Lars Erik Gjerde
Job description
Lecturer and sociologist.
I am responsibile for the subjects SOS-1003, SOS-3010 and SOS-3981. Moreover, I lead a seminar group in SVF-1051 and SVF-1050.
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Publications outside Cristin
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2025). Nordic Leviathans: A Weberian-Foucauldian Study of the Politics of COVID-19 in Norway and Sweden. Springer Nature.
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2025). En antirasistisk stat? Et weberiansk og foucauldiansk bidrag til debatten om (strukturell) rasisme i Norge. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift, 9(2), 1-16.
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2025). 'AI-human romance,'or, The deconstruction of love: a Baudrillardian discourse analysis of hyperreality. Digital studies/Le champ numerique, 15.
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2025). Seksualiseringen av barnehagebarnet: En diskursanalyse av politiske og faglige tekster om «barnets seksualitet». Barn–forskning om barn og barndom i Norden, 43(3–4).
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2024). Antiracist welfarism: A governmentality study of Norwegian state antiracism. Nordic journal of social research, 15(1), 1-14.
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2024). Biopolitical Leviathan: Understanding state power in the era of COVID-19 through the Weberian-Foucauldian Theory of the state. Theoria, 71(178), 48-74.
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2024). Marrying the sources and mechanisms of power? Understanding the quarantine hotel through Michel Foucault and Michael Mann. Journal of Political Power, 17(1), 1-20.
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2023). Biopolitical and juridical creations of the quarantine hotel: A discourse analysis of the Norwegian case. Acta Sociologica, 66(4), 357-371.
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2022). Den norske regjeringens diskursive muliggjøring av koronapolitikken: Et Foucauldiansk perspektiv. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift, (3), 29-45.
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2021). Governing humans and ‘things’: power and rule in Norway during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of political power, 14(3), 472-492.
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2021). From liberalism to biopolitics: investigating the Norwegian government's two responses to Covid-19. European Societies, 23(S1), S262-S274.
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2021). Utbytting i den digitale fabrikken: En kritikk av internettøkonomien. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift, 5(2), 4-18.
Gjerde, L. E. L. (2020). Behind the veils of discourse: Analysing the connection between discourse and exploitation on the ‘social’internet. Capital & Class, 44(3), 423-442.
Research interests
I study different phenomena. I am interested in digital media, and especially how we interpret the machine. I am also interested in the state and government. This encompasses the politics of crises, antiracist politics, and the welfare state itself. Much of my work centres on discourses.
Theoretically, I have primarily worked with Max Weber's theory of state and Michel Foucault's theory of power. I am more generally interested in sociological theory.