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

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

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

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

. He moved to the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

in 1995. He was the editor-in-chief of the ''

British Journal of Sociology ''The British Journal of Sociology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1950 at the London School of Economics. It represents the mainstream of sociological thinking and research and publishes high quality papers on all asp ...

'' since 2014. Dodd was co-editor (with

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) 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

) ''Re-Imagining Economic Sociology''. Oxford University Press, 2015. * (ed. with

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) ''The Sociology of Speed: digital, organizational, and social temporalities''. Oxford University Press, 2016.

References

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