ERC Starting Grant for Lisa Suckert
Economic sociologist Lisa Suckert has been awarded a prestigious Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) amounting to around 1.5 million euros for her research project "REIMAGINE - Understanding the Role of Economic Imagination for Advancing Decarbonization in Europe."
With its Starting Grants the ERC supports top-level European research in the physical and engineering sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Funding is provided for five years and enables early-career scientists to independently realize their own innovative project ideas and set up research groups.
In her project REIMAGINE, Lisa Suckert will explore the question of how societies imagine their path to the decarbonized economy of the future. Although resistance to climate protection measures is often driven by economic concerns, there is little systematic knowledge about the images, symbols, and narratives that underlie such fears. This is where Suckert wants to begin. Based on a typology of decarbonization imaginaries, she will comparatively examine in and across five European countries (Ireland, Germany, Poland, Sweden, and Spain) how social actors’ economic visions of the future enable shared visions but also lead to conflicts and impasses in climate policy.
Lisa Suckert has been a Senior Researcher at the MPIfG since 2016 in the Economic Sociology Research Area led by Jens Beckert. Her research interests include social theory, political sociology, temporality and conceptions of the future, and the dynamics of crises.
