Victor Lund Shammas
Stilling
Førsteamanuensis
Tilhørighet
- E-post
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- Besøksadresse
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Rosenbergsgaten 39
5015 Bergen - Postadresse
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Postboks 7802
5020 Bergen
Victor Lund Shammas
Stilling
Førsteamanuensis
Tilhørighet
Kort info
Victor Lund Shammas er førsteamanuensis i sosiologi. Han har doktorgrad fra Universitetet i Oslo (2017) og har vært instituttleder (2023–2026) og førsteamanuensis (2021–2026) ved Universitetet i Agder. Han har også vært seniorforsker ved Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet (AFI), OsloMet.
Forskning
Utvalgte publikasjoner
- 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.
- «Fra Karl Marx til KI: Fire begreper for å tenke kritisk om kunstig intelligens» (Agora, 2026, nr. 1-2)
- «Straffen: Kriminalomsorg mellom soning og forsoning». I: Kloster et al. (red.), Hellig makt: Studier i politisk teologi. Oslo: Cappelen Damm, 2024.
- «Stuart Hall: Kulturteoretiker, marxist og ‘kollektiv’ intellektuell». I: Øversveen et al. (red.), Sosiologisk teori: Klassikere, modernitet og samtid. Oslo: Fagbokforlaget, 2025.
- Marx’ metode: Om Kapitalen og dialektikkens arbeidsteknikker. I: Skarpenes og Hestholm (red.), Sosiologisk analyse. Oslo: Fagbokforlaget, 2023, s. 283–302.
Formidling
- Skriver nyhetsbrevet og bloggen The Theory Brief (theorybrief.com) – om sosial teori, global politikk og kultur.
Undervisning
Tidligere undervisning:
- The French Tradition: From Durkheim to Deleuze (ph.d.-kurs; UiA)
- The Critical Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (UiA)
- Contemporary Norwegian Society (UiO)
Publikasjoner
2026
- Victor Andreas Lund Shammas (2026). The Politics of Sociological “Liquidation”. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Andreas Lund Shammas (2026). Silicon Valley i verdensrummet. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2026). The Figure of the Arab Body. (ekstern lenke)
- Marcos César Alvarez; Harry Annison; Fernando Avila et al. (2026). Research Handbook on Penal Policy. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2026). AI and the Means of Intellectual Production. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2026). Fra Karl Marx til KI: Fire begreper for å tenke kritisk om kunstig intelligens. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2026). Punishment and technocracy: Penal populism, elitism, and the 'buffered ideal' in the sociology of punishment. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2026). En kort innføring i Loïc Wacquants sosiologi. (ekstern lenke)
2025
- Victor Lund Shammas (2025). Panelsamtale: Loïc Wacquants «Racial Domination». (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Emil Mortensrud Øversveen (2025). Kritisk teori. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2025). Stuart Hall. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2025). Straffen: Kriminalomsorg mellom soning og forsoning. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2025). En eksistensiell kamp for sosiologiens fremtid i USA. (ekstern lenke)
2024
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). The Upside-Down Philosopher. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Artificial Unintelligence (AU) and the Problem of Perpetual Patchability. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Social Democracy, or Defending the National Interest. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Post-Politics and Technocracy: Taking "People Power" Seriously Again. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Μετα-πολιτική και τεχνοκρατία: Παίρνοντας ξανά σοβαρά την «εξουσία του λαού». (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Τα μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης είναι έτοιμα να γίνουν πρόθυμοι συμμετέχοντες και συμβαλλόμενοι στο πεδίο της εξουσίας. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Opp-ned-filosofen [Anmeldelse av Slavoj Žižek: "Freedom: A Disease Without A Cure"]. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). The Global Hinterland of Social Democracy On the Limitations of Norwegian Welfare Capitalism. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Kristian Mjåland (2024). New Geospatial Restrictions as Policing Measure and Post-Release Punishment Modality in Norway. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Innledning: Bourdieu og filmen «Sosiologien er en kampsport». (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). The Nexus of the Presidency. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2024). Brød eller sirkus?. (ekstern lenke)
2023
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Pierre Bourdieu, Dialectician Without Synthesis (Roundtable Presentation). (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Parallax Theology: Reframing Compensation Theodicy. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Dialectical Criminology: Thinking through the “Science of Crime” with the Antinomies of Pierre Bourdieu. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Democracy and Citizenship: Future Prospects. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Al Jazeera English - Inside Story (panel participant).. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Straffens politiske teologi. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Graduation Address 2023. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Marx’ metode: Om 'Kapitalen' og dialektikkens arbeidsteknikker. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Sociodicy. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Human rights in a "changing world"?. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Open prisons: What are they--and how are they experienced?. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2023). Bitterhetens politikk. (ekstern lenke)
2022
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Etter oss, informasjonsfloden. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Den heterodokse insider: Om Loïc Wacquants forfatterskap. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Bokanmeldelse: Yngve Hammerlin, 'Hard mot de harde' (Universitetsforlaget). (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Juristenes begrensninger. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Propagandaens viktighet, tross alt. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Oljefondets naivitet. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Discussant: Ringe Prison (Smith) and Radical-Right Crime Policy (Barker). (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Reinhart Kosellecks forståelse av krisebegrepet. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2022). Kommentar: Paulus med/uten Kristus. (ekstern lenke)
2021
- Victor Lund Shammas (2021). Malplassert liberalisme om portforbud. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2021). Review: Magnus Hörnqvist: The Pleasure of Punishment. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2021). Stuart Hall: Rase, etnisitet, nasjon. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2021). Paulus med/uten Kristus. (ekstern lenke)
2020
- Victor Lund Shammas (2020). Opp alle jordens bundne sosialdemokrater!. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2020). Kritikk av den liberale populismekritikk. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Tony Joakim Sandset (2020). Reproduction and the Welfare State: Notes on Norwegian Biopolitics. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2020). What is racism? Flows and 'technitological' critique.. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2020). Can you talk your way out of a life sentence?. (ekstern lenke)
2019
