Research
Articles, essays, reviews, and theses in English.
Articles
- (2026; in press) "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.
- (2024) "The global hinterland of social democracy: On the limitations of Norwegian welfare capitalism." Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research 9(1): 66–83. PDF
- (2023) "Parallax theology: Reframing compensation theodicy." Religions 14(8), 1003. PDF
- (2020) "Reproduction and the welfare state: Notes on Norwegian biopolitics." Nordic Journal of Social Research. DOI:10.7577/njsr.3244. PDF
- (2019) "Penal elitism: Anatomy of a professorial category." Critical Criminology 28: 759–774. PDF
- (2019) "The perils of parole hearings: California lifers, performative disadvantage and the ideology of insight." Political and Legal Anthropology Review 42(1): 142–160. PDF
- (2019) "The parrhesia of neo-fascism." International Journal of Žižek Studies 13(3): 1–14. PDF
- (2019) "Surplus populations and the state: A criminological view." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 8(1): 131–146. PDF
- (2019) "Staging sovereignty: Punitivity, xenophobia, and the frail society." Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology 11: 39–52. PDF
- (2019) "One giant leap for capitalistkind: Private enterprise in outer space." Palgrave Communications. DOI:10.1057/s41599-019-0218-9. PDF
- (2018) "The state as God: On Bourdieu's political theology." Journal of Extreme Anthropology 2(2): 61–77. PDF
- (2018) "The dissolution of social democracy: How law and order came to Norway." Federal Sentencing Reporter 31(1): 85–89. PDF
- (2018) "Burying Mont Pèlerin: Milton Friedman and neoliberal vanguardism." Constellations 25(1): 117–132. PDF
- (2018)
"Bourdieu's five lessons for criminology."
Law and Critique 29(2): 201–219.
PDFPortuguese translation: "Cinco lições de Bourdieu para a criminologia." Revista Jurídica da UFERSA 3(6): 31–54.
- (2018) "The pains of sovereignty: On the joyous passion of the self-punishing subject." Journal of Extreme Anthropology 2(2): 111–117. PDF
- (2018) "The Arab body." Rhizomes, no. 34. DOI:10.20415/rhiz/034.e09. PDF
- (2018) "Superfluity and insecurity: Disciplining surplus populations in the Global North." Capital & Class 42(3): 411–418. PDF
- (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. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57–80. PDF
- (2016) "Who's afraid of penal populism? Technocracy and 'the people' in the sociology of punishment." Contemporary Justice Review 19(3): 325–346. PDF
- (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. PDF
- (2016) "Habitus, capital, and conflict: Bringing Bourdieusian field theory to criminology." Criminology and Criminal Justice 16(2): 195–213. PDF
- (2015) "A prison without walls: Alternative incarceration in the late age of social democracy." Prison Service Journal (January): 3–9. PDF
- (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. PDF
- (2014) "Trajectories to mid- and higher-level drug crimes: Penal misrepresentations of drug dealers in Norway." British Journal of Criminology 54(4): 592–612. PDF
- (2014) "The pains of freedom: Assessing the ambiguity of Scandinavian penal exceptionalism on Norway's Prison Island." Punishment & Society 16(1): 104–123. PDF
Essays & Reviews
- (2023) "Sociodicy." Critical Legal Thinking. PDF
- (2021) "Book review: Magnus Hörnqvist, The Pleasure of Punishment." Punishment & Society. PDF
- (2019) "Victor L. Shammas on Parole Hearings: PoLAR Author Interview." Political and Legal Anthropology Review. PDF
- (2018) "Rethinking Axel Honneth's The Idea of Socialism." Continental Thought & Theory. PDF
- (2018) "Leaving the twenty-first century: A conversation with McKenzie Wark." Continental Thought & Theory. PDF
- (2018) "The illusion of non-capitalist spaces." Public Seminar. PDF
- (2018) "Critical remarks on Jan-Werner Müller's What is Populism?" Continental Thought & Theory 2(2): 159–163. PDF
- (2018) "Bourdieu's divine state." Critical Legal Thinking. PDF
- (2018) "Notes on Guy Standing's The Corruption of Capitalism." Continental Thought & Theory 2(1): 372–385. PDF
- (2018) "The slow erosion of Scandinavian social democracy." Comparative Penology (COMPEN) Blog, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. PDF
- (2017) "Book review: Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore, Fast Policy." Political Studies Review 15(3): 475–476. PDF
- (2017) "Book review: David Garland, The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction." Theoretical Criminology 21(2): 255–258. PDF
- (2017) "Pains of imprisonment." In: Kerley, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Corrections. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. PDF
- (2017) "The Society of Captives (Gresham Sykes)." In: Kerley, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Corrections. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. PDF
- (2017) "The Jail (John Irwin)." In: Kerley, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Corrections. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. PDF