturforskning, Århus Universitet 1996. Præsenteret på University of Western Cape. Cape Town, 1996. |
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| (1.april,1997) | MAGTENS RUM: STATEN, STAMMEN, BYEN OG HUSET | Arbejdspapir 42-97, Center for Kulturforskning, Århus Universitet 1997. Præsenteret på Center for Kulturforsknings seminar i Barcelona, 1997. |
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| (1.oktober,1997) | A TYPOLOGY OF CIVIL WARS | Working Papers 1997/12 Danish Institute of International Affairs 1997. Præsenteret på Nordisk Sommer Universitet, Island, 1995, og Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Insitut, Oslo, 1996. |
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| (1.januar,1997) | A NOTE ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VIOLENCE AND POWER | Paper prepared for a workshop at the Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, Jan 28, 1997 | Download |
| (1.maj,1997) | RECONCILIATION OF CIVIL WAR. A NOTE ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN EXPERIENCE | Paper prepared for the Berlin Volks Uni seminar at the Humbolt University, Berlin 16 - 19 May, 1997 | Download |
| (1.maj,1998) | THE SLAVE, THE NATIVE, AND THE SERF: THREE SITES OF VIOLENCE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN ETHNIC SPACE 1652 - 1994 | Arbejdspapir 59-98, Center for Kulturforskning, Århus Universitet 1998 Draft paper prepared for the seminar series, "Comparative Colonialisms: responses in the longue duree" at the University College of London, spring 1998 |
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| (1.september,1998) | THE SPACES OF CIVIL WAR. FROM A GLOBAL TYPOLOGY OF CIVIL WAR TO A TOPOGRAPHY OF VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA 1976, 1986, 1996 | PhD-thesis submitted to Centre for Cultural Studies, Århus University 1998 | Download |
| (1.april,1999) | AID UNDER FIRE IN SOMALIA. DRAFT REPORT | DUPI 1999 | Download |
| (1.november,1999) | CHILDREN IN VIOLENT SPACES. REINTERPRETATION OF THE 1976 SOWETO RIOT | Published in Abebe Zegeye, (ed.), Social Identities in the New South Africa: After Apartheid Volume One, Cape Town: Kwela Books |
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| (1.marts,2000) | KAP DET GODES HÅBS KORT OVER SLAVER OG INDFØDTE ELLER FORSKELLEN PÅ RACE OG ETNICITET I SYDAFRIKAS HISTORIE | Kontur, Tidsskrift for Kulturstudier, Århus Universitet 2000 | Download |
| (1.marts,2000) | CIVIL WAR: THE WAR TO MESS UP ALL WAR; OR VIOLENCE, THE STATE, AND VIOLENCE AGAINST THE STATE | Paper prepared for NSU winter symposium, Aalborg, March 2000 | Download |
| (1.august,2000) | RISK AID. HUMANITARIAN AID IN A NEW CENTURY | Report submitted to Rådet for Ulandsforskning. DUPI 2000 | Download |
| (1.november,2001) | ER NØDHJÆLP VAND PÅ KRIGENS MØLLE? DANMARKS NØDHJÆLP TIL AFGHANISTAN FRA 1990'ERNE OG EFTER 11. SEPTEMBER 2001. | Jordens Folk 3-2001 | Download |
| (1.september,2002) | THE BENEFIT OF FAILURE: WORLD FOOD PROGRAM AND LOCAL SURVIVAL IN GUINEA-BISSAU 1998-1999 | Udgivet på portugisisk, "O beneficio do fracasso: PAM, ajuda alimentar e sobrevivencia local na Guinea-Bissau, 1998.1999" i Soronda, revista de estudios guineenses. Instituto Nacional de Estudios e Pesquisa, Bissau, Nova serie no.3, 2002 |
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