Thomas Højrup

Thomas Højrup (born 1953) is a Danish ethnologist. Højrup is Professor of Ethnology at the University of Copenhagen. His primary focus is the development of new concepts of life-mode analysis, with conceptual history and politics also prominently figured in his work. He has directed a large scale research project on the formation of life modes and welfare states. Other research interests include epistemological questions in the social sciences, and everyday life of distinct life-modes in modern Europe and in the fishing industry.

Selected publications 

2003: State, Culture and Life-Modes. Ashgate, Aldershot.
2001: (With Kirsten Monrad Hansen) An economic Rationale for Inshore Fishing: Simple Commodity Production and the Life-Mode Approach. In: Inshore Fisheries Management, eds. D.Symes & J.Phillipson, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.
2002: Ethnologie und Politik. Das aristotelische Erbe in den Kulturwissenschaften. In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 2002 II, Waxmann
2000: (With Kirsten Monrad Hansen) Glavnoje otlitshie. Modelj zjizni sovremennogo menedzjera I nauka obnovlenija. Knigoizdatelstvo Vesemirnoje Slovo, Sankt Petersborg.
1998: Problemi gnoseologii, istorii kultur I teorii gosudarstva. Knigoizdatelstvo Vesemirnoje Slovo, Sankt Petersborg.
1995: Staat, Kultur, Gesellschaft. Über die Entwicklung der Lebensformanalyse. Marburg.
1983: On the Concept of life-Mode. A Formspecifying Mode of Analysis Applied to Contemporary Western Europe. In: Ethnologia Scandinavica

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