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Leif Manger is professor emeritus in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Manger was the head of the Department from 1999-2001. He also served as acting director of the Center for Development Studies (CDS) from 1992-1993 and from 1994-1996. The CDS was replaced by Unifob Global in 2007 and Manger held the position of Research Director of Unifob Global, a division for development and global research within the Unifob Company from 2007 until 2010. In 2009 the Unifob company changed it’s name to Uni Research, and Unifob Global became Uni Global. In 2010 the division was organized within the University again, and Manger returned to the department from the summer of 2010. He retired on February 1, 2020.
Manger's early individual research was related to the Sudan, and his research and publications include studies on household adaptations in oasis environments, mountain environments and savannah plains. He has also published works, including edited books, on topics such as trade, communal labor and socio-cultural processes of Arabisation and Islamisation. His latest monograph on Sudan is From the Mountains to the Plains: The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba in Sudanese Society (1994). Manger's continued interest in the Nuba Mountains is expressed in an edited volume from 2017, entitled On War and Insecurity, Survival and Development in South Kordofan. Contributions from Regional Universities.
Manger has also edited books on broader comparative issues such as a book on Islam, entitled Muslim Diversity. Local Islam in Global Contexts (1999), a book on the issue of diasporas (co-edited with Munzoul Assal), Diasporas Within and Without Africa: Dynamism, Heterogeneity, Variation (2006) and a book on border issues (co-edited with Fekadu Adugna, Munzoul Assal and Eria Olowo Onyango) entitled Borderland Dynamics in East Africa. Cases from Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda (2019).
Manger has also published many papers and a monograph based on his Indian Ocean research which deals with the migration history of people from Hadramaut in Yemen to areas around the Indian Ocean region (Singapore, Hyderabad, Sudan and southern Ethiopia). The main book has the title The Hadrami Diaspora. Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim (2010).
Manger's general focus in his more recent work is a mixing of a broad broad cultural historical understanding of a region with current events. One example is the focus on borders and borderland populations. Regionally this work focuses the borderland situations between Sudan and the new nation state of South Sudan, between post-Soviet Tajikistan, China and Afghanistan, and between contemporary China, Myanmar and India. His interest in trade diasporas is also continuing with a focus on African and Middle Eastern trade diasporas in to-day's China, currently with on-going fieldwork on Sudanese trade communities on the Chinese coast, especially in the city of Yiwu.
Manger has also served on the following editorial boards:
CyberOrient - Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East (www.cyberorient.net)
Mansriq & Mahjar. Journal of Middle Eastern Migration Studies (www.faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/akhater/Mashriq)
Manger was involved in the International Advisory Board for the establishment and running of a new interdisciplinary Ph.D program in the Social Sciences at Bir Zeit University.
He was also apponted External Examiner at the University of Hong Kong, for a Bachelor of Arts program in African Studies. The engagment is for a period of four years, from the academic year of 2020-2021.
Manger has also been honoured with a Festschrift, at the occasion of his 60th birthday.
Nefissa Naguib and Bert de Vries, eds, 2010. Heureux qui comme Ulysses a fait un beau voyage. Movement of People in Time and Space. Bergen:BRIC
“This festshrift is about people’s short and long journeys, crossing frontiers, individual movements from place to place, and the pulse/feel between past and present. These human achievements of being in the world have for a long time preoccupied Professor Leif O. Manger. To honour Manger, the authors in this book draw widely from the ancient and contemporary world to create a historical and cultural account of people in time and space.”
Manger was invited to give the Honorary Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Associatioon for Anthropology, in November 2021. The title of the lecture was "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Processes of polarization as zones of ambiguities" and was a discussion of developments in the Sudan as a background for reflections on the main theme of the conference, the increasing types of "polarizations"in the contemporary world and "what conceptual and methodological tools anthropologists can use, in the academia and beyond, in trying to grasp and make sense of these various conflictive and polarizing entanglements".
Manger has been teaching anthropology at all levels. He has also supervised a large number of Master, M.Phil and Ph.D students, both within the many projects he has generated, in the department, in his time at the Center for Development Studies (CDS) and at (Unifob) Uni Global but also individual students. Manger was among the key persons in developing a special undergraduate course on Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at UiB. He has also been involved in distant education, developing courses relating to tropical biology and development. Manger has also been teaching anthropology courses in China (at Fudan University and Yunnan University of Nationalities), a one semester bachelor course with teaching of Norwegian and Chinese students every autumn.
- (2022). Can a Local Descent Group Become an Interna4onal Network? Research on the Rashāyidah in Five Countries. Kinship. 63-71.
- (2008). Land, territoriality and ethnic identities in the Nuba Mountains. Orientwissenschaftliche hefte. 71-101.
- (2007). Hadramis in Hyberabad - From Winners to Loosers. Asian Journal of Social Science. 405-433.
- (2004). Reflections on War and State and the Sudan. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. 108-115.
- (2002). Pastoralist - State Relationships among the Hadendowa Beja of Eastern Sudan. Nomadic Peoples. 21-48.
- (2002). Hadramis in Signapore - Making Muslim Space in a Global City. Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies. 141-176.
- (2001). Religion, Identities and Politics: Defining Muslim Discourse in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan. Journal of Arabic and Islamic studies.
- (1998). Pastoralist-State Relationships Among the Hadendowa Beja of Eastern Sudan. Nomadic People, (special thematic edition of the journal) Management Through Indigeneous Socio-Cultural Practices.. 23-46.
