My position since 2013 is as an appointed professor emeritus at the University of Bergen, Norway, which makes it possible for me to pursue my research interests with the support of this university’s research infra-structure. Over the years, I have been lucky enough to in large measure devote myself to research activities. A major part of my professional life has been as the leader of research institutions. While on leave from the University of Stockholm, I was for four years a Research Director in the Ministry of Labor’s research unit, Sweden. This unit was transferred to the University of Stockholm in 1983, and notwithstanding several long appointments abroad, I remained in this position until 1996, when I was invited to lead the establishment of a research institute at the University of Bergen.

In my research, I have always tried myself towards theoretically interesting issues, but always with an empirical backing. In terms of substantive fields, I have dealt with First Nations in Canada and their relationship to the surrounding society, development theory, natural resources, sports, European migration issues of a wide variety, and epistemology.

A major intellectual focus in my present research is a re-interpretation of the relationship between First Nations in Canada and the rest of Canadian society.

Book review

• Lithman, Yngve (2016). Review of Sindre Bangstad "Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia". (external link)

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Lithman, Yngve (2013). Norwegian Multicultural Debates in a Scandinavian Comparative Perspective. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve; Sicakkan, Hakan G. (2006). Diversity and Multidimensional Identities. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2006). McJihad: Globalization, racial transnationalism, and terrorism of the diaspora. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve; Andersson, Mette (2005). Introduction. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2005). The Cultural Construction of Nationalisms. Nation, Person, Time and Territory in First Nation – White Relationships in Canada. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2005). The Social, The Cultural, The Aestetic: Modes of Belonging among Migrant Youth. (external link)
• Sicakkan, Hakan G.; Lithman, Yngve (2005). Politics of Identity, Modes of Belonging and Citizenship. An Overview of the Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges. (external link)
• Sicakkan, Hakan G.; Lithman, Yngve (2005). Theorizing Identity Politics, Belonging Modes and Citizenship. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Lithman, Yngve (2012). Post-Breivik Reflections: Norwegian and European multicultural Debates in a comparative Perspective. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2011). De-etatizing the State: "Erklären" and "Verstehen" in a (somewhat) flatter World. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2011). Synthesising comprison of multiculturalism in the Nordic Countries. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2011). Principles in evaluating the scholarly environment for doctoral studies. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2011). The European Imagination: Contextual and Meta-Contextual Idioms of Shared Understandings. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2010). Reflections on how the European national holistic ambitions reflect on integration processes. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2010). Welcome speech: the role of the disciplinary organizations. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2010). Resource Person. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2010). Miggration, ungdom, socialt arbete. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2010). Notions of First Generation Nationals as a politically non-stationary process. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2008). Epistemological Challenges in Eurosphere research. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2008). Public opinions and perceptions, and the role of policy. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2008). Nationalism, Chrystallization: Observations from Scandinavia. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2008). National Perspectives on Convergence and Divergence: National Perspectives on Integration. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2008). Where are the Determinants in Scandinavian Ethnic Integration regimes?. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2008). Varieties in the Scandinavian intenration/assimilation regimes. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2006). Universities and Citizenship. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2006). Om Durkheim haft en dator - begreppsbildning i mångfaldssamhället. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2005). Why Culturological Explanations? Reflections on the van Gogh murder. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2005). Varieties of Diversity. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2005). Path Dependence in Shaping the Place for Immigrants in Cities. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2005). The Research and Policy Nexus. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2004). Goldfinger and van Gogh - The Contemporary Context for European Citizenship. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2004). Radical Transnationalism. Subplenary lecture. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2004). Commentary, workshop on Locality. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2004). Citizenship and Modes of Belonging in the Diverse City: European Challenges. Key Note lecture - The Willy Brandt Guest professorship Conference. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2004). The Cultural Construction of Nationalisms. (external link)

Report

• Lithman, Yngve (2011). Evaluation of existing sociology and anthropology doctoral programs in Romania (Lithman's contribution being one part of the final report). (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2011). The Integration-Citizenship-SocialCohesion Nexus. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2008). Research Program for the Canadian Truth and Reconcilation Commission. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2005). Field Testing of Residential School Settlement. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2005). Enhancing First Nation Research Capacity. (external link)

Academic article

• Lithman, Yngve (2011). Stationarity and non-stationarity in immigrant problem discourse : the politics of migrant youth. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2010). The holistic ambition: Social cohesion and the culturalization of citizenship. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2005). Norway - Towards Diversity? Theme issue on Multucultural Approaches to Pluralism. Bader. V. Ed. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2004). Wars, Europe, and Visions of the World. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2004). When Researchers Disagree: Epistemology, Multiculturalism, and the State. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2004). Anthropologists on Home Turf: How Green is the Grass?. (external link)

