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Dr. Martyn Egan

Assistant Professor (Political Science)
      
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Dr. Martyn Egan

Assistant Professor (Political Science)

 eganm9@tcd.ie

 


I took my PhD at the European University Institute, Florence, where I also worked as a Research Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Prior to working in academia I spent several years as a research analyst in the Middle East.
  Comparative Sociology   Political Economy   Social Inequalities   Social Theory
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IFUT ADC Delegate 2024
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
Arabic Basic Basic Basic
French Fluent Medium Medium
German Basic Basic Basic
Italian Fluent Fluent Fluent
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IFUT Sept. 2021
Political Studies Association of Ireland Jun. 2024
British Sociological Association Jun. 2024
Conference of Socialist Economists Jun. 2024
Martyn Egan, Towards a Political Economy of Algorithmic Capitalism, Capital and Class, 2025, p1-13 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Martyn Egan, `The mystery of Dublin": Corporate profit-shifting and housing crisis in twenty-first century Ireland, Economy and Society, 52, (3), 2023, p531 - 553, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Martyn Egan, Giuliana Urso, Migration Profile Morocco, Flash Migration Profile, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, June, 2018, Report, PUBLISHED
Martyn Egan, Giuliana Urso, Migration Profile Nigeria, Flash Migration Profile, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, March, 2018, Report, PUBLISHED
Martyn Egan, Paul Tabar, Bourdieu in Beirut: Wasta, the State and Social Reproduction in Lebanon, Middle East Critique, 25, (3), 2016, p249--270 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Martyn Egan, Clandestine circulation: social reproduction in the shadow of the state, European University Institute, 2014, Thesis, PUBLISHED  URL
  

Martyn Egan, Diversifying into a dead-end: failed transformations in the rentier states of the Gulf, Middle East Directions Research Meeting, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Fiesole, 10-Mar-2016, 2016, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Martyn Egan, Halal Ignorance: Religion and Domination in Saudi Arabia, BRISMES Graduate Conference, LSE, London, 2012, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Martyn Egan, The evolution of unwritten rules: a comparison of blat and wasta, Mediterranean Research Meeting, Montecatini Terme, 21-Mar-2012, 2012, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

  


Award Date
Trinity Excellence in Teaching School Award Jun. 2024
I am perhaps unusual as a social scientist in being equally interested in theoretical and empirical research. My substantive interests straddle the disciplinary boundaries between political economy and political sociology, and lie primarily in the field of social reproduction and inequality. I study these using primarily Bourdieusian theoretical and methodological approaches, including Geometric Data Analysis, Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Principal Components Analysis. I use these methods to uncover and explore latent structures or dimensions in social space, such as forms of capital or modes of reproduction. My current research in this area is focussed on the comparative study of social reproduction across countries. I am investigating whether countries can be grouped into "regimes" of reproduction, according to similarities in practices, perceptions and institutional configurations. This agenda builds on my PhD research, which focussed on the particular case of social reproduction in Lebanon through the phenomenon of wasta (connections), using primarily qualitative methods. As well as social reproduction, I also have an interest in the political economy of accumulation, which I study from a Marxist/Gramscian perspective. A recent publication in this area focussed on the housing crisis in Ireland, and sought to link this to Ireland's specific accumulation regime, which is specialised in facilitating base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) among multi-national corporations. Finally, I also have an interest in the political economy of generative AI, which I again analyse from a Marxist perspective. A paper currently awaiting publication draws on Jean Baudrillard's concept of the simulacrum to modify Marx's theory of the commodity fetish.