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CRESI is the home of economic sociology at ÌÇÐÄVlog, carrying out pathbreaking research on economic sociology, economic justice, and the political economy of economic inequalities.

We have a strong interest in critically challenging regimes of power that compound wealth concentration and perpetuate different forms of racial capitalism and worker exploitation.

Our centre is led by scholars who have made pioneering contributions to the political economy of corporate power, critical scholarship on global philanthropy, feminist political economy, the sociology of power and ignorance, cultural economy, and political anthropology.

Our research interests include the following:

• The finitude of earth's resources (land, water, energy)
• Human rights and economic justice
• Feminist political economy
• Welfare regimes and pensions
• Racial capitalism, slavery and forced labour - historical and contemporary
• The pharmaceutical industry
• Work and employment
• Gender budgeting and fiscal sociology
• Economies of knowledge and epistemic injustice
• Bazaar economy and commons
• Urban studies and enclaving

We emphasize the value of collaborative research within the Department of Sociology and Criminology, as well as interdisciplinary research with researchers and staff in other parts of the University.

We have close links to the Human Rights Centre, the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis (CIDA), the ÌÇÐÄVlog Business School, the Centre for Global South Studies (CGS), and the School of Life Sciences.

A number of different theoretical approaches and substantive areas of focus are strongly represented within the Centre. These include:

• Network theory and science and technology studies (STS)
• Feminist political economy
• Political ecology
• Global justice, reparations and mutual aid
• Human rights theory, racial justice and economic justice
• Post-Marxist theory
• Urban and political anthropology
• Neo-Polanyian approaches
• Sociology of consumption
• Economic history
• Cultural economy and history
• Bazaars and popular economies
• Urban studies and enclaving

Through our research, our regular seminars, and conferences, we stimulate dialogue between these approaches, contributing new insights to research on global economic inequality, global philanthropy, tax justice, racial capitalism, urban economics and political anthropology, and economies of care.

• by Dr Maitrayee Deka, 2023
•  by Professor Linsey Mcgoey, 2019
• , by Professor Linsey McGoey, 2015
• , by Dr Jason Sumich, 2018

• by Dr Jason Sumich, published in Economy and Society in 2022
• by Dr Jason Sumich, published and shortlisted by the Journal of Urban Studies for the best article of 2021
•  by Dr Darren Thiel, published in Qualitative Sociology in 2022

 Our most notable appearances:

• , a Channel 4 TV documentary on Bill Gates, featuring Professor Linsey McGoey, 2023
• An interview with Dr Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki featured on the Engaged Scholarship Narratives of Change blog, 2022
• , a YouTube webinar by Professor Linsey McGoey, organised by Northwestern University’s Weinberg Center for International and Area Studies in 2020
• , a keynote speech and debate by Professor Linsey McGoey at the University of Antwerp in 2019

Our events:

CRESI hosts regular seminars featuring internationally renowned speakers and guests, as well as facilitating visiting student and professorial research visits from scholars across the world.

Many of our webinars and seminars are organised in close collaboration with student groups, including the ÌÇÐÄVlog Students’ Union, the Black Social and Political Society (BSPS), and a student-led webinar on resource use and democracy in Bolivia.

To view all upcoming CRESI events, please visit the Department of Sociology and Criminology events calendar.

• , an article by Dr Maitrayee Deka in the Conversation, 2024
• , an article by Professor Linsey McGoey in The Guardian, 2022
• , an article by Professor Linsey McGoey on global financial trading and the GameStop controversy, London Review of Books, 2021
• , a guest essay by Professor Linsey McGoey in the New York Times, 2021
•  an article by Professor Linsey McGoey on income inequality and philanthropy, Evonomics, 2016 
• , a book review by Andy Beckett in the Guardian, 2015
• , an article on the work of Professor Linsey McGoey on BBC Brazil - written in Brazilian Portuguese, 2019

Global Ideas is a podcast hosted by CRESI on critical debates from voices in different parts of the world working and creatively thinking about how to live together in times of crisis. In our first podcast, we spoke to academic and poet , who works at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD) on critical thinking and creative writing.

We spoke about the politics of working with different writing genres at a time when there is increasing censorship and shrinking spaces to develop ideas and collaborations. More specifically, it examines the intersection of poetry and scholarship to critically analyse violence and intimate conflicts.