- (1998). Local Resource Management in the Context of Civil War and Genocide: identity, cultural tradition and territory among the nuba of the Sudan. Journal of Social Sciences (New York, N.Y.).
- (1993). "Public Schemes and Local Participation: some remarks on the presentsituation in the Southern Nuba Mountains Area of the Sudan." Seminarinnlegg på konferanse om "Agricultural Development and Planning", Universitetet i Khartoum, 1979. Sudan Notes and Records.
- (1992). On the Study of Islam in Local Contexts. Forum for Development Studies.
- (1991). Public Schemes and Local Participation: some remarks on the present situation in the Southern Nuba Mountains Area of the Sudan. Sudan Notes and Records.
- (1989). Survival in the Short or Long Run? Perspectives on the Ecological Crisis in the Red Sea Region. Forum for utviklingsstudier.
- (1998). Årsmøte i Nordisk selskap for midtausten-forskning.
- (1998). The Lower Jordan River Basin Programme in Bir Zeit.
- (1998). The Hadrami Diaspora.
- (1998). The Civil War in Sudan.
- (1998). NUFU-prosjekt.
- (1998). Methodological problems in applied social science research.
- (1998). Islam i Afrika, med spesielt fokus på konflikten i Sudan.
- (1998). Inland Fisheries in Southern Africa.
- (1998). Globalisering av kulturbegrepet.
- (1998). East African Dryland Programme.
- (1998). East African Dryland Program.
- (1998). Development Problems of Contemporary Yemen.
- (1997). Perspectives in Indian Ocean Research: migration, trade, religion.
- (1997). Internasjonal handel, antropologiske perspektiver.
- (1996). American Anthropological Association.
- (1996). African Studies Association.
- (1996). "The Indian Ocean as Context for Environmental Discourse".
- (1996). "The Future of the Nuba People in the Sudan: problems of identity, cultural tradition and territory".
- (1996). "Social Anthropology - seen from the Western World".
- (1996). "Palestinian Higher Education".
- (1996). "Menneskelig tilpasning i Afrika: gamle tradisjoner-ny virkelighet".
- (1996). "Managing Scarce Resources: reflections on the study of human adaptations in arid areas":.
- (1996). "Islam i Afrika: terrorisme eller frigjøring?".
- (1996). "Islam i Afrika: fra verdensreligion til enkeltmenneskers tro".
- (1995). Vannforvaltning i Jemen: gamle system og moderne problem.
- (1995). Vannforvaltning i Jemen : gamle system og moderne problem. jemenittiske irrigasjonssystemer.
- (1995). Hema - Arabisk institusjon for ressursutnyttelse.
- (1995). "hema" - Arabisk institusjon for ressursutnyttelse.
- (1994). The Future of Red Sea Hills Pastoralism.
- (1994). Hadendowa Pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills, the Sudan.
- (2011). “Battles of Sovereignties. States and Territories, Markets and Commodities, Wars and Terror”. Paper presented in seminar at Centre for Middle Eastern Research, Lund University, 27 January 2011.
- (2011). "The Land Issue". Presentation presented at the "Southern Kordofan Preparatory Committee Retreat" on 16-17 February 2011 in the capacity of being resource person for HD (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue) in the process of "Popular Participation in South Kordofan" (Nuba Mountains) which was organised as part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on Sudan.
- (2011). "Religious, Social and Cultural Rights". Presentation presented at the "Southern Kordofan Preparatory Committee Retreat" on 16-17 February 2011 in the capacity of being resource person for HD (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue) in the process of "Popular Participation in South Kordofan" (Nuba Mountains) which was organised as part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on Sudan.
- (2011). "Political Risk and Instability in selected Middle East Countries. Part Two: Yemen, Sudan". Presented as a resource person in a seminar organised by the Chinese oil company SINOPEC's entitled “Government and Public Relations. Development of Relationship with Local Partner, Local Resource Management Authority and Local Community in Resource Countries” and co-organized with MLR-CGS and PETRAD-CCO, 5-8 December 2011, Xiamen Jingmin Central Hotel, China.
- (2011). "Political Risk and Instability in selected Middle East Countries. Part One: Iran vs. USA, Iraq". Presented as a resource person in a seminar organised by the Chinese oil company SINOPEC's entitled “Government and Public Relations. Development of Relationship with Local Partner, Local Resource Management Authority and Local Community in Resource Countries” and co-organized with MLR-CGS and PETRAD-CCO, 5-8 December 2011, Xiamen Jingmin Central Hotel, China.
- (2011). "From Clash of Civilizations to Battles of Millenarianisms". Paper presented at American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Montreal, 16-20 November 2011 in the the panel "Managing Muslim Migration in the 21st Century: Between Spiritual Geographies and Global Security Regimes".
- (2010). "One Religion, Two Decades, Three Problems. Reflections on the Study of Islam by an Anthropologist." Paper presented at conference “New Horizons in Islamic Area Studies: Continuity, Contestations and the Future”. The Third International Conference organized by Islamic Area Studies (IAS) section of National Institutes for the Humanities Program (NIHU) in Kyoto, Japan, December 17-19, 2010.
- (2009). “State-Building in the Sudan – Between Triumph and Disaster ?” Paper presented at international workshop on “Challenging the State. Transmutations of Power in Contemporary Global Realities”. Held in Voss, November 13 - 15, 2009. Organized by Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.
