Bernd BONFERT

Le Havre

Assistant Professor in Economics

Presentation

Bernd Bonfert is assistant professor in Economics and joined EM Normandie in 2024. He has a PhD in Management Sciences and Social Sciences from Radboud University Nijmegen and Roskilde University obteined in 2020. His doctoral thesis analysed transnational collaboration strategies of civil society organisations. His research focuses on sustainable business models, social innovation, and stakeholder collaboration. In his recent work, he investigated innovations in the agrifood system, local energy communities, and social and solidarity economy networks.

Professional experience

Since 2024 : Professor assistant in , EM Normandie
2022-2024 : PostDoc, Aarhus University, Danmark
2020-2022 : Research Associate, Cardiff University, UK

Département

Economics, territories and sustainable development

Matières enseignées

Sustainable Development Alternative economics Business Ethics Geopolitics

Diplômes

2020 : PhD Management Sciences & Social Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen & Roskilde University

Publications

Bonfert, B 2020, 'Allied Against Austerity – Transnational Cooperation in the European Anti-Austerity Movement', PhD in Management Sciences & Social Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen & Roskilde University.

2020

PhD Dissertation / Accreditation to Supervise Management Research
Bonfert, B 2024, 'I’m Happy for People to Collaborate, but I Don’t Want to Join in”. Addressing Failure in Community-supported Agriculture Networks', Sociologica, vol. 17(3), pp. 113-127.

2024

Academic articles
Bonfert, B (forthcoming), 'Democratising essential reliance systems.Participation and social reproduction in the foundational economy', Democratic Theory.

2024

Academic articles
Bonfert, B 2024, 'We like sharing energy but there’s no advantage.’ Transformative opportunities and challenges of local energy communities in Europe', Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 107, January.

2024

Academic articles
Bonfert, B, Nielsen, H & Pedersen, A (forthcoming), 'Taking first steps so that others can run - Functions and limitations of governing the local energy transition', Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning.

2024

Academic articles
Bonfert, B 2022, 'Community-Supported Agriculture Networks in Wales and Central Germany: Scaling Up, Out, and Deep through Local Collaboration', Sustainability, vol.14 (12).

2022

Academic articles
Bonfert, B 2022, 'What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK, Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 94, August, pp. 499-508. ABS : 3.

2022

Academic articles
Bonfert, B, Bailey D & Clua-Losada M 2022, 'Dissent within the Global Political Economy: four frustrations and some alternatives, Global Political Economy, vol. 1(1), pp. 12-25.

2022

Academic articles
Bonfert, B 2021, '‘The real power must be in the base’ – Decentralised collective intellectual leadership in the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City', Capital & Class, vol. 45 (4), pp. 523-542.

2021

Academic articles
Bonfert, B 2020, 'We need to organise millions of people’ – Why Alter Summit and DiEM25 failed to create a European ‘Modern Prince’, Globalizations, vol. 19 (1), pp. 102-117.

2020

Academic articles
Bonfert, B 2022, 'Allied Against Austerity – New Transnational Coalitions of the European Anti-Austerity Movement' In Regelmann, Ada (ed.): The Crisis and Future of Representative Democracy, pp. 42-79.

2022

Research books and book chapters