Biography
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.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Martyn Egan, `The mystery of Dublin": Corporate profit-shifting and housing crisis in twenty-first century Ireland, Economy and Society, 2023
Martyn Egan, Paul Tabar, Bourdieu in Beirut: Wasta, the State and Social Reproduction in Lebanon, Middle East Critique, 25, (3), 2016, p249--270
Research Expertise
Description
I am perhaps unusual as a social scientist in being equally interested in theoretical and empirical research. My substantive interest lies in the field of social reproduction and inequality, where I use primarily Bourdieusian theoretical and methodological approaches (Geometric Data Analysis, Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Principal Components Analysis) to uncover latent dimensions in social space (e.g. forms of capital, modes of reproduction). However, I also have an interest in the political economy of accumulation, which I study from a Marxist/Gramscian perspective, and the political economy of generative AI, for which I draw on the work of Jean Baudrillard.Recognition
Awards and Honours
Trinity Excellence in Teaching School Award
Memberships
IFUT
Political Studies Association of Ireland
British Sociological Association
Conference of Socialist Economists