Kieran Keohane – May 6th 2021 – 10:00 GMT Today we were treated to a hopeful and uplifting talk by newly minted professor sociology at University College Cork Kieran Keohane. In his talk Kieran spoke extensively about articulating visions of positivity, and that while COVID-19 is a crisis which has caused significant issues in economy…
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Rationalities and Moral Economies in Illicit Drug Markets
Angus Bancroft. April 29th 2021 10:00 GMT. This morning we had the pleasure of hearing from Angus Bancroft, and his research on illicit cryptomarkets – particularly as they relate to the sales and purchases of drugs, and the moral economies that surround these exchanges. Angus was introduced by John O’Brien, a longtime member of the…
Work and the Gig Economy
Alex Wood – April 27th 2021 10:00 – 11:00 GMT This morning Alex Wood spoke to us about his 2019 paper published in Work Employment and Society about job quality in the gig economy. Some examples of gig work that Alex presented to us. It’s more widespread than many people think and stretches far beyond…
Fairground Capitalism
Arpad Szakolczai – April 22nd 2021 10:00 GMT This morning we were treated to a seminar with Arpad who was discussing his new book (still being drafted!) Tricksterland. For anyone who may not know, Arpad has written quite extensively about the importance of the Trickster and indeed the Trick for understanding our contemporary world. The…
Street-Level Welfare
April 20th 2021 16:00 – 17:00 Evelyn Brodkin in conversation with Mary Murphy and Joe Whelan We are grateful to have had Evelyn Brodkin speak to us about Street-Level Organisations (SLOs) through the specific example of Street-Level Welfare (SLW). We include a selection of slides from Evelyn’s presentation below: What are SLOs? These are the…
The Datafication of Welfare
Lina Dencik spoke to us today (April 15) about how the welfare State is changing in response to datafication, and how the concept of data justice can help us to advance our understanding of the issues at hand. We include a selection of Lina’s slides below from her 15 minute presentation. Many analyses of what…
Precarity – The Recap
Today (April 13) at 10:00 we had a talk with Theresa O’Keefe, Aline Courtois, and Teresa Crew on precarious work in academia. Our talk was opened by Teresa Crew (picture below) who spoke about a recent experience where she recommended a postgraduate student of hers take up work on a research project. This fantastic opportunity…
Justifying Welfare
March 25th – 10:00 GMT. Magnus Paulsen Hansen (Roskilde University) in conversation with Fiona Dukelow (University College Cork) and Michael McGann (Maynooth University). Magnus began his presentation by stating that he had a number of different aims with his book: to take morality seriously; to take the public debates around welfare seriously; and to explore…
The Reformation of Welfare
Our first E&S seminar this week was with Tom Boland (UCC) and Ray Griffin (WIT) presenting work from their new book – The Reformation of Welfare. This book builds on previous research on the labour market, welfare, and unemployment by attending to the underexplored realm of economic theology. This perspective was featured in two previous…
Jobseeking & the Labour Market
This week at the 2021 Economy & Society Summer School we conversed with the excellent Ilana Gershon speak to us about neoliberalism and in particular neoliberal subjectivities. Ilana began her talk by admitting that even when she began her research that there was an oversaturation of neoliberalism in the social sciences. She was faced with…