Dr. Francesco Laruffa
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI) e.V.
an der Georg-August-Universität
Friedländer Weg 31
37085 Göttingen
Tel.+49 551-52205-0
- (Neoliberaler) Kapitalismus
- Sozialpolitik und Wohlfahrtstaatsreform
- Demokratie- und Gerechtigkeitstheorien
- Sozial-ökologische Transformation
- Ungleichheiten
- Zukunft der Arbeit
- Sozioökonomie
- Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Wissenschaft und öffentlicher Soziologie
- Seit 2024: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Soziologischen Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI)
- 2021-2023: Stipendium der Schweizerischen Nationalfonds (Post-Doc.Mobility) mit Forschungsaufenthalten an der Universität Bremen, der Universität Oxford, der Universität Kassel und der London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- 2016-2021: Promotion in Sozialwissenschaften und Post-Doc an der Universität Genf
- 2013-2016: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2012-2013: Master in Public Policy and Social Change am Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin.
- 2006-2013: Studium der Volkwirtschaftslehre, Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie in Turin, Tübingen, Paris und Berlin
- Sommersemester 2023: Seminar „Understanding Contemporary Neoliberalism: History, Multiple Crisis, Alternatives“ (mit Dieter Plehwe) an der Universität-Kassel
2023
Aufsatz
2023
Public Sociology and the Capability Approach: Exploring the Potential of a Fruitful Combination.
Aufsatz
2023
Neoliberal globalization, hegemonic crisis, and the struggle for a countermovement. The case of the ‘Responsible Business Initiative’ in Switzerland.
Aufsatz
2023
Laruffa, Francesco. 2023. “Making Sense of (Post)neoliberalism” Politics and Society (online first).
Aufsatz
2023
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment. Critical Policy Studies (online first).
2022
Aufsatz
2022
Bonvin, Jean-Michel and Francesco Laruffa. 2022. Towards a Capability-oriented Eco-Social Policy: Elements of a Normative Framework.
Aufsatz
2022
From an Ordoliberal idea to a Social-Democratic ideal? The European Parliament and the institutionalization of ‘social market economy’ in the European Union (1957-2007).
Aufsatz
2022
Studying the relationship between social policy promotion and neoliberalism: the case of social investment.
Aufsatz
2022
Re-Thinking Work and Welfare for the Social-Ecological Transformation.
Aufsatz
2022
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State.
Aufsatz
2022
Neoliberalism, Economization and the Paradox of the New Welfare State.
2021
Aufsatz
2021
Bonvin, Jean-Michel and Francesco Laruffa. 2021. Disputing the economization and the de-politicization of ‘social’ investment in global social policy.
Aufsatz
2021
Promoting social goals through economization? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness.
2020
Aufsatz
2020
Nicht nur Humankapital aufbauen: Sozialinvestitionen weitergedacht.
2019
Aufsatz
2019
Education as Investment? A comparison of the capability and social investment approaches to education policy.
2018
Aufsatz
2018
Deliberative democracy in the real world. The contribution of the capability approach. International Review of Sociology 28(2): 216-233.
Aufsatz
2018
Towards a Critical Sociology of Democracy: The Potential of the Capability Approach. Critical Sociology 44 (6): 953–968.
Aufsatz
2018
Towards a Post-Neoliberal Social Policy? Social Investment versus Capability Approach.
Aufsatz
2018
Soziale Marktwirtschaft und Europäisches Sozialmodell: Über den Wandel diskursiver Leitbilder eines « Sozialen Europa ».
Aufsatz
2018
Human Beings as Receivers, Doers and Judges. The Anthropological Foundations of Sustainable Public Action in the Capability Approach. Community, Work and Family 21(5): 502-518.
2016
Aufsatz
2016
Work and Inequality Revisited: A Global Socio-Historical Perspective and its Political Implications.
Aufsatz
2016
The capability approach as a critical yardstick for the employability paradigm.
2015
2023
Publizistischer Beitrag
2023
Eco-social policy – we need to question the premise. UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab.
Publizistischer Beitrag
2023
Neofaschismus in Italien? Neoliberalismus, hegemoniale Krise und progressive Alternativen. Denknetz.
Publizistischer Beitrag
2023
The Pragmatic Case for Utopia. Green Economy Coalition.
