Media
Mentions, interviews, and appearances.
Media Mentions, Interviews, and Appearances
Al Jazeera English: Inside Story (June 2023). Guest appearance on Al Jazeera English’s flagship news panel program, Inside Story, discussing commercial sea and space tourism. [YouTube] [Spotify]
International School of Stavanger — Invited Graduation Speaker for the ISS Class of 2023 graduation ceremony (June 2023). [YouTube]
New York Times: Can You Talk Your Way Out of a Life Sentence? (January 2020). “Victor L. Shammas, a Norwegian sociologist who has written about California’s parole process, is skeptical of this emphasis on what he describes as the capacity to ‘produce linguistic utterances in a socially legitimate form.’”
Phys.org: Trump signs an executive order allowing mining the moon and asteroids (April 2020). On the commercial exploitation of space and its disproportionate benefits.
Wired.com: Forget Earth: In Space, Libertarian Ideas Are Thriving (December 2019). “‘Taxpayer dollars often sustain these mythically self-made entrepreneurs,’ says scholar Victor Shammas.”
De Standard (Belgium): ‘Bieten oogsten, is dat nuttig voor je leven na de cel?’ (July 2019). On the ambiguous freedoms of open prisons and the “pains of freedom.”
Political and Legal Anthropology Review: PoLAR Author Interview (June 2019). “The surrealism of the parole board lies in its demand that even those who have passed through this lifeless, life-crushing system are nevertheless expected to demonstrate all the ways in which they have lifted themselves up by their own bootstraps.”
Czech Criminology Review: O skandinávské kriminologii, Breivikovi i protiimigrantské rétorice — interview on Scandinavian criminology, Breivik, and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Forskning.no (Norway): “Vi får stadig flere og sterkere straffer i Norge.” — On the effects of welfare state neoliberalization on punishment.