Professor Lisa Adkins
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Professor Lisa Adkins

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Professor Lisa Adkins

Lisa Adkins is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The University of Sydney. Her home discipline is Sociology. She has previously held an Academy of Finland Distinguished Professorship (2015-19) and Chairs in Sociology at the University of Manchester and at Goldsmiths, University of London. She served as a member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts (Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences Panel), 2011-13.

Lisa's interventions in the discipline of Sociology lie in the areas of economic sociology, social theory and feminist theory. Currently, she is working on questions of asset ownership and social inequality, with a particular focus on the restructuring of lifetimes in the asset economy. This team-based research is supported by the Australian Research Council and by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI). Her most recent books are The Time of Money (2018, Stanford University Press) and The Asset Economy (2020, Polity Press) co-authored with Martijn Konings and Melinda Cooper. With Gareth Bryant and Martijn Konings, Lisa is currently directing a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Strategic Research Theme on Asset Ownership and the New Inequality, one of six Faculty Strategic Research Themes known as FutureFix. Lisa is also joint editor-in-chief of the journal Australian Feminist Studies (Routledge/Taylor&Francis).

Selected publications

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Publications

Books

  • Adkins, L., Cooper, M., Konings, M. (2020). The Asset Economy: Property Ownership and the New Logic of Inequality. Cambridge: Polity Press. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L. (2018). The Time of Money. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Adkins, L. (2002). Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity. Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Edited Books

  • Dever, M., Taylor, A., Adkins, L. (2018). Germaine Greer: Essays on a Feminist Figure. London: Routledge.
  • Adkins, L., Dever, M. (2017). Gender and Labour in New Times: An Introduction. London: Routledge.
  • Adkins, L., Brosnan, C., Threadgold, S. (2016). Bourdieusian Prospects. London: Routledge.

Book Chapters

  • Adkins, L., Dever, M. (2021). Toward a Political Economy of the Long Term. In S Herring and L Wallace (Eds.), Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment, (pp. 199-222). Durham: Duke University Press. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L. (2020). Labor in the Financial Era: Assets, Debt and the Speculative Worker. In P. Mader, D. Mertens, and N. van der Zwan (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization, (pp. 335-339). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L. (2019). Debt, complexity and the sociological imagination. In Mark Featherstone (Eds.), The Sociology of Debt, (pp. 27-48). Bristol: Policy Press. [More Information]

Journals

  • Adkins, L., Bryant, G., Konings, M. (2023). Asset-Based Futures: A Sociology for the 21st Century. Sociology, 57(2), 348-365. [More Information]
  • Coffey, J., Farrugia, D., Gill, R., Threadgold, S., Sharp, M., Adkins, L. (2023). Femininity work: The gendered politics of women managing violence in bar work. Gender, Work and Organization, 30(5), 1694-1708. [More Information]
  • Threadgold, S., Adkins, L., Gill, R., Sharp, M., Cook, J. (2023). Hospitality work and the sociality of affective labour. The Sociological Review, 71(1), 47-64. [More Information]

Edited Journals

  • Adkins, L., Konings, M. (2022). The Asset Economy. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 23(1).
  • Adkins, L., Konings, M. (2021). The Institutional Logic of Property Inflation. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 53(3).
  • Adkins, L. (2018). Money. Australian Feminist Studies, 33(95).

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

  • Konings, M., Bryant, G., Adkins, L. (2022). Asset Politics: Why debt is not the main problem. Arena Quarterly, 12. [More Information]
  • Konings, M., Adkins, L. (2022). Die Mittelschicht der Eigentumer ist too big to fail. [The Homeowning Middle-Class is Too Big to Fail.]. Soziopolis. [More Information]
  • Konings, M., Adkins, L., Bryant, G. (2021). Bidens Spending Bill Wont Save The Middle Class. Noema. [More Information]

Other

  • Adkins, L., Konings, M. (2020), Covid Life and the Asset Economy. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L., Konings, M. (2020), The Houses and the House-nots: The Asset Economy, Generations and COVID Lives. [More Information]