2021
Publizistischer Beitrag
2021
On the Capability to Take Care of the World” Global Dialogue 11(2): 47-48
- „Promoting inclusive competitiveness? A long-term perspective on neoliberalism and Social Europe“
Vortrag, Espanet-Italia Conference, Espanet-Italia Conference, Mailand, Italien, 13.09.2023 - „How transformative is just transition?“
Vortrag, Workshop “Post-Growth Bureaucracy”, Copenhagen Business School, Kopenhagen, Schweden, 29.08.2023 - „Developing the Global North? The Capability Approach and the Social-Ecological Transformation“
Vortrag, Informal workshop “Capabilities, strawberries and cream”, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, Großbrittanien, 27.06.2023 - „The costs of what? Should we still use the concept of capitalism? And, if yes, can capitalism internalize its costs?“
Vortrag, Conference of the Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN), CPERN Conference, Neapel, Italien, 08.06.2023 - „Social Europe and Neoliberalism: A Long-Term Perspective“
Vortrag, Conference “Social Europe and the Making of Economic and Monetary Union”, European University Institute, Florenz, Italien, 25.05.2023 - „Investing in social inclusion? Paradoxes and dilemmas of social investment“
Vortrag, CASE Social Exclusion Seminar, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, 10.05.2023 - „Neoliberalism, eco-social justice and the economization paradox“
Vortrag, Justice Thinking Space, Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), IASS Potsdam, Potsdam, 24.01.2023
- „Towards Inclusive Green Growth and Just Transition? A Critique of an Emerging Global Policy Paradigm“
Vortrag, Internationalised Politics Colloquium, University of Bremen, Bremen, 30.11.2022 - „Neoliberal Capitalism: Paradoxes, Dilemmas, Alternatives“
Vortrag, Conference of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE), IIPPE Conference, Bologna, Italien, 07.09.2022 - „Neoliberal capitalism in crisis: paradoxes and dilemmas of progressive politics“
Vortrag, Conference of the Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN), CPERN Conference, Limerick, Irland, 22.07.2022 - „The neoliberal paradox and social-ecological alternatives“
Vortrag, Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), SASE Conference, Amsterdam, Niederlande, 09.07.2022 - „Beyond inclusion: emancipatory economics in the socio-ecological crisis of capitalism“
Vortrag, Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE), AHE Conference, London, Großbrittanien, 06.07.2022 - „Refocusing Social Policy on the Capability to Take Care of the World“
Vortrag, Conference “Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind”, Online Conference, Online, 29.06.2022 - „The Role of Welfare States in the Ecological Transition“
Vortrag, Tuesday Talk Series, Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), IASS Potsdam, Online, 22.03.2022 - „On the concept of neoliberalism“
Vortrag, Political Economy Workshop, University of Bremen, University of Bremen, Online, 15.02.2022
- „La solidarité comme objet d’investissement ?“
Vortrag, Seminar of the Axe Politiques, Actions Sociales et Solidarités (PASS), Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire pour la Sociologie Economique (LISE), LISE, Paris, Frankreich, 09.12.2021 - „Towards a post-neoliberal social citizenship?“
Vortrag, Kolloquium für Politische Theorie, University of Bremen, University of Bremen, Bremen, 30.11.2021 - „Rethinking Welfare Infrastructures for the Social-Ecological Transformation: From Employment to the Capability to Take Care of the World?“
Vortrag, Conference “Ruptures, Transformations, Continuities. Rethinking Infrastructures and Ecology”, DFG Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability”, University of Hamburg, Online, 24.11.2021 - „The dilemma of sustainable welfare and the problem of the future in social policy theorizing“
Vortrag, Herbstkolloquium of the Sustainability Research Group, University of Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Schweiz, 11.11.2021 - „The paradox of neoliberal social policy“
Vortrag, Annual conference of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE), IIPPE, Online, 12.09.2021 - „Rethinking Sustainable Work for the Socio-Ecological Transformation“