- (2009). Resource Wars ? Global Model Fantasies or Local Realities? Paper presented at conference – “How Do Global Discourses Affect Natural Resource Governance in the South?”. Bergen, 26-27 March, 2009. Organised by University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsens Institute.
- (2009). 'Nation-building within a collapsing state. Towards a "New Sudan"?' Keynote address presented to international workshop on “Emerging Orders in Sudan under the CPA: Governance, Livelihoods and Markets”, held in Khartoum, October 3-6, 2009.
- (2008). 'Conflicts on the Move – looking at the complexity of the so-called “Resource Based Conflicts” in Western Sudan'. Paper presented at conference (25-26 October, 2008) celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Khartoum, 1958.
- (2007). Livestock, Land and Weapons: Understanding resource-based conflicts between agro-pastoral groups in Western Sudan.
- (2007). Islam i Det indiske hav: samspel mellom ideologi, kultur og politisk økonomi.
- (2007). Growing up Poor in the Sudan. A battle between realities and imaginations.
- (2007). Food and Identity. Processes of Cultural Change among the Lafofa Nuba of Central Sudan.
- (2007). Building a Moral Economy: the historical success of Hadrami Sada in Singapore (c. 1820-1920). Paper presented at “Final MEISA Seminar” (Migrants and Entrepreneurs in Insular Southeast Asia, 2007).
- (2007). Antropologen i krig og fred. Refleksjonar over arbeid i Sudan i skjæringspunktet mellom fag og politikk.
- (2006). Understanding the Ethnic Situation in the Nuba Mountains in the Sudan. How to handle processes of group-making, meaning production and metaphorization in a situation of post-conflict reconstruction.
- (2006). Understanding the Darfur Crisis.
- (2006). Understanding the Crisis in Darfur: structured politics or post-modern chaos?
- (2006). Three Leaders, Three Revival Movements, One Islam – thoughts on the new religiosity and globalization.
- (2006). The Political Culture of North Sudan and the Capital, Khartoum.
- (2006). The Building of the New Sudan:how to combine collective group rights and individual citizen rights.
- (2006). Resource Conflict as a factor in the Darfur crisis in Sudan.
- (2006). Reflections on the Darfur crisis. Prospects for Peace ?
- (2006). Reflections on the Darfur Crisis.
- (2006). Political and developmental challenges in Eastern Sudan – after peace agreement in Asmara.
- (2006). Land Territoriality and Ethnic Identities in the Nuba Mountains.
- (2006). Islamization and Inter-generational Conflict among the Lafofa Nuba in the Sudan.
- (2006). Global Moments in the Levant.
- (2006). From War to Peace in Sudan: an impossible task?
- (2006). Building Peace in the Sudan. Reflections on Local and regional Challenges in the Nuba Mountains.
- (2006). Bergen Anthropology in Sudan, 1960-2006: Research, competence building and changing politics.
- (2006). 'Traders, Kings and Mariners. Movement and Interconnections in the Indian Ocean in Antiquity.' Paper presented at conference on "Crossing Boundaries Between Africa and Asia – People, Trade, Biographies of Things". At Centre de Cooperation Franco-Norvegienne, Paris, June 9-10, 2006. Organised by Unifob Global.
- (2005). Understanding the conflict in Darfur.
- (2005). The Sudan peace process.
- (2005). The Sudan peace agreement -basic challenges.
- (2005). The Indian Ocean: regional perspectives.
- (2005). Sudan peace agreement - some reflections.
- (2005). Reflections on North-South research cooperation.
- (2005). Overview of project progress.
- (2005). Innvandring, identitet og globalisering.
- (2005). Hadramis in Singapore -trading entrepeneurs and moral economy.
- (2005). Global Moments and Inter-civilizational Encounters in the Levant.
- (2005). Ethnography, modernity, globalization.
- (2005). Empire, states and globalization.
- (2005). Concluding remarks.
- (2005). Building a Moral Economy: the historical success of Hadrami Sada in Singapore (c. 1820-1920).
- (2003). Surfing on the Waves of Globalization: The Hadramis in an Indian Ocean World.
- (2003). Nubafolket i Sudan: Gamle samfunn i ei ny verd.
- (2003). Nubafolket i Sudan: Gamle samfunn i ei ny verd.
- (2003). Civil War and the Politics of Subjectivity in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan.
- (2002). Understanding Globalisation - The Need for a Historicised Anthropology.
- (2002). Resource management in Western Sudan: beyond territory and scarcity?
- (2002). Multi-sited fieldwork - Some contextual comments.
- (2002). Antropologi og historie.
- (2001). Understanding diaspora: empirical and theoretical issues.
- (2001). The Nuba mountains- battlegrounds of identities: cultural traditions and territories.
- (2001). The Hadrami diaspora, some theoretical and empirical issues.
- (2001). Surfing on the Waves of Globalisation. On the Hadramis in an Indian World.
- (2001). Surfing on the Waves of Globalisation. On the Hadramis in an Indian Ocean World.
- (2001). Hadrami Migration in the Indian Ocean: A Comparison in Time and Space.
- (2001). Globalisation ......
- (2001). Ecological studies in the East African Drylands.
- (2001). De lange linjers antropologi.
- (2001). Cross Border Trade in East Africa - an evaluation.
- (2000). "South Arabian People in the Indian Ocean World".