Interview

• Lithman, Yngve (2010). Sorteringssamfunnet. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve; Sicakkan, Hakan G.; Andersson, Mette (2005). Vergensborgere i opprør. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve; Sicakkan, Hakan G.; Andersson, Mette (2005). Verdensborgere i opprør. (external link)

Masters thesis

• Tønnessen, Ingrid Heimstad; Lithman, Yngve (2009). Territorialisert menneskelighet Sosiologiske refleksjoner over asylinstituttet og det nakne livet. (external link)
• Vikebø, Øystein F.; Lithman, Yngve (2009). "Kanskje jeg kan drible flere nordmenn" Om to innvandrerlag og deres spilleres forhold til den norske fotballen. (external link)
• Einungbrekke, Heidi Mol; Lithman, Yngve (2008). Kvinnelig omskjæring i "vår" nærhet En kritisk diskursanalyse av norsk mediedynamikk og identitetskonstruksjon. (external link)
• Lona, Arnstein; Lithman, Yngve (2007). The local in the global Ulike aspekter ved Ahmadiyya pakistaneres hverdagsliv i Kristiansand. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Lithman, Yngve (2008). Citizenship and Multiculturalism in Norway. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2005). Norwegian Multiculturalism. (external link)

Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

• Sicakkan, Hakan G.; Lithman, Yngve (2006). What happens when a society is diverse? Exploring multidimensional identities. (external link)
• Sicakkan, Hakan G.; Lithman, Yngve (2005). Changing the Basis of Citizenship in the Modern State. Political Theory and the Politics of Diversity. (external link)
• Andersson, Mette; Lithman, Yngve; Sernhede, Ove (2005). Youth, Otherness and the Plural City. Modes of Belonging and Social Life. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2004). The Cultural Construction of Nationalisms. I: When Society is Diverse - Exploring Multicultural Identities. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2004). Wars, Europe, and Visions of the World. (Edited republication of article in Social Analysis 2004.). (external link)

Popular scientific lecture

• Lithman, Yngve (2006). Fotbollssupportrar. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2006). Europa och invandringen. (external link)
• Lithman, Yngve (2006). Kosmopolitik. (external link)

Popular scientific article

• Sicakkan, Hakan G.; Lithman, Yngve; Fredriksen, Margrete (2005). Diversity, Togetherness and a Society in Change. (external link)

Thesis at a second degree level

• Bakke, Ida; Lithman, Yngve (2005). Asylpolitikken i media: Konstuksjonen av asylsøkere som et nasjonalt problem. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

With the exception of books, the following list of publications only contains works from 1996 onwards. Only items related to academic research are included (as a rule not newspaper articles, book reviews, etc.; only a few consultancy of more direct research interest have been included). The list may not be complete, nor does it contain works awaiting publication. Inconsequential mistakes, such as year of publication, may exist. The list may not be complete.

Books, during my time in Bergen:

2007     

What happens when a Society is Diverse? Exploring Multicultural Identities. Ed. tog. w. H. Sicakkan. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

2005   

Youth, Otherness and the Plural City: Modes of Belonging and Social Life.  Ed.tog. w. Mette Andersson and  O. Rontsröm . Stockholm: Daedalus.

2006   

Changing the Basis of Citizenship in the Modern State. Editor tog.w. Hakan Sicakkan. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

2003   

Diversity and Citizenship: The European Union, Citizens, Minorities, and

Migrants. Co-editor and co-author with Hakan Sicakkan. Bergen: Brik.

 

Books, earlier  

1992     

People and Land in Northern Manitoba. Winnipeg, Mb: Anthropological Papers from the University of Manitoba, nbr 32. (editor w. others)

1988   

(editor with Tomas Gerholm) The New Islamic Presence in Western Europe. London: Mansell's. Paperback edition 1990, and later editions.

1987     

Nybyggarna i Sverige: Invandring och Andrageneration. (Settlers in Sweden: Immigration and Second Generation.) Stockholm: Carlssons förlag. (Editor and author of  three chapters.)

1983     

The Practice of Underdevelopment and the Theory of Development: The    Canadian Indian Case. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology nbr.11

1978     

The Community Apart: A Case Study of a Canadian Indian Reserve Community. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology nr. 6. (Slightly revised also issued in 1984 by the University of Manitoba Press, second printing 1985, and later printing.)

 

Articles, chapters in books

2011   

Stationarity and Non-Stationarity in Immigrant Problem Discourse: The Politics of Migrant Youth. Nordic Journal of Migration Research 1:1.

2011   

The Integration-Citizenship-Social Cohesion Nexus. Eurosphere Working  Paper Series, On-line Working Paper nbr. 36.

