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Christian Borch

Professor of Economic Sociology and Social Theory, Copenhagen Business School

Professor of Economic Sociology and Social Theory, Copenhagen Business School My research centres on economic sociology, especially new developments within algorithmic finance (including high-frequency trading). I have a long-standing interest in how particular forms of knowledge, in the form of scholarly semantics, have political effects. I have examined this in studies of crime semantics (my PhD) and crowd semantics, the latter culminating with my award-winning book, The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology (Cambridge UP, 2012). My most recent book is Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets' (Cambridge UP, 2020). In addition to this, I am interested in architecture and urban sociology, in particular in issues relating to atmospheres and atmospheric politics. I am also the PI of the ERC-funded project Algorithmic Finance.