2023

  • Adkins, L., Bryant, G., Konings, M. (2023). Asset-Based Futures: A Sociology for the 21st Century. Sociology, 57(2), 348-365. [More Information]
  • Coffey, J., Farrugia, D., Gill, R., Threadgold, S., Sharp, M., Adkins, L. (2023). Femininity work: The gendered politics of women managing violence in bar work. Gender, Work and Organization, 30(5), 1694-1708. [More Information]
  • Threadgold, S., Adkins, L., Gill, R., Sharp, M., Cook, J. (2023). Hospitality work and the sociality of affective labour. The Sociological Review, 71(1), 47-64. [More Information]

2022

  • Konings, M., Bryant, G., Adkins, L. (2022). Asset Politics: Why debt is not the main problem. Arena Quarterly, 12. [More Information]
  • Konings, M., Adkins, L. (2022). Die Mittelschicht der Eigentumer ist too big to fail. [The Homeowning Middle-Class is Too Big to Fail.]. Soziopolis. [More Information]
  • Konings, M., Adkins, L., McKenzie, M., Woodman, D. (2022). Dimensions of the asset economy. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 23(1), 1-14. [More Information]

2021

  • Konings, M., Adkins, L., Bryant, G. (2021). Bidens Spending Bill Wont Save The Middle Class. Noema. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L., Cooper, M., Konings, M. (2021). Class in the 21st century: Asset inflation and the new logic of inequality. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 53(3), 548-572. [More Information]
  • Ylostalo, H., Adkins, L. (2021). Economizing the political: Workfare reform in strategic management mode. Current Sociology, 69(5), 723-741. [More Information]

2020

  • Adkins, L., Konings, M. (2020). Catering To A Contracting Middle Class: The idea of a home-owning middle class is broken. Noema. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L., Konings, M. (2020), Covid Life and the Asset Economy. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L., Bryant, G., Konings, M. (2020). HomeBuilder only makes sense as a nod to Morrison's home-owning voter base. The Conversation. [More Information]

2019

  • Adkins, L. (2019). Debt, complexity and the sociological imagination. In Mark Featherstone (Eds.), The Sociology of Debt, (pp. 27-48). Bristol: Policy Press. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L., Kortesoja, M., Mannevuo, M., Ylostalo, H. (2019). Experimenting with Price: Crafting the New Social Contract in Finland. Critical Sociology, 45(4-5), 683-696. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L. (2019). Social Reproduction in the Neoliberal Era: Payments, Leverage and the Minskian Household. Polygraph, (27), 19-33. [More Information]

2018

  • Adkins, L., Ylostalo, H. (2018). Experimental policy, price and the provocative state. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 19(2), 152-169. [More Information]
  • Coffey, J., Farrugia, D., Adkins, L., Threadgold, S. (2018). Gender, Sexuality, and Risk in the Practice of Affective Labour for Young Women in Bar Work. Sociological Research Online, 23(4), 728-743. [More Information]
  • Dever, M., Taylor, A., Adkins, L. (2018). Germaine Greer: Essays on a Feminist Figure. London: Routledge.

2017

  • Adkins, L. (2017). Disobedient Workers, The Law and the Making of Unemployment Markets. Sociology, 51(2), 290-305. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L., Dever, M. (2017). Gender and Labour in New Times: An Introduction. London: Routledge.
  • Adkins, L. (2017). Sociology's Archive: Mass-Observation as a Site of Speculative Research. In A. Wilkie, M. Savransky and M. Rosengarten (Eds.), Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures, (pp. 117-129). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]

2016

  • Adkins, L., Brosnan, C., Threadgold, S. (2016). Bourdieusian Prospects. London: Routledge.
  • Adkins, L. (2016). Contingent Labour and the Rewriting of the Sexual Contract. In L. Adkins and M. Dever (Eds.), The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract: Working and Living in Contingency, (pp. 1-28). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L., Dever, M., Taylor, A. (2016). Germaine Greer. Australian Feminist Studies, 31(87).

2015

  • Adkins, L. (2015). What are Post-Fordist Wages? Simmel, Labour Money and the Problem of Value. S A Q: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 14(2), 331-353.
  • Adkins, L. (2015). what can money do? feminist theory in austere times. Feminist Review, 109(1), 31-48. [More Information]

2014

  • Adkins, L., Dever, M. (2014). Gender and Labour in New Times. Australian Feminist Studies, 29(79).
  • Adkins, L., Dever, M. (2014). Gender and Labour in New Times. Australian Feminist Studies, 29(79), 1-11. [More Information]
  • Adkins, L., Dever, M. (2014). Housework, Wages and Money: The Category of the Female Principal Breadwinner in Financial Capitalism. Australian Feminist Studies, 29(79), 50-66.

