Background and activities
Based broadly in cultural anthropology and sociology my research focuses on ethnography and theorizing in the context of political economy, especially contemporary forms of capitalism (such as financial capitalism), professional knowledge work, organizational, managerial and expert cultures, and economic and cultural globalization. Some of my publications include the co-edited collection Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis (with Tord Larsen, 2017) and the monograph The Allure of Capitalism: An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis (published with Berghahn Books). The Allure book won SINTEF’s award for excellence in research.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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Journal publications
- (2019) Reactivity and Resistance to Evaluation Devices. Valuation Studies. vol. 6 (1).
- (2019) Kulturbegrepet og representasjonskrisen. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. vol. 30 (2).
- (2015) Brave New World? The global financial crisis’ impact on Scandinavian banking’s sales rhetoric and practices. Scandinavian Journal of Management. vol. 31 (4).
- (2014) Economy of Words. Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks, by Douglas R. Holmes. American Ethnologist. vol. 41 (4).
- (2013) "Incarnation Inc. Managing Corporate Values.". Journal of business anthropology. vol. 2 (1).
- (2012) Real Virtuality: Power and Simulation in the Age of Neoliberal Crisis. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. vol. 4 (3).
- (2005) Practical Tool Use in a Software Consulting Company. Communications of the ACM. vol. December.
- (2004) Integrative Visualisation and Knowledge Enabled Value Creation: An activity-based approach to intellectual capital. Journal of Intellectual Capital. vol. 5 (4).
- (2003) Knowledge Hyperstories and Context Sensitive Knowledge Enabling: The Use of Situated Support Systems in Distributed Organisational Environments. International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management. vol. Vol. 1. (No. 4.).
- (2002) Mythmaking and Knowledge Sharing. Living organizational myths and the broadening of opportunity structures for knowledge sharing in a Scandinavian engineering consultant company. Creativity and Innovation Management. vol. 11 (3).
Books
- (2017) Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis. Scandinavian Academic Press. 2017. ISBN 9788230402139.
- (2015) Det skapende mennesket : Antropologiske dialoger om tegn, ting og tolkning. Scandinavian Academic Press. 2015. ISBN 9788230401736.
- (2011) The Allure of Capitalism — An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis. Berghahn Books. 2011. ISBN 978-0-85745-185-9.
Part of book/report
- (2017) Introduksjon. Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis.
- (2017) Sosialitet i målstyringens tid. Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis.
- (2016) SEC enacting organizational culture. Managing and Organizations. An Introduction to Theory and Practice (4th edition).
- (2015) Forord. Det skapende mennesket : Antropologiske dialoger om tegn, ting og tolkning.
- (2015) Det skapende mennesket. Det skapende mennesket : Antropologiske dialoger om tegn, ting og tolkning.
- (2013) "Oblique Ethnography: Engaging collaborative complicity among globalised corporate managers". Organisational Anthropology. Doing Ethnography in and among Complex Organisations.
- (2012) Ethnography of globalization. Encyclopedia of Globalization.
- (2009) Putting Agile Teamwork to the Test – An Preliminary Instrument for Empirically Assessing and Improving Agile Software Development. Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming : 10th International Conference : XP2009, Pula, Italy, May 25-29 2009.
- (2008) Lettmetall og ledelse i Midtens rike. Globalisering gjennom et århundre, Norsk aluminiumsindustri 1908-2008.
- (2004) Knowledge Hyperstories and Context-Sensitive Knowledge Enabling. Living Knowledge. The dynamics of profession service work.
- (2004) Dancing the Dilemmas: the Mythological Enabling of Collective Action. Living knowledge. The dynamics of professional service work.
- (2004) Utvalgt. Non Plus Ultra. Festskrift til Stein Erik Johansen i anledning 50-årsdagen.
- (2004) Knowledge Hyperstories: The Use of ICT Enhanced Storytelling in Organizations. Living knowledge. The dynamics of professional service work.
- (2004) Dancing the Dilemmas: the 'Mythological' Enabling of Collective Action. Living Knowledge. The dynamics of profession service work.
- (2002) Læringshistorier. Forandring Fryder, M. Levin og R. Klev. Fagbokforlaget.
- (2001) Fabel-forum. Innføring i en metode for historiesamling. Hatling, M. (red.) Fortellingens Fortrylling, Fortuna Forlag.
- (2001) Myter og Mytemakere. Mytenes plass i organisasjonslivet. Hatling, M. (red.) Fortellingens Fortrylling, Fortuna Forlag.
- (2001) Læringshistorier: en praktisk gjennomgang. Hatling, M. (red.) Fortellingens Fortrylling, Fortuna Forlag.
- (2001) Læringshistorier - en praktisk gjennomgang. Fortellingens fortrylling.
- (2001) Myter og mytemakere. Mytens plass i organisasjonslivet. Fortellingens fortrylling.