Vortrag, Summer academy “Sustainable Work”, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Online, 26.05.2021 - „Towards a post-neoliberal social citizenship?“
Vortrag, Geneva Colloquium in Political Theory and Les mercredis de la citoyenneté, University of Geneva, University of Geneva, Genf, Schweiz, 24.03.2021
- „Towards an eco-social paradigm of welfare: reconfiguring social policy to enable flourishing, participation and just transition“
Laruffa, Francesco; McGann, Michael; Murphy, Mary
Vortrag, YHYS Fall Colloquium “Measuring and valuing sustainability”, LUT University, LUT University, Online, 19.11.2020
- „Re-Thinking Solidarity, Work and Welfare for the 21st Century“
Vortrag, Conference “Solidarity at Work” Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, 13.11.2019 - „Social investment: re-thinking the ‘social’ beyond neoliberalism?“
Vortrag, Les déjeuners sociologiques, University of Geneva, University of Geneva, Genf, Schweiz, 24.10.2019 - „Re-Imagining Social Citizenship after Neoliberalism“
Vortrag, Conference “Rethinking Capitalism: from Globalization to Humanization”, Fondazione Feltrinelli, Fondazione Feltrinelli, Mailand, Italien, 15.03.2019
- „Beyond Social Investment: The Contribution of the Capability Approach to Welfare Reform“
Laruffa, Francesco; Bonvin, Jean-Michel
Vortrag, Conference Espanet-Italia, Espanet-Italia, Florenz, Italien, 13.09.2018 - „The Future of Social Security beyond Social Investment: The Contribution of the Capability Approach“
Laruffa, Francesco; Bonvin, Jean-Michel
Vortrag, Conference “Social Security at the Crossroads? Learning from the Past, Imagining the Future”, Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS), FISS, Sigtuna, Schweden, 04.06.2018
- „Towards a normative framework for welfare reform in Europe: a capability and human rights perspective“
Laruffa, Francesco; Bonvin, Jean-Michel
Vortrag, Espanet European Conference, Espanet, Lissabon, Portugal, 14.09.2017 - „Was ist ‘sozial’ am Sozialinvestitionsparadigma?“
Vortrag, “In Menschen investieren – nur wie? Zur Perspektive der Sozialinvestitionen” at the Internationales Forschungszentrum für soziale und ethische Fragen (IFZ), IFZ, Salzburg, Österreich, 16.02.2017
- „Les maigres perspectives de l’investissement social“
Vortrag, Revue Française des Affaires Sociales, Revue Française des Affaires Sociales, Paris, Frankreich, 24.11.2016 - „Decent Work: A Challenge for a Global Sociology of Labor“
Laruffa, Francesco; Schilling, Hannah
Vortrag, ISA Forum of Sociology, ISA, Wien, Österreich, 10.07.2016 - „The Contribution of the Capability Approach to a Theory of Sustainable Welfare Society“
Laruffa, Francesco; Schilling, Hannah
Vortrag, ISA Forum of Sociology, ISA, Wien, Österreich, 10.07.2016
- „Der Sozialinvestitionsansatz auf europäischer Ebene aus der Sicht des Capability Ansatzes“
Vortrag, “Soziale Investitionen kritisch betrachtet” Internationales Forschungszentrum für soziale und ethische Fragen (IFZ), IFZ, Salzburg, Österreich, 20.11.2015
- „Les représentations de l’Europe sociale“
Colletis, G.; Laruffa, Francesco; Lechevalier, Arnaud; Salles, M.
Vortrag, Association Française de Sociologie, Association Française de Sociologie, Dijon, Frankreich, 02.10.2014 - „The Capability Approach as a Normative Framework for Welfare Reform in Europe“
Vortrag, “Problems and Perspectives of European Integration: Economics, Politics, and Solidarity in Hard Times”, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut, Berlin, 22.09.2014 - „The Capability Approach as a Normative Framework for the Assessment of Welfare Reform in Europe. The Case of Social Investment“
Vortrag, Espanet-Italia Conference, Espanet-Italia, Turin, Italien, 18.09.2014 - „Social Policies contrasting Young People’s Vulnerability in Southern Europe. A Capability Approach Perspective“
Vortrag, Human Development and Capability Association Conference, Human Development and Capability Association, Athens, Griechenland, 02.09.2014 - „Can the Capability Approach Help to Think at Welfare Reform?“
Vortrag, Symposium “New B/Orders of Social Europe in the Course of the Euro Crisis – Property, the Welfare State and Distributive Justice”, Procida, Italy, Procida, Italien, 25.05.2014