WP6 lead
Dr Philipp Degens is Interim Professor of Sociology (Dynamics and Regulation of Economy and Society) at the Department of Socio-Economics, University of Hamburg. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Reinhard Mohn Institute of Management, Witten/Herdecke University, and main coordinator of DEMETRA work package six. Philipp holds a Diploma (equivalent to Msc) in Economics and Social Sciences (2007), a Magister Artium (equivalent to MA) in History, Sociology and Cultural Anthropology (2012), and a doctorate/PhD (2016) from the University of Cologne. He participated in the EU EDULINK project “Pro MHI Africa” (2008-2010) and has been a research associate in the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability: Modernization, Transformation, Control” at the University of Hamburg (2019-2023). From 2020-2023, he led a BMBF-funded project on community-supported agriculture as a form of democratic experimentalism (see “Teilgabe”). Integrating sociological perspectives on law and the economy, organizations, civil society and social movements, his research focuses on sustainability, diverse economies, economic democracy, forms of property and the role of law in the Anthropocene. Philipp is a board member of the “Sociology of Law” section of the German Sociological Association and co-organizer of the SASE network “Community, Democracy, and Organizations”. For further information, please visit: https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-sozoek/professuren/adloff/team/degens-philipp.html