Dr Charlie Dannreuther
Small Group Project 2015-16
Financialisation, Social Investment and Europe’s Social Question
Scholars from England and Denmark will discuss the relationship between financialisation and social innovation in contemporary welfare provision. While the financial crisis has accelerated reforms in welfare provision in Europe, many of these changes had their origins in the 1990s. During this period categories of class and conflict were reframed as social constructs in a sociological turn in economic and political theory. In practice the rejection of these categories was explained with reference to exogenous structural changes in society, economy and the state through phenomena like globalisation.
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Charlie Dannreuther is Lecturer in European Political Economy at the University of Leeds.
Before working at Leeds he held positions at the LSE, Warwick and Manchester where he developed an interest in exploring international political economy through small business policy.
Until the financial crash he actively pursued engagement in policy debates. His work was recognised in UK government responses to Select Committees (on the value of social science research), in FCO publicity materials (Turkish Lisbon Agenda project) and in his appointment as expert for the Economic and Social Committee opinion on the EU Commission's proposal for a Single Market for a C21st Europe and in projects won with the TUC to help develop Trade Union capacity in Turkey for the FCO.
After the crash he chaired a 400 scholar EU wide network on the systemic causes of the financial crash that explored new phenomena (eg shadow banking) and old (variates of capitalism) through new lenses (eg agent based modelling) and established critiques against mainstream economic thinking (cultural political economy). Since then he has been exploring the economic production of non-quantitative forms of value and their expression in post crash politics. This has included projects comparing how value was constituted in social investment policies with open water swimming in an ISRF funded network project and a showing how the construction of human value used in the EU's Capital Market Union strategies chimed with practices used in C18th slavery (Dannreuther & Kessler 2017).
His work is eclectic in approach and collaborative in nature but focused on exploring how subjectivities - who we think we are - are influenced by capitalist processes.
Before working at Leeds he held positions at the LSE, Warwick and Manchester where he developed an interest in exploring international political economy through small business policy.
Until the financial crash he actively pursued engagement in policy debates. His work was recognised in UK government responses to Select Committees (on the value of social science research), in FCO publicity materials (Turkish Lisbon Agenda project) and in his appointment as expert for the Economic and Social Committee opinion on the EU Commission's proposal for a Single Market for a C21st Europe and in projects won with the TUC to help develop Trade Union capacity in Turkey for the FCO.
After the crash he chaired a 400 scholar EU wide network on the systemic causes of the financial crash that explored new phenomena (eg shadow banking) and old (variates of capitalism) through new lenses (eg agent based modelling) and established critiques against mainstream economic thinking (cultural political economy). Since then he has been exploring the economic production of non-quantitative forms of value and their expression in post crash politics. This has included projects comparing how value was constituted in social investment policies with open water swimming in an ISRF funded network project and a showing how the construction of human value used in the EU's Capital Market Union strategies chimed with practices used in C18th slavery (Dannreuther & Kessler 2017).
His work is eclectic in approach and collaborative in nature but focused on exploring how subjectivities - who we think we are - are influenced by capitalist processes.
Biographical details correct as of 21.05.26