Politics Eriksen has been a minor political candidate for the Norwegian Liberal Party. In the local election of 2011, he was a minor candidate for the Norwegian Green Party in Oslo. He was also a minor candidate for the Norwegian Green Party in the 2013 general election. Honours Eriksen is an honorary doctor at Stockholm University, of The University of Copenhagen and of the Charles University in Prague, a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science, an honorary member of the Royal Anthropological Institute and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. He is the recipient of several awards for his popularisation of science, and received the University of Oslo Research Prize in 2017 and the Vega Medal in 2022. Works Selected works in English Us and Them in Modern Societies (1992) Ethnicity And Nationalism (1993/2010) Widely translated. Small Places -- Large Issues (1995/2010/2014) Widely translated, in Greek as Μικροί τόποι, μεγάλα ζητήματα Common Denominators: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Compromise in Mauritius (1998) A History Of Anthropology (2001, with F. S. Nielsen, 2nd edition 2013) Translated into Portuguese, Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age (2001) Translated into more than 25 languages. Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology (2003, ed.) What Is Anthropology? (2004) Widely translated Engaging Anthropology: The Case For A Public Presence (2006) Globalization: The Key Concepts (2007, 2nd edition 2014) Flag, Nation and Identity in Europe and America (2007, ed. w/Richard Jenkins) Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition (2009, ed. w/Halleh Ghorashi and Sharam Alghasi) A World of Insecurity (2010, ed. w/Ellen Bal and Oscar Salemink) Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography (2015) Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (2016) Identities Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World (edited with Elisabeth Schober, 2016) Knowledge and Power in an Overheated World (edited with Elisabeth Schober, 2017). Free e-book, downloadable here. An Overheated World: An Anthropological History of the Early Twenty-First Century (editor, 2018) Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast (2018) The Mauritian Paradox: Fifty Years of Development, Democracy and Diversity (editor with Ramola Ramtohul, 2018) Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today: A Legacy of Fifty Years (editor with Marek Jakoubek, 2019) Cooling Down: Local Responses to Global Climate Change (editor with Susanna M. Hoffman and Paulo Mendes, 2021) In Norwegian 1989: Hvor mange hvite elefanter? Kulturdimensjonen i bistandsarbeidet (editor) ISBN 82-417-0019-9 1991: Veien til et mer eksotisk Norge Forsvar for kulturelt mangfold.