Léna Pellandini-Simányi

Dr. Pellandini-Simányi is Associate Professor in the Institute of Marketing and Communication Management. After studying Economics and Marketing (MSc), she earned her PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, she taught at the Sociology Department of LSE, and held a Swiss National Science Foundation Marie Heim-Vögtlin Fellowship at the Institute of Management and Organization, USI and an Assistant Professorship at ELTE, Budapest.

She is co-coordinator of the Economic Sociology Research Network of the Swiss Sociological Association and served as committee member of the American Sociological Association. She also participated in Global Action Plan UK's 'Goals for Good' research project and the Young Foundation's (London) social innovation and social needs program.

Research

Dr. Pellandini-Simányi's research looks at the interrelations between markets and moralities, combining sociology, marketing and organization theory. Her work examines both the consumer and the organizational side of markets, drawing on economic sociology, performativity, practice theory and consumer culture theory, and has focused on financial markets, debt and political consumerism. She is author of the book Consumption Norms and Everyday Ethics and her work has appeared in Economy and Society; Organization Studies; Consumption, Markets and Culture; the Journal of Consumer Culture; Sociology, and the British Journal of Sociology, among others.

Her current research project, 'Social patterning of economic subjectivities and the digital transformation of retail finance in Switzerland', funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation project grant, examines how digital finance reshapes social classes and economic subjectivities. Her previous projects looked at the financialization of everyday life (individual grant, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation), the development of the mortgage market and the financial crisis in Hungary (principal investigator, funded by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) and shifting notions of the consumer in post-crisis financial consumer regulation in Switzerland, the UK and Hungary (individual grant, funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

Publications

*Journal Article *

• Pellandini-Simányi L., Conte L. (2021) Consumer de-responsibilization: changing notions of consumer subjects and market moralities after the 2008–9 financial crisis, Consumption Markets & Culture, 24 (3):280-305
• Vargha Z., Pellandini-Simányi L. (2021) Debt trails: following relations of debt across borrowers, organizations, and states, Journal of Cultural Economy:127-138
• Pellandini-Simányi L. (2020) Reluctant financialisation: Financialisation without financialised subjectivities in Hungary and the United States, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
• Pellandini-Simányi L., Vargha Z. (2019) How risky debt became ordinary: A practice theoretical approach, Journal of Consumer Culture
• Pellandini-Simányi L., Vargha Z. (2019) Legal infrastructures: How laws matter in the organization of new markets, Organization Studies
• Pellandini-Simányi L., Vargha Z. (2018) Spatializing the future: Financial expectations, EU convergence and the Eastern European Forex mortgage crisis, Economy and Society-312
• Ariztia T., Agloni N., Pellandini-Simányi L. (2017) Ethical living: relinking ethics and consumption through care in Chile and Brazil, British Journal of Sociology
• Pellandini-Simányi L. (2017) How Do Friends Manage Income Differences? The Role of Lay Concepts of Justice in the Erosion of Income-Bridging Friendships and Social Segregation, Sociology:592-607
• Pellandini-Simányi L. (2016) Non-marketizing agents in the study of markets: Competing legacies of performativity and Actor-Network-Theory in the marketization research program, Journal of Cultural Economy
• Pellandini-Simányi L., Zsuzsanna V., Ferenc H. (2015) The Financialization of Everyday Life or the Domestication of Finance? How Mortgages Engage With Borrowers’ Temporal Horizons, Relationships, and Rationality in Hungary, Cultural Studies:733-759
• Pellandini-Simányi L. (2014) Bourdieu, Ethics and Symbolic Power, Sociological Review:651-671
• Pellandini-Simányi L. (2014) Everyday consumption norms as discourses of the good life in pre-socialist and socialist Hungary, Journal of Consumer Culture:1-19
• Pellandini-Simányi L. (2012) Freelance or Free Fall? Flexible Work and Gender in the Creative Industries (Szabadúszás vagy szabadesés? Rugalmas munka és női esélyegyenlőség a kreatív iparágakban), Café Bábel:37-44
• Pellandini-Simányi L. (2009) “O Mum, Why Do You Hang on to that Junk?” Changing Value Regimes of Home Decoration (“Jaj, mama, minek őrzöd ezt a sok kacatot?” A berendezési tárgyakhoz kötődő értékrezsimek változásai ), Replika:197-227
• Hofmeister-Toth A., Pellandini-Simányi L. (2006) Cultural Values in Hungary, Society and Economy:41-59
• Pellandini-Simányi L. (2005) Cross-cultural Comparative Study on Honesty (Kulturakozi osszehasonlito vizsgalat a becsuletessegrol), Vezetéstudomány. (Management Review):17-24
• Pellandini-Simányi L. (2005) Introduction to the Theory of Consumer Society (Bevezetés a fogyasztói társadalom elméletébe), Replika:165-195
• Pellandini-Simányi L. (2004) Why Do Postmaterialists Consume More than Materialists? (Miért fogyasztanak többet a posztmaterialisták, mint a materialisták?), Vezetéstudomány. (Management Review):16-23

Book

Pellandini-Simányi L. (2014) Consumption norms and everyday ethics. New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan