Liene Ozoliņa teaches sociology and researches post-socialist politics and culture.
Why you should listen
Liene Ozoliņa works as a course tutor at the London School of Economics and associate professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture. She authored a book on austerity politics in the aftermath of the 2009 global economic crisis, titled Politics of Waiting: Workfare, Post-Soviet Austerity and the Ethics of Freedom. Her research articles have been published in British Journal of Sociology, Slavic Review and Journal of Baltic Studies.