- (2000). "Interrogating Diasporic Identities".
- (2000). "Institutionalizing Indian Ocean Studies".
- (2000). "Indian Ocean Diasporas- Battleground of Identities".
- (2000). "Historicizing Globalization: Hadramis in an Indian Ocean World".
- (2000). "Diaspora- generelt og fra Det indiske hav".
- (1998). Union of Social Anthropological and Ethnological Societies.
- (1997). Religion, Identities and Politics: Definding Muslim discourses in the Nuta Mountains of the Sudan.
- (1997). Migration as a Way of Life: the Hadrami migration in the Indian Ocean from the coming of Islam until the present time.
- (1997). Hadrami Diaspora: Empirical and Conceptical Considerations.
- (1996). "The Hadrami Diaspora: Empirical and Conceptual Considerations".
- (1996). "Resource Flows, Entitlements and Empowerment: Roles and Inter-relationships".
- (1996). "Discussant":"Livehood form Resource Flows: Awareness and Contextual Analysis of Enviromental Conflict".
- (1995). On Becoming Muslim: the construction of identity among the Lafofa Nuba of the Sudan.
- (1995). Land Tenure and Pastoral Planning in the Red Sea Hills.
- (1995). Human Life in East African Drylands: Regional and Comparative Perspectives.
- (1994). The Future of Red Sea Hills Pastoralism.
- (1992). The Social Science Component of the Red Sea Area Programme.
- (1992). On Becoming Muslim: The Construction of Identities among the Lafofa of the Sudan.
- (1992). Evaluation of the Red Sea Area Programme.
- (2012). Anthropological Reflections on the Breakup of Sudan. International Journal of Middle East Studies. 327-329.
- (2013). Tracing golden past: historical narratives about Shaybun and Shawabna in the Nuba mountains, Sudan. Journal of African History. 131-132.
- (2011). Kenneth J. Perkins. "Port Sudan: The Evolution of a Colonial City" (bokomtale). Northeast African Studies. 88-91.
- (2017). On War and Insecurity, Survival and Development in South Kordofan. UiB, CMI.
- (2009). Peace in Eastern Sudan. Some important aspects for consideration. BRIC.
- (2009). Global moments in the Levant. BRIC Press.
- (2006). Understanding the Crisis in Darfur. Listening to Sudanese Voices. BRIC, Center for Development Studies, University of Bergen.
- (2006). Diasporas Within and Without Africa. Dynamism, hetereogeneity, variation. The Nordic Africa Institute.
- (2010). The Hadrami diaspora : community-building on the Indian Ocean rim.
- (1998). Religion, Identities and Politics. Defining Muslim Discourses in the Nuba Mountains of the Nuba Mountains of the Sudan.
- (1998). On Becoming Muslim. The Construction of Identities among the Lafofa of the Sudan.
- (1998). Muslim Diversity: Local Islam in Global Contects.
- (1998). Muslim Diversity: An Introduction.
- (1997). A Survey on Hadramis in Hyderabad.
- (1995). Survival on Meagre Resources - Hadendowa Pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills. Final Report on The Red Sea Programme.
- (1994). Jemen i krise. Kronikk. Bergens Tidende.
- (1994). Jemen i Krise. Bergens Tidende.
- (2015). Women and Work - Money and Gifts. The Dynamics of Gendered Economic Adaptations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
- (2015). Russian Greeks/Greek Russians. Parameters of Identity.
- (2015). "A humanitarian solution to a political problem". UNRWA between globalized values and localized meaning.
- (2003). Knowing Water: Palestinian women between the spring and fauset.
- (1992). Managing Natural Resources in a Pastoral Community: Some Issues Relating to the Beja of the Red Sea Hills in the Sudan. Innlegg på et Ph.D. seminar arrangert av Roskilde Universitets Center.
- (1991). From the Mountains to the Plains. The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba into the Sudanese Society. (Ph.D. dissertation).
- (2004). Krisen i Sudan.
- (2018). Sovereignties in the Making. Reflections on state and society in the Sudan.
- (2017). Rediscovering Hadhramaut. Paradigas of research.
- (2017). Negotiating the Homeland: Dieaporic Consciousness and social stratification Among Hadramis in the Indian Ocean region. 32 sider.
- (2017). Introduction. 24 sider.
- (2016). BORDERS AND BORDERLAND DYNAMICS-SOME REFLECTIONS. 8 sider.
- (2015). Conflicts on the Move – looking at the complexity of the so-called“resource based conflicts” in Western Sudan . 124 sider.
- (2013). Seligman on the Lafofa: social organisation and some terminology. -592 sider.
- (2013). Building a Moral Economy: the historical success of Hadrami Sada in Singapore. 17 sider.
- (2009). Food and identity. Processes of cultural change among the Lafofa Nuba of Central Sudan. 23 sider.
- (2009). Comparing Global Moments over Time. Some theoretical and methodological implications. 19 sider.
- (2009). Colonial Anxieties in the Nuba Mountains. Religious rebellions as anti-colonial threats in Anglo-Egyption Sudan. 20 sider.
- (2009). "Resource Based Conflicts" in Western Sudan – some reflections on the role of the State. 11 sider.
- (2007). Darfur - Regional-Historical Causes. 6 sider.
- (2007). Building Peace in the Sudan: a reflection on local and regional challenges. 15 sider.
