Sabine Volk

Resisting ‘leftist dictatorship’? Memory politics and collective action framing in populist far-right street protest This article contributes to cultural approaches to populism, focusing on the uses of memory in far-right protest politics. Conceptually, it develops a novel approach to memory politics suitable to ...

Link doesnt work :( @sabinedvolk.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nach zwei Jahren als Redakteurin in der Rubrik "ipb beobachtet" im Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen war es sehr schön, selbst einen Beitrag zu schreiben - vielen Dank an die Unterstützung durch das ganze redaktionelle Team 🗞️

Der Text bezieht sich immer wieder auch auf die Analysen von zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren wie @amadeuantonio.bsky.social und @cemas.io - danke für die wichtige Arbeit in einem noch wenig erforschten Feld!

U.a. argumentiere ich für 1) eine klare Definition queerfeindlicher Mobilisierungen als Angriffe auf die liberale Demokratie, 2) mehr Wissen zu den Mechanismen der extrem rechten "Gegendemos" gegen CSDs und 3) einen klaren Fokus auf die Betroffenenperspektive - protestinstitut.eu/pride-im-vis...

🔔 Neue Publikation: Mein Text setzt die zunehmende queerfeindliche Mobilisierung auf die Agenda der Bewegungsforschung und formuliert einige dringende Forschungsaufgaben

Open access bei @protestinstitut.bsky.social

🔔🔔🔔 CfP: Für die Rubrik "ipb beobachtet" im Forschungsjournal suchen wir immer nach aktuellen, pointierten und kritischen Beiträgen zu Protesten, Bewegungsdynamiken und Zivilgesellschaft!

Alle Texte open access bei @protestinstitut.bsky.social protestinstitut.eu/publikatione...

Idee? ✉️ an mich!

Pride im Visier – ipb – Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung Blog

👉 In “Pride im Visier,” @sabinedvolk.bsky.social ( @unituebingen.bsky.social ) analyzes right-wing mobilization against the Christopher Street Day 🌈. She shows how #queerphobia has become integral to right-wing #strategy and discusses what this means for social movement #research. buff.ly/HrYUEaS

e-Extreme Archive European Consortium for Political Research

📣 We are delighted to present the latest edition of our e-Extreme Newsletter, courtesy of our wonderful editorial team: @audreygagnon.bsky.social, @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social & @sabinedvolk.bsky.social. You can download it via our website (see “Current Issue”): ecpr.eu/news/news/de... 📖

phoenix vor ort: Vor Gründung 'Generation Deutschland': Auftaktstimmung vor Ort - hier anschauen Die AfD-Jugend richtet sich neu aus und gründet die 'Generation Deutschland'. Vor Beginn berichten Politikwissenschaftlerin Anna-Sophie Heinze und phoenix-Reporterin Lena Mosel über die Stimmung vor O...

Sicher zurück aus #Gießen, wo ich mit #Phoenix meine 1. Parteiveranstaltung live kommentiert habe - und zwar die Gründung der neuen #AfD #Jugendorganisation. Es war aufregend, aber auch nicht immer einfach - etwa die 1. Live-Schalte zwischen Polizei und Demos: www.ardmediathek.de/video/phoeni...

Succesful workshop today for the edited volume “The Issue of Immigration in Western Europe: Challenges, Contradictions and Opportunities”, edp 26/27 with @edinburghup.bsky.social.

“Happy Academics” below as per AI (ping @dafnoukos.bsky.social @sbvanoosten.bsky.social @sofialampro.bsky.social

@sabinedvolk.bsky.social analysiert die von Antifeminismus geprägte Politik der AfD seit 2014 mit Blick auf Unterschiede zwischen Ost & West; dabei stellt sie vor allem Unterschiede im Stellenwert des Themas und weniger unterschiedliche Verständnisse fest:
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Thank you for sharing!

I am very happy that this article is part of a cutting-edge SI on the far right and eastern Germany - thanks to the guest editors @asheinze.bsky.social and @manesweisskircher.bsky.social for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this text!

Finally: the trend of seeming liberalization of some far-right parties that mobilize women's and gay rights ("femonationalism" and "homonationalism") does NOT play a role in AfD's official positioning - despite its female, lesbian leader

My subnational lens also shows: even though the levels of antifeminist attitudes are higher in the east (see e.g. Leipziger Autoritarismus Studie 2024), the politics of gender of eastern German AfD groups are not more extreme than the federal party

In other words: antifeminism has been there from the start - even when AfD fashioned itself as a "liberal", "anti-euro" party. Also, like in other areas AfD's politics of gender have radicalised since 2014 - especially with regard to reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights and visibility

📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964...

