Yngve Solli Heiret

• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2025). En global rentenist. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. 42(1), p. 2–15. doi: 10.18261/nnt.42.1.1. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Denne artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i norsk energisektor for å undersøke et sentralt paradoks ved «grunnrentelandet» Norge. I motsetning til dominerende trender i den globale økonomien har Norge i stor grad beholdt det offentlige eierskapet over energiressursene, og grunnrenten fortsetter i overveldende grad å tilfalle det offentlige. De siste tiårene har imidlertid staten i økende grad investert grunnrenten fra norsk energisektor i privatiserte ressurser i utlandet. Samtidig som «grunnrentelandet» Norge beskytter eierskapet over våre nasjonale energiressurser, har den norske staten vokst frem som en rentenist av betydelig størrelse i verdensmarkedet.

• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2024). The Neoliberalization of the Norwegian Welfare State: Public Investments in a Privatized Global Economy. Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. 9(1), p. 48–65. doi: 10.18261/nwr.9.1.4. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper explores the Norwegian stateʼs integration into the global web of neoliberal economic relations, a largely neglected dimension of contemporary Norwegian history. It argues that since the 1980s, restrictions in the domestic market have generated problems of overaccumulation within key state-controlled sectors of the Norwegian economy, and that the state has met these crisis tendencies by developing what Harvey calls ‘spatial fixesʼ. On the one hand, the state has set in motion a comprehensive process of internationalization of state-owned enterprises that have exhausted the limits to expansion within the domestic market. On the other hand, it has built up the worldʼs largest sovereign wealth fund by channeling surplus petroleum profits into rent extraction in global financial markets. These spatial fixes provide the backbone of what the paper calls the neoliberalization of the Norwegian welfare state: By turning public companies and investment funds into internationally oriented profit-maximizing entities, the state has externalized a significant share of its productive and extractive activities beyond territorial boundaries and thus become thoroughly integrated into the neoliberal world economy – all the while maintaining a relatively strong system of public ownership and social redistribution within its national borders. Seen from a global vantage point, the relative persistence of social democratic institutions within territorial borders has become increasingly dependent on – and thus combined with – more aggressive processes of neoliberalization elsewhere.

• Kelly, Sarah; Heiret, Yngve Solli; Guerra-Schleef, Felipe; Mazorra, Adriana Fajardo; Formiga, Nadine Lorini & Acosta-Rodríguez, Solange [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2024). Epistemic justice as energy justice: reflections from a transnational collaboration on hydropower and Indigenous rights. Climate and Development. ISSN 1756-5529. 16(9), p. 784–797. doi: 10.1080/17565529.2024.2369608. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2024). The landlord state goes abroad: The remaking of the Norwegian ‘Energy Nation’ as a global rentier. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. ISSN 0308-518X. 56(7), p. 1985–2002. doi: 10.1177/0308518X241251475. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper explores the global political economy of the relationship between energy, ground rent, and the state. In its role as the ‘nation’s landlord’, the state is widely acknowledged to have a central role in the political economy of energy, either as the enabler and guarantor for private rent extraction or by itself controlling the extraction and redistribution of rents engendered by national energy resources. This paper broadens the geographical purview of research on the landlord state by aiming attention at the rise in recent decades of the state as a major rentier in the world market. More than asserting ownership over land and its appurtenances within territorial borders, landlord states have become significant owners and profiteers of extraterritorial energy resources. Taking the historical geography of the Norwegian energy industry as an empirical point of departure, the paper explores how the landlord state that was built in the 20th century by taking public control over national energy resources since the turn of the millennium has become a considerable owner of energy resources abroad, effectively positioning itself as a major global rentier.

