Matias Dewey
Matias Dewey
Senior Researcher
Büro 51-7009
Unterer Graben 21
9000 St. Gallen
Political Sociology
Economic Sociology of Illegal Markets
Sociological Theory
Qualitative research methods
Sociology of Law
Illegal Markets
Politics and Law Enforcement
Fashion Industry
Informal State
2020 Habilitation in Sociology at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2008 PhD in Politics at the University of Rostock, Germany
2002 Licenciatura in Sociology at the University Del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
From 2020: Senior Researcher, Institute of Sociology at the University of St. Gallen
2011 – 2020: Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
2010 – 2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies, Hamburg
2004 – 2009: PhD Student, Social Science Faculty, Rostock University
2002 – 2003: Research Assistant, University of Salvador, Argentina
2001 – 2002: Trainee, Interdisciplinary Center for Latin American Development, Argentina
FS2021: Soziologie der Illegalität
HS2020: Sociology of Illegality
FS2019: Wirtschaftssoziologie illegaler Märkte, University of Duisburg-Essen (BA)
2016: Markets and Time, University of Cologne (MA)
2014/2015: Sociology of Fashion, University of Cologne (MA)
2009: Introduction to Luhmann‘s Theory of Systems, University Del Salvador, Argentina (BA)
2009: Sociology of Law and Luhmann’s Theory of Systems, University Del Salvador, Argentina (BA)
2002 – 2003: Social Theory, University Del Salvador, Argentina (BA)
2021-2022: In the shadows: explaining the rise of fast-fashion sweatshop- based economies in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires
2011-2020: Illegal Markets under Crisis Conditions. Carried out at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
- Board Member of the Economic Sociology Research Network, European Sociological Association
- “Global Ambassador” (Germany), Economic Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
- Member of the Max Planck Partner Group for the Sociology of Economic Life at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
2019 Journal Article Prize for his article “The Other Taxation: An Ethnographic Account of ‘Off-the-Books’ State Financing” (Latin American Research Review 53, 4, 2018). Awarded by the Society of Friends and Former Associates of the MPIfG, Cologne, Germany.