Dr. Roderick Condon

Biography

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).