Fabrice Radrizzani started his academic journey by completing a bachelor’s and master’s degree in philosophy from LMU-Munich before turning to the social sciences. After a second bachelor’s degree in political science and economics, he studied human geography at the Freie Universität in Berlin. There he wrote his master’s thesis on social-ecological economic alternatives on a neighbourhood level in Berlin. After finishing his degree, Fabrice started working in a city planning agency while at the same time joining the Doctoral Program Environment and Society in 2025.
His PhD thesis asks how we can rethink economics in such a way that we can conceive it as a socio-political process of negotiating societal needs through practices that are grounded in the biophysical environment. The goal of the project is then to develop a framework to study on a qualitative level practices where economic decisions are politicised, e.g. in social ownership (Vergesellschaftung) and cooperatives (Genossenschaften).