Eduardo de la Fuente is a researcher specialising in cultural sociology; social theory; the sociology of spaces and places; architectural sociology; creative and cultural industries research; and place management. Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Justice and Society at the University of South Australia and a Fellow of the Institute for Place Management; and a longstanding Faculty Fellow of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. He is also a Board Member and President Ex-Officio of the International Sociological Association Research Committee for the Sociology of Arts. He has published in journals such as Sociological Theory, Cultural Sociology, Journal of Classical Sociology, Journal of Sociology, European Journal of Social Theory, Thesis Eleven and Distinktion: The Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. He is currently completing a scholarly monograph for Routledge on twentieth century music and the question of cultural modernity. His research interests are in the following areas: sociology of the arts; classical and contemporary social theory; the history of the social sciences; the aesthetics of everyday life; and the cultural dimensions of modernity.