2013

  • Adkins, L. (2013). Creativity, Biography and the Time of Individualization. In M. Banks, R. Gill and S. Taylor (Eds.), Theorizing Cultural Work: Labour, Continuity and Change in the Cultural and Creative Industries, (pp. 153-164). London and New York: Routledge.
  • Adkins, L. (2013). Ontological Bourdieu? A Reply to Simon Susen. Social Epistemology, 27(3-4), 295-301.

2012

  • Adkins, L., Lury, C. (2012). Measure and Value. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
  • Adkins, L. (2012). Out of Work or Out of Time? Rethinking Labor After the Financial Crisis. S A Q: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 111(4), 621-641.
  • Adkins, L., Lury, C. (2012). Special Measure. In L. Adkins and C. Lury (Eds.), Measure and Value, (pp. 5-23). Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.

2011

  • Adkins, L., Lury, C. (2011). Measure and Value. The Sociological Review, 59(Issue Supplement s2).
  • Adkins, L. (2011). Practice as Temporalisation: Bourdieu and Economic Crisis. In S. Susen and B.S. Turner (Eds.), The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu: Critical Essays, (pp. 347-365). London and New York: Anthem Press.
  • Adkins, L., Lury, C. (2011). Special Measures. The Sociological Review, 59(Issue Supplement s2), 5-23.

2010

  • Adkins, L. (2010). The New Economy, Property and Personhood. In D. Oswell (Eds.), Cultural Theory (Volume 4: Economy, Technology and Knowledge, (pp. 219-240). London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage.

2005

  • Adkins, L., Skeggs, B. (2005). Feminism after Bourdieu. Malden: Blackwell Publishers.

2002

  • Adkins, L. (2002). Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity. Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press.

1996

  • Adkins, L., Leonard, D. (1996). Sex in Question: French Materialist Feminism. London: Taylor and Francis.
  • Adkins, L., Holland, J. (1996). Sex, Sensibility and the Gendered Body. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Adkins, L., Merchant, V. (1996). Sexualizing the Social: Power and the Organization of Sexuality. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

1995

  • Adkins, L. (1995). Gendered Work: Sexuality, Family and the Labour Market. Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Selected Grants

2023

  • Wealth Inequality in Australia: Sources and Solutions, Adkins L, Konings M, Whelan S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2021

  • Pathways to home ownership in an age of uncertainty 21/PRO/73273, Troy L, Adkins L, Konings M, Bryant G, Buckle C, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Ltd (AHURI)/Research Grant
  • Inequality in Australia: Housing in the Asset Society, Konings M, Adkins L, Rogers D, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Special Research Initiative: Australian Society, History and Culture

In the media

Adkins L., and Konings M. (2020) Inheritance, not work, has become the main route to middle-class home ownership. The Guardian.

Adkins L., Bryant G., and Konings M. (2020) HomeBuilder Only Makes Sense as a Nod to Morrison’s Home-Owning Voter Base. The Conversation.

Adkins, L., Cooper M., and Konings M. (2020) The Asset Economy. LA Review of Books.

Adkins L., and Konings M. (2020) The Houses and the House-Nots: The Asset Economy, Generations and COVID Lives. OECD Forum Network.

Adkins L., and Konings M. (2020). Catering to a Contracting Middle Class: The Idea of a Home-Owning Middle Class is Broken. Noema Magazine.

Adkins L., and Konings M. (2020) Covid Life and the Asset Economy. Goldsmiths Press Blog.

Adkins L., and Ylöstalo H. (2020) Basic Income, Wellness and Changing Forms of Productivity. Marxist Sociology Blog: Theory, Research, Politics.

Adkins, L., and Michael. M. (2019) A Conversation with Lisa Adkins and Mike Michael About Social Futures. The Sociological Review Blog.

Adkins, L. (2018) Speculative Finance and The Transformation of the Social. Progress in Political Economy Blog.

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