Dr. David Henig

Sjoerd Groenmangebouw
Padualaan 14
3584 CH Utrecht

Dr. David Henig

Associate Professor
Cultural Anthropology
d.henig@uu.nl

Books

2025. Bosnian Fluxes: Belonging, Caring and Reckonings in a Post-Cold War Semiperiphery. London & New York: Routledge. (co-editor)

2022. Where is the Good in the World? Ethical Life between Philosophy and Social Theory. New York: Berghahn. (edited by David Henig, Anna Strhan, and Joel Robbins)

2020. Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. Chicago, Urbana, Il.: University of Illinois Press. 

2017. Economies of Favour after Socialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (edited by David Henig& Nicolette Makovicky)

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Edited Journal Special Issues

In preparation. War Ecologies and their Ethnographic Seductions. War and Society (with Ken MacLean, Tâm Ngo, Dat Nguyen)

2023. Polycrisis, Anthropology Today 39(2). (with Daniel M. Knight)

2016. Everyday Diplomacy: Insights from Ethnography, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 34(2). (with Magnus Marsden and Diana Ibañez Tirado)

2013. Being Muslim in the Balkans: Ethnographies of Identity, Politics and vernacular Islam in South-East Europe, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 22(2). (with Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska)

2013. Anthropology and Computing, Social Science Computer Review 31(1). (with Michael D. Fischer, Stephen Lyon, and Daniel Sosna) 

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Articles

2026. War Ecologies and Their Seductions: An Introduction. War & Society. (co-authors: Ken MacLean, Tâm Ngô, Dat Nguyen)

2025. Dis-ordnance: Climate Change Meets Military Waste in Gaza. Dialogues in Human Geography: 1-5. (co-author: Nigel Clark)

2025. For the Love of Rats: A Homage to Companion Species in the Landscapes of War. Anthropological Quarterly 98(2): 335-351. 

2023. Book Forum: Around David Henig's Remaking Muslim Lives. Religion and Society 13(1): 81-94. (co-authors: Basit Kareem Iqbal, Michael Lambek, Joel Robbins, and Catherine Wanner). 

2023. Polycrisis: Prompts for an Emerging Worldview. Anthropology Today 39(2): 3-6. (co-author: Daniel M. Knight) 

2022. Raven Polluters. Anthropology News 63(3): 21-23. (co-authors: Daniel Sosna, Roman Figura)

2022. Economies and favours: What's in a word? Economic Sociology. Perspectives and Conversations 23(3): 42-48. (co-author: Nicolette Makovicky) 

2022. Towards a Cultural Lens for Adaptations Pathways to Climate Change. Regional Environmental Change 22. (co-authors: Dannny Marks, Macahid Mustafa Bayrak, Selim Jahangir & Ajay Bailey)

2021. Refusals of Tolerance: Hunger, Mercy, and the Ethics of Immediacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Anthropological Forum 31(3). (Special Issue "Emergent Axioms of Violence: Toward an Anthropology of Post-Liberal Modernity")

2021. Iain Ross Edgar (1948-2021). Anthropology Today 37(4): 33. 

2021. Rewriting Muslim Lives in Europe. Anthropology News (August 13). 

2020. Emptiness and Deadly Environments. Cultural Anthropology (Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, December 15).  

2020. Anthropology has a Village Problem: A View from Somewhere. Etnofoor 32(1): 139-143. 

2020. "Stuck in Uncertainty." In Pandemic Diaries, Gabriela Manley, Bryan M. Dougan, and Carole McGranahan eds., American Ethnologist. (co-authored with Nikkie Wiegink)

2019. Living on the Frontline: Indeterminacy, Value and Military Waste in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, Anthropological Quarterly 92(1): 85-110.

2019. Muslim Circulations and Networks in West Asia: Ethnographic Perspectives on Transregional Connectivity, Journal of Eurasian Studies 10(1): 11-21. (co-author: Magnus Marsden)

2018. Economic Theologies of Abundance: Halal Exchange and the Limits of Neoliberal Effects in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ethnos: 1-16.

2018. Making Kinship Bigger: A conversation with Golfo Alexopolous, Nadav Samin, David Henig, and Gísli PálssonComparative Studies in Society and History. 

2017. Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, Social Analysis 61(1): 41-54.

2016. Crossing the Bosphorus: Connected Histories of ‘Other’ Muslims in the Post-imperial Borderlands of Southeast Europe, Comparative Studies in Society and History 58 (4): 908-934.

2016. Everyday Diplomacy: Introduction. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 34(2): 2-22. (co-authors: Marsden, Magnus & Diana Ibañez-Tirado)

2014. Tracing Creative Moments: Towards the Emergence of Trans-local Dervish Cults in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 69: 97-110.

2013. Testing iPad in the Field: A Case of Relational Database in Garbological research. Anthropologie 51 (3): 421-430. (co-authors: Sosna, Daniel & Lenka Brunclikova)

2013. Recasting Anthropological Perspectives on Vernacular Islam in the Balkans: An Introduction. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 22 (2): 1-11. (co-author: Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska)

2013. Harmonizing Diversity: Tuning Anthropological Research to Complexity. Social Science Computer Review 31(1): 1-13. (co-authors: Fischer, Michael D., Stephen Lyon & Daniel Sosna)

2012. ‘This is our Little hajj’: Muslim Holy Sites and Reappropriation of the Sacred Landscape in Contemporary Bosnia. American Ethnologist 39(4): 752-766.

