Victor Lund Shammas
Position
Associate Professor, Associate Professor
Affiliation
- victor.shammas@uib.no
- Visitor address
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Rosenbergsgaten 39
5015 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7802NO-5020 BergenNorway
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Victor Lund Shammas
Position
Associate Professor, Associate Professor
Affiliation
Short info
Dr. Victor Lund Shammas is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen (UiB) in Norway. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Oslo, and has previously worked as Senior Research at Oslo Metropolitan University and Head of Department at the University of Agder.
Research
Selected Publications
- Shammas, V. L. (2026) "Punishment and technocracy: Penal populism, elitism, and the 'buffered ideal' in the sociology of punishment." In: Corda, A. (ed.), Research Handbook on Penal Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Shammas, V. L. (2024) "The global hinterland of social democracy: On the limitations of Norwegian welfare capitalism." Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research 9(1): 66–83.
- Shammas, V. L. (2019) "The perils of parole hearings: California lifers, performative disadvantage and the ideology of insight." Political and Legal Anthropology Review 42(1): 142–160.
- Shammas, V. L. (2018) "Burying Mont Pèlerin: Milton Friedman and neoliberal vanguardism." Constellations 25(1): 117–132.
- Shammas, V. L. (2014) "The pains of freedom: Assessing the ambiguity of Scandinavian penal exceptionalism on Norway's Prison Island." Punishment & Society 16(1): 104–123.
Outreach
I run a newsletter and blog, The Theory Brief (theorybrief) – on social theory, global politics, and culture.
Teaching
Current teaching:
- SOS302 Sosiologiske teoritradisjoner [Sociological Theory Traditions]
Previous teaching:
- The French Tradition: From Durkheim to Deleuze (PhD course; UiA)
- The Critical Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (UiA)
- Contemporary Norwegian Society (UiO)
Publications
2026
- Victor Andreas Lund Shammas (2026). The Politics of Sociological “Liquidation”. (external link)
- Victor Andreas Lund Shammas (2026). Silicon Valley i verdensrummet. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2026). The Figure of the Arab Body. (external link)
- Marcos César Alvarez; Harry Annison; Fernando Avila et al. (2026). Research Handbook on Penal Policy. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2026). AI and the Means of Intellectual Production. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2026). Fra Karl Marx til KI: Fire begreper for å tenke kritisk om kunstig intelligens. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2026). Punishment and technocracy: Penal populism, elitism, and the 'buffered ideal' in the sociology of punishment. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2026). En kort innføring i Loïc Wacquants sosiologi. (external link)
2025
- Victor Lund Shammas (2025). Panelsamtale: Loïc Wacquants «Racial Domination». (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Emil Mortensrud Øversveen (2025). Kritisk teori. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2025). Stuart Hall. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2025). Straffen: Kriminalomsorg mellom soning og forsoning. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2025). En eksistensiell kamp for sosiologiens fremtid i USA. (external link)
2021
- Victor Lund Shammas (2021). Malplassert liberalisme om portforbud. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2021). Review: Magnus Hörnqvist: The Pleasure of Punishment. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2021). Stuart Hall: Rase, etnisitet, nasjon. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2021). Paulus med/uten Kristus. (external link)
2023
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Pierre Bourdieu, Dialectician Without Synthesis (Roundtable Presentation). (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Parallax Theology: Reframing Compensation Theodicy. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Dialectical Criminology: Thinking through the “Science of Crime” with the Antinomies of Pierre Bourdieu. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Democracy and Citizenship: Future Prospects. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Al Jazeera English - Inside Story (panel participant).. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Straffens politiske teologi. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Graduation Address 2023. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Marx’ metode: Om 'Kapitalen' og dialektikkens arbeidsteknikker. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Sociodicy. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Human rights in a "changing world"?. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Open prisons: What are they--and how are they experienced?. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Bitterhetens politikk. (external link)
2019
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). The parrhesia of neo-fascism. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Forget Earth: In Space, Libertarian Ideas Are Thriving. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Tre kriser i vår tid: Økologiske kriser, finanskriser, sosiale kriser. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Den kristne fornuft. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). En tenker uten trelldommens ånd. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). De Standard (Belgium): 'Bieten oogsten, is dat nuttig voor je leven na de cel?' (July 2019). (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Den kritiske venn (Agora, juni 2019). (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Political and Legal Anthropology Review: “Victor L. Shammas on Parole Hearings: PoLAR Author Interview.” (June 2019). (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Mesterbyggeren Bourdieu. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Tomas Bjerke Holen (2019). One giant leap for capitalistkind: Private enterprise in outer space. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Tomas Bjerke Holen (2019). Livet etter det 21. århundret - en samtale med McKenzie Wark. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). The state as God: On Bourdieu’s political theology. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Rethinking Axel Honneth’s 'The Idea of Socialism'. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Holen Tomas Bjerke (2019). Leaving the twenty-first century: A conversation with McKenzie Wark. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Penal elitism: Anatomy of a professorial category. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Staging sovereignty. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Staging sovereignty: Punitivity, xenophobia, and the frail society. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Surplus populations and the state: A criminological view. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). The perils of parole hearings: California lifers, performative disadvantage and the ideology of insight. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). “‘Nordic Exceptionalism 10 years on” roundtable participant, University of Agder/Cambridge University. (external link)
2024
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). The Upside-Down Philosopher. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Artificial Unintelligence (AU) and the Problem of Perpetual Patchability. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Social Democracy, or Defending the National Interest. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Post-Politics and Technocracy: Taking "People Power" Seriously Again. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Μετα-πολιτική και τεχνοκρατία: Παίρνοντας ξανά σοβαρά την «εξουσία του λαού». (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Τα μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης είναι έτοιμα να γίνουν πρόθυμοι συμμετέχοντες και συμβαλλόμενοι στο πεδίο της εξουσίας. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Opp-ned-filosofen [Anmeldelse av Slavoj Žižek: "Freedom: A Disease Without A Cure"]. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). The Global Hinterland of Social Democracy On the Limitations of Norwegian Welfare Capitalism. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Kristian Mjåland (2024). New Geospatial Restrictions as Policing Measure and Post-Release Punishment Modality in Norway. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Innledning: Bourdieu og filmen «Sosiologien er en kampsport». (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). The Nexus of the Presidency. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Brød eller sirkus?. (external link)
