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Christine MyrvangNorskTitle: Telephone:22841624 E-mail: christine.myrvangATtik.uio.no Historian and researcher at Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), University of Oslo, with main focus on economy, knowledge and culture in the 20th Century. Subject InterestI am interested in economy, culture, knowledge and society in a broad, historical perspective; the developement of mass production and mass consumption, management and organisation issues, consumer power and corporate power, capitalism and democracy, technocracy and expertise, feminism, middle class issues and the labour movement.Selected Publications«Organising Affluence: The Norwegian Consumer Council’s Idea of the Ultimate Market in the 1950s and 60s.» (Essay in progress).Forbruksprodusentene: Om formingen av det norske forbrukersamfunnet [Producers of Consumption: The Making of a Norwegian Consumer Society] (book manuscript in progress, will be published in 2008. Publisher: Pax Forlag.) I forbrukets grenseland: Innganger til konsum, kultur og samfunnsanalyse 1914-1960 [On Consumption, Culture and Society in Norway 1914 to 1960 (PhD thesis 2005). Temmet eller uhemmet: Historiske perspektiver på konsum, kultur og dannelse. [Book on Historical perspectives on Consumption, Culture and Bildung](Co-authors: Sissel Myklebust and Brita Brenna. Oslo: Pax Forlag 2004). Haldor Byrkjeflot, Sissel Myklebust, Christine Myrvang and Francis Sejersted (eds.): The Democratic Challenge to Capitalism: Management and Democracy in the Nordic Countries. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget 2001. «West of Eden. Norwegian Industry in the Shadow of Swedish Grandeur 1914 to 1940.» In Byrkjeflot, Myklebust, Myrvang and Sejersted 2001. Teknikker i transformasjon. Ledelse, organisasjon og teknologi ved Årdal Verk og ÅSV fra 1940-åra til 1970-åra. [Management, organisation and technology at the aluminium plant Årdal Verk from the 1940s to the 1970s.] TIK skriftserie No 2/2000 «From Socialism to Productivism. The Debate on Socialisation and Rationalisation in the Norwegian Labour Movement 1918-1953.» In Tiratsoo, Nick (ed.): The Labour Parties and Business in Britain and Norway 1918-1999. Business History Unit Occasional Paper 1999, No 1., London School of Economics. Fiin gammel: Vinmonopolet 75 år. [The history of the Norwegian Wine and Spirits Monopoly.] (Co-author: Olav Hamran. Oslo: Tano-Aschehoug 1998.) «Industrial Democracy or Technocracy? Norwegian Socialists and the Theory of Socialisation in the Inter-War Years». In Myklebust, Sissel (ed.): Technology and Democracy: Obstacles to Democratization – Productivism and Technocracy. TMV skriftserie No 28/1997. Sosialistiske produksjonsidealer – «dagen derpaa». Storskala og teknokrati i norsk sosialiseringsdebatt og -teori 1917-1924. Major subject dissertation, University of Oslo 1995. Published in TMV skriftserie No 18/1996. ResearchI am currently involved in the project «Knowledge, Meaning and Economic Order: A Historical-Antropological study on the Norwegian Post-War Economy», with my colleagues at TIK, Tian Sørhaug and Ketil Gjølme Andersen. My main focus is on knowledge production and consumption, consumer politics and the Norwegian Consumer Council.I am also writing a book on the making of a Norwegian consumer society. |