Dag Erik Berg

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Position
Associate Professor in Societal Change and Social Science
Contact
+47 71195850
Study place
Molde
Office nr.
A-1.069

Teaching

  • SAF140 Political theory (Spring)
  • ADM530 Global studies (Autumn)
  • ADM745 Power, leadership and rhetoric (Spring)

Background

I am a political scientist with an interest in disciplinary and interdisciplinary themes. I have studied global approaches to hegemony, social exclusion, governance and post-foundational political thought. Much of my work has been focused on caste and legal change in India’s constitutional democracy and international human rights politics, and I have been particularly interested in the history of Dalit movements, articulations and the social and political thought of Bhimrao Ambedkar. My first book deals with dynamics of caste and law in India and is published with Cambridge University Press (2020).

Before coming to Molde University College, I had various positions in research and teaching. I was postdoctoral fellow at Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. I taught Intercultural Studies at NLA University College and Academic Writing at University of Bergen. I have been affiliated with School of Oriental and African Studies and Essex University in research and visiting positions. I obtained my PhD at the University of Bergen.  

Research interests 

  • Hegemony, global studies and political thought
  • Organization theory, digital technology and historical institutionalism
  • Discourse theory and political ethnography

Publications

  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2026). Gandhis politiske realisme, sannhetspolitikk og moralske tvang. Internasjonal Politikk. ISSN 0020-577X. 84(1), p. 182–199. doi: 10.23865/intpol.v84.7424. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik & Gilje, Nils (2025). Den ­ revolusjonære Locke : en rekonstruksjon av det politiske ­prosjektet i Two Treatises of Government. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. p. 103–113. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2023). Zooming in on Dewey, Democracy, and Subjectivity in Postdigital Education. Postdigital Science and Education. ISSN 2524-485X. 6(2024), p. 1304–1319. doi: 10.1007/s42438-023-00422-8. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2023). Caste and two types of status : comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today. Contemporary South Asia. ISSN 0958-4935. 31(1), p. 110–124. doi: 10.1080/09584935.2023.2169904. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bamerni, Lelav & Berg, Dag-Erik (2023). Digitaliseringsdiskursen i norsk forvaltning: fornyings-visjonen, brukerbegrepet og borgernes selvråderett. In Giskeødegård, Marte Fanneløb; Strand, Øivind; Lunde, Arnhild; Solberg, Mads & Bakke, Snorre (Ed.), Nyskaping : Fjordantologien 2023. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215069371. p. 174–190. doi: 10.18261/9788215069371-23-10. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2018). Race as a political frontier against caste : WCAR, Dalits and India’s foreign policy. Journal of International Relations and Development. ISSN 1408-6980. 21(4), p. 990–1013. doi: 10.1057/s41268-017-0091-3. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2018). Foregrounding contingency in caste-based dominance : Ambedkar, hegemony, and the Pariah concept. Philosophy & Social Criticism. ISSN 0191-4537. 44(8), p. 843–864. doi: 10.1177/0191453717744007. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2015). Structural mechanism, law, and the Dalit question in India. Asian Journal of Law and Society. ISSN 2052-9015. 2(1), p. 21–33. doi: 10.1017/als.2014.14. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2015). Caste, hierarchy and race in a world-historical perspective: Louis Dumont and his critique of Max Weber. Journal of Intercultural Studies. ISSN 0725-6868. 36(4), p. 413–430. doi: 10.1080/07256868.2015.1049982. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2014). Karamchedu and the Dalit subject in Andhra Pradesh. Contributions to Indian sociology. ISSN 0069-9667. 48(3), p. 383–408. doi: 10.1177/0069966714540242. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2014). Scheduled castes policies in interstate perspective: Constitutional power, argumentative practices, and governance in India. India Review. ISSN 1473-6489. 13(3), p. 235–250. doi: 10.1080/14736489.2014.937269. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2010). Skinner og Hobbes' kunstige suverene person som velordnet suverenitet. Internasjonal Politikk. ISSN 0020-577X. 68(4), p. 589–608. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2009). Dalit mellom kaste og demokrati. Internasjonal Politikk. ISSN 0020-577X. 67(2), p. 199–219. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2007). Sovereignties, the World Conference against Racism 2001 and the Formation of a Dalit Human Rights Campaign. Questions de Recherche / Research in Question. ISSN 1634-0671. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2005). Tsunamien og de kasteløse. Dagbladet. ISSN 0805-3766. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2004). Marginale grupper og domstolens hegemoniske status: Erfaringer fra Dalitene i India. Nordisk tidsskrift for menneskerettigheter. ISSN 1503-6480. 22(1), p. 62–69. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2019). Dynamics of caste and law : Dalits, oppression and constitutional democracy in India. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108779616. 243 p. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2026). «Gandhis kamp mot imperialisme, ideen om sivil ulydighet og den tidlige norske miljøbevegelsen». Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2026). «India i en globalisert verden preget av stormakters fremvekst». Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2026). The Durban conference and its significance, then and now. Full text in Research Archive
