Franziska Paul on the German trajectory of (neoliberal) governance, the locus of ‘local state’ and community movements

I am so glad to have Franziska Paul as our guest in this episode. She is a Lecturer in Political Economy at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. Dr. Franziska Paul holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Glasgow, with her thesis on energy democracy and trade union movement building towards a new, radical labour environmentalism. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded Global Remunicipalisation project, in which she contributed some publications on public ownership, de-privatisation and democratisation of key services and infrastructures, including some case study in the US and Germany. Franziska is also involved with the Public Futures databa ...