Aiste Pagirenaite
Job Title
PhD Candidate

Research interests
Research interests
PhD: Scottish Social Enterprise: Capitalist Strategy or Prefigurative Practice?
Research Summary: My research explores the strategic logics of capitalism and the potential ways to counter it. I use the Scottish social enterprise sector as a case study, exploring the tensions and contradictions that shape the sector. My thesis explores why social enterprise can both be understood as a tool of capitalist encroachment, and a radical prefigurative practice. I am particularly interested in the role of the state in reproducing capitalist logics and imaginaries, and explore how to resist it through bottom-up prefigurative practice and agonist action.
Research Interests: Political Theory, Political Economy, (Anti-)Capitalist Strategy, Politics of Resistance, Prefiguration, Agonist Democracy
Roles and responsibilities
Senior Tutor, Politics in a Changing World
Tutor, Political Thinkers
Teaching Assistant, Edinburgh Futures Institute
Background
MA: International Politics from University of Warwick (with distinction)