Report/dissertation
- (2013) Consensus and Controversy: The Debate on Man-Made Global Warming. 2013. ISBN 9788214055825. SINTEF Rapport.
- (2008) Directors of Creation. An Anthropology of Capitalist Conjunctures in the Contemporary. 2008. ISBN 978-82-471-1301-1.
- (2004) The China Experience. 2004.
- (2000) London Calling. En reiserefleksjon. 2000.
- (2000) Svermeriske organisasjoner: Strategi i komplekse landskap. 2000.
- (1999) Knowledge management memetics. 1999.
- (1999) Mellom Sjetnemarka og Cyberspace. Kunnskapsbedrifter som glokale nettverk?. 1999.
- (1998) Towards a political ecology of mind: On sterotypes and Gypsies in Bulgaria. 1998.
Others
- (2018) Material metaphors of management: a moral vocabulary of organizational bodies and buildings. Vinterseminaret, sosiologisk årskonferanse . Norsk sosiologforening; Hafjell. 2018-02-02 - 2018-02-04.
- (2018) The cultural logic of management by objectives. Autonomy, authoritarianism and the proletarianization of professional work in the context of the Nordic model. Nordic Work Life Conference . FAFO, AFI; Oslo. 2018-06-13 - 2018-06-15.
- (2018) Å sette karakterer. Her og nå NRK P1 [Radio]. 2018-02-12.
- (2017) A Fabled Time: Metaphors and Symbols Framing the Global Financial Crisis. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) . European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS); København. 2017-07-06 - 2017-07-08.
- (2017) Sanctifying money, (un)making capitalism. 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) . ESA; Athen. 2017-08-29 - 2017-09-01.
- (2014) "The Moment of Truth" - Valuation devices to promote customer orientation and "right selling" in finance. Internasjonal konferanse . LAEMOS (Latin American and European Organization Studies); Havana. 2014-04-02 - 2014-04-05.
- (2014) Cultures of calculation and the spirit of speculation. Instituttseminar . Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo; Oslo. 2014-10-15 - 2014-10-15.
- (2013) Heroes and Villains in Bankers' Narratives After the Global Financial Crisis. 29th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) . European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS); Montréal. 2013-07-04 - 2013-07-06.
- (2013) Eurovegas: Konseptuell kloning i kasinokapitalismens tid. Norsk Antropologisk Forenings Årskonferanse . NAF; Tromsø. 2013-05-03 - 2013-05-05.
- (2012) Strangers in strange lands - creating the European Roma within the neoliberal culture complex. 2012 AAA Annual Meeting . American Anthropological Association; San Francisco. 2012-11-14 - 2013-11-18.
- (2012) From industrial management to money management. Corporate Norway and the disruption of democratic capitalism. STS-meeting . Kungliga Tekniska Høgskolan (KTH); Stockholm. 2012-05-02 - 2012-05-03.
- (2012) 'Managementality' and the displacement of democratic capitalism in Norway. 4S/EASST conference . 4S/EASST; Copenhagen. 2012-10-17 - 2012-10-20.
- (2012) Measuring, Managing and Manoeuvering in Opaque Money Markets. Objectification, Measurement and Standardization . NTNU; Dokkhuset, Trondheim. 2012-01-05 - 2012-01-07.
- (2012) Når halen logrer med hunden: Industri og ledelse i superfinansialiseringens tid. SINTEF Rådsmøte . SINTEF; Trondheim. 2012-04-25 - 2012-04-25.
- (2012) The Allure of Capitalism – Method and Theory. CUNY Seminar . City University of New York (CUNY); New York. 2012-11-07 - 2012-11-07.
- (2012) The Edge of Ethnography: Engaging ’collaborative complicity’ at the boundaries of the corporation. EASA conference . European Association of Social Anthropologists; Paris. 2012-07-10 - 2012-07-13.
- (2012) The ’Stock Options Carnival’. NAF-SANT conference . Norsk antropologisk forening/Sveriges antropologförbund; Stockholm. 2012-05-04 - 2012-05-06.
- (2011) “Is there such a thing as a neoliberal sociality? Adventures in the post-moral economy”. American Anthropologist Association Annual Meeting . American Anthropologist Association; Montréal. 2011-11-16 - 2011-11-20.
- (2011) 'State Crimes Against Democracy' (SCAD) som analytisk rammeverk. 'Vi skal snu på alle steinene'-eit år etterpå (Treholt-saken) . NTNU; Bokvennen forlag, Oslo. 2011-10-29.
- (2006) Fortrylling og fortrolling - Fortelling som metode i en aksjonsorientert antropologi. Årskonferansen i norsk antropologisk forening . NAT; Trondheim. 2006-05-19 - 2006-05-21.
- (2006) Kildekode, Cash og Kultur - open source software som sosialt fenomen. Open source programvare - Dugnad i den digitale allmenningen . Tekna; Ingeniørenes Hus, Oslo. 2006-10-04 - 2006-10-05.