  • Waagbø, Arild Johan; Berg, Dag-Erik & Brevik, Thea Beate (2025). Dag Erik Berg er høgskolens første meritterte underviser. [Journal]. panorama.himolde.no. doi: https:/panorama.himolde.no/2025/12/22/dag-erik-berg-er-hogskolens-forste-meritterte-underviser/. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2025). Global sammenveving, populistiske ledere og mellomstatlige spenninger: India, Trump og Kina. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelsæter, Hallgeir; Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld & Berg, Dag-Erik (2024). Digitaliseringens uutholdelige letthet. Panorama : nettavis for Høgskolen i Molde. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2024). Stroud, Scott R.: The Evolution of Pragmatism in India. Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction. Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde. ISSN 0257-9774. 119(2), p. 710–712. doi: 10.5771/0257-9774-2024-2-710. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2023). Kunstig intelligens utfordrer vitenskapen og demokratiet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2023). The routledge handbook of exclusion, inequality and stigma in India. Edited by NMP Verma and Alpana Srivastava. Pacific Affairs. ISSN 0030-851X. 96(1). Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2022). Erik Solheim forskjønner autoritær ledelse i Modis India. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik & Bråthen, Svein (2022). Prinsippløst forslag om skolepenger. Romsdals Budstikke.. ISSN 0806-5160. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2022). "Gandhi’s concept of non-violence and the Mardøla struggle". Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2021). Ikke-vold, Gandhi og Mardalsfossen. p. 26–27. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2021). Ikke-vold, Gandhi og Mardalsfossen. p. 9–9. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2021). Thomas Hobbes. En introduksjonsvideo. Forskningsdagene 2021. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2021). Ikke-vold, Gandhi og Mardalsfossen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2021). Book note. Bauman, Chad M (2020) Anti-Christian Violence in India. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Journal of Peace Research. ISSN 0022-3433. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik & Meisingset, Sigrun Lossius (2021). Spørsmålet er hva som skjer med Trump de neste to ukene. [Journal]. Romsdals Budstikke. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2020). Slik undergraver demagogene demokratiet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2020). Ambedkar’s radical moves beyond Dewey’s pragmatism. Countercurrents.org. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik; Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Frøystad, Kathinka & Løkeland-Stai, Espen (2020). India-forsker om rektor-nei til India-tur: «Lite interesse for demokrati?». [Journal]. Khrono.no. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2020). "Caste and Law - How can it be explained that caste-based oppression persists?". Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2020). Studying caste, race and nation today: law, hegemony and the ontological drive. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2020). Steps towards a critical explanation of caste and law: domination, political ethnography, interpretation. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2020). "Caste, law and domination in the world’s largest democracy". Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2020). Book talk: Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik & Pettersson, Petter Haakon (2020). Trump har beredet grunnen for andre autoritære ledere. [Journal]. Romsdals Budstikke. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2020). Slik undergraver demagogene demokratiet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2020). Den politiske betydningen av ontologiske motsigelser. Salongen.no. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik & Midtgarden, Torjus (2020). Ambedkar’s radical moves beyond Dewey’s pragmatism. Countercurrents.org. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2017). Race as a political frontier against caste in international human rights politics: Dalits, India’s foreign policy and the UN. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2017). Graded inequality in international perspective : caste, inequality, slavery. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2017). Human rights struggle in Jammu and Kashmir. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2017). Kastestigma, daliter og Indias kvoteringspolitikk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2016). Legal changes in the context of caste-based oppression in India : law, discourse, Dalits. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2016). Ambedkar’s revolt against caste in India: studying emancipation outside the anthropological framework of caste and race. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2016). Seeking freedom from caste-based domination in India : Ambedkar, revolts among untouchables and misconceptions of Pariah. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2016). Mechanisms of oppression : Dalits and legal development in India. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2014). The event of Tsundur : a massacre of Dalits and the legal disputes. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2014). Louis Dumont and Max Weber on Caste. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2014). Misnøye beveger ikke verden. Salongen : Nettstedet for filosofi og idéhistorie. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2014). Inequality, Identity and Constitutional Forms among Scheduled Castes in India. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2013). Caste, sovereignty and race : keeping Durban away from India. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2013). Dr. Ambedkar, a symbolic type and the Dalit movement in India. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2012). "The Dalit Mahasabha, Karamchedu and the Creation of a Dalit Subject in Andhra Pradesh". Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2012). Madiga Dandora and their demand to sub-categorise a constitutional category. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2012). Dr. Ambedkar, a symbolic type and the Dalit movement. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2012). The Dalit Mahasabha, Karamchedu and the creation of a Dalit subject in Andhra Pradesh. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2012). Madiga Dandora and their Demand to Sub-Categorise a Constitutional Category. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2012). Social Inclusion vs. Caste and Race in a Global Perspective: Paradigms at Odds? Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2012). "Caste, Sovereignty and Race; or Keeping Durban away from India". Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2012). On the Relation between Political Theory and Political Science: some lessons from my work on the Dalit (India’s "untouchables") question and its significance for political theory and research. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2011). Equality, Inequality and the scope of the ‘Creamy Layer’ in India’s Constitutional law 2005-08. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2011). Hobbes’ kunstige suverene person. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2011). The Politics of Caste and the Language of Corruption. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2009). "Virtual Durban, Dalit NGOs and India’s sovereign rejection of the race concept". Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2008). Chopra, Pran (ed.): The Supreme Court versus the Constitution. A Challenge to Federalism. (New Delhi: Sage Publications 2006). Nordisk tidsskrift for menneskerettigheter. ISSN 1503-6480. 26(2), p. 199–202. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2007). Dalits, movements and the World Conference against Racism 2001. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2007). Dalitenes situasjon: Kaste, hierarki og demokrati. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik; Børmo, Christian & Fosse, Lars martin (2007). Ville ikke dø som en hindu (Dr. Ambedkar). p. 20–21. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2007). Myter om "de kasteløse". p. 24–24. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2007). Kaste, menneskerettigheter og dalitpolitikken i India. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2006). Njål Høstmælingen (2005): Hva er menneskerettigheter. Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift. ISSN 0801-1745. 22(2), p. 200–204. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2006). Hva Norge kan lære av India. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik & Gressgård, Randi (2006). Likhetens paradokser. Hva kan Norge lære av India? Ny tid. ISSN 0803-3498. 54(49), p. 42–44. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik & Gressgård, Randi (2006). Hvilke likheter og forskjeller er det mellom Norge og India når det gjelder minoritetspolitiske utfordringer i dag? Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2006). Modern Sovereignties and the Use of the World Conference Against Racism 2001 by a Dalit Human Rights Campaign to Raisethe Issue of Caste Discrimination in India. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gressgård, Randi & Berg, Dag Erik (2006). Likhetens paradokser. Hva kan Norge lære av India? p. 42–44. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gressgård, Randi & Berg, Dag Erik (2006). Hva kan Norge lære av India? Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2005). Politics in the making and unmaking of caste discrimination as a relevant issue in the World Conference against Racism 2001. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2005). Det skjulte apartheid? Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2005). Kaste, diskriminering og kirke. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2004). Dalits in India and Modern Human Rights Discourse. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2003). Undertrykkelsen i skyggen av Gandhi. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag-Erik (2003). Identitetskonstruksjon, undertrykkelse og menneskerettigheter - dalitene i India. REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora. ISSN 0806-8593. 17(2), p. 19–34. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bøe, Eirin Kjerstad & Berg, Dag-Erik (2025). Nasjonal strategi uten algoritmetilsyn: En studie av Norske regjeringers strategier om kunstig intelligens, data og algoritmer. Høgskolen i Molde - Vitenskapelig høgskole i logistikk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bostad, Torvald Woll & Berg, Dag-Erik (2025). "… Tillit er bærebjelken. Det er grunnmuren. Det er alt": En kvalitativ studie av tillitsbasert ledelse i en liten statlig organisasjon. Høgskolen i Molde - Vitenskapelig høgskole i logistikk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2013). Towards a framework for interstate analysis of policies for the Scheduled Castes in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu: Legal conditions and development policies. Caste out of Development - http://casteout.wordpress.com/. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2011). Dalits and the Constitutional State. Untouchability, Dalit Movements and Legal Approaches to Equality and Social Justice for India’s Scheduled Castes. Universitetet i Bergen. ISSN 9788230818190. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gakkestad, Mari; Vambheim, Vidar & Berg, Dag Erik (2006). Overcoming Caste and Oppression. Dalit activists' understandings of violence and violence reduction in South India. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Berg, Dag Erik (2004). Caste, Race and Durban. An analysis of a Dalit Human Rights Campaign and the debate in India about the relevance of caste discrimination in the World Conference against Racism in Durban 2001. Bergen: Department of Administration and Organization theory. Full text in Research Archive

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