Dr. Roderick Condon
Teaching Fellow (Sociology)
Teaching Fellow (Sociology)
Roderick Condon is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. He received his PhD in Sociology from University College Cork in 2018. He is an interdisciplinary sociologist with a research focus in general social theory and critical social theory, with a particular interest in the tradition associated with the Frankfurt School. Within this field he has a longstanding interest in questions concerning the theory of society and the critique of capitalism after the communicative turn in social theory. To date, he has focused on reconceptualising the theory of reification with a view towards its application in linguistic and cultural analysis. The central theme of Roderick"s research is on forms of power within communication and the effects of such on social change. This intersects with a wide range of substantive interests, primarily around questions concerning new social movements, the public sphere, and, broadly, democracy and capitalism. These questions shape an additional interest in political sociology. More recently, he has turned to environmental sociology with an interest in analysing contemporary ecological crisis. Methodologically, he is interested in various forms of communication, discourse, linguistic, and cultural analysis. He is currently finishing a book, provisionally titled `Reconsidering Habermas's Colonization Thesis: A Critical Theory of Neoliberalism' to be published by Routledge. His work has been published in European Societies and European Journal of Social Theory. He is Book Review Editor with the BSA journal Sociological Research Online (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sro) and board member of the ESA Social Theory Research Network (RN29).
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| European Sociological Association |
2019 |
Present |
| British Sociological Association |
2024 |
Present |
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Roderick Condon, Reframing Habermas's Colonization Thesis: Neoliberalism as Relinguistification, European Journal of Social Theory, 2021,
Journal Article,
PUBLISHED
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Roderick Condon, The coronavirus crisis and the legitimation crisis of neoliberalism, European Societies, 2021,
Journal Article,
PUBLISHED
DOI
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Roderick Condon, Narrativized discursive legitimation: Comment on the Mother and Baby Homes report, Irish Journal of Sociology, 2022,
Journal Article,
PUBLISHED
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Roderick Condon, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi, Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory, Irish Journal of Sociology, 2021,
Review,
PUBLISHED
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Dermot McAleese Teaching Award for Sociology. School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin.
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2020 |
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Graduate Student Research Excellence Award. Department of Sociology, University College Cork.
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2016 |
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Graduate Student Research Excellence Award. Department of Sociology, University College Cork.
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2015 |
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College Scholar. University College Cork.
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2008 |
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First Prize, Undergraduate Dissertation. Department of Sociology, University College Cork.
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2008 |