2012. Iron in the Soil: Living with Military Waste in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Anthropology Today 28(1): 21-23.

2012. ‘Knocking on my neighbour’s door’: On Metamorphoses of Sociality in Rural Bosnia. Critique of Anthropology 32(1): 3-19.

2010. Istikhara: The Guidance and Practice of Islamic Dream Incubation Through Ethnographic Comparison. History and Anthropology 21 (3): 251-262. (co-author: Iain R. Edgar) 

 

Book chapters

2025. Toward an Anthropology of Fluxes in the Post-Cold War World: An Introduction. In: Bosnian Fluxes: Belonging, Caring and Reckonings in a Post-Cold War Semiperiphery, edited by David Henig, Jaroslav Klepal, and Ondrej Zila. London & New York: Routledge.

2024. When War Percolates: On Topologies of Earthly Violence in a Planetary Age. In: Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres, edited by Andreas Bandak and Daniel M. Knight. Durham: Duke University Press. Pp: 135-152. 

2023. New Borders, Old Solidarities: (Post-)Cold War Genealogies of Mobility along the "Balkan Route". In: Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political and Economic Imaginaries, edited by Paul Stubbs. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. (co-author: Maple Razsa). Pp: 360-381.

2023. "Favours". In: The Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Ethics and Morality, edited by James Laidlaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (co-author: Nicolette Makovicky). pp: 629-648.

2022. The Good between Social Theory and Philosophy: An Introduction. In: Where is the Good in the World? Ethical Life between  Social Theory and Philosophy, edited by David Henig, Anna Strhan, and Joel Robbins. New York: Berghahn. Pp: 1-32. (co-author: Anna Strhan).

2022. Radical Hope as a Practice of Possibilities. On the Fragility of Goodness and Struggles for Justice in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. In: Where is the Good in the World? Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy, edited by David Henig, Anna Strhan, and Joel Robbins. New York: Berghahn. Pp: 216-233.

2019. Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Orbit of Turkish Foreign Policy. In: Diaspora Turks and Perceived Kin Communities in Turkish Foreign Policy. PRIO: Cyprus Centre.  

2019. Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. In: Post-Ottoman Topologies: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation State, edited by Nicolas Argenti. Oxford: Berghahn. Pp: 43-56.

2018. ‘Economies of Favour.’ In: The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, edited by Alena V. Ledeneva. London: UCL Press. (co-author: Nicolette Makovicky)

2018. ‘Languages of Informality.’ In: The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, edited by Alena V. Ledeneva. London: UCL Press. (co-author: Nicolette Makovicky)

2017. Seeking Blessing and Earning Merit: Muslim Travellers in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In: Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe, edited by Ingvild Flaskerud and Richard Natvig. London: Routledge. Pp. 83-97. (co-author: Tone Bringa)

2017. Re-imagining Economies (after Socialism): Ethics, Favours and Moral Sentiment. In: Economies of Favour After Socialism, edited by David Henig and Nicolette Makovicky. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 1-20. (co-author: Nicolette Makovicky)

2017. A Good Deed is not a Crime: Moral Cosmologies of Favours in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In: Economies of Favour After Socialism, edited by David Henig and Nicolette Makovicky. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 181-202.

2016. Fragments of Village Life and the Rough Ground of the Political in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. In: Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Semiperipheral Entanglements, edited by Stef Jansen, Carna Brkovic and Vanja Celebicic. London: Routledge. Pp. 46-59.

2014. ‘Contested Choreographies of Sacred Spaces in Muslim Bosnia’. In Choreography of Sacred Space: State, Religion and Conflict Resolution, edited by Karen Barkey and Elazar Barkan. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. 130-160. 

2009. The Cosmopolitan and the Noumenal: Case Study of Islamic Jihadist Night Dreams as a Reported Sources of Spiritual and Political Inspiration. In: United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization. Edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos & Elisabeth Kirtsoglou. Oxford: Berghahn. Pp. 64-82. (co-author: Iain R. Edgar)

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Henig, D., Klepal, J., & Žíla, O. (Eds.) (2025). Bosnian Fluxes: Belonging, Caring, and Reckoning in a Post-Cold War Semiperiphery. (Southeast European Studies). Taylor and Francis. [DOI]
Henig, D., Klepal, J., & Žíla, O. (2025). Towards an anthropology of fluxes in the post-Cold War world: An introduction. In Bosnian Fluxes: Belonging, Caring, and Reckoning in a Post-Cold War Semiperiphery (pp. 1-22). Taylor and Francis. [DOI]

2024

Scholarly publications

Henig, D. (2024). When War Percolates. On Topologies of Earthly Violence in a Planetary Age. In A. Bandak, & D. M. Knight (Eds.), Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres (pp. 135-152). Duke University Press.