- (2006). Globalization on the African Horn: Yemenis in Southern Somalia and Ethiopia. -30 sider.
- (2006). Diasporas Within and Without Africa. Dynamism, hetereogeneity, variation. 25 sider.
- (2006). Connectivity in the Long Durèe. Hadramis from South Yemen in an Indian Ocean. 15 sider.
- (2006). A Hadrami Diaspora in the Sudan – individual life courses in regional and global contexts. 26 sider.
- (2005). Understanding globalization -the need for a historicized anthropology. 20 sider.
- (2005). Understanding Resource Management in Western Sudan: a critical look at New Institutional Economics.
- (2004). The Nature of the State and the Problem of a National Identity in the Sudan.
- (2001). The Nuba mountains- battlegrounds of identities: cultural traditions and territories. 42 sider.
- (2000). East African Pastoralism and Underdevelopment: an Introduction. 18 sider.
- (2000). "Muslim" Resource Management in the Sudanic World: Local Realities or International Rhetoric. 21 sider.
- (1999). On Becoming Muslim. The construction of identities among the Lafofa of the Sudan.
- (1999). An Introduction.
- (1996). Vegetation dynamics in the Red Sea Hills - Continuties and changes. 22 sider.
- (1996). Vegetation Dynamics in the Red Sea Hills - Continuities and Changes.
- (1996). The natural environment of the Red Sea Hills - lessons in variability. 22 sider.
- (1996). The Natural Environment of the Red Sea Hills - Lessons in Variability.
- (1996). The Hadendowa Way of Life - Survival of a Cultural Tradition.
- (1996). The Future of Red Sea Hills Pastoralism - Links and Implications for Planning.
- (1996). Making Ends Meet - Some Problems of Viability in Hadendowa Households.
- (1996). Land Tenure and Pastoral Planning in the Red Sea Hills. -236 sider.
- (1996). Human Adaption in East African Dryland: The Dilemma of Concepts and Ap proaches. 21 sider.
- (1996). General Introduction.
- (1996). "Survival on Meagre Resources" "Hadendowa Pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills".
- (1995). On Becoming Muslim: The construction of identity among the Lafofa Nuba of the Sudan.
- (1995). Land Tenure and Pastoral Planning in the Red Sea Hills.
- (1995). Human Life in East African Drylands. Regional and Comparative Perspectives.
- (1992). From Slave to Citizen. Processes of Cultural Change among the LafofaNuba of Central Sudan.
- (1991). Research and Development in Eastern Sudan: The Red Sea Area Programme.
- (1990). Agro-Pastoral Production Systems and the Problem of Resource Management.
- (1990). Adaptive Strategies in African Arid Lands: An Introduction.
- (2014). Geographies of Domination and Geographies of Resistance. 10 sider.
- (2011). Afrikas nye nasjonalstat. Forsvarets Forum. 51-51.
- (2010). Fremveksten av norsk sosialantropologi. Intervju med Gunnar Håland høsten 2009. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 254-272.
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Anthologies, books and monographs
1981 The Sand Swallows Our Land. Overexploitation of productive resources and the problem of household viability in the Kheiran - a Sudanese oasis. Bergen Studies in Social Anthropology, No. 24. Bergen: Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.
1984 (ed.) Trade and Traders in the Sudan. Bergen Studies in Social Anthropology, No. 32. Bergen: Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.
1987 (ed.) Communal Labour in the Sudan. Bergen Studies in Social Anthropology, No. 41. Bergen: Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.
1990 (ed. with Mette Bovin) Adaptive Strategies in African Arid Lands. Uppsala: Nordic Institute of African Studies.
1994 From the Mountains to the Plains: The Integration of the Lafofa Nuba in Sudanese Society. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute.
1996 (ed.) Survival on Meager Resources: Pastoral Adaptation of the Hadendowa in the Red Sea Hills. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute.
1999 (ed.) Muslim Diversity. Local Islam in Global Contexts. London: Routledge Curzon.
2000 (ed. with Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed) Pastoralists and Environment. Experiences from the Greater Horn of Africa. Addis Ababa: OSSREA.
2006a (ed. with Munzoul Assal) Diasporas Within and Without Africa: Dynamism, Heterogeneity, Variation. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute.
2006b (ed. with Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed) Understanding the Crisis in Darfur. Listening to Sudanese Voices. Bergen: BRIC.
2009a (ed. with Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed) Peace in Eastern Sudan. Some Important Aspects for Consideration. Bergen: BRIC.
2009b (ed. with Øystein S. LaBianca) Global Moments in the Levant. A Unifob Global Project. Bergen: BRIC.
2010 The Hadrami Diaspora: Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim. New York: Berghahn.
2017, (ed.) On War and Insecurity, Survival and Development in South Kordofan. Contributions from Regional Universities. Bergen:Chr. Michelsens Institute (CMI)
2019, (ed, with Fekadu Adugna, Munzoul Assal and Eria Olowo Onyango) Borderland Dynamics in East Africa. Cases from Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda. Addis Abeba: Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA)
Selected publications – papers – since 2000
2000, Local Resource Management in the Context of Civil War and Genocide: Identity, Cultural Tradition and Territory among the Nuba of the Sudan. Journal of Social Sciences [special issue on "Resource Management Through Indigenous Socio-Cultural Practices", ed. D.K. Behera], 4(1).
