I am an economic sociologist and criminologist and I study governance. Governance of organizations, platforms, novel and alternative markets, and complex collective problems.
A particular interest of mine is how technological developments, while supporting governance, also make it a burden, for instance by exposing the limits of state power, and by creating new capacities for regulatory circumvention and contestation.
Such contestation includes practical solutions, such as the effective administration of illegal markets, but also techniques of legitimation, as when banned exchanges are configured to look and work like legal ones.
My work typically leverages qualitative and computational research methods.
Before returning to the University of Hong Kong, where I did my undergraduate degree, I spent four years on the tenure track at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and six years at Boston College, where I obtained my Ph.D. I was born in Oslo.
Contact:
isak.ladegaard@gmail.com
ladegaard.bsky.social
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