The far right thrives on instrumentalizing energy crises. In a new chapter, I show how they do it: They used the 2022 crisis to weaken public support for Ukraine by construing breaches to national values via the #deindustrialization and the #neutrality tropes in 🇩🇪🇦🇹 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Societalizing the Energy Crisis: How Germany and Austria’s Far-Right Delegitimized Support for Ukraine After February 24, 2022

This chapter examines how the far right in Germany and Austria responded to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine of February 2022 by societalizing the ensuing energy crisis. Rather than addre...

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Alle Demos nächste Woche: Wien: Mi, 27.05., 13 Uhr, Uni Wien Linz: Do, 28.05., 16 Uhr, Hauptplatz Graz: Do, 28.05., 14 Uhr, Wilhelm Fischer Allee Salzburg: Do, 28.05., 14 Uhr, Kapitelplatz Klagenfurt: Do, 28.05., 10 Uhr, Uni-Vorplatz www.oeh.ac.at/info/unisret... #UnisRetten @nuwiss.bsky.social

Sparkurs stoppen - #UnisRetten! - Österreichische Hochschüler_innenschaft (ÖH)

Milliardenkürzungen bei den Unis? Nicht mit uns! Gemeinsam mit den Universitäten gehen wir als Studierendenvertreter_innen auf die Straße.

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Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf 📅 Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2027 um 13.00 🏛️ Start am Ring vor dem Hauptgebäude der Uni Wien www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...

Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf

Rektor Schütze:

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I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.

NEW ISSUE OUT🎉⭐📗 Our new issue 69:2 (May 2026) has just been published! Great new sociological research, book reviews, and more! See below for a list of contents and find it online 🌐 here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/69/2

Acta Sociologica - Volume 69, Number 2

Table of contents for Acta Sociologica, 69, 2

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➡️Check out Till Hilmar‘s @tillhilmar.bsky.social blog article (in German) “Klimapolitik als Klassenfrage“ at A&W Blog @aundw.bsky.social www.awblog.at/klima-energi...

Paul Krugman today has an incredible interview with a former Princeton colleague who is an expert on Hungarian culture and politics. She describes what happened from the beginning of the Orban reign, including the methods he used to seize contol and rig elections. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary

Democracy wins big

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🍃Warum bröckelt die Unterstützung für Klimapolitik? Der Soziologe @tillhilmar.bsky.social geht dem "Klimarealismus" auf die Spur und findet Zusammenhänge in Alltagserfahrungen und der sozialen Klasse: www.awblog.at/klima-energi...

👉 Der Wunsch nach "Klimarealismus" ist jetzt vielerorts zu hören. Aber die dahinterliegenden Frustrationen und Ungerechtigkeitsgefühle unterscheiden sich nach sozialer Lage: www.awblog.at/klima-energi... @cidape.bsky.social

Klimapolitik als Klassenfrage

Die politische Unterstützung für ambitionierte Klimapolitik bröckelt. In Europa werden Dekarbonisierungsziele abgeschwächt und wichtige Maßnahmen offen infrage gestellt. Die öffentliche Einstellung zu...

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2-Does this mean meritocratic sentiments can be ignored in #climatejustice models? In a new article in Climatic Change, I argue no – precisely because they are powerful and because they appear in complex, often opaque forms link.springer.com/article/10.1... @cidape.bsky.social @ifswien.bsky.social

The missing nexus: taking meritocracy beliefs seriously in climate justice research - Climatic Change

Climatic Change - This article addresses a gap in the climate justice literature by focusing on the understudied relationship between meritocratic orientations and public perceptions of justice in...

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Our paper from #CoroNarrate project is out in European Politics and Society: we investigate with #stm #topicmodeling how institutional actors in Italy & Germany framed #Covid19 economic policies during the #pandemic. Thank you @tillhilmar.bsky.social Patrick Sachweh doi.org/10.1080/2374...

Citizen's everyday moral reasoning about justice, inequality, and deservingness is central to conflicts around the green transformation. In this fantastic new paper @tillhilmar.bsky.social adds important thoughts on the role of meritocracy in climate conflicts: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1- We can increasingly see how #meritocratic sentiments are mobilized to undermine pro-climate action, as in the far right's delegitimizing of #climate policy as "illegitimate state redistribution"

⛽ When oil & gas prices skyrocketed in 2022, this didn't automatically translate into support for the far right. It mattered how these parties mobilized the issue, as I argue in a forthcoming piece on 🇩🇪 and 🇦🇹: #energycrisis osf.io/preprints/so...