2001a), Hadramis in Singapore – Making Muslim Space in a Global City, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-faith Studies [special issue "The Impact of Transnational Processes on the Nation-State and National Cultures", ed. Michael Humphreys], 3(2).
2001b), Pastoralist -State Relationships among the Hadendowa Beja of Eastern Sudan. Nomadic People, 5(2).
2001-2002, Religion, Identities and Politics: Defining Muslim Discourse in the Nuba Mountains in the Sudan. Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 4.
2002, September 11 and October 7: From Human Tragedy to Power Politics. Social Analysis, 46(1) (Forum: The World Trade Centre and Global Crisis, edited by Bruce Kapferer).
2004a), Reflections on War and State and the Sudan. Social Analysis, 48(1) (Forum: The State, Sovereignty, War, and Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities, edited by Bruce Kapferer).
2004b), The Nature of the State and the Problem of a National Identity in the Sudan. In G. Sørbø and S. Pausewang (eds) Prospects for Peace, Security and Human Rights in Africa’s Horn. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
2005a), Understanding Globalization - The Need for a Historicized Anthropology. In K. Misra (ed) Social Anthropology in the Era of Globalization: Issues and Concerns. Hyderabad University Press.
2005b), Understanding Resource Management in Western Sudan. A Critical Look at New Institutional Economics. In Quentin Gausset and Torben Birch Thomsen (eds) Beyond Territory and Scarcity: social, cultural and political aspects of conflicts on natural resource management. Uppsala: The Nordic Institute of African Studies.
2006a), Connectivity in the Long Durée. Hadramis from South Yemen in an Indian Ocean World. In Øystein LaBianca and Sandra Scham (eds) Connectivity in Antiquity: Globalisation as Long Term Historical Process. The Contiuum International Publishing Group LTD, in series “New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology”. London: Equinox Publishing, pp. 117-131.
2006b), A Hadrami Diaspora in the Sudan – individual life courses in regional and global contexts. In Leif Manger and Munzoul A.M. Assal, eds, Diasporas Within and Without Africa. Dynamism, hetereogeneity, variation. Uppsala:The Nordic Africa Institute, pp. 61-86.
2006c), Empires, World-Systems and Globalization. Web-publication (article) at www.globalmoments.uib.no
2006d), Globalization on the African Horn: Yemenis in Southern Somalia and Ethiopia. In Roman Loimeier and Rüdiger Sesemann, eds, The Global Worlds of the Swahili. Interfaces of Islam, Identity and Space in 19th and 20the Century East Africa. Bayreuth: LIT (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung, Band 26), pp. 31-53.
2007a), Ethnicity and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Nuba Mountains of the Sudan: processes of group-making, meaning production, and metaphorization. Ethnoculture, 1: 71-83. (see also http://www.emich.edu/coer/Journal/Manger.html).
2007b) Building Peace in the Sudan: a reflection on local and regional challenges. In N. Shanmugaratnam, ed, Between War and Peace in Sudan and Sri Lanka: Deprivation and Revival. Oxford:James Currey, pp. 27-50.
2007c), Hadramis in Hyderabad – From Winners to Losers. Asian Journal of Social Science, 35(4-5): 405-433.
2008, Land, Territoriality and Ethnic Identities in the Nuba Mountains. In Richard Rottenburg, ed, Nomadic-Sedentary Relations and Failing State Institutions in Darfur and Kordonfan (Sudan). Mitteilungen des SFB “Differenz und integration” 12. Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte, No 26. Orientwissenschaftlichen Zentrum der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
2009a), Colonial Anxieties in the Nuba Mountains. Religious rebellions as anti-colonial threats in Anglo-Egyption Sudan. Paper published in Henriette Hafsaas and Alexandros Tsakos, eds, Connecting South and North. Sudan Studies from Bergen in Honour of Mahmoud Salih Festschrift to Mahmoud Salih. Bergen: BRIC.
2009b), Food and Identity. Processes of Cultural Change among the Lafofa Nuba of Central Sudan. In Nefissa Naguib, ed, Food and Foodways in the Middle East. Bir Zeit/Bergen: BRIC.
2009c), “Resource Based Conflicts” in Western Sudan – some reflections on the role of the State. In Marcel Leroy ed, Environment and Conflict: Reflections on Darfur. Addis Abeba: UN University for Peace, Africa Programme (electronic publication: http://www.africa.upeace.org/documents/environment_files.pdf ).
2009d), “Comparing Global Moments over Time. Some theoretical and methodological implications”. In Leif Manger and Øystein S. LaBianca, eds, Global Moments in the Levant. A Unifob Global Project. Bergen: BRIC.
2009e), Nation-building within a collapsing state. Towards a "New Sudan"? Paper presented to international workshop on “Emerging Orders in Sudan under the CPA: Governance, Livelihoods and Markets”, held in Khartoum, October 3-6, 2009. Organized by the Collaborative Research Centre, SFB586, D9 and A4 in collaboration with the University of Juba.
2010a), “State-Building in the Sudan – Between Triumph and Disaster ?” Paper presented at international workshop on “Challenging the State. Transmutations of Power in Contemporary Global Realities”. Held in Voss, November 13 - 15, 2009. Organized by Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen.
2010b), Negotiating the Homeland: Diasporic Consciousness and Social Stratification Among Hadramis in the Indian Ocean. Paper presented at workshop within network on “Islam and Nationalism in Europe and the Muslim World (ISNAT) National Identity Politics in Comparative Perspective”- Conference IV: The Uses of History and the Politics of Memory in the Muslim World. At The Danish Institute in Damascus, 14-17 October, 2010.
