About
Tereza Kuldova is a social anthropologist and Research Professor based at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University. She is the author of, among others, 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, nationalism, philanthropy, India, to outlaw motorcycle clubs, subcultures, and organized crime. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology.
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?
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
(2021).
Luxury and Corruption.
Donzé, Pierre-Yves; Pouillard, Veronique; Roberts, Joanne (Ed.).
Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business. 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190932220.013.29.
Oxford University Press.
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfor...
Nordrik, Bitten; Kuldova, Tereza Østbø (2021). Faktaundersøkelser: et "hybrid konfliktvåpen" på norske arbeidsplasser. ISBN: 978-82-05-45757-7. 278 p. Gyldendal Akademisk.
Raymen, Thomas; Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
(2020).
Clarifying ultra-realism: A response to Wood et al.
Continental Thought & Theory: A Journal of Intellectual Freedom (CT&T)
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Vol. 3.
https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/101656
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø (2020). Repensando la solidaridad desde los márgenes de la cultura del consumidor. ¿Qué tienen los moteros ilegales que le falta a la “sociedad de la marca”?. Ríos, Gino; Silva, Antonio (Ed.). NUEVOS HORIZONTES EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN CRIMINOLÓGICA ULTRA-REALISMO. 12. p. 327-354.
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø
(2020).
Imposter Paranoia in the Age of Intelligent Surveillance: Policing Outlaws, Borders and Undercover Agents.
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
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Vol. 4.
https://journals.uio.no/JEA/article/view/7813
Hall, Steve; Kuldova, Tereza; Horsley, Mark (2020). Introduction. Hall, Steve; Kuldova, Tereza; Horsley, Mark (Ed.). Crime, Harm, Consumerism. Introduction. Routledge.
Kuldova, Tereza (2020). Luxury Brands in the Wrong Hands: Of Harleys, Harm and Sovereignty. Hall, Steve; Kuldova, Tereza; Horsley, Mark (Ed.). Crime, Harm, Consumerism. chapter 5. Routledge.
Hall, Steve; Kuldova, Tereza; Horsley, Mark
(2020).
Crime, Harm, Consumerism.
ISBN: 9781138388628.
208 p.
Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Crime-Harm-and-Consumeri...
Kuldova, Tereza
(2019).
Re-thinking Solidarity at the Fringes of Consumer Culture: What Do Outlaw Bikers Have that "Brand Communities" Lack?.
The Journal of Culture
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Vol. 8.
https://hdl.handle.net/10642/7873
Kuldova, Tereza
(2019).
Fetishism and the problem of disavowal.
Qualitative Market Research
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Vol. 22.
https://doi.org/10.1108/QMR-12-2016-0125