2022
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Etter oss, informasjonsfloden. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Den heterodokse insider: Om Loïc Wacquants forfatterskap. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Bokanmeldelse: Yngve Hammerlin, 'Hard mot de harde' (Universitetsforlaget). (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Juristenes begrensninger. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Propagandaens viktighet, tross alt. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Oljefondets naivitet. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Discussant: Ringe Prison (Smith) and Radical-Right Crime Policy (Barker). (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Reinhart Kosellecks forståelse av krisebegrepet. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Kommentar: Paulus med/uten Kristus. (external link)
2015
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Bør universitetet bli mer nyliberalt?. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Hellas er ikke ferdig. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Who’s afraid of penal populism? Technocracy and ‘the people’ in the sociology of punishment. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Book Review: Franklin Zimring, "The City That Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control". (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). A prison without walls: Alternative incarceration in the late age of social democracy. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Konstruert krise [Anmeldelse av Gunnar Skirbekk, Ideen om en velferdsstat under vanskelege vilkår]. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Denying the danger of difference: Notes on the pacification of inmate social relations in an era of ethnoracial diversity. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Den fiktive kategorien. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Om Loïc Wacquant sosiologi. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Sveinung Sandberg (2015). Taking Bourdieu to the streets: On the advantages of field theory for street capital studies. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). The rise of a more punitive state: On the attenuation of Nordic penal exceptionalism in an era of welfare state transformation. (external link)
2016
- Victor Lund Shammas (2016). The rise of a more punitive state: On the attenuation of Norwegian penal exceptionalism in an era of welfare state transformation. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2016). Bourdieu’s five lessons for criminologists. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2016). Book review: Robert Wald Sussman: The Myth of Race. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2016). From concepts to percepts: Towards an analytic ethnography of fields. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Sveinung Sandberg (2016). Habitus, capital, and conflict: Bringing Bourdieusian field theory to criminology. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2016). Book Review: Dominique Moran - Carceral Geography. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2016). Who’s afraid of penal populism? Technocracy and ‘the people’ in the sociology of punishment. (external link)
2014
- Victor Lund Shammas (2014). Conscientious objectors in Israel: citizenship, sacrifice, trials of fealty by Weiss, Erica. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2014). The pains of freedom: Assessing the ambiguity of Scandinavian penal exceptionalism on Norway's Prison Island. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2014). Nyliberalismens usannsynlige triumf. (external link)
- Kristinn Hegna; Victor Lund Shammas (2014). Erfaringer med kjønnssegregert yrkesutdanning - konsekvenser for skolemiljø og gjennomføring? En foreløpig analyse av jenter i jenteklasser. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Sveinung Sandberg; Willy Pedersen (2014). Trajectories to mid- and higher-level drug crimes: Penal misrepresentations of drug dealers in Norway. (external link)
2020
- Victor Lund Shammas (2020). Opp alle jordens bundne sosialdemokrater!. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2020). Kritikk av den liberale populismekritikk. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Tony Joakim Sandset (2020). Reproduction and the Welfare State: Notes on Norwegian Biopolitics. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2020). What is racism? Flows and 'technitological' critique.. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2020). Can you talk your way out of a life sentence?. (external link)
2017
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Book review: Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism by Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore.. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Burying Mont Pèlerin: Milton Friedman and neoliberal vanguardism. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Prisons of labor: Social democracy and a triple transformation of the politics of punishment in Norway, 1900-2014. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Kongeriket Norwegian. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). The Society of Captives (Gresham Sykes). (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Pains of imprisonment. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). The Jail (John Irwin). (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Bourdieu's five lessons for criminology. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Prisons of Welfare: Incarceration, Social Democracy, and the Sociology of Punishment. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Book review: David Garland: The Welfare State. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Burying Mont Pèlerin: Milton Friedman and neoliberal vanguardism. (external link)
2018
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Superfluity and insecurity: Disciplining surplus populations in the Global North. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). The dissolution of social democracy: How law and order came to Norway. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). The Arab body. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). The pains of sovereignty: On the joyous passion of the self-punishing subject. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). The illusion of non-capitalist spaces. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Notes on Guy Standing’s The Corruption of Capitalism. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). The slow erosion of Scandinavian social democracy. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). O skandinávské kriminologii, Breivikovi i protiimigrantské rétorice: Rozhovor se Sveinungem Sandbergem a Victorem Lund Shammasem (Vaclav Walach). (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Naivismens daggry. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Ingen skam å snu. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Marx før Marx. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Critical remarks on Jan-Werner Müller’s 'What is Populism?'. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Bourdieu's divine state. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Samtalens umulighet (Agora, september 2018). (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Om Kapitalen av Marx. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Et annerledes folk. (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). ‘La arbeiderne ta over!’ Et intervju med David Ellerman (Manifest Tidsskrift, oktober 2018). (external link)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Forskning.no (Norway): “Vi får stadig flere og sterkere straffer i Norge.”. (external link)