We are very excited to announce that the long awaited book – the reformation of welfare is out today (June 15). Buy it from Bristol University Press here at a temporary 20% discount! Blurb Western culture has ‘faith’ in the labour market as a test of the worth of each individual. For those who are…
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Job Advertisement: Summer Studentship
Title: HECAT short-term studentship, Dept of Management and Organisation Reporting to: Dr Ray Griffin Project funded: H2020-SC6 Project title: HECAT- ‘Disruptive Technologies Supporting Labour Market Job description: We are currently seeking a FULL TIME summer studentship to join the School of Business at Waterford Institute of Technology. WIT is currently coordinating the EU…
Launch of the E&S 2021 Digital Summer School Archive
We are excited to announce the launch of the Economy & Society Summer School Digital archive! Usually the summer school is a weeklong event that takes place in Blackwater Castle in Cork, Ireland. However due to COVID-19, we made the decision this year to host the event entirely online. For this reason we also decided…
The Leviathan of Rationality
Damian O’Doherty – May 10th 20:00 GMT [movie screening] & 11th 10:00 GMT [seminar and discussion] – 2021 Abstract: The Leviathan of Rationality | As a finale to E+S21, Damian O’Doherty, an E+S stalwart has planned a movie night for us. We plan to gather at 8 o’clock on Monday evening to watch together Leviathan…
Good Models and Positive Mimesis: Hopeful Grounds and Horizons for Economy & Society After COVID-19
Kieran Keohane – May 6th 2021 – 10:00 GMT Abstract: I’ll begin with a brief review of two general theoretical paradigms to help us account for both the bad (violent) and good (collaborative) manifestations of the current Covid-19 pandemic crisis by drawing on theories of René Girard and Marcel Mauss. Girard’s theory is used to…
Rationalities and Moral Economies in Illicit Drug Markets
Angus Bancroft – April 29th 2021 – 10:00 GMT Abstract: Illicit markets, especially drug markets are not simply places of crime and deviance. In this seminar, Angus Bancroft will explore the complex moral economies which govern the use of illicit markets. Particularly with respect to his research on illicit cryptomarkets and how these digital spaces…
Work and the Gig Economy
Alex Wood – April 27th 2021 10:00 GMT Abstract: The gig economy is now a profound part of our economy and society, and goes hand-in-hand with the casualisation of labour, especially as the digital economy has become more advanced. In this seminar, Alex Wood will introduce us to his research on the gig economy, based…
Fairground Capitalism
Arpad Szakolczai – April 22nd 2021 – 10:00 GMT Abstract: Modernity and the processes of capitalism appear to us from a position of calculative rationality. Capitalism counts, assigns, assesses, streamlines, evaluates and otherwise organises and categorises the social world in a manner which appears to be empirical and open. In this talk, Prof. Szakolczai will…
Street-Level Welfare
Evelyn Brodkin in conversation with Mary Murphy and Joe Whelan – April 20th 2021 – 16:00 GMT Abstract: Street-level organizations (SLOs) – those organizations that directly bring policy to people – play an important and familiar role as the operational arm of the state. However, they are more than mere policy implementers; they also should…
The Datafication of Welfare
Lina Dencik in conversation with Ray Griffin and HECAT – April 15th 2021 – 16:00 GMT Abstract: The crisis emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic has elevated both therelevance of the welfare state as well as the role of platforms and data infrastructures across key areas of public and social life. Whilst the crisis shed light…