@hajogu.bsky.social
political sociologist @wzb.bsky.social & @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social 🔎 civil society, movements, organizations, secessionism, and the far right. 🎓 PhD from Scuola Normale Superiore 📖 "Organizing for Independence" AUP
The erosion of academic freedom is not collateral damage of autocratization, but an integral part of it.
In my new article, I show how autocratization through academic capture undermines all dimensions of academic freedom, with cumulative and enduring effects.
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Invitation: Join us in Berlin for the @protestinstitut.bsky.social Annual Conference 2026 ( @humboldtuni.bsky.social , 5–6 Oct 2026). We’re taking recurring puzzles in protest & social movement research as productive starting points for collective thinking.
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Ich begleite gerade das forschungsjournal.de bei einem Generationswechsel in der Redaktion. Das Journal wird seit 1988 von einem ehrenamtlichen Team produziert. Zum Teil sind es noch dieselben Menschen. Jetzt sucht die Redaktion Leute, die Lust haben, das Forschungsjournal neu zu denken.
Adapting your CV to a specific format required for a job or grant application is such a waste of time. If you can't read a common CV, maybe you shouldn't be reviewing.
From our latest issue: A Ticking Time Bomb: Restrictions on Abortion Rights and Physical Integrity Rights Abuses by NAZLI AVDAN, AMANDA MURDIE, VICTOR ASAL. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More:
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Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️
Angriffe auf die Zivilgesellschaft werden auch im Online-Diskurs deutlich. Laut Studie von Maecenata war die Kleine Anfrage der Union in ein Schlüsselmoment. Danach hat sich das Verhältnis von Diskussionsbeiträgen über NGOs in Deutschland danach eindeutig ins Negative 2:1, zuvor 1:1, verschoben. …
New paper in Government & Opposition:
Justifying and Negotiating Responses to the Radical Right: The Case of the Swedish Labour Movement and the Intra-Organizational Arena
Together with @slsalo.bsky.social and @podmalm.bsky.social.
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Dear Social Science,
The only puzzle is why you repeat "puzzle" and "puzzling" over and over.
Sincerely,
Common Sense
Yes, winter is super cold in Wisconsin. But super cold air can't hold moisture. Which means that winter is full of bright, clear, cloudless days.
Ende letzter Woche stufte das US-Außenministerium #AntifaOst als ausländische Terrororganisation ein. Mit dem epd sprach über das Label:
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@hajogu.bsky.social und @chjncke.bsky.social erstellen einen konzeptionellen Rahmen und eine Methotik zur Untersuchung der extremen Rechten in der Zivilgesellschaft und wenden dies in einer Fallstudie an:
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Neue Publikation: Meine Rezension 'Bewegungsparteien der extremen Rechten in Europa' ist im Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen erschienen
Über das Buch von @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it zu hybriden Strategien der extremen Rechten zwischen Protest & Parlament
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We provide a brief overview of the state of the art on the contributions of organized civil society and social movements to democracy - but we also address 'uncivil' society and authoritarian movements. In the spirit of the encyclopedia, we specifically point to international perspectives.
Civil society and democracy are often closely associated - yet their relationship complex and ambiguous. In this contribution, we ask: under what conditions does civil society support democracy—and when does it undermine it?
💡New publication with @tevoelker.bsky.social and @swenhutter.bsky.social:
"Civil Society and Democracy" In: List, R.A., Anheier, H.K., Toepler, S. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society
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Wir arbeiten daran. Veröffentlichung kommt (hoffentlich) bald!
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How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat -- Science www.science.org/content/arti...
This does not mean that the far right does not posses a threat. But cooperative actions such as donation offers or challenges from within civil society require different counter-strategies than attacks from outside.
Our findings challenge the notion of a dichotomy between a democratic civil society and the far right as an outside force that attacks CSOs or their members.
What does this mean? We need to combine different lenses to get a comprehensive picture of the far right in civil society that goes beyond protest and violence.
Finding (4): The picture of far-right contention in civil society depends on the lens through which one looks. While the media-observer lens sees primarily adversarial actions, the antagonist-observer lens sees mostly autonomous actions, while the target lens perceives more cooperative events.
Finding (3): Our analysis shows that far-right contention primarily targets the field level rather than individual volunteers or CSOs.
Finding (2): The far right is often perceived as a challenge that is external to civil society,
emanating from actors whose ideology is clearly nativist and authoritarian. However, our analyses show that many actors come from within civil society and cannot be identified as ideologically far-right.
Finding (1): The far-right repertoire of contention in civil society goes beyond adversarial forms
such as threats or violence. We find a substantial number of cooperative and autonomous forms of action.
We use quantitative and qualitative coding of these sources to map far-right contentious events within German civil societ from 2018-2023. We code the action repertoires, actors, and targets of far-right contention.
We propose to combine three lenses to map far-right contention in civil society: The media-observer lens, the antagonist observer lens, and the target lens. We employ a newspaper (taz), antifa magazines, and qualitative interviews as sources for these lenses.
In this paper, we propose the concept of "far-right contention in civil society" to capture how the far right engages with volunteers, civic organizations, and entire civil society fields. We look at contentious events a) by far-right actors and/or b) which involve nativist or authoritarian claims.
💫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:
