Victor Lund Shammas

Articles
Shammas, V. L. (2018) “Burying Mont Pèlerin: Milton Friedman and neoliberal vanguardism.” Constellations, DOI:10.1111/1467-8675.12322.
Shammas, V. L. (2018) “Bourdieu’s five lessons for criminology.” Law and Critique. DOI: 10.1007/s10978-017-9218-3.
Shammas, V. L. (2017) “Superfluity and insecurity: Disciplining surplus populations in the Global North.” Capital & Class. DOI:10.1177/0309816817738319.
Shammas, V. L. (2017) “Prisons of labor: Social democracy and a triple transformation of the politics of punishment in Norway, 1900-2014.” In: Ugelvik, T. and Smith, P. S. (eds.) Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice: Embraced By the Welfare State? London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-80.
Shammas, V. L. (2016) “Who's afraid of penal populism? Technocracy and ‘the people’ in the sociology of punishment.” Contemporary Justice Review 19(3): 325-346.
Shammas, V. L. (2016) “The rise of a more punitive state: On the attenuation of Norwegian penal exceptionalism in an era of welfare state transformation.” Critical Criminology 24(1): 57-74.
Shammas, V. L. and Sandberg, S. (2016) “Habitus, capital, and conflict: Bringing Bourdieusian field theory to criminology.” Criminology and Criminal Justice 16(2): 195-213.
Shammas, V. L., Sandberg, S., and Pedersen, W. (2014) “Trajectories to mid- and higherlevel drug crimes: Penal misrepresentations of drug dealers in Norway.” British Journal of Criminology 54(4): 592-612.
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.
Working Papers
A post-neoliberal IMF? On the recuperation of heterodoxy
Penal elitism: Anatomy of a professorial ideology
The perils of parole: California lifers and the ideology of insight
Staging sovereignty: Punitivity, xenophobia, and the frail society
Notes on Axel Honneth's The Idea of Socialism
The state as God: On Bourdieu's political theology
Essays and Book Reviews
Shammas, V. L. (2018; forthcoming) “Notes on Guy Standing’s The Corruption of Capitalism.” Continental Thought & Theory.
Shammas, V. L. (2018; forthcoming) “Critical remarks on Jan-Werner Müller’s What is Populism?” Continental Thought & Theory.
Shammas, V. L. (2017) “Book review: Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore: Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism.” Political Studies Review 15(3): 475-476.
Shammas, V. L. (2017) “Book review: David Garland: The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction.” Theoretical Criminology 21(2): 255-258.
Shammas, V. L. (2017) “Pains of imprisonment.” In: Kerley, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Corrections. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Shammas, V. L. (2017) “The Society of Captives (Gresham Sykes).” In: Kerley, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Corrections. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Shammas, V. L. (2017) “The Jail (John Irwin).” In: Kerley, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Corrections. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Shammas, V. L. (2016) “Book review: Dominique Moran: Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration.” Punishment & Society 19(5): 653-655.
Shammas, V. L. (2016) “Book review: Robert Sussman: The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea.” International Sociology 31(2): 199-203.
Shammas, V. L. (2015) “A prison without walls: Alternative incarceration in the late age of social democracy.” Prison Service Journal (January): 3-9.
Shammas, V. L. (2015) “Denying the danger of difference: Notes on the pacification of inmate social relations in an era of ethnoracial diversity.” Prison Service Journal (May): 5-10.
Shammas, V.L. (2015) “Book review: Franklin Zimring: The City that Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control.” Acta Sociologica 58(1): 95-96.
Shammas, V. L. (2014) “Book review: Erica Weiss: Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty.” Social Anthropology 22(4): 518-519.
Theses
PhD Thesis (2017): Prisons of Welfare: Incarceration, Social Democracy, and the Sociology of Punishment
MPhil Thesis (2012): The Pains of Freedom: Prison Island and the Making of Scandinavian Penal Exceptionalism
Essays and Reviews in Norwegian
Forelesning: Om Kapitalen av Marx (Stortinget, januar 2018) | YouTube
Ingen skam å snu (Klassekampens Bokmagasin, 2018)
Kapitalisme uten jording (Manifest Tidsskrift, 2017)
Overklassens angst (Klassekampens Bokmagasin, 2017)
Kongeriket Norwegian (Manifest Tidsskrift, 2017)
Forsvar for fatalismen (Salongen.no, 2017)
Konstruert krise (Klassekampens Bokmagasin, 2015)
Den fiktive kategorien (Agora, 2014)
Nyliberalismens usannsynlige triumf (Agora, 2014)
De rikes Norges (Morgenbladet)
De andres fengsel (Aftenposten)
Okkupasjon av byrommet (Agora)
Revolusjonens uår (Agora)
Straffens nyliberale fest (Agora)
Ghetto, banlieue, favela, problemområde (Agora)
Etikk i Oljefondet (Changemaker, rapport