2023

Scholarly publications

Henig, D., & Makovicky, N. (2023). Favours. In J. Laidlaw (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics (pp. 629-648). Cambridge University Press. [DOI] [Repository]
Henig, D., & Razsa, M. (2023). New Borders, Old Solidarities: (Post-)Cold War Genealogies of Mobility along the "Balkan Route". In P. Stubbs (Ed.), Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement : Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Imaginaries (pp. 360-382). McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Henig, D., & Knight, D. M. (2023). Polycrisis. Anthropology Today, 39(2), 1-31. https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678322/2023/39/2
Henig, D., & Knight , D. M. (2023). Polycrisis: Prompts for an emerging worldview. Anthropology Today, 39(2), 3-6. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Scholarly publications

Henig, D., Wanner, C., Lambek, M., Robbins, J., & Iqbal, B. (2022). Around David Henig's Remaking Muslim Lives. Religion and Society, 13(1), 81-94. [DOI] [Repository]
Sosna, D., Henig, D., & Figura, R. (2022). Raven Polluters. Anthropology News, 63(3), 21-23. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/raven-polluters/
Henig, D., & Makovicky, N. (2022). Economies and favours: What's in a word? European Economic Sociology Newsletter, 23(3), 42-48. https://econsoc.mpifg.de/46084/23-3
Henig, D. (2022). Radical Hope as a Practice of Possibilities: On the Fragility of Goodness and Struggles for Justice in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. In D. Henig, A. Strhan, & J. Robbins (Eds.), Where is the Good in the World? : Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy (pp. 216-233). Berghahn. [DOI]
Henig, D., & Strhan, A. (2022). Introduction: The Good between Social Theory and Philosophy. In D. Henig, A. Strhan, & J. Robbins (Eds.), Where is the Good in the World? : Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy (pp. 1-32). (WYSE Series in Social Anthropology; Vol. 12). Berghahn. [DOI] [Repository]
Henig, D., Strhan, A., & Robbins, J. (Eds.) (2022). Where is the Good in the World? Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy. Berghahn. [DOI]
Marks, D., Bayrak, M. M., Jahangir, S., Henig, D., & Bailey, A. (2022). Towards a cultural lens for adaptation pathways to climate change. Regional Environmental Change, 22(1), 1-6. Article 22. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Scholarly publications

Henig, D. (2021). Refusals of Tolerance: Hunger, Mercy, and the Ethics of Immediacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Anthropological Forum, 31(3), 241-255. [DOI] [Repository]
Henig, D. (2021). Rewriting Muslim Lives in Europe. Anthropology News. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/rewriting-muslim-lives-in-europe/
Henig, D. (2021). Iain Ross Edgar (1948 - 2021). Anthropology Today, 37(4), 33-33. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Scholarly publications

Henig, D. (2020). Emptiness and Deadly Environments. Web publication/site, society for cultural anthropology.
Henig, D. (2020). Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium). University of Illinois Press.
Henig, D. (2020). Anthropology Has a Village Problem: A View from Somewhere. Etnofoor, 32(1), 139-144. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26924855 [Repository]
Wiegink, N., & Henig, D. (2020, Apr 2). The Netherlands - Stuck in Uncertainty: (Pandemic Diaries). American Ethnological Society. [Repository]

2019

Scholarly publications

Henig, D. (2019). Prayer as a history: of witnesses, martyrs, and plural pasts in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. In N. Argenti (Ed.), Post-Ottoman topologies: the presence of the past in the era of the nation-state (pp. 43-56). (Studies in social analysis; Vol. 8). Berghahn.
Henig, D. (2019). Living on the Frontline: Indeterminacy, Value, and Military Waste in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. Anthropological Quarterly, 92(1), 85-110. [DOI] [Repository]
Henig, D., & Marsden, M. (2019). Muslim circulations and networks in West Asia: Ethnographic perspectives on transregional connectivity. Journal of Eurasian Studies, 10(1). [DOI] [Repository]
Henig, D. (2019). Economic Theologies of Abundance: Halal Exchange and the Limits of Neoliberal Effects in Post-war Bosnia–Herzegovina. Ethnos, 84(2), 223-240. [DOI] [Repository]

Professional publications

Henig, D. (2019). Bosnian and Herzegovina in the orbit of Turkish foreign policy. In M. Hatay, & Z. Tziarras (Eds.), Kinship and disporas in Turkish foreign policy : examples from Europe, the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean (PCC Report ed., Vol. 10, pp. 47-58). (PCC report; Vol. 10). Peace Research Institute Oslo. [Repository]

2018

Scholarly publications

Henig, D., & Makovicky, N. (2018). Introduction: Vernaculars of informality. In The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality (Vol. 1, pp. 125). UCL Press. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10041167/1/The-Global-Encyclopaedia-of-Informality-Volume.1.pdf
Henig, D., & Makovicky, N. (2018). Introduction: Economies of favours. In The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality (Fringe ed., Vol. 1, pp. 35). UCL Press. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10041167/1/The-Global-Encyclopaedia-of-Informality-Volume.1.pdf