Sociology

Contact Details

Address	Sociology Department of Sociology University College
Telephone:	+353 21 490 3000
Email:	ei.ccu@enahoek.k

Biography:

Research Interests:

Sociological analysis in the interpretive tradition - hermeneutics, phenomenology, psychoanalysis; classical and contemporary social theory; confluences between critical theory and poststructuralism; the conditions of postmodernity; sociological-philosophical affinities in literature and poetics; cities and forms of urban life; identity, difference and social antagonism; memory, fantasy, collective representations, the symbolic order.

Current work:

1. The city and urban culture, informed primarily by Simmel, Benjamin and Joyce; the generation and legacy of cultural capital in Europe's 'cultural capitals'; the libidinal economy of the city; desire, artifice, and presentation of self; the child in the city, moral education and the cultivation of cosmopolitanism.

2. The sociology of formal organizations, management theory and practice; marketing & advertizing; the sociology of money & global financial markets.

3. Social pathologies of contemporary civilization; the symbolic disorders and socio-psychopathologies associated with accelerated modernization, globalization and risk; namely: ennui, anomie, melancholia, affective disorders, psychoses, and the hysterical conditions of the Twenty-first century. And as a consequence of this interpretive work, I am interested in epidemology, public health and social policy.

4. Planning and Sustainable Development; housing, dwelling, architecture & design; the symbolic order and imaginative structure of the house and home; the anthropologically deep-seated relationship between house, home and civilization, and between architecture, mind, and the formation of subjectivity, informed by Weber, Heidegger, Foucault, etc.