PAUL O’CONNOR IS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AT UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY IN ABU DHABI, HAVING PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED HIS PHD AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELAND. HIS RESEARCH AND WRITING ARE CENTRED ON THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HOME AND COMMUNITY, THE DYNAMICS OF MODERNITY AND GLOBALISATION, THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN SOCIETY AND ITS PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, THE EMERGENCE AND DISINTEGRATION OF STRUCTURES OF MEANING, AND THE MEDIATISATION AND VIRTUALISATION OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE. HIS WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN JOURNALS INCLUDING MEMORY STUDIES, MOBILITIES, INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, IRISH JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, AND THE DARK MOUNTAIN ANTHOLOGY. HOME: THE FOUNDATIONS OF BELONGING (ROUTLEDGE, 2018) EXAMINES THE IDEA OF HOME FROM AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AS A CENTRE AROUND WHICH WE ORGANISE BOTH EVERYDAY ROUTINES AND EXPERIENCES, ENDOWING THE WORLD WITH MEANING AND ORDER. OTHER PUBLISHED VOLUMES INCLUDE THE TECHNOLOGISATION OF THE SOCIAL: A POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE DIGITAL MACHINE (ROUTLEDGE, 2022: CO-EDITED WITH MARIUS BENTA) AND LIMINAL POLITICS IN THE NEW AGE OF DISEASE: TECHNOCRATIC MIMETICISM (ROUTLEDGE, 2023: CO-EDITED WITH AGNES HORVATH).