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… Read More »Launch of the E&S 2021 Digital Summer School Archive
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… Read More »The Leviathan of Rationality
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… Read More »Good Models and Positive Mimesis: Hopeful Grounds and Horizons for Economy & Society After COVID-19
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… Read More »Rationalities and Moral Economies in Illicit Drug Markets
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… Read More »Work and the Gig Economy
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… Read More »Fairground Capitalism
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,… Read More »Street-Level 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… Read More »The Datafication of Welfare
Theresa O’Keefe, Aline Courtois and Teresa Crew – April 13th – 10:00 GMT Abstract: This seminar will explore the normalisation of precarity within higher education institutions and the extent to which structural inequalities are reproduced through the casualisation of academic work. We wish to collectively… Read More »Precarity and Precarious Work in Academia
Magnus Paulsen Hansen – in conversation with Fiona Dukelow and Michael McGann – March 25th – 10:00 GMT Abstract: In 2019, I published a book (The moral economy of activation) on justification of activation reforms in Denmark and France. The book used concepts from the… Read More »Justifying Welfare