@kzimmermann.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University of Hamburg; studies welfare states, green transitions, inequalities, and Europeanisation
Glückwunsch; richtig super!
08.01.2026 20:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
What drives polarization in public discourse? I suggest looking at how social figures are constructed and used in the media and everyday political conversations. “The climate activist” in German media and popular discourse serves as a good example.
More here: doi.org/10.1162/euso...
Bücher am HIS "Die Politik der Wirtschaft. Max Webers Wirtschafts- und Finanzsoziologie" am 11.11.2025 19:00 Uhr im @his-hamburg.bsky.social Mit @huhnholz.bsky.social @larsdoepking.bsky.social und Andrea Maurer! ... über heutige Wirtschaftsumbrüche und Staatsfinanzkrisen ...
www.his-online.de
Looking for a post-doc opportunity? Consider applying for this years's Kohli Fellowship and work at the vibrant WZB in Berlin - Deadline November 16:
20.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0Our paper is part of the @reggovjournal.bsky.social Special Issue “Bringing the Ecological and the Social Together in the Green Transition: A Multilevel Analysis”.
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🚨New publication out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social
@danielk24.bsky.social & I show that the support for green subsidies by unions & business interest groups in the 🇺🇸 & in 🇩🇪 goes hand in hand with the support for eco-social policies.
Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/rego...
A summary below 👇
Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Zum Start des #DGS2025 Kongresses in Duisburg posten wir hier eine Übersicht über wirtschaftssoziologische Sektionsveranstaltungen sowie AdHoc-Gruppen unserer Sektionsmitglieder – wir freuen uns auf einen spannenden Kongress und ein Wiedersehen in Duisburg!
22.09.2025 15:49 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Well, of course it's #ESPAnet2025 - no time travel for social policy scholars so far...
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Perfect return to work after holidays: I just arrived in Milan for the #ESPAnet2024. Also attending? Come and join us for one of the four sessions (or all of them) in stream 8 in the political economy of eco-welfare. Fantastic people, fantastic papers! www.espanetmilano2025.it
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Die LABOR.A® ist die Konferenz zur Arbeit der Zukunft der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. Sie findet am 1. Oktober 2025 unter dem Motto „Gerechtigkeit“ in Berlin und online statt.
🚀 Die LABOR.A 2025 am 1. Oktober 2025 steht ganz im Zeichen von Gerechtigkeit als zentralem Wert zukünftiger Arbeitswelten. Euch erwarten 130 Speaker, spannende Sessions, Workshops & vieles mehr! Die Anmeldung ist ab sofort möglich.
📌 Mehr zum Programm & zur Anmeldung: www.labora.digital
Friendly reminder: Unser Call for Abstracts endet am 1. Juli.
#wohnunglos #Wohnungsnot #Sozialpolitik
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Michael Vester reading out his talk
Picture of the event's programme, available here: https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-sozoek/professuren/zimmermann/aktuelles/2025-workshop-program-moral-economies.html
Very inspiring kick-off lecture by Michael Vester at the @dgswisoz.bsky.social Mittelbautagung in Moral Economies, organised by Laura Lüth, @tillhilmar.bsky.social and @lwestheuser.bsky.social. Programme here: www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-...
16.06.2025 13:45 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Interessiert an Sozialpolitikforschung in Deutschland? Hier ist das Starterpacket 🧚🎁
Für Ergänzungen gerne melden 😊
#Sozialpolitik
Interested in social policy research in Germany? Here is the starter package 🧚🎁
Please let us know if you would like to be added 😊
#socialpolicy
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Paul Bridgen, @lucacigna.bsky.social , @torbnfischr.bsky.social , Emirates Hasanagic Abuannqb, Elke Heins, @philiprathgeb.bsky.social
03.06.2025 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@adelineotto.bsky.social , Dimitri Gugushvili, Benedetta Cotta, Nicolas W. Jager, Katrin Uba, @mmbuchs.bsky.social , Jeroen Candel, @nessawinston-ucd.bsky.social , Jesper Ole Jensen, Orla Dingley, Miriam Hartlapp, Sebastiano Sabato, Matteo Mandelli, Jeroen van der Heijden, Xira Ruiz-Campillo,
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The table of content of "The eco-social polity?", available at https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-eco-social-polity
The table of content of "The eco-social polity?", available at https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-eco-social-polity
Tuuli Hirvilammi, Teea Kortetmäki, Katharina Bohnenberger, Martin Fritz, Kajsa Emilsson, @jayeonlee.bsky.social, @lauawiman.bsky.social, Raphael Kaufmann, @steffenlange.bsky.social, Daniel Hausknost, Vincent Gengnagel, @biancalunafabris.bsky.social , Philippe Pochet, @janpollex.bsky.social ,
03.06.2025 09:25 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0As always, it was a great pleasure working with Ekaterina Domorenok and Paolo Graziano! And a big thanks goes to Kim Lais as editorial assistant, and to the great team @brisunipress.bsky.social. But the greatest thanks deserve our authors. We brought together a fantastic crowd:
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Hardcopy of the book "The eco-social polity?" on a desk
It has arrived! First ideas for this project were already exchanged with @brisunipress.bsky.social at ESPAnet 2019 - but now it has become real! As hardcopy, but (thanks to generous funding by @uni-hamburg.de) also open access: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-eco-soci...
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CfP zur Mittelbautagung unserer Sektion x Viadrina Wirtschaftssoziologie
"Transformationen des Kapitalismus - Perspektiven der Wirtschaftssoziologie in Zeiten der Polykrise"
Einreichungen sehr willkommen bis 15.7.
