Research

My research explores the rise of new social and political imaginaries in financialised capitalism. It combines historical, political and economic sociology to trace the impact of financial markets on our everyday lives. A key focus of this work is on how collective movements weaponise technologies of speculation and distortion to counter dominant regimes of truth and power under conditions of radical uncertainty.

Teaching

I am Programme Director of UCL’s BSc Sociology and I teach classes in Social Theory, Social Movements, and the Sociology of the Future, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I currently supervise six PhD students in the broad areas of political sociology, bureaucracy, capitalism studies, and collective movements – in national contexts such as Chile, China, Hong Kong, Iran and the UK.