• Heiret, Yngve Solli & Innset, Ola (2024). Austerity without deficits: The global political economy of Norway’s fiscal paradox. Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space. ISSN 0263-7758. doi: 10.1177/02637758241311020. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article advances a new theoretical understanding of the global political economy of austerity through an examination of austerity policies in Norway, a country with soaring fiscal surpluses. Critical scholarship has analyzed austerity as an incoherent economic idea – a product of unreasonable public accounting, or simply ideological nonsense. No national context seems to confirm such a view more than Norway, where wage growth has been curbed and welfare spending restrained in a context of unprecedented public prosperity. Yet, this article argues that there is a rational core to Norwegian ‘austerity without deficits’, if seen from the vantage point of capital in globally integrated neoliberal capitalism. Examining the development of Norwegian economic policies since the 1970s, we demonstrate how the Norwegian state has imposed austerity measures in order to bolster national capital’s global competitiveness. Disciplining labor and public budgets is, we argue, the cost of doing business in today’s world economy. We call this uneven and combined austerity: combining national economies in a global structure of interlocking dependence, neoliberal austerity imposes limits to popular demands for welfare and better material conditions of living, even in countries where public money abounds.

• Hultberg, Laura Isabelle & Heiret, Yngve Solli (2023). Den progressive pedagogikkens begrensninger i en progressiv nyliberal tid: fra elevsentrert til praxis-orientert bærekraftundervisning. Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk. 9. doi: 10.23865/ntpk.v9.3742. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Blant utdanningsforskere har det oppstått bred enighet om at utdanning for bærekraftig endring krever elevsentrerte og erfaringsbaserte undervisningsformer. Heller enn å formidle kunnskap om miljø og bærekraft, argumenteres det for at bærekraftundervisningen bør rettes inn mot undervisning for, i og som bærekraft med mål om å lære elevene hvordan å handle. Med utgangspunkt i utdanningssosiologers kritikk av elevsentrert undervisning, problematiserer denne artikkelen bærekraftundervisningens økende fokus på enkeltelevens handlinger og erfaringer. Artikkelen argumenterer for at elevsentreringen står i fare for å nedprioritere kunnskap om de samfunnsmessige betingelsene elevene skal handle innenfor. Dermed risikerer bærekraftundervisningen å utdanne medborgere med praktiske ferdigheter til å handle, men uten tilstrekkelig kunnskap om klimakrisens bakenforliggende årsaker til å skape reelle endringer. Artikkelen betegner dette som en progressiv nyliberal pedagogikk, der elevene gis fritt handlingsrom innenfor fastlagte og uforanderlige rammer. Med utgangspunkt i Freires dialektiske forståelse av forholdet mellom teori og praksis (praxis), samt den økomarxistiske kritikken av tendensen til å behandle klimakrisen som et isolert fenomen, argumenterer artikkelen for behovet for et fornyet søkelys på klimakrisens «hva» som setter eleven i stand til å sette det erfarte inn i større sosiale sammenhenger. English abstract A broad consensus has emerged among educational researchers that education for sustainable transformation requires student-centred and experience-based teaching methods. Rather than teaching about the environment and sustainability, it is argued that sustainability education should teach for, in, and as sustainability in order to provide students with skills to take action. Based on educational sociologists’ critique of student-centred learning, this article problematises the turn in sustainability education toward individual students’ actions and experiences. Student-centred learning, the article argues, risks neglecting knowledge about the social conditions that students act within. Thus, sustainability education runs the risk of educating citizens with practical skills to act, but without sufficient knowledge of the underlying causes of the climate crisis to make real changes. The article refers to this as a progressive neoliberal pedagogy, in which students are provided the tools to act but within fixed and unchangeable structures. Based on Freire’s dialectical understanding of the relationship between theory and practice (praxis), as well as the eco-Marxist critique of the tendency to treat the climate crisis as an isolated phenomenon, the article argues for the need for a renewed focus on the “what” of the climate crisis which enables the student to relate their experiences to larger social structures.

