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Emil André Røyrvik

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Emil André Røyrvik

Professor
Department of Sociology and Political Science

emil.royrvik@ntnu.no
+4773550366 Bygg 9, 9553, Dragvoll
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About

Based broadly in sociocultural anthropology and interdisciplinary research my work focuses on ethnography and theorizing in the context of moral and political economy, especially capitalism as a social system (including financialization and inequality), professional knowledge work, organizational, managerial and expert cultures, money and measurement, 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.  

Research

I am involved in numerous and diverse research projects, including the following.

  • Democracy Lab
  • Pacesetters
  • International project on ethnography and multimodality
  • Organizing otherwise: Ethnography of alternativity and possibility in the age of polycrisis
  • Extended liminality and specters of suspension and expulsion: Roma lives in Bulgaria  

Coordinator of interdisciplinary research group Ethnography

«Ethnography» is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to supporting ethnographic practice, theory, methods and genres across a broad range of research interests, topics, and projects.

Democracy Lab

Democracy Lab (delab) with the Dept. computer science, NTNU

Pacesetters

Member of interdisciplinary project Pacesetters

Publications

  • Chronological
  • By category
  • All publications registered in NVA

2021

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) Broken promises and lost qualities: Constructing management as a research object in sociology and anthropology.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Brodersen, Marianne Blom; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) The stable stranger: Constructing “the Roma” within the European neoliberal culture complex. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) Sacralizing finance, sacrificing society.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2020

  • Smeby, Gunnar; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2020) Bitt av reformbasillen: Organisatoriske myter og administrativ ekspansjon i nærpolitireformens etablering av fellestjenester. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS)
    Academic article

2019

  • Forseth, Ulla; Clegg, Stewart; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2019) Reactivity and Resistance to Evaluation Devices. Valuation Studies
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2019) Kulturbegrepet og representasjonskrisen. [The Concept of Culture and the Crisis of Representation]. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift
    Academic article

2018

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2018) The Measure of Sociality: Quantification, Control and Economic Deviance.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2017

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Sosialitet i målstyringens tid.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Larsen, Tord; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Introduksjon.
    Introduction
  • Larsen, Tord; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis. Scandinavian Academic Press Scandinavian Academic Press
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

2016

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2016) SEC enacting organizational culture.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2015

  • Forseth, Ulla; Røyrvik, Emil André; Clegg, Stewart. (2015) Brave New World? The global financial crisis’ impact on Scandinavian banking’s sales rhetoric and practices. Scandinavian Journal of Management
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Ravn, Malin Noem. (2015) Det skapende mennesket.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Aspen, Harald; Ravn, Malin Noem; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2015) Det skapende mennesket : Antropologiske dialoger om tegn, ting og tolkning. Scandinavian Academic Press Scandinavian Academic Press
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

2014

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2014) Economy of Words. Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks, by Douglas R. Holmes. American Ethnologist
    Book review

2013

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) "Oblique Ethnography: Engaging collaborative complicity among globalised corporate managers".
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) "Incarnation Inc. Managing Corporate Values.". Journal of business anthropology
    Academic article

2012

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) Ethnography of globalization.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Brodersen, Marianne Blom. (2012) Real Virtuality: Power and Simulation in the Age of Neoliberal Crisis. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research
    Academic article

2011

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2011) The Allure of Capitalism — An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis. Berghahn Books Berghahn Books
    Academic monograph

2009

  • Moe, Nils Brede; Dingsøyr, Torgeir; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2009) Putting Agile Teamwork to the Test – An Preliminary Instrument for Empirically Assessing and Improving Agile Software Development.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2008

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2008) Directors of Creation: An Anthropology of Capitalist Conjunctures in the Contemporary. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181 (2008:299)
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2008) Lettmetall og ledelse i Midtens rike.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2004

  • Bygdås, Arne Lindseth; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2004) Knowledge Hyperstories and Context-Sensitive Knowledge Enabling.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Dancing the Dilemmas: the Mythological Enabling of Collective Action.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Journal publications

  • Brodersen, Marianne Blom; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) The stable stranger: Constructing “the Roma” within the European neoliberal culture complex. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
    Academic article
  • Smeby, Gunnar; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2020) Bitt av reformbasillen: Organisatoriske myter og administrativ ekspansjon i nærpolitireformens etablering av fellestjenester. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS)
    Academic article
  • Forseth, Ulla; Clegg, Stewart; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2019) Reactivity and Resistance to Evaluation Devices. Valuation Studies
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2019) Kulturbegrepet og representasjonskrisen. [The Concept of Culture and the Crisis of Representation]. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Forseth, Ulla; Røyrvik, Emil André; Clegg, Stewart. (2015) Brave New World? The global financial crisis’ impact on Scandinavian banking’s sales rhetoric and practices. Scandinavian Journal of Management
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2014) Economy of Words. Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks, by Douglas R. Holmes. American Ethnologist
    Book review
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) "Incarnation Inc. Managing Corporate Values.". Journal of business anthropology
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Brodersen, Marianne Blom. (2012) Real Virtuality: Power and Simulation in the Age of Neoliberal Crisis. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research
    Academic article

Books

  • Larsen, Tord; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis. Scandinavian Academic Press Scandinavian Academic Press
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Aspen, Harald; Ravn, Malin Noem; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2015) Det skapende mennesket : Antropologiske dialoger om tegn, ting og tolkning. Scandinavian Academic Press Scandinavian Academic Press
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2011) The Allure of Capitalism — An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis. Berghahn Books Berghahn Books
    Academic monograph

Part of book/report

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) Broken promises and lost qualities: Constructing management as a research object in sociology and anthropology.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) Sacralizing finance, sacrificing society.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2018) The Measure of Sociality: Quantification, Control and Economic Deviance.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Sosialitet i målstyringens tid.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Larsen, Tord; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Introduksjon.
    Introduction
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2016) SEC enacting organizational culture.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Ravn, Malin Noem. (2015) Det skapende mennesket.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) "Oblique Ethnography: Engaging collaborative complicity among globalised corporate managers".
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) Ethnography of globalization.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Moe, Nils Brede; Dingsøyr, Torgeir; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2009) Putting Agile Teamwork to the Test – An Preliminary Instrument for Empirically Assessing and Improving Agile Software Development.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2008) Lettmetall og ledelse i Midtens rike.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Bygdås, Arne Lindseth; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2004) Knowledge Hyperstories and Context-Sensitive Knowledge Enabling.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Dancing the Dilemmas: the Mythological Enabling of Collective Action.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2008) Directors of Creation: An Anthropology of Capitalist Conjunctures in the Contemporary. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181 (2008:299)
    Doctoral dissertation

Outreach

2021

  • Academic lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) The casino and society: Eurovegas and the dirty money complex. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting , Baltimore/online 2021-11-17 - 2021-11-21

2020

  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2020) "McKinsey-stalinismen": det nyliberale universitetet. Nyliberalisme og universitetet 2020-03-17 - 2020-03-17
  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2020) Demokrati, klima, kapital. Antropologidagene , Sosiologisk poliklinikk 2020-02-13 - 2020-02-13

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