Mats Utas

Research Projects
Young women in African Wars

Youth and marginality in urban Sierra Leone

Informal Security Structures in the Mano River Region: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone

Researcher at NAI since 2004
 

Academic background
Mats Utas is Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology. He has worked as a lecturer in social and cultural anthropology at University of Liberia and Stockholm University, as well as senior lecturer in sociology at Fourah Bay College (University of Sierra Leone). He is currently responsible for a course in African Studies at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, at Uppsala University. Utas has written extensively on child and youth combatants, media, refugees and gender in conflict and war zones. He has conducted fieldwork in Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast. His current research is on street-corner youth in urban Sierra Leone.

List of Publications
 

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Subject areas
Sierra Leone, Liberia, West Africa, children, youth, ex-combatants, rebel movements and militia, conflict, war, gender, media, refugees, election politics, socio-political informality, poverty, social organizations, African cities.

Contact
mats.utas@nai.uu.se
Tel: +46 18 56 22 32 (direct)