Leuphana University

The ERC has awarded Prof. Dr. Lukas Hakelberg a Starting Grant for his project entitled “The Whiteness of Wealth Management: Colonial Economic Structure, Racism, and the Emergence of Tax Havens in the Global South (WOWMA)”. During its runtime, he will analyse the development of tax havens with a focus on colonial economic structures, income tax adoption, the survival of white oligarchies, and racism.

Prof. Dr. Stephan Scheel has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the research project “Doing Digital Identities” (DigID). In brief, the project investigates how digital ID devices are changing the transactions and power relations between citizens and state authorities in one international and five country case studies.

David Abson is very excited about the funding commitment, which launches a new phase of his academic research, “I believe that the concept of sufficiency, what it means to have ‘enough,’ is an extremely important and so far under-researched idea in the sustainability discussion.