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
Ray Griffin and Tom Boland – March 23rd – 10:00 GMT Abstract: Contemporary states incessantly pursue welfare reform: This talk traces how welfare has been conceptualised from early twentieth century models of social insurance, through the ILO definition of unemployment to the post-war welfare state,… Read More »The Reformation of Welfare
Ilana Gershon – March 16th 2021 – 16:00 GMT Abstract: In 2011, I published a theoretical model for what neoliberal selves and neoliberal relationships are as an attempt to unpack in much more detail the Foucaultian claim that the neoliberal self is an entrepreneurial self. I… Read More »Jobseeking & the Labour Market: Understanding Jobseeking
Mitchell Dean – March 11th – 10:00 GMT Abstract: Foucault and Agamben in the present– Governmentality, economic theology and political theology as paradigms and analytical strategies – Methodological orientations, e.g. signature, arche, genealogy – Institutional and conceptual economic theology – The ordeal (l’épreuve): personal, economic, governmental… Read More »Economic Theology: Governance
Stefan Schwarzkopf – March 9th – 10:00 GMT Abstract: Contemporary ideas about society have a profound and lengthy history – connected in a genealogy to theological ideas. For instance, the market is often considered as a space of choice which reveals true value, outside of… Read More »Economic Theology: Markets & Marketisation