"Moralisations of Inequality" is a research project that gathers a team of researchers and an international network of scholars exploring inequality in Europe.

With a special focus on the contemporary conjuncture of neo-nationalism, gender conservatism, and productivism, the team foregrounds "Un/Deservingness" as a contemporary and ascending mode of legitimising, maintaining, or contesting inequality. Un/Deservingness guides the team's analyses of how recent reforms have reconfigured policies which regulate access to citizenship, credit, tax exemptions, or welfare entitlements.

As empirical entry points for long-term ethnographic studies, the sub-projects focus on: naturalisation procedures in Switzerland, family policy in Hungary, and fiscal and welfare policies in Austria.

Through immersive fieldwork, contrastive comparison, and a genealogical perspective, the team aims at a heightened understanding of how moralised categorisation is involved in the increasingly selective access to resources, a seeming paradox in times of unprecedented wealth and over-accumulation.

The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNFS) and the Vice-President's Board Research & Faculty and the Basics Research Fund of the University of St.Gallen.

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