Die Sektion Wirtschaftssoziologie freut sich sehr, auch in diesem Jahr wieder den Karl-Polanyi-Preis für eine herausragende Monografie auf dem Gebiet der Wirtschaftssoziologie auszuloben. (Selbst-)Nominierungen nimmt der Vorstand gerne bis zum 30.4. entgegen. Wir freuen uns über Reposts :)

Very much looking forward to teaching a course on social network analysis & qualitative approaches in #sociology at Uni Vienna this spring. The #EpsteinFiles do seem a perfectly weird, weirdly perfect starting point...

Highly recommend Unrest (dir. Cyril Schäublin) which manages to convey the strangeness of internationalism and the conviviality of the workshop at the same time, beautifully described by James Quandt here. www.artforum.com/columns/jame...

TIME CODE

James Quandt on Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest

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ENERGIEBRÜCKE UKRAINE Spendenaktion für Generatoren Schulen, Krankenhäuser, Wärmepunkte, ein Reha-Zentrum für Kinder - haben uns um Hilfe gebeten. Sie brauchen dringend Stromgeneratoren, um ihre Dienste aufrecht zu erhalten. Wir können diese Generatoren schnell liefern, mit Eurer Unterstützung!

Seit vorgestern in der Mediathek von ARTE: EIN NOBODY GEGEN PUTIN wurde letztes Jahr mit dem Sondepreis der Jury in Sundance ausgezeichnet und ist Dänamerks Oscar-Einreichung. Ein wichtiger Film über Totalitarismus und individuellen Mut: www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...

Ein Nobody gegen Putin - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Pawel Talankin ist Lehrer an einer Schule in seiner Heimatstadt Karabasch, als er mit Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs den Auftrag bekommt, patriotische Veranstaltungen zu organisieren und zu doku...

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"Today, we live in a clicktatorship, ruled by a LOLviathan. Our algothracy is governed by poster brains." Recommended:

Life Under a Clicktatorship

What happens to government when everything is content?

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📣CfP: 'Political #Emotions in Times of Conflict', 11-12.03.2026 in Florence @sns.it We look forward to submissions to our panel "Climate as a Question of Inequality: Perceptions, Interpretations, and Affective Moral Economies of the Climate Transformation" (Deadline 31.12.2025) @cidape.bsky.social

CfP: 'Political #Emotions in Times of Conflict', 11-12 March 2026 in Florence @sns.it @cidape.bsky.social @sonjablum.bsky.social and I invite papers for our panel 'Emotional conflicts around Energy transitions in Europe: #Policy narratives and policymaking dynamics'. 👉Deadline 31.12.2025

🌿Join our CIDAPE Conference in Florence @sns.it in 2026! We're looking forward to receiving your paper proposals by 31st December 2025 💯

🤡 shorturl.at/qAYGB Worth remembering that he only learned how to say "groceries" very recently: "Very simple word, groceries. Like almost-you know, who uses the word? I started using the word-the groceries. When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs" abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

Is it hypocritical to campaign against climate change while using a smartphone or other goods produced using fossil fuels? ✍ Sakari Säynäjoki & Otto Snellman @environmentalpol.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Fighting realism with realism – how to break our reliance on fossil fuels - EUROPP

Instead of the far-right's climate realism, we need a different kind of realism that avoids complacency about our reliance on fossil fuels.

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👉As #COP30 is underway in 🇧🇷, I'm grateful for the opportunity to share some insights from a recent article on economic arguments in climate skepticism at @environmentalpol.bsky.social @cidape.bsky.social LSE's @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social blog! blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Why the far right’s push for “climate realism” is winning political ground - EUROPP

Are climate policies damaging the economy? Despite the costs of climate change the far-right is winning ground by opposing climate policies on economic grounds.

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Despite the staggering costs of climate change, opposing climate policies on economic grounds is becoming an increasingly effective strategy for Europe’s far right. ✍ @tillhilmar.bsky.social @ifswien.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Why the far right’s push for “climate realism” is winning political ground - EUROPP

Are climate policies damaging the economy? Despite the costs of climate change the far-right is winning ground by opposing climate policies on economic grounds.

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Looming "deindustrialization", threats of "freezing", an "economic war" of the government "against its own people". The far right used the #energycrisis to delegitimize support for #Ukraine after Feb 2022. I analyze how actors in 🇩🇪 and 🇦🇹 pushed these tropes in a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

New guