My first paper is out in #SociologicalScience!
With Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx, we found robust evidence of ideological #bias in #secularization research: researchers' own religiosity is correlated with their probability of finding evidence of religious decline in their publications.
Read more: 👇
📢 Thrilled to share a new publication with elena pavan & @matteoscianna.bsky.social
Building on our research in @ccindle-eu.bsky.social, we examine the foundations of Italian anti-gender rethoric on social media
Open access 👉 www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.3270/...
#gendersky #academicsky #polisky
Not only an article of interest in its field, but also a nice application of a method - event history analysis - that is used in other disciplinary sub-fields. Great things always occur when crossing disciplinary boundaries!
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Thanks to all who provided support throughout this work, especially the colleagues at the Center for Civil Society Research at the @wzb.bsky.social and @vferraretto.bsky.social.
You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/M7PGQ...
New publication!
The far right is advancing everywhere, with a momentum that seems almost inevitable. But what about the efforts to counter it? In our article, with Katia Pilati, we explore the "Dynamics of protests and counterprotests around far-right politics."
Title and Abstract of the paper "Far-right contention in civil society: multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets". Authors: Hans Jonas Gunzelmann, Christin Jänicke Abstract: Over the past decade, the far right has been on the rise in civil societies across Europe. Civil society organizations have been challenged by the far right in governments, political parties, and within their own ranks. However, there is little systematic research on how the far right stirs conflict within civil society. Civil society research has tended to ignore ‘uncivil’ society and has instead focused on social capital and cohesion. Research on the noninstitutional side of the far right has been growing but has largely neglected the consequences for established civil society organizations and their members. This article addresses these blind spots by providing a conceptual framework and a methodology for studying the far right in civil society, which is applied to a case study. First, we construct a conceptual framework that adapts the contentious politics paradigm to the study of civil society. We delineate far-right contention within civil society and construct typologies of the action repertoires, actors, and targets. Second, we develop a methodology that combines different lenses to expand our view on far-right contention in civil society. We propose a mixed-methods research design for mapping far-right contentious events. Third, we apply our conceptual framework and methodology to the case of Germany by empirically mapping the action repertoires, actors and targets. Our findings fundamentally shift the scholarly understanding of the far right in civil society: We find that far-right contention in civil society goes well beyond adversarial actions by far-right actors. This has important implications for researchers and practitioners.
💫New paper out with @chjncke.bsky.social in @europeansocieties.bsky.social:
📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets"
🧵A short thread about the paper:
"Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda" - for the @theguardian.com, @ashifakassam.bsky.social summed up our study.
@tevoelker.bsky.social and I answered some questions to put our results into context. Give it a read!
Study: bit.ly/4hhRFUN
phd defended :) grateful for all the support along the way ❤️
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📣 Excited to contribute to the special issue New Perspectives on Gender and Mobilization @ejpgjournal.bsky.social
With Elena Pavan, we examine how LGBTQIA+ collaborative networks are built through shared framing strategies
Thanks to editors Maria Grasso & Marco Giugni!
👉 doi.org/10.1332/2515...
The project's kick off meeting is taking place on April 7-8 2025 in Budapest. The event had the project members reflect and discuss the dedemocratisation processes and protests in select countries in Europe. The discussions of the kick-off meeting will lay foundations this exciting research project.
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🚨 Excited to share my first article (Open Access) in the Journal of Refugee Studies on the role of universities in Belarusian student displacement.
Yet, it’s a bittersweet joy, as many Belarusians remain in prison or exile.
More below 👇
doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...
📢 New @wzb.bsky.social Working Paper w/ @lennartschuermann.bsky.social:
“How Anti-Racist Protests Influence Pro- and Anti-Migration Voting Behavior: Evidence from National and European Elections”
❗️Main finding: Anti-racist protests can change voting behavior towards a more inclusive society
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