Redistributive imaginaries: Report launch and seminar.
Online event, 18 March 2026, 12:00-13:30 CET.
The University of Zurich is hosting an online launch and seminar for a new report on redistributive imaginaries:
In Europe’s mixed economies of welfare, redistribution practices are dispersed through civil society. Voluntary organisations involved in the delivery of welfare increasingly rely on digital tools and platforms to raise funds and manage relationships with donors. The project interrogates the systems of meaning that people use to make sense of redistribution and welfare provision. Through platform analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, we have examined emerging practices in the voluntary sector and identified some of the significant ways in which digital platforms are shaping dominant and emerging redistributive imaginaries.
Our report presents:
- an analysis of the redistributive conjuncture
- insights into emergent redistributive practices
- key findings: seven dominant redistributive imaginaries
- implications for the future of mixed economies of welfare
Members of the research team will discuss the project and its implications, followed by discussion with the respondents and the audience.
Chair: Emma Dowling (University of Vienna)
Presenters from the research team: Rebecca Bramall (University of the Arts London), Milana Čergić (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz), Moritz Ege (University of Zurich), Mercè Oliva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Respondents: John Clarke (Emeritus, Open University), Eva Frade (Platoniq Foundation), Hanna Kuusela (University of Jyväskylä)
The event is free and you can register to attend here. The report is available here: https://doi.org/10.58129/1rt1-px73.