Weitere Informationen hier: www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/de/professur...
Gerne teilen!
Schönes Interview!
24.05.2025 07:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mal wieder getriggert beim Zeitungslesen? Kein Wunder!
Ich habe mir mal genauer angeschaut, welche Emotionen und Triggerpunkte in den Kommentarspalten deutscher Zeitungen vorkommen.
Jetzt in der @zfs.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/zfso...
DER SPIEGEL berichtet vorab über unsere Studie zu den gesellschaftlichen Kosten von ME/CFS und #LongCOVID für Deutschland in Folge der SARS-CoV2 Pandemie: Über 60 Mrd. € pro Jahr, d.h. viel viel mehr als alle Naturkatastrophen pro Jahr in D zusammen, inkl. Ahrhochwasser '21.
11.05.2025 04:54 — 👍 497 🔁 215 💬 18 📌 23👉 Deadline 14.04 - just a few more days to submit to our workshop on "Moral Economies of the Polycrisis" on June 16-17 in Hamburg! We're excited about keynote inputs by Michael Vester & Patrick Sachweh, supported by @dgswisoz.bsky.social #soziologie
12.04.2025 07:57 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1CfP: Veränderungspioniere und Veränderungserschöpfte. Zur Wahrnehmung sozialen Wandels.
Auf dem Soziologiekongress im September wollen wir uns mit Wahrnehmungen sozialen Wandels beschäftigten. Einreichungen sind bis 30.04. herzlich willkommen!
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Already next week: Very much looking forward to host you at our conference Social Policy and Inequality in the Polycrisis @uni-bamberg.de !
Supported by @lifbi.bsky.social @difis.bsky.social
#Sozialpolitik #SozialeUngleichheit #socialpolicy #SocialInequality
www.uni-bamberg.de/sfa/veransta...
Moral Economies of the Polycrisis Conflict, Critique and Legitimation in Critical Times International Workshop. 16-17 June 2025. University of Hamburg. Organizers: Laura Lüth (University of Hamburg), Till Hilmar (University of Vienna), and Linus Westheuser (Humboldt University Berlin). By disrupting what is taken for granted, moments of economic, political, and ecological crisis reveal the implicit modus operandi of a society. As routines get derailed and settled arrangements come under strain, institutions are forced to explicate the “implicit social contract” (Barrington Moore) underpinning power, domination, and inequality. Who deserves protection when times get rough? Whose suffering matters and whose claims are made to count? Who is blamed? And what even counts as a crisis and what is shrugged off and fades into a ‘new normal’? These questions touch on a tacit structure of social expectations commonly discussed under the heading of moral economy. Drawing on thinkers like E.P. Thompson, James C. Scott, or Marion Fourcade, the moral economy perspective examines expectations of unequal reciprocity and distributive claims in economic relations; ideas of systemic legitimacy resting on mutual obligations between dominant and dominated groups; or political priorities tied to assumptions about the (un)deservingness and moral worth of social groups. Moral economy approaches focalize the ideational and institutional architecture of capitalist societies by parsing how legitimacy and hegemony are embedded in everyday moral reasoning. In addition these approaches also often look at social practices, struggles, and forms of critique centered around the violation of moral claims. At our workshop, we want to discuss work in the moral economy paradigm that sheds light on the current “polycrisis” composed of geopolitical turmoil, economic shocks, ecological breakdown, as well as crises of care and political legitimacy.
What can the moral economy perspective teach us about the way capitalist societies navigate these crises? To what extent do crises open up a space in which dominated groups can critique inequality and demand a renegotiation of the implicit social contract? How do demands and political responses informed by existing moral economies deepen inequality and domination? How do institutions like the welfare state or social and eco-social policies seek to mend rifts in the moral economy? What are moral background assumptions that make some developments (such as migration) but not others (such as poverty and extreme wealth) appear as crises? And what is the explanatory status of moral economy as a concept? For instance, are popular moral sentiments and subjective aspirations a driver of political and economic action, or are they merely a symptom of existing power relations? Is moral economy about agency or structure? And if both, how exactly? These are some of the questions we want to discuss with a group of international scholars. We invite papers taking a moral economy perspective to empirically research or theorize the current conjuncture. Papers can be at all stages of development, the event is meant to collaboratively discuss work in progress. We especially welcome submissions from doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. Limited funds are available to assist with travel and accommodation for those lacking institutional support. Please send an abstract of max. 500 words to: laura.lueth@uni-hamburg.de, till.hilmar@univie.ac.at and linus.westheuser@hu-berlin.de Deadline for abstract submissions: 7 April, 2025 The workshop is supported by the Economic Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS), the Research Unit Economic Sociology at the University of Hamburg, and the Research Unit Macrosociology at Humboldt University Berlin.
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢
"Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times"
Workshop, June 16-17
University of Hamburg
Deadline for abstracts: 07/04
Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social
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#Durkheim has the first and the last word: How was #solidarity differently expressed in public discourse in 🇮🇹 and 🇩🇪 during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic? Our new article asks how the notion was framed on Twitter/X in both countries #sociology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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'Degrowth, Planung, Transformation' - day 1 of our workshop in cooperation with THE NEW INSTITUTE
Impressions of the presentation of @kohei-saito.bsky.social and the subsequent panel with @kzimmermann.bsky.social @christophsorg.bsky.social @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social
