Signe Borch

Social Anthropology
PhD candidate

About

Signe Østerskov Borch is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. She has a BA and a Master Degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Research interest

Regional interest: Balkans, Bosnia and Kosovo in particular.

Theoretical interest: Everyday life in war and conflict. Post conflict transformation and reconciliation, gender, phenomenology of security, construction, negotiation and practice of identity, social spaces.
Ethnographic methodology.

Key analytical terms: ’Peacebuilding’, reconciliation, identity, gender, security, hope/illusio, space.

Current research

The PhD project examines the dynamics of space, gender and security as these are related and played out in everyday life in a post-war (still conflict) divided society. With an outset of ethnographic fieldwork in the town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, the project examines the interplay of internal dynamics between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians.

Teaching and tutoring

• Coordinating and teaching the course Global cities (Erasmus course)
• Lectures in Gender and peacebuilding, and Project management/Applied Anthropology
• Regional specialization: Balkans
• Tutoring BA and MA thesis on (post) conflict and identity

Field experience

• Bosnia and Herzegovina (with research visits to Serbia and Montenegro)
• Kosovo upcoming
• Denmark