Fellow in the winter semester: Dr. Lisa Knoll

1 September 2020

In the winter semester, numerous international scientists will enrich the work of the Centre as digital fellows. In addition, we will again be able to welcome a few Fellows on site.

Dr. Lisa Knoll from the University of Hamburg will be the first to do so (November 2020 to February 2021). Lisa Knoll is an economic sociologist and conducts research on various sustainability markets and forms of commentary on so-called green and social finance. Her research interests include emissions trading systems, social impact bonds and energy performance contracts.

Most recently published:

· Chiapello, Ève/Lisa Knoll 2020: Social Finance and Impact Investing. Governing Welfare in the Era of Financialization. In: Historical Social Research 45 (3), 7-30.

· Chiapello, Ève/Lisa Knoll 2020: The Welfare Conventions Approach: A Comparative Perspective on Social Impact Bonds. In: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis - Research and Practice 22(2), 100-115.

Podcast on our YouTube-channel: "Die EU-Nachhaltigkeitstaxonomie. Eine soziologische Einordnung der ordo-liberalen Kritik“

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