2010   

The Holistic Ambition: Social Cohesion and the Culturalization of Citizenship. Ethnicities 10:4.         

2009   

Varieties in the Scandinavian welfare-assimilation-integration regimes.

http://www.imer.uib.no/people/lectures/Norfaceseminar_text.pdf

2008    

Citizenship and Multiculturalism in Norway. Canadian Diversity 6:4.

2007    

Multiculturalism in Norway. Canadian Diversity 5:2.

2006     

Diversity and Multidimensional Identities. In Sicakkan, Hakan G. & Yngve G. Lithman (eds.) What Happens When the Society is Diverse? Exploring         Multidimensional Identitites. New York: Edwin Mellen Press. Co-author with Hakan G. Sicakkan.

2006    

Politics of identity, modes of belonging and citizenship: an overview of conceptual and theoretical challenges. (w. H. Sicakkan.) In Sicakkan, Hakan G. & Yngve Lithman (eds.) What Happens When the Society is Diverse? Exploring Multidimensional Identities. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

2006    

McJihad: Globalization, Radical Transnationalism, and Terrorism of the        Diaspora. In    Sicakkan, Hakan G. & Yngve Lithman (eds.) What Happens When the Society is Diverse? Exploring Multidimensional Identities. New York: Edwin Melle Press.     

2005   

The Cultural Constructions of Nationalisms. Nation, Person, Time and Territory in First Nation - White Realtionships in Canada. In Sicakkan, Hakan G. & Yngve G. Lithman (eds.) Changing the Basis of Citizenship in the Modern State. Political Theory and the Politics of Diversity. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

2005    

The Social, the Cultural, the Aesthetic: Modes of Belonging among Migrant Youth. In Mette Andersson, Yngve Lithman & Ove Sernhede (eds.) Youth, Otherness, and the Plural City: Modes of Belonging and Social Life. Gothenburg: Daidalos.

2005    

Introduction. In Mette Andersson, Yngve Lithman & Ove Sernhede (eds.) Youth, Otherness, and the Plural City: Modes of Belonging and Social Life. Gothenburg: Daidalos.

2004   

Europe, Wars, and Visions of the Future. Social Analysis 2004:2.

2004   

Anthropologists on Home Turf: How Green is the Grass? Anthropologica 2004:2

2004   

When Researchers Disagree: Epistemology, Multiculturalism, Universities, and the State. Ethnicities  4(2).

2004   

Disconnecting Place. Contribution to the European Association of Social Anthropologists Triannual Conference. Vienna, Sept. 8-12. Published in Proceedings.

2004   

Citizenship and Modes of Belonging: European Challenges. MIMER/Willy Brandt Working Paper. Malmö University.

2003   

Epistemology and Multiculturalism. In: Austrian Sociological Association,    Proceedings from the 2003 Congress “Integrating Europe”. Vienna: ÖSV, http:www.  Oegs.ac.at/files/paper/Lithman Notes.doc

2003   

Terrorism in and of the Diaspora. Sydney & Canberra: Australian National University, Europe Study Centre Technical Paper No 71-

2003   

Radical Transnationalism and Terrorism of the Diaspora. I: Cesari, J., ed.,  European Muslims and the Secular State in a Comparative Perspective. Paris:    G.S.R.L. (CNRS & Ecole des Haut. Etudes).

2001  

Reflections on the Social and Cultural Dimensions of Children’s Elite Sport in Sweden. In: Dyck, N., ed.,  Games, Sports and Cultures. Oxford: Berg

2001  

Lithman, Y, Trond Petersen & Björg Aase Sörensen, Mellom faktiske ogForestilte forskjeller: synlige minoriteter på arbeidsmarkedet. Norsk Tidskrift for migrasjonsforskning. 2001:1. 

2000   

Invandrarungdom och det omgivande samhället (Immigrant Youth and the      Surrounding Society). In: Utenfra, men hjemme: invandrarungdom i storbyn. Oslo: Norges Forskningsråd.

2000   

Review of Beiser, M. Strangers at the Gate. Journal of International Migration and Integration, JIMI I:1,144-145.

2000    Mötet: Perspektiv på relationen mellan invandrare och sjukvård och socialtjænst.  (The Meeting. Perspectives on the Relation between Immigrants and Health Care and Social Service Systems.)  IMER/Bergen Occasional Paper 18.

1999   

Spatial Concentration and Mobility,  In From Metropolis to Cosmopolis,Hjaernö,J. (Ed),  Esbjerg: South Jutland Press.

1999   

Review of MacClancy, J. Sport, Identity, Ethnicity. Ethnos 1999:3-4

1999   

Evaluering av Dansk Center for Migration og Etniske Studier (DAMES). København: Dansk forskningsråd. 

