Niamh Mulcahy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 288390 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Niamh Mulcahy |
| PRENOMES | Niamh |
| SOBRENOME | Mulcahy |
| ASSINATURA | MULCAHY N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3688-8983 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Investing in the community
This paper explores increasing emphasis on long-term investment in English devolution policy, as part of attempts to revitalise struggling communities through investment in infrastructure and public space. English councils seek to offset the financial difficulties they faced due to austerity cuts by establishing their own corporations, joint ventures, and investment partnerships, in order to generate needed income by creating economic flows from …
The aleatory moment of finance and the structural production of class-based inequality
This article considers the conceptual role that contingency plays in class-based inequality, by examining financial insecurity in the UK following the 2008 financial crisis, austerity, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Althusser’s aleatory materialism, I counter postmodern and poststructuralist ideas of contingency as a universally disruptive challenge to power and stratification, showing instead how a pervasive sense of uncertainty drives wo…
Is the social study of finance necessarily nominalist? Using realism to address shortcomings in actor‐network theory approaches to financialisation and everyday life
The financial crisis of 2007–2009 has reignited an interest among sociologists and social scientists in finance and economics, especially in technical aspects of the economy and the inner workings of market relations. However, in these cases social studies of finance retain a distinctly nominalist character, focusing on individual interactions in a market treated as a means of coordinating exchange. The social study of finance as a field seeking …
Shaping entrepreneurial subjects
The notion of a 'financial subjectivity' is fast becoming an important way of understanding how people rationalize the need to take risks in daily life as crucial to personal success. This paper therefore traces the structural changes and institutional fixes - that is, the institutional stabilization of crisis tendencies in capitalism - to understand how individual strategies for making ends meet have been shaped by finance. In particular, I look…
Workers-as-consumers
The relationship between the working class and consumer culture is undoubtedly contentious and often held as problematic in Marxist critical theory, owing to the exploitative nature of the mass production that facilitates consumption. Consequently, consumption sometimes appears as a distraction from the inequality perpetuated during the accumulation of capital, and thus as a social problem with normative undertones. As I reiterate in this article…
Entrepreneurial subjectivity and the political economy of daily life in the time of finance
This article examines the emergence of a 'financial subject' in the transformation of the UK economy since 1979, using a critical realist approach to subjectivity that investigates underlying causal mechanisms and structures as they affect daily life. Financial restructuring, including widespread borrowing and increasing personal investment, has forged links between finance markets and personal finance, as workers' wages are financialized. This e…
Democracy in What State
The word “democracy” invokes a number of different and often contradictory meanings in contemporary liberal societies, ranging from democracy as a form of constitution outlining public law to democracy as a loosely defined term in opposition to totalitarianism. Consequently, the eight contributors to the collection Democracy in What State? respond to the question of whether or not the word “democracy” is useful and meaningful today. This review e…
Narrating Developmental Disability
This paper examines the narration of developmental disability through interviews between participants, researchers, and members of community organizations serving the disabled population, in the context of university-community collaborations. These kinds of collaborations are extremely important for researching vulnerable or hard-to-reach populations, which often face lower levels of physical, mental, and social well-being as a consequence of sha…
Entrepreneurial subjectivity and the political economy of daily life in the time of finance
This article examines the emergence of a 'financial subject' in the transformation of the UK economy since 1979, using a critical realist approach to subjectivity that investigates underlying causal mechanisms and structures as they affect daily life. Financial restructuring, including widespread borrowing and increasing personal investment, has forged links between finance markets and personal finance, as workers' wages are financialized. This e…
Shaping entrepreneurial subjects
The notion of a 'financial subjectivity' is fast becoming an important way of understanding how people rationalize the need to take risks in daily life as crucial to personal success. This paper therefore traces the structural changes and institutional fixes - that is, the institutional stabilization of crisis tendencies in capitalism - to understand how individual strategies for making ends meet have been shaped by finance. In particular, I look…
Workers-as-consumers
The relationship between the working class and consumer culture is undoubtedly contentious and often held as problematic in Marxist critical theory, owing to the exploitative nature of the mass production that facilitates consumption. Consequently, consumption sometimes appears as a distraction from the inequality perpetuated during the accumulation of capital, and thus as a social problem with normative undertones. As I reiterate in this article…
Narrating Developmental Disability
This paper examines the narration of developmental disability through interviews between participants, researchers, and members of community organizations serving the disabled population, in the context of university-community collaborations. These kinds of collaborations are extremely important for researching vulnerable or hard-to-reach populations, which often face lower levels of physical, mental, and social well-being as a consequence of sha…
Democracy in What State
The word “democracy” invokes a number of different and often contradictory meanings in contemporary liberal societies, ranging from democracy as a form of constitution outlining public law to democracy as a loosely defined term in opposition to totalitarianism. Consequently, the eight contributors to the collection Democracy in What State? respond to the question of whether or not the word “democracy” is useful and meaningful today. This review e…
Shaping entrepreneurial subjects
The notion of a 'financial subjectivity' is fast becoming an important way of understanding how people rationalize the need to take risks in daily life as crucial to personal success. This paper therefore traces the structural changes and institutional fixes - that is, the institutional stabilization of crisis tendencies in capitalism - to understand how individual strategies for making ends meet have been shaped by finance. In particular, I look…
Workers-as-consumers
The relationship between the working class and consumer culture is undoubtedly contentious and often held as problematic in Marxist critical theory, owing to the exploitative nature of the mass production that facilitates consumption. Consequently, consumption sometimes appears as a distraction from the inequality perpetuated during the accumulation of capital, and thus as a social problem with normative undertones. As I reiterate in this article…
Entrepreneurial subjectivity and the political economy of daily life in the time of finance
This article examines the emergence of a 'financial subject' in the transformation of the UK economy since 1979, using a critical realist approach to subjectivity that investigates underlying causal mechanisms and structures as they affect daily life. Financial restructuring, including widespread borrowing and increasing personal investment, has forged links between finance markets and personal finance, as workers' wages are financialized. This e…
Is the social study of finance necessarily nominalist? Using realism to address shortcomings in actor‐network theory approaches to financialisation and everyday life
The financial crisis of 2007–2009 has reignited an interest among sociologists and social scientists in finance and economics, especially in technical aspects of the economy and the inner workings of market relations. However, in these cases social studies of finance retain a distinctly nominalist character, focusing on individual interactions in a market treated as a means of coordinating exchange. The social study of finance as a field seeking …
The aleatory moment of finance and the structural production of class-based inequality
This article considers the conceptual role that contingency plays in class-based inequality, by examining financial insecurity in the UK following the 2008 financial crisis, austerity, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Althusser’s aleatory materialism, I counter postmodern and poststructuralist ideas of contingency as a universally disruptive challenge to power and stratification, showing instead how a pervasive sense of uncertainty drives wo…
Investing in the community
This paper explores increasing emphasis on long-term investment in English devolution policy, as part of attempts to revitalise struggling communities through investment in infrastructure and public space. English councils seek to offset the financial difficulties they faced due to austerity cuts by establishing their own corporations, joint ventures, and investment partnerships, in order to generate needed income by creating economic flows from …
Political science (8 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (5 obras) · Political Economy and Marxism (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Finance (4 obras) · Market economy (4 obras)