Emil André Røyrvik
Background and activities
Based broadly in cultural anthropology and sociology my research focuses on ethnography and theorizing in the context of moral and 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
- (2021) The stable stranger: Constructing “the Roma” within the European neoliberal culture complex. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.
- (2020) Bitt av reformbasillen: Organisatoriske myter og administrativ ekspansjon i nærpolitireformens etablering av fellestjenester. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning. vol. 61 (2).
- (2019) Reactivity and Resistance to Evaluation Devices. Valuation Studies. vol. 6 (1).
- (2019) Kulturbegrepet og representasjonskrisen. [The Concept of Culture and the Crisis of Representation]. 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).
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
- (2021) Sacralizing finance, sacrificing society. Objectification and Standardization On the Limits and Effects of Ritually Fixing and Measuring Life.
- (2018) The Measure of Sociality: Quantification, Control and Economic Deviance. Economy, crime and wrong in a neoliberal era.
- (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) 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.
Others
- (2020) Demokrati, klima, kapital. Antropologidagene . Antropologidagene; Sosiologisk poliklinikk. 2020-02-13 - 2020-02-13.
- (2020) "McKinsey-stalinismen": det nyliberale universitetet. Nyliberalisme og universitetet . NTL Ung Trondheim; 2020-03-17 - 2020-03-17.