Tereza Kuldova
Biographic Data
| ID | 101601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tereza Kuldova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tereza |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuldova |
| SIGNATURE | KULDOVA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7810-7233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dangerous Liaisons
Luxury and Corruption
Why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What kind of world are they creating? Looking at luxury art, antiquities, superyachts and populist politics, this book explores the connection between luxury and corruption, and offers an alternative to the received wisdom of how we tackle corruption.
Luxury and Corruption
Why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What kind of world are they creating? Looking at luxury art, antiquities, superyachts and populist politics, this book explores the connection between luxury and corruption, and offers an alternative to the received wisdom of how we tackle corruption.
Luxury and Corruption
Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury
Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE) [project no.313004], which investigates
Luxury and Corruption
The world has been bombarded in recent years with images of the luxurious lives and wealth of corrupt oligarchs and kleptocrats, amassed at the expense of ordinary people. Such images exploit our feelings of injustice, are taken as indicative of moral decay, and inspire a desire to purge our economies of dirty money, objects, and people. But why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What kind of world are they creating? Looking at luxury art…
Workplace investigations, the epistemic power of managerialism and the hollowing out of the Norwegian model of co-determination
Workplace investigations are increasingly being used in Norwegian workplaces in both public and private sectors to investigate allegations of misconduct, harassment, blameworthy conditions, and other breaches of the Norwegian Working Environment Act. Workplace investigations are often triggered by complaints submitted through internal organizational whistleblowing and 'speak up' systems. With the EU Whistleblower Directive, ISO 37002:2021 Whistle…
On Private Views, Luxury and Corruption
Despite the iconic nature of the Manhattan skyline, there are only four places the public can see it from and those are the Empire State Building, the Rockefeller Center, ONE World Trade Center and the recently opened EDGE at Hudson Yards. All other elevated views are a private privilege, only available to owners of luxury penthouses. Posing as an apartment-hunting Hungarian billionaire, Andi Schmied accessed and documented the views of over thir…
Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu'sChosen Spiritsand Prayaag Akbar'sLeila
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of technocratic near-real-time data-driven governance, in that new rules, measures, and prohibitions have been introduced and revoked in response to predictive statistical and epidemiological models, graphs, charts, and aesthetically powerful data visualizations. Pandemic governance has enforced an extreme governance by numbers. The real has come to mirror the structure of dystopian fic…
Crime, Harm and Consumerism
As a result of the pressures exerted by neoliberal economics and consumer capitalism, late-capitalist subjects are forced to compete in increasingly brutal circumstances in order to avoid the fate of symbolic and material annihilation. Economic and consumer engagement are not, however, solely based on coercion but are simultaneously facilitated by seductive ideals such as sovereignty. Conversations with those convicted for their involvement in in…
Imposter Paranoia in the Age of Intelligent Surveillance
Artificial intelligence, deep learning and big data analytics are viewed as the technologies of the future, capable of delivering expert intelligence decisions, risk assessments and predictions within milliseconds. In a world of fakes, they promise to deliver 'hard facts' and data-driven 'truth', but their solutions resurrect ideologies of purity, embrace bogus science reminiscent of the likes of anthropometry, and create a deeply paranoid world …
Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence By ElisabethCurrie. London
Parkour as Hyper-conformity to Consumerism in Times of Austerity and Insecurity
Book Review of Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-capitalist city: An Ethnography by Thomas Raymen; Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019; ISBN 978-1-78743-812-5
Utopie/Utopia
Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Street Gangs
Urban Utopias
What Drives the Rise of the Right
Book Review of Simon Winlow, Steve Hall, & James Treadwell, The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of the Working Class, Bristol: Policy Press, 2017. ISBN 9978-1-4473-2848-3 (paperback). GBP 10.39
Give a Shit! An Interview with Laura Korčulanin by Tereza Kuldova
Kuldova: Laura, you are the mind behind the activist, artistic and academic project Give a Shit, which aims at raising awareness and breaking persistent taboos related to toilets and excrements, while also proposing a reorganization of the existing western system of flushing. Two things strike me about this project: firstly, its focus on the urban areas in the developed world -for we all know that when we talk of problems with shit, we tend to di…
The Sublime Splendor of Intimidation
Terror, Edmund Burke argued, is the “common stock of everything that is sublime,” capable of producing delight when held at a certain distance. What puzzled Burke was the question of “how any species of delight can be derived from a cause so apparently contrary to it.” I suggest that we may look for an ethnographic answer to this question among the supporters, hangers-on and diverse admirers of outlaw bikers, who take pleasure in being exposed, a…
Fatalist Luxuries
This article, grounded in long-term ethnographic research among producers of contemporary luxurious embroideries and fashions in Lucknow, a North Indian city famous for its golden age as a powerful cultural center of opulence and excess, shows how anthropological knowledge can enrich current critical discussions of luxury and inequality. Since the 1990s, anthropology has seen a boom in consumption and material culture studies coterminous with the…