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• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2025). Electric imperialism: Europe, state capital and the global political economy of the energy transition. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2024). Electric imperialism: State monopoly capital in the energy transition. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2023). Teoretiske veikart for krisetider. Gnist- Marxistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 2535-3195. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2023). Statkraftparadokset. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli & Vernegg, Daniel (2023). Hinsides grønn middelklassepolitikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli & Vernegg, Daniel (2023). Grønn moralisme eller økososialisme? Røyst. ISSN 1894-7069. Full text in Research Archive
• Vernegg, Daniel & Heiret, Yngve Solli (2023). Klimastrategier. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli & Vernegg, Daniel (2023). Vi trenger grønne fellesskapsløsninger. Full text in Research Archive
• Hultberg, Laura Isabelle & Heiret, Yngve Solli (2023). Skolen kan skape retningsløs klimaaktivisme. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli; Vernegg, Daniel; Houeland, Camilla; Ytterstad, Andreas; Ryggvik, Helge & Schack, Lotte (2023). How to blow up a pipeline på norsk: klimastrategier i en oljenasjon. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli & Vernegg, Daniel (2023). Strategiske veiskiller i klimakampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2023). Statkraft skal bygge nytt kraftverk hver 9. dag. – Det stopper ikke der. [Journal]. Bergens Tidende. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2023). Teoretiske veikart for krisetider. Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. doi: 10.18261/agora.41.2-3.12. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2022). The Uneven and Combined Development of the Norwegian State. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2022). Radikale metoder som strategi for endring. Full text in Research Archive
• Schnell, Alf Jørgen; Vernegg, Daniel & Heiret, Yngve Solli (2022). Bryte ned og bygge opp. Manifest tidsskrift. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli; Vernegg, Daniel & Schnell, Alf Jørgen (2022). Klima-apokalypsens hester. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli; Vernegg, Daniel & Houeland, Camilla (2022). Fossilkapitalismen og tanker om veier vekk fra den. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2022). The Uneven and Combined Development of the Norwegian State: ‘The Nordic Model’ as an Imperial Geohistorical Category. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2022). Nekter å gi opp. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2022). Vil gi naturen rettigheter. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2022). Folkeavstemning om "verdens første woke-grunnlov". [Internet]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli; Jordhus-Lier, David; Sareen, Siddharth; Witsø, Eira; Børrud, Elin & Gever, Ryan (2022). Language dilemmas: a culture of bilingualism. doi: 10.18261/njus.2.1.5. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli & Vernegg, Daniel (2022). Har klasse blitt et klimaspørsmål? Om strategiske veiskiller for klimabevegelsen. Plan - tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byutvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. 54(4), p. 10–15. doi: 10.18261/plan.54.4.3. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli & Vernegg, Daniel (2021). Sosial reproduksjonsteori – et helhetlig marxistisk rammeverk. Gnist- Marxistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 2535-3195. 01(21), p. 90–96. Full text in Research Archive
• Jordhus-Lier, David; Børrud, Elin; Gever, Ryan; Heiret, Yngve Solli; Sareen, Siddharth & Witsø, Eira (2021). Language dilemmas: Six reflections. 2021(02), p. 176–184. doi: 10.18261/issn.2703-8866-2021-02-05. Full text in Research Archive
• Schnell, Alf Jørgen; Vernegg, Daniel & Heiret, Yngve Solli (2021). Mazzucato løser ikke den djevelske dobbeltkrisen. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli; Schnell, Alf Jørgen & Vernegg, Daniel (2021). For en polariserende klimapolitikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli & Vernegg, Daniel (2021). Skal overklassen overtales? Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2021). Stat, marked og makt – et overblikk over marxistisk statsteori. Gnist- Marxistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 2535-3195. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli; Schnell, Alf Jørgen & Vernegg, Daniel (2021). Å løse klimakrisen krever mer enn Manifests konsensuspolitikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Schnell, Alf Jørgen; Vernegg, Daniel & Heiret, Yngve Solli (2021). Grønn ny deal – endre for å bevare? Full text in Research Archive
• Vernegg, Daniel; Schnell, Alf Jørgen & Heiret, Yngve Solli (2021). The Green New Deal: Green Keynesianism or Socialist Strategy? Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2020). Svaret er: Defund Norfund! Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2020). Nyliberalismens historie i Norge – en begynnelse. Gnist- Marxistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 2535-3195. 4(20), p. 122–125. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2019). Arbeid og klasse. Et intervju med Knut Kjeldstadli. [Journal]. Samfunnsgeografen. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiret, Yngve Solli (2017). Staden och Kapitalet — det grønne dekket over de store krisene. RadikalPortal. Full text in Research Archive

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