Nigel B. Dodd (1965–2022) was a British sociologist. Dodd earned a doctorate from the

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in 1991, and began his teaching career as a lecturer at

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. He moved to the

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in 1995. He was the editor-in-chief of the '' British Journal of Sociology'' since 2014. Dodd was co-editor (with Patrik Aspers) of ''Re-Imagining Economic Sociology'' (2015) and volume six of ''A Cultural History of Money'' (series editor: Bill Maurer) with Federico Neiburg (2019). Dodd died on 12 August 2022. At the time of his death he was working on two book projects. The first, ''Images of Time'', considered the sociology of time of

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('messianic time') and

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('heterogenous time'). The second, ''Utopianism and the Future of Money'', considered the prospects for

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Works

* ''The Sociology of Money : Economics, reason and contemporary society''. Polity, 1994. * ''Social Theory and Modernity''. Polity, 1999. * ''The Social Life of Money''. Princeton University Press, 2014. * (ed. with Patrik Aspers) ''Re-Imagining Economic Sociology''. Oxford University Press, 2015. * (ed. with Judy Wajcman) ''The Sociology of Speed: digital, organizational, and social temporalities''. Oxford University Press, 2016.

References

1965 births 2022 deaths British academic journal editors Academics of the London School of Economics Academics of the University of Liverpool Alumni of the University of Cambridge British sociologists Economic sociologists {{UK-sociologist-stub