It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD

Key findings:

Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅

The Alternative for Germany Foreign Policy: A Love Affair with Russia and Israel? The heterogeneity in the far-right parties’ foreign policy positions becomes especially visible when they face a dilemma of which side(s) to take in highly salient military conflicts that currently...

🚨 New Publication! 🚨
In this piece, I examine both the extreme and the more “moderate” factions within the AfD 🇩🇪 and compare their positions on 🇺🇦/🇷🇺 with their stances on 🇮🇱/🇵🇸. Key insights and findings👇🏻

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Sharepic zur Veranstaltung "Politische Repräsentation & Radikalisierung. Aktuelle Studien im Fokus" der Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung am 11.12. um 18 Uhr via YouTube.

Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung stellt vor: Aktuelle Beiträge aus Heft 10. Am 11. Dezember um 18 Uhr via YouTube!

🔸Veranstaltungsinfos unter: www.idz-jena.de/vadet/politi....
🔸Link zum Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6DT...
🔸Link zur ZRex Heft 10: shop.budrich.de/wp-content/u...

🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆

'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social

How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?

Researcher Safety and Vicarious Trauma: Recommendations for Universities, Supervisors, and Researchers - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism with Clare McKendry, University of Waterloo

The next @crexuio.bsky.social & CANSES webinar on methods and ethics when researching the far right will take place on November 20 and will focus on researcher safety and vicarious trauma. For more info see 👇

Happy that this is finally out! I contributed with a chapter on economic populism in the 21st century 😎

Happy to have contributed a chapter on culture and #memory in far-right #protest events in Eastern #Germany, and I’m especially excited that one of my fieldwork photographs was selected for the cover!

BTW this book is fully #openaccess

Climate action versus environmental protection? How far-right and environmentalist messengers shape public attitudes towards renewable energy infrastructure in forests This article examines how political messengers, and not the message, influence attitudes toward renewable energy infrastructure amid an increasingly polarized climate change debate. Focusing on win...

New publication for everyone interested in climate politics, far-right climate obstruction, and the role of elite cues! 📚

"Climate action versus environmental protection?" now out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social (with Matthias Diermeier).

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (open access!) (1/5)

Abstract of the article "How populist citizens see the people and their place in representative democracy" by Rosa Kindt, Robert A. Huber and Kristof Jacobs. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 2, displaying the comparison of high and low populists' marginal means on whether politicians belong to the people.

Figure 3, displaying the comparison of marginal means per attribute on the economical dimension in relation to 'belonging to the people'.

Figure 4, displaying the comparison of marginal means per attribute on the cultural dimension in relation to 'belonging to the people'.

💥Online first:

"How populist citizens see the people and their place in representative democracy"

by Rosa Kindt @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & @kristofjacobs1.bsky.social

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📝 CfP: Für die #Dreiländertagung am 17.-19.06.2026 organisieren wir vom @akpf-dvpw.bsky.social 3 Panels: zu Parteienorganisation, IPD & subnationalen Parteiensystemen. Abstracts gerne bis zum 31.10. an uns! ☺️👇 @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social @mlewandowsky.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social #DVPW #3LT2026

Why social movements struggle to change the EU: the ‘EU mobilization package’ and the case of DiEM25 - Comparative European Politics Social movement scholarship has emphasized that progressive ‘Europeanization from below’ may be a breeding ground for major EU reform and democratization. Empirically, however, activists have found it difficult to make gains when targeting the EU. To understand the challenges that activists face in the context of transnational EU mobilization, our article draws from agency-oriented approaches in social movement studies to propose an ‘EU mobilization package’, comprising three recurring strategic dilemmas that activists encounter: (a) the formulation of goals that both address the transnational level and appeal to national or local constituencies, (b) the building of a transnational political organization that is both inclusive and effective, and (c) whether and how to interact with EU institutions, particularly in the context of European Parliament elections. We apply this framework to the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), an organization founded by Yanis Varoufakis in 2016, which is a key example of social movement dissensus to EU politics. Methodologically, we rely on comprehensive interview data, the analysis of a large corpus of DiEM25 online and offline publications, and participant observation of three public events. A discussion of the group’s strategic challenges provides important general lessons for our understanding of social movement mobilization targeting EU politics as well as transnational activism.

Building transnational parties seems to be a key ingredient for democratising the EU,but efforts have not succeeded so far. Looking at @diem25.bsky.social, @manesweisskircher.bsky.social & I just published this piece on why social movements struggle to change the EU link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Abstract

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

Populism, Radical Politics and the EU European Consortium for Political Research

The call for papers/panels for the @ecprsgeu.bsky.social conference is open.
Have a look at section 3 on populism, radical politics and the EU that I'll chair together with @sldelange.bsky.social
Deadline: December 10

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