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). The parrhesia of neo-fascism. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Forget Earth: In Space, Libertarian Ideas Are Thriving. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Tre kriser i vår tid: Økologiske kriser, finanskriser, sosiale kriser. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Den kristne fornuft. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). En tenker uten trelldommens ånd. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). De Standard (Belgium): 'Bieten oogsten, is dat nuttig voor je leven na de cel?' (July 2019). (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Den kritiske venn (Agora, juni 2019). (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Political and Legal Anthropology Review: “Victor L. Shammas on Parole Hearings: PoLAR Author Interview.” (June 2019). (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Mesterbyggeren Bourdieu. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Tomas Bjerke Holen (2019). One giant leap for capitalistkind: Private enterprise in outer space. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Tomas Bjerke Holen (2019). Livet etter det 21. århundret - en samtale med McKenzie Wark. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). The state as God: On Bourdieu’s political theology. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Rethinking Axel Honneth’s 'The Idea of Socialism'. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Holen Tomas Bjerke (2019). Leaving the twenty-first century: A conversation with McKenzie Wark. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Penal elitism: Anatomy of a professorial category. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Staging sovereignty. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Staging sovereignty: Punitivity, xenophobia, and the frail society. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). Surplus populations and the state: A criminological view. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). The perils of parole hearings: California lifers, performative disadvantage and the ideology of insight. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2019). “‘Nordic Exceptionalism 10 years on” roundtable participant, University of Agder/Cambridge University. (ekstern lenke)
2018
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Superfluity and insecurity: Disciplining surplus populations in the Global North. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). The dissolution of social democracy: How law and order came to Norway. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). The Arab body. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). The pains of sovereignty: On the joyous passion of the self-punishing subject. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). The illusion of non-capitalist spaces. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Notes on Guy Standing’s The Corruption of Capitalism. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). The slow erosion of Scandinavian social democracy. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). O skandinávské kriminologii, Breivikovi i protiimigrantské rétorice: Rozhovor se Sveinungem Sandbergem a Victorem Lund Shammasem (Vaclav Walach). (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Naivismens daggry. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Ingen skam å snu. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Marx før Marx. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Critical remarks on Jan-Werner Müller’s 'What is Populism?'. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Bourdieu's divine state. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Samtalens umulighet (Agora, september 2018). (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Om Kapitalen av Marx. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Et annerledes folk. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). ‘La arbeiderne ta over!’ Et intervju med David Ellerman (Manifest Tidsskrift, oktober 2018). (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2018). Forskning.no (Norway): “Vi får stadig flere og sterkere straffer i Norge.”. (ekstern lenke)
2017
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Book review: Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism by Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore.. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Burying Mont Pèlerin: Milton Friedman and neoliberal vanguardism. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Prisons of labor: Social democracy and a triple transformation of the politics of punishment in Norway, 1900-2014. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Kongeriket Norwegian. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). The Society of Captives (Gresham Sykes). (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Pains of imprisonment. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). The Jail (John Irwin). (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Bourdieu's five lessons for criminology. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Prisons of Welfare: Incarceration, Social Democracy, and the Sociology of Punishment. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Book review: David Garland: The Welfare State. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2017). Burying Mont Pèlerin: Milton Friedman and neoliberal vanguardism. (ekstern lenke)
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. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2016). Bourdieu’s five lessons for criminologists. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2016). Book review: Robert Wald Sussman: The Myth of Race. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2016). From concepts to percepts: Towards an analytic ethnography of fields. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Sveinung Sandberg (2016). Habitus, capital, and conflict: Bringing Bourdieusian field theory to criminology. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2016). Book Review: Dominique Moran - Carceral Geography. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2016). Who’s afraid of penal populism? Technocracy and ‘the people’ in the sociology of punishment. (ekstern lenke)
2015
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Bør universitetet bli mer nyliberalt?. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Hellas er ikke ferdig. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Who’s afraid of penal populism? Technocracy and ‘the people’ in the sociology of punishment. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Book Review: Franklin Zimring, "The City That Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control". (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). A prison without walls: Alternative incarceration in the late age of social democracy. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Konstruert krise [Anmeldelse av Gunnar Skirbekk, Ideen om en velferdsstat under vanskelege vilkår]. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Denying the danger of difference: Notes on the pacification of inmate social relations in an era of ethnoracial diversity. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Den fiktive kategorien. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2015). Om Loïc Wacquant sosiologi. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Sveinung Sandberg (2015). Taking Bourdieu to the streets: On the advantages of field theory for street capital studies. (ekstern lenke)
- 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. (ekstern lenke)
2014
- Victor Lund Shammas (2014). Conscientious objectors in Israel: citizenship, sacrifice, trials of fealty by Weiss, Erica. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2014). The pains of freedom: Assessing the ambiguity of Scandinavian penal exceptionalism on Norway's Prison Island. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas (2014). Nyliberalismens usannsynlige triumf. (ekstern lenke)
- Kristinn Hegna; Victor Lund Shammas (2014). Erfaringer med kjønnssegregert yrkesutdanning - konsekvenser for skolemiljø og gjennomføring? En foreløpig analyse av jenter i jenteklasser. (ekstern lenke)
- Victor Lund Shammas; Sveinung Sandberg; Willy Pedersen (2014). Trajectories to mid- and higher-level drug crimes: Penal misrepresentations of drug dealers in Norway. (ekstern lenke)