III.231998 Spatial Segregation in the Plural City. In Abu‑Laban, B & Derwing, T. (eds.) Responding to Diversity in the Metropolis: Building an Inclusive Research Agenda. Edmonton: PCERII. 1999    Review of Jarvenpaa, R. Northern Passage. Ethnos 199:3-4.III.24  1999 Review of Jarvenpaa, R. Northern Passage. Ethnos 199:3‑4.

1998   

Spatial Segregation in the Plural City. In: Abu-Laban, B. & Derwing, T. (eds) Responding to Diversity in the Metropolis: Building an Inclusive Research Agenda. Edmonton: PCERII.

1997   

Equality and Exclusion: Global, National and Local Research Challenges. In Knudsen, J.C. ed.,  Equality and Exclusion. Köpenhamn: Nordiska Ministerrådet, TEMA NORD.

1997    

Managing Diversity: Issues of Equity and Access. In: Lombardi, M.,  Metropolis. Aquaderni I.S.MU 6/1997, Milan: Fondazione Cariplo.

1996   

The Feathers of a Bird and the Frosts  of Winter: Portability of Treaty Rights in an Era of Restraint and Offloading. A Research Report for the Royal Commission for Aboriginal Peoples. RCAP:Ottawa.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

1996   

Fyra processer styr segregationen. Byggforskning 1996:4.

1966   

Segregation och livsstil. Bofast 1996:10.

1996    

Notions of Nation and the Politics of Meaning: Discourses about Sweden and the Others.  In: Aase. T.H., ed. Metodologiske Tillnaermingen til studiet av fordommer og discriminering. Oslo: Norges Forskningsråd.

1996   

L’avenir au présent: le développement comme routine. In Fino, D. (Ed.) Impasse et  promesses: L’ambiguité de la coopération au développement. Paris: PUF,Collection Enjeux.

1996  

Andragenerationens kulturella kreativitet. Fataburen1966.

Additional information about my work at IMER/UiB

My work as Director of IMER/UiB has involved a variety of tasks. In addition to my own research, initiating, managing, and being an active researcher in several large research projects have been important tasks, as has been to organize seminar series, workshops, conferences, book projects, workshops, supervision of doctoral projects, etc. Seven of “my” doctoral students are now full professors. The focus of my activities has been to build an internationally competitive research capacity at UiB. In addition to a number of grants from the Norwegian Research Council, and several other contributors, two projects under my name have been funded by the EU, Glocalmig (app. 220’ Euros) and Eurosphere (app. 4.2 mill. Euros). The total external grant research funding for IMER/UiB during my time has been app. 80 mill. NKR.

As selected examples of my activities can be mentioned:

• In 2012, I was one of the international evaluators of Portuguese social research.
• In 2010, I was one of the two international commissioners evaluating PhD social science programs in Rumania.

• In 1986-1990, I was an elected member of the board of the International Sociological Associations Research Group nr. 05, Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations.

• In 1996, I was a founding member of the International Metropolis and has since until me retirement been a member of International Steering Committee.

• I have been faculty advisor for promotions to professorships in e.g. Uppsala, Toronto, Vancouver, Roskilde, Oslo, Stockholm, Malmö, Roskilde, Copenhagen.

• I have given invited lectures in some fifteen countries.

• I am and have been a reviewer for numerous social science journals (e.g. Sociology, Ethnos, Ethnicities, JIMI, Anthropological Theory) .

• I was a founding member of Nordic Migration Research Network.

• In 2002, I was co-organizer (with E. Haagensen) and responsible for the scientific content of the 7th  International Metropolis Annual Conference in Oslo.

• In 1996, a was one of the founding members of Metropolis International, and has since been on the Steering Committee for this organization.

• In 2007, I was the organizer of the 13th Nordic Migration Researchers Tri-annual Conference in Bergen.

• The Danish Research Council’s evaluator of the DAMID research program in Esbjerg 1999-2000..

• Developed a research program for the Canadian Residential Residential School Truth and Reconcilation Commission, 2008.

• For the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affairs, Canada, I did one study of treaty rights and urban reserves, and was co-author in another on some aboriginal health issues.

• In 1979, I did a study for the Canadian Government, DIAND, of Yukon aboriginal settlements in the context of future pipeline developments; this task involved an 8-month field work.

• Intermittent advisory work for AFN National Chief Philip Fontaine. My work with AFN also included writing reports and participation in issues related to the residential boarding school issue and developing a research capacity in AFN.

• I have had various consulting work for among others the EU, OECD, Council for Europe, Canadian government.

• A very formative experience was working as a special advisor for 15 months, 1972-1973, for the Fort Alexander (now Sagkeeng) First Nation, Manitoba, Canada.