I am interested in how political and economic theory, together with philosophy, shape social pheneomena. My research has focused on how in the last decades some of the core values and concepts of modernity and the Enlightenment, such as individual agency and material progress, have been problematized in the narratives both of the New Left and of the mainstream and extreme Right. I have also been interested in the study of the rise of the ‘sharing economy’ and its sociological implications. I have also published on issues around the globalization process and its discontents, the forms of action and narratives of the anti-austerity movement in Greece, and the internationalization of protest in the 2011 wave of contention, with a focus on the Occupy London campaign