Kristoffer Langkjær Albris

Kristoffer Langkjær Albris

Associate Professor

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I am an associate professor at The Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) and the Department of Anthropology, where I research and teach on topics related to disasters, climate change adaptation, data ethics, and mixed digital methods.

I am part of the team on the ERC funded project DISTRACT - The Political Economy of Distraction in Digitized Denmark, where I am also vice-PI and project coordinator. 

Another strand of my research examines how disasters shape societies and communities. I am PI on the project Coastal Conflicts, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF), which maps the characteristics and dynamics of disagreements about coastal and storm surge protection measures in Denmark. I was also part of an appointed research network on RealDania's campaign "Cities and the Rising Sea", which supports Danish municipalities work on storm surge management.

I have previously conducted fieldwor in Central Europe (Germany) on post-flooding adaptation, as well as in the South Pacific (Fiji) on the epistemic cultures of disaster management experts. I have been a part of the interdisciplinary project Changing Disasters and I am a member of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE).

From 2017 to 2018, I was as a postdoc on the ESPRESSO project (Enhancing synergies for disaster prevention in the European Union), which focused on optimizing policies within disaster prevention and climate adaptation in the EU member states.

I am the co-coordinator of the DICAN network (Disaster and Crisis Anthropology Network), a network under the EASA (European Association of Social Anthropology). 

Selected publications

  1. E-pub ahead of print

    ‘Our Society Works’: Disaster Solidarity and Models of Social Life in the Elbe River Valley

    Albris, Kristoffer Langkjær, 18 Oct 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Digital Dependence: Online Fatigue and Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Lockdown

    Gregersen, Emilie Munch, Astrupgaard, S. L., Jespersen, Malene Hornstrup, Gårdhus, T. & Albris, Kristoffer Langkjær, 2023, In: Media, Culture & Society. 45, 5, p. 967-984

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    The Political Economy of Attention

    Pedersen, Morten Axel, Albris, Kristoffer Langkjær & Seaver, N., 2021, In: Annual Review of Anthropology. 50, p. 309-325

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    A View from Anthropology: Should Anthropologists Fear the Data Machines?

    Albris, Kristoffer Langkjær, Otto, Eva Iris, Astrupgaard, S. L., Gregersen, E. M., Jørgensen, L. S., Jørgensen, O. N., Sandbye, C. R. & Schønning, S., 2021, In: Big Data & Society. 8, 2, p. 1-7

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    In the Interest(s) of Many: Governing Data in Crises

    Clark, N. E. & Albris, Kristoffer Langkjær, 2020, In: Politics and Governance. 8, 4, p. 421-431

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

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