Léna Pellandini-Simányi

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Budapest, Hungary

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Léna Pellandini-Simányi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, ELTE, Budapest. She holds a PhD in Sociology (London School of Economics and Political Science) and a MSc in Economics (Corvinus University Budapest). She is author of the book Consumption Norms and Everyday Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, New York; Basingstoke) and has published on consumption norms (Journal of Consumer Culture), moral sociology (Sociological Review) and lay conceptions of justice (Sociology). Her previous work looked at shifts in everyday consumption norms and at ethical consumption. Her current research focuses on the making of the mortgage market in Hungary and on the shifts in the conceptions of (neoliberal) financial subjects in post-crisis mortgage regulation in the UK, Switzerland and Hungary.