Dr Franziska Paul

  • Lecturer in Political Economy (Management)

email: Franziska.Paul@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 316, Adam Smith Business School, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0206-6153

Biography

Dr Franziska Paul is a Lecturer in Political Economy at the Adam Smith Business School. Franziska holds a PhD in Geography along with an MRes in Human Geography, both from the University of Glasgow, and an MA (Hons) in Geography-Sociology from the University of Aberdeen.

After completing her PhD on trade union movement building towards a new, radical labour environmentalism focussed on energy democracy, Franziska worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded Global Remunicipalisation project. Franziska’s postdoctoral work focussed on public ownership, de-privatisation and democratisation of key services and infrastructures, including banking, energy, waste, local government and transport, in the US and Germany.

Franziska is also involved with the Public Futures database, a collaborative initiative and the first comprehensive collection of de-privatisation cases in the world.

Research interests

Franziska is a member of the School's Entrepreneurship, Development and Political Economy research cluster. 

Areas of expertise:

  • Critical political economy
  • Economic democracy
  • Local and regional wealth building
  • Public and collective ownership
  • Trade union environmentalism

Publications

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2023

Paul, F. C. and Cumbers, A. (2023) The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(1), pp. 165-183. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X211050407)

2022

Cumbers, A. , Pearson, B. , Stegemann, L. and Paul, F. (2022) Mapping Remunicipalisation: Emergent Trends in the Global Deprivatisation Process. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Cumbers, A. and Paul, F. (2022) Remunicipalisation, mutating neoliberalism, and the conjuncture. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 54(1), pp. 197-217. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12761)

2021

Pearson, B. , Paul, F. , Cumbers, A. and Stegemann, L. (2021) Public Futures Database Report. Technical Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Paul, F. C. (2021) Das globale phänomen der rekommunalisierung: zwischen mutierendem neoliberalismus und der politisierung öffentlicher güter. Kurswechsel, 2021(4),

2020

Cumbers, A. and Paul, F. (2020) Adapting to the political moment and diverse terrain of 'actually existing municipalisms'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 74, pp. 40-53. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN.74.03.2020)

Paul, F. C. (2020) Exploring the role of ‘the public’ in social economics: public ownership and the solidarity city? Space and Polity, 24(3), pp. 314-316. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2020.1787138)

2018

Paul, F. (2018) “No jobs on a dead planet”: energy democracy, public ownership and union opposition to mega-energy projects. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 26(3), pp. 21-29.

Paul, F. C. (2018) Deep entanglements: history, space and (energy) struggle in the German Energiewende. Geoforum, 91, pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.017)

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Number of items: 9.

Articles

Paul, F. C. and Cumbers, A. (2023) The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(1), pp. 165-183. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X211050407)

Cumbers, A. and Paul, F. (2022) Remunicipalisation, mutating neoliberalism, and the conjuncture. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 54(1), pp. 197-217. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12761)

Paul, F. C. (2021) Das globale phänomen der rekommunalisierung: zwischen mutierendem neoliberalismus und der politisierung öffentlicher güter. Kurswechsel, 2021(4),

Cumbers, A. and Paul, F. (2020) Adapting to the political moment and diverse terrain of 'actually existing municipalisms'. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 74, pp. 40-53. (doi: 10.3898/SOUN.74.03.2020)

Paul, F. C. (2020) Exploring the role of ‘the public’ in social economics: public ownership and the solidarity city? Space and Polity, 24(3), pp. 314-316. (doi: 10.1080/13562576.2020.1787138)

Paul, F. (2018) “No jobs on a dead planet”: energy democracy, public ownership and union opposition to mega-energy projects. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 26(3), pp. 21-29.

Paul, F. C. (2018) Deep entanglements: history, space and (energy) struggle in the German Energiewende. Geoforum, 91, pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.017)

Research Reports or Papers

Cumbers, A. , Pearson, B. , Stegemann, L. and Paul, F. (2022) Mapping Remunicipalisation: Emergent Trends in the Global Deprivatisation Process. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Pearson, B. , Paul, F. , Cumbers, A. and Stegemann, L. (2021) Public Futures Database Report. Technical Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

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Grants

  • Knowledge Exchange Grant for ‘Public Futures’ Database Construction, Knowledge Exchange Flexible Fund, University of Glasgow, 2020, £12,600

Supervision

Franziska is interested in supervising doctoral research that relates to alternative economic approaches as well as research into contemporary labour issues. Specific areas of interest include:

  • local or community wealth building
  • cooperative, public and/or collective ownership
  • the social economy
  • questions of wealth
  • trade union environmentalism
  • just transition
  • and decent work.

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