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Drawing on her fieldwork in Switzerland, Dr Kathrin Ottovay points to an emergent imaginary that envisions ‘sharing beyond borders’.

Ona Anglada Pujol discusses the fourth ReDigIm consortium meeting which was held in London on 16-17 June 2025

Milana Čergić discusses the role interpersonal networks play in enabling and sustaining humanitarian efforts in Montenegro.

Keijo Lakkala discusses the 'retrotopian' and utopian imaginaries at play in the narratives and practices of Finnish civil society groups engaged in prosocial giving within the context of austerity.

Isabel Villegas Simón discusses the third ReDigIm consortium meeting

Jonathan Paylor discusses ReDigIm’s participation in the 10th ECREA European Communication Conference which was held in Ljubljana in September 2024.

Janne Autto discusses the contested nature of the concept of 'the welfare state'.

Moritz Ege writes about the Swiss electorate supporting a popular initiative for increasing pension payments, asking whether the vote marks a new era of redistribution in Switzerland.

Dr. Kathrin Ottovay gives an account of the second ReDigIm consortium meeting held in Barcelona.

Milana Čergić reflects on conversations she had with representatives of Volonteri Crne Gore and Budi Human.

Čarna Brković asks what digital prosocial giving in Montenegro reveals about a Europe characterised by dynamics of inclusion and exclusion.

Jonathan Paylor considers what the UK press coverage of recent surges in voluntary giving tells us about the 'redistributive imaginaries' being manifested in the context of digitalisation.

Isabel Villegas Simón reflects on her conversations with Olivier Schulbaum and Eva Frade from the Platoniq Foundation who founded Goteo, one of ReDigIm's cooperation partners.

Maria Castellví reflects on the first consortium meeting held in Rovaniemi, Finland.

Keijo Lakkala draws on findings from the first work package of ReDigIm to discuss the utopian orientations reflected in Finnish redistributive practices.

Our latest blog is from Milana Cergic (Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Mainz) who talks about her time at the CHANSE Kick-off Conference held in Tallinn, Estonia on 1-2 June 2023.

Dr Lara Gruhn reflects back on the Covid-19 crisis in Switzerland and considers the analytical advantages of developing an expansive definition of redistribution.

In this month’s blog, Dr Rebecca Bramall (ReDigIm Project Leader and Principal Investigator for the UK research team) discusses why the concept of imaginaries is central to ReDigIm.

We begin our blog series with a post on the recent rise of 'digital giving'.