Directing passions in New Delhi's world of fashion
Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in New Delhi's fashion industry, this article explores the pressing question on the designer's mind, namely: how do I align the desires of others with my (master)-desire? This question points us towards an investigation of how people's affects are mobilized and directed through commercial rituals such as fashion shows set within hyper-designed theatrical play-spheres. Translating the invisible or cover…
Postsocialist Imperialism and its Others
In his humanitarian mission to kill Count Dracula, Van Helsing (2004), navigating the monstrous ahistorical terrain of Eastern European difference, religious superstition, and intolerance, repeated
Designing an Illusion of India’s Future Superpowerdom
The article dissects current utopian visions of future Indian superpowerdom and traces them to underlying convergences between right wing political Hindu nationalism and philanthrocapitalism. By looking at how utopian visions are materialized in the elitist aesthetics of ‘royal chic’ parading on New Delhi’s fashion ramps and in the aesthetics of hypermodern smart cities of the future, the article explores the aesthetic and affective convergence o…
Acting Out Class
This research report, based on a fieldwork in Lucknow, North India, is an inquiry into the lives of young urban men and their concerns with status and class. The report approaches the topics of status and class through a focus on consumption, mimicking and mocking of ideas, commodities, mediated celebrities and lifestyles. By following five urban men and the processes of creation and re-creation of their self-definitions, it points to the ways in…
Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu'sChosen Spiritsand Prayaag Akbar'sLeila
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of technocratic near-real-time data-driven governance, in that new rules, measures, and prohibitions have been introduced and revoked in response to predictive statistical and epidemiological models, graphs, charts, and aesthetically powerful data visualizations. Pandemic governance has enforced an extreme governance by numbers. The real has come to mirror the structure of dystopian fic…
The Sublime Splendor of Intimidation
Terror, Edmund Burke argued, is the “common stock of everything that is sublime,” capable of producing delight when held at a certain distance. What puzzled Burke was the question of “how any species of delight can be derived from a cause so apparently contrary to it.” I suggest that we may look for an ethnographic answer to this question among the supporters, hangers-on and diverse admirers of outlaw bikers, who take pleasure in being exposed, a…
Directing passions in New Delhi's world of fashion
Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in New Delhi's fashion industry, this article explores the pressing question on the designer's mind, namely: how do I align the desires of others with my (master)-desire? This question points us towards an investigation of how people's affects are mobilized and directed through commercial rituals such as fashion shows set within hyper-designed theatrical play-spheres. Translating the invisible or cover…
Fatalist Luxuries
This article, grounded in long-term ethnographic research among producers of contemporary luxurious embroideries and fashions in Lucknow, a North Indian city famous for its golden age as a powerful cultural center of opulence and excess, shows how anthropological knowledge can enrich current critical discussions of luxury and inequality. Since the 1990s, anthropology has seen a boom in consumption and material culture studies coterminous with the…
Imposter Paranoia in the Age of Intelligent Surveillance
Artificial intelligence, deep learning and big data analytics are viewed as the technologies of the future, capable of delivering expert intelligence decisions, risk assessments and predictions within milliseconds. In a world of fakes, they promise to deliver 'hard facts' and data-driven 'truth', but their solutions resurrect ideologies of purity, embrace bogus science reminiscent of the likes of anthropometry, and create a deeply paranoid world …
Give a Shit! An Interview with Laura Korčulanin by Tereza Kuldova
Kuldova: Laura, you are the mind behind the activist, artistic and academic project Give a Shit, which aims at raising awareness and breaking persistent taboos related to toilets and excrements, while also proposing a reorganization of the existing western system of flushing. Two things strike me about this project: firstly, its focus on the urban areas in the developed world -for we all know that when we talk of problems with shit, we tend to di…
Acting Out Class
This research report, based on a fieldwork in Lucknow, North India, is an inquiry into the lives of young urban men and their concerns with status and class. The report approaches the topics of status and class through a focus on consumption, mimicking and mocking of ideas, commodities, mediated celebrities and lifestyles. By following five urban men and the processes of creation and re-creation of their self-definitions, it points to the ways in…
Designing an Illusion of India’s Future Superpowerdom
The article dissects current utopian visions of future Indian superpowerdom and traces them to underlying convergences between right wing political Hindu nationalism and philanthrocapitalism. By looking at how utopian visions are materialized in the elitist aesthetics of ‘royal chic’ parading on New Delhi’s fashion ramps and in the aesthetics of hypermodern smart cities of the future, the article explores the aesthetic and affective convergence o…
Fatalist Luxuries
This article, grounded in long-term ethnographic research among producers of contemporary luxurious embroideries and fashions in Lucknow, a North Indian city famous for its golden age as a powerful cultural center of opulence and excess, shows how anthropological knowledge can enrich current critical discussions of luxury and inequality. Since the 1990s, anthropology has seen a boom in consumption and material culture studies coterminous with the…
Directing passions in New Delhi's world of fashion
Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in New Delhi's fashion industry, this article explores the pressing question on the designer's mind, namely: how do I align the desires of others with my (master)-desire? This question points us towards an investigation of how people's affects are mobilized and directed through commercial rituals such as fashion shows set within hyper-designed theatrical play-spheres. Translating the invisible or cover…
Postsocialist Imperialism and its Others
In his humanitarian mission to kill Count Dracula, Van Helsing (2004), navigating the monstrous ahistorical terrain of Eastern European difference, religious superstition, and intolerance, repeated
Urban Utopias
What Drives the Rise of the Right
Book Review of Simon Winlow, Steve Hall, & James Treadwell, The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of the Working Class, Bristol: Policy Press, 2017. ISBN 9978-1-4473-2848-3 (paperback). GBP 10.39
Give a Shit! An Interview with Laura Korčulanin by Tereza Kuldova
Kuldova: Laura, you are the mind behind the activist, artistic and academic project Give a Shit, which aims at raising awareness and breaking persistent taboos related to toilets and excrements, while also proposing a reorganization of the existing western system of flushing. Two things strike me about this project: firstly, its focus on the urban areas in the developed world -for we all know that when we talk of problems with shit, we tend to di…
The Sublime Splendor of Intimidation
Terror, Edmund Burke argued, is the “common stock of everything that is sublime,” capable of producing delight when held at a certain distance. What puzzled Burke was the question of “how any species of delight can be derived from a cause so apparently contrary to it.” I suggest that we may look for an ethnographic answer to this question among the supporters, hangers-on and diverse admirers of outlaw bikers, who take pleasure in being exposed, a…
Utopie/Utopia
Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Street Gangs
Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence By ElisabethCurrie. London
Parkour as Hyper-conformity to Consumerism in Times of Austerity and Insecurity
Book Review of Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-capitalist city: An Ethnography by Thomas Raymen; Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019; ISBN 978-1-78743-812-5
Crime, Harm and Consumerism
As a result of the pressures exerted by neoliberal economics and consumer capitalism, late-capitalist subjects are forced to compete in increasingly brutal circumstances in order to avoid the fate of symbolic and material annihilation. Economic and consumer engagement are not, however, solely based on coercion but are simultaneously facilitated by seductive ideals such as sovereignty. Conversations with those convicted for their involvement in in…
Imposter Paranoia in the Age of Intelligent Surveillance
Artificial intelligence, deep learning and big data analytics are viewed as the technologies of the future, capable of delivering expert intelligence decisions, risk assessments and predictions within milliseconds. In a world of fakes, they promise to deliver 'hard facts' and data-driven 'truth', but their solutions resurrect ideologies of purity, embrace bogus science reminiscent of the likes of anthropometry, and create a deeply paranoid world …
On Private Views, Luxury and Corruption
Despite the iconic nature of the Manhattan skyline, there are only four places the public can see it from and those are the Empire State Building, the Rockefeller Center, ONE World Trade Center and the recently opened EDGE at Hudson Yards. All other elevated views are a private privilege, only available to owners of luxury penthouses. Posing as an apartment-hunting Hungarian billionaire, Andi Schmied accessed and documented the views of over thir…
Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu'sChosen Spiritsand Prayaag Akbar'sLeila
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of technocratic near-real-time data-driven governance, in that new rules, measures, and prohibitions have been introduced and revoked in response to predictive statistical and epidemiological models, graphs, charts, and aesthetically powerful data visualizations. Pandemic governance has enforced an extreme governance by numbers. The real has come to mirror the structure of dystopian fic…
Luxury and Corruption
Why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What kind of world are they creating? Looking at luxury art, antiquities, superyachts and populist politics, this book explores the connection between luxury and corruption, and offers an alternative to the received wisdom of how we tackle corruption.
Luxury and Corruption
Why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What kind of world are they creating? Looking at luxury art, antiquities, superyachts and populist politics, this book explores the connection between luxury and corruption, and offers an alternative to the received wisdom of how we tackle corruption.
Luxury and Corruption
Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury
Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE) [project no.313004], which investigates
Luxury and Corruption
The world has been bombarded in recent years with images of the luxurious lives and wealth of corrupt oligarchs and kleptocrats, amassed at the expense of ordinary people. Such images exploit our feelings of injustice, are taken as indicative of moral decay, and inspire a desire to purge our economies of dirty money, objects, and people. But why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What kind of world are they creating? Looking at luxury art…
Workplace investigations, the epistemic power of managerialism and the hollowing out of the Norwegian model of co-determination
Workplace investigations are increasingly being used in Norwegian workplaces in both public and private sectors to investigate allegations of misconduct, harassment, blameworthy conditions, and other breaches of the Norwegian Working Environment Act. Workplace investigations are often triggered by complaints submitted through internal organizational whistleblowing and 'speak up' systems. With the EU Whistleblower Directive, ISO 37002:2021 Whistle…
Dangerous Liaisons
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)