Browsing Institutt for kriminologi og rettssosiologi by Author "Shammas, Victor Lund"

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  • The Arab body 
    Shammas, Victor Lund (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    The Arab body has long been a focal point of literary, political, technological, and military interventions. The state of otherness attributed to the embodied nature of Arab identity has made it a key locus of social ...
  • Penal elitism: Anatomy of a professorial category 
    Shammas, Victor Lund (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    In recent decades, many scholars have invoked the concept of penal populism to explain the adoption of “tough on crime” measures and a wider politics of “law and order” across the post-industrialized world. But scholars ...
  • The state as God: On Bourdieu’s political theology 
    Shammas, Victor Lund (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Bourdieu’s anthropology of the state can be interpreted as a form of political theology, premised on a panentheistic conception of the state, which is transcendental to social reality while simultaneously being lodged in ...
  • The perils of parole hearings: California lifers, performative disadvantage and the ideology of insight 
    Shammas, Victor Lund (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Following a series of transformative political and legal battles, California's overcrowded prison system has moved in the direction of moderate decarceration. A softer stance on punishment means that thousands of previously ...