Modern Folk Devils

Martin Demant Frederiksen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. He works in the interface of anthropology and contemporary archaeology, and his current research focuses on emptiness, temporality and coastal infrastructures in Croatia and Denmark, and on subcultures and urbanization in Georgia. He is author of the monographs Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia (2011), Georgian Portraits: Essays on the Afterlives of a Revolution (with Katrine B. Gotfredsen, 2017) and An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular (2018).

Ida Harboe Knudsen is a social anthropologist, who received her PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale Germany. Her PhD focused on rural development in Lithuania after the EU-membership and was later published as a book with Anthem Press in 2012: New Lithuania in Old Hands. Following she has been involved in two postdoc projects, one financed by the Danish Research Council on informal working strategies in Lithuania and one financed by the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology on Lithuanian inmates in Danish prison facilities.