2010c), One Religion, Two Decades, Three Problems. Reflections on the Study of Islam by an Anthropologist. Paper presented at conference “New Horizons in Islamic Area Studies: Continuity, Contestations and the Future”. The Third International Conference organized by Islamic Area Studies (IAS) section of National Institutes for the Humanities Program (NIHU) in Kyoto, Japan, December 17-19, 2010.
2010d) Fremveksten av norsk sosialantropologi. Intervju med Gunnar Håland høsten 2009. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift, 21(4):254-272.
2011, Kenneth J. Perkins. "Port Sudan: The Evolution of a Colonial City" (book review). Northeast African Studies, 2(3, New Series): 88-91. pp. 88-91.
2012, "Anthropological Reflections on the Breakup of Sudan". in: International Journal of the Middle East Studies (IJMES Roundtable). 44:2, pp. 327-329.
2013a), Building a Moral Economy: the historical success of Hadrami Sada in Singapore (c. 1820-1920). In: E. Bråten, ed, Embedded Entrepreneurship: Market, Culture, and Micro-Business in Insular Southeast Asia. Leiden:Brill
2013b), Seligman on the Lafofa: social organisation and some terminology. In: Thilo C. Schadeberg and Roger M. Blench, eds, Nuba Mountains Language Studies. Kay Williamson Educational Foundation African Languages Monograph, Volume 6 (ed. Roger M. Blench). Köln:Rüdiger Köppe verlag (Chapter 19, pp:347-354)
2014, Geographies of Domination and Geographies of Resistance. Foreword in: Riina Isotalo and Anita Fabos, eds, Managing Muslim Mobilities: Between Spiritual Geographies and Global Security Regimes. London:Palgrave MacMillan (Religion and Global migration Series)
2015a), Lost in Translation. Understanding the Nuba as a movement between epistemic territories - between difference and sameness, between contingency and continuity.
Paper/Key note address in the 2nd Nuba Mountain Languages Conference, August, 28-29-30, 2014, in Paris. (organized by: LLACAN/CNRS – UMR 8135 and INALCO)) (Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire/ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales). Bergen: Chr.Michelsens Institute (CMI): Working Paper no. 2.
2015b), Comparing Borderland Dynamics. Processes of Territorialization in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, southern Yunnan in China, and the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan.
Paper presented in ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference at Nazarbayev University (Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies; Central Eurasian Studies Society), 22-24 May 2014, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. Bergen: Chr. Michelsens Institute (CMI): Working Paper no. 3.
2015c), Borderland Dynamics in the Horn of Africa – Some reflections. Background paper for ARUSS and NORHED meeting in Addis Ababa, 24-25 February, 2014. Bergen: Chr. Michelsens Institute (CMI): Working Paper no. 1.
2015d), Conflicts on the Move – looking at the complexity of the so-called “resource based conflicts” in Western Sudan. In: Munzoul A.M. Assal and Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil, eds, Past, Present, and Future. Fifty Years of Anthropology in Sudan. Bergen: Chr. Michelsens Institute.
2016, Afterword: Borders and Borderland Dynamics – Some Reflections. In: T. Bringa and H. Toje, eds, Eurasian Borderlands. Spatializing Borders in the Aftermath of State Collapse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
2017a), Negotiating the Homeland. Diasporic Consciousness and Social Stratification Among Hadramis in the Indian Ocean. In: C. Raudvere, ed, Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past. History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World. London: Palgrave
2017b), Rediscovering Hadhramaut: paradigms of research. In: Noel Brehony, ed, Hadhramaut and its Diaspora: Yemeni Politics, Identity and Migration. London: I.B. Tauris
2017c), ed, On War and Insecurity, Survival and Development in South Kordofan. Contributions from regional universities. Bergen:Chr. Michelsens Institute
2017d), Introduction. In: L. Manger, ed, On War and Insecurity, Survival and Development in South Kordofan. Contributions from regional universities. Bergen:Chr. Michelsens Institute (p. 8-26).
2018a), Sovereignties in the Making. Reflections on state and society in Sudan. In: B. Kapferer, ed, State, Resistance, Transformation. Anthropological Perspectives on the Dynamics of Power in Contemporary Global Realities. Canon Pyon, Hereford, UK:Sean Kingston Publishing
2019a), with Fekadu Adugna, Munzoul Assal and Eria Olowo Onyango (eds), Borderland Dynamics in East Africa. Cases from Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda. Addis Ababa: OSSREA
2019b), Borderland Dynamics in East Africa: General Introduction. In: L. Manger et.al., eds, Borderland Dynamics in East Africa. Cases from Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda. Addis Ababa: OSSREA (p. 1-16)
2022, The Good, the Bad and the Evil. Processes of polarization as zones of ambiguities. in: Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift (Norwegian Anthropological Journal), Vol. 33, No. 1: 8-29. (in Norwegian. Honorary Lecture at Norwegian Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 25, 2021).
Manger has initiated and headed a number of interdisciplinary projects. Among projects with funding from the Norwegian Research Council was “Localizing Globalization: Gendered Transformations of Work in Developing Economies” (2010-2013). This was a basic research program including researchers in Bergen from Department of Social Anthropology, Department of Geography, the HEMIL Centre, and Chr. Michelsen’s Institute, all with research cooperation to researchers in the countries of field work (Indonesia, Peru, Ghana, Palestine, Ethiopia).
Manger has initiated and directed several projects funded by NUFU, (Norwegian Universities’ Committee for Development, Research and Education). The latest NUFU-project was “Enabling Local Voices: The Gender and Development Forum” (2009 – 2012) which was a collaborative programme between University of Bergen and University of Bir Zeit, West Bank, Palestine.
Of other projects "The Global Moments in the Levant" stands out as important, financed by the so-called “Storforsk”in the Research Council. The project ended in 2008/9, and the major results are summarized in a publication with the same title as the project, and edited by Manger and Øystein LaBianca.
In addition to the three projects mentioned Manger has initiated and headed the NUFU -funded projects “The Lower Jordan River Basin Research Programme” (a collaborative programme between University of Bergen and University of Bir Zeit, West Bank, Palestine, 1998 – 2008 - Finished); and “The East African Dryland Research Programme” (a collaborative programme between University of Bergen and Universities in East Africa - researchers from Addis Abeba, Makerere, Dar es Salaam, Khartoum. The East Africa component was organised by OSSREA -Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Addis Ababa - Finished). Among earlier projects funded by the Norwegian Research Council is “The Indian Ocean Programme” (a network programme including researchers in Bergen from Department of Social Anthropology, Department of History, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Centre for Development Studies. Closing conference in Bergen, December 2000 - Finished).
In 2012 NORAD established "NORHED", a new funding structure to replace NUFU. In the first allocation of funding in June 2013 two projects in which Manger was involved received support. They both represent a continuation of the earlier collaborative activities that have been central to Manger's concerns. One project, "Borderland Dynamics in Eastern Africa. A network program for capacity building within departments of social anthropology in East African universities" continued the collaboration between Bergen (Department of Social Anthropology and Chr. Michelsens Institute) and the Universities in Khartoum and in Addis Ababa, and Makerere University in Kampala, also involving OSSREA in Addis. The second project, "Urban Transformation in the Southern Levant" represented a continuation of earlier links of collaboration between Bergen (anthropology and archaeology) and Bir Zeit University in Palestine, where the Department of Geography again is the main partner, as was the case in "The Lower Jordan-project". Both of the new projects were operational from 2014 to 2018.
In a second round of NORHED projects (NORHED II) Manger initiated the project "Refugees on the Move - South Sudanese in Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda". This project continues the NORHED I collaboration between the anthropology departments in Bergen, in Khartoum , in Addis Ababa, and at Makerere University in Kampala, but this time also with The Institute of Peace, Development and Security Studies at the university of Juba.
As a development consultant Manger has been involved in projects with various donors in the Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Syria and Tajikistan. In Sudan he was also a resource person to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs negotiation team on parts of their involvement in the peace negotiations during the civil war period. As part of this involvement in conflict and post-conflict activities in the Sudan Manger has co-edited, together with Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, a book on the conflict in Darfur, “Understanding the Conflict in the Sudan. Listening to Sudanese Voices”, and also together with Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, a book focused on reconstruction and development in eastern Sudan, Peace in Eastern Sudan. Some Important Aspects for Consideration. Also as an outcome of his long-term engagement in the Sudan Manger initiated and was heading (with Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed) the project “Assisting Regional Universities in Sudan” (ARUS), which was a development oriented project, supported for the period 2010-2013 by the Norwegian Embassy in Sudan, aimed at assisting regional universities in producing development relevant information to ongoing reconstruction and rehabilitation after civil war. The project was run together with Ahfad University for Women with a focus on the following regional partners: Red Sea University, Kassala University and Gedaref University, all in East Sudan, and Dilling University, Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile University, both in the so-called “Marginal Areas”. From 2013 the project also included the Chr. Michelsens Institute in Bergen. In the latter periods new regional universities have been added, such as Nyala University and Sinnar University. The project is now formally administered by the CMI.
On 16 and 17 February 2011 Manger was a resource person for HD (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue) in the process of “Popular Participation" in South Kordofan (Nuba Mountains) which was organised as part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on Sudan. As participant at the "Southern Kordofan Preparatory Committee Retreat" on these dates, Manger gave two presentations based on written papers -- "The Land Issue” (5 pages) and "Religious, Social and Cultural Rights" (5 pages).
Manger was also a resource Person in the Chinese oil company SINOPEC's seminar entitled “Government and Public Relations. Development of Relationship with Local Partner, Local Resource Management Authority and Local Community in Resource Countries” organised 5-8 December 2011. Held in Xiamen Jingmin Central Hotel, China, and co-organized with MLR-CGS and PETRAD-CCOP, Manger particpated with two prepared talks -- "Political Risk and Instability in selected Middle East Countries”, part One (6 December): "Iran vs. USA, Iraq" and part two (7 December): "Yemen, Sudan".
In 2019 Manger functioned for one month as an Independent Technical Expert for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Juba, participating in the so-called Internal Boundary Mission in South Sudan.
Regional emphasis on the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean, with long-term field research in the Sudan, and shorter fieldworks in Yemen, Hyderabad, India and Singapore. Manger has recently taken up fieldwork in China.
Thematic focus on economic and ecological anthropology, development studies, planning, land tenure, trade, communal labour, Arabization and Islamization. Later on also on migration, diaspora, transnationalism and globalization, historical anthropology, comparative epistemology and interdisciplinarity.