About
Tereza Østbø Kuldova is a social anthropologist and Research Professor based at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University. She is the author of, among others, Compliance-Industrial Complex: The Operating System of a Pre-Crime Society (Palgrave, 2022), How Outlaws Win Friends and Influence People (Palgrave, 2019), Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique (Bloomsbury, 2016), editor of Crime, Harm and Consumerism (Routledge, 2020), Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Street Gangs: Scheming Legality, Resisting Criminalization (Palgrave, 2018), Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia (Palgrave, 2017), and Fashion India: Spectacular Capitalism (Akademika Publishing, 2013). She has written extensively on topics ranging from fashion, design, aesthetics, branding, intellectual property rights, philanthropy, India, to outlaw motorcycle clubs, subcultures, organized crime, corruption and anti-corruption. She is currently leading an international project titled: Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud and funded by The Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO Young Talents 313004), while participating in several other international projects. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology as well as of the Algorithmic Governance Research Network.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Criminology Social anthropology
Subject areas
Labour Crime Material Culture Hierarchy Social Networks Social change Ideology Populism Social inequalities Consumption Artificial intelligence Sub-culture Materiality Philanthropy Digitalization Class analysis History of fashion Fashion and art Digital monitoring
Regions
Countries
Austria Czech Republic Germany India
Research groups
Research projects
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Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL)
This project will produce knowledge on the ways in which advances in artificial intelligence shape policing in different cultural, political, legal and economic contexts.
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Digital Prism and the Nordic Model of Workplace Democracy under Pressure (DigiWORK)
Big data and artificial intelligence are radically transforming the ways in which we work, are hired and fired, managed and led. This project investigates the effects of digital transformation of work on the Norwegian model of workplace democracy and tripartite collaboration.
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Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE)
Why is corruption still increasing worldwide, despite universal recognition by all relevant international organizations that it needs to be fought?
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National Security through Private Sector Regulation? Critical Evaluation of Insider Threat Programs and Security Compliance in Current Geopolitical and Regulatory Context (INSIDER)
INSIDER will map and analyse the fundamental tensions between national security interests and private sector profit motive, often disavowed by policymakers.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
(2024).
Compliance, Defiance, and Regulations in the Art World: Reflections on the (A)Moral Turn to Financialized Ethics.
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø; Østbø, Jardar N; Shore, Cris (Ed.).
Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury: New Perspectives on Anti-Corruption in Elite Contexts.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Compliance-Defiance-Dirty
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
; Østbø, Jardar N; Shore, Cris
(2024).
Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury: New Perspectives on Anti-Corruption in Elite Contexts.
ISBN: 978-3031571398.
312 p.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Compliance-Defiance-Dirty
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
; Østbø, Jardar N
(2024).
Compliance, Defiance and ‘Dirty Luxury’: Towards New Perspectives on (Combatting) Elite Crime and Corruption.
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø; Østbø, Jardar N; Shore, Cris (Ed.).
Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury: New Perspectives on Anti-Corruption in Elite Contexts.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Compliance-Defiance-Dirty
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
(2024).
Philanthrocapitalism and the Compliance-Industrial Complex: Doing ‘Good’, Fighting Crime, and Foreclosing Alternatives.
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø; Østbø, Jardar N; Shore, Cris (Ed.).
Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury: New Perspectives on Anti-Corruption in Elite Contexts.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Compliance-Defiance-Dirty
Millet, Audrey;
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
(2024).
Labour Migration, Crime, and ‘Compliance Washing’: A Tailor’s Odyssey from an African Workshop to European Luxury Fashion Multinationals.
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø; Østbø, Jardar N; Shore, Cris (Ed.).
Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury: New Perspectives on Anti-Corruption in Elite Contexts.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Compliance-Defiance-Dirty
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
; Østbø, Jardar N; Raymen, Thomas
(2024).
Luxury and Corruption: Challenging the Anti-Corruption Consensus.
ISBN: 978-1529236330.
233 p.
Bristol University Press.
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.oslomet.no/stable/jj
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
;
Nordrik, Bitten
(2023).
Workplace investigations, the epistemic power of managerialism and the hollowing out of the Norwegian model of co-determination.
Capital and Class.
https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168231179971
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
; Østbø, Jardar N
(2023).
Luksus, korrupsjon og regulering.
Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift.
Vol. 1.
https://arrvev.no/artikler/luksus-korrupsjon-og-re
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
; Østbø, Jardar N
(2023).
Mezhyhirya Residence Museum: Novi Petrivtsi, Ukraine.
Lynes, Adam; Kelly, Craig; Treadwell, James (Ed.).
50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism. p. 200-206.
Policy Press.
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/50-dar
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
(2022).
Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits and Prayaag Akbar’s Leila.
15 p.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Vol. 58.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2022.2040801
