Author: Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has worked for years with the politics of identity, ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation from a comparative perspective, often with an ethnographic focus on Mauritius and Trinidad. He has also published popular works and essays on cultural complexity in Norway, either with a focus on Norwegians or the multi-ethnic character of contemporary Norway.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Clashing scales of Brexit

July, 2016 / By Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Mainstream newspapers, politicians and commentators across Europe instantly expressed dejection and bitterness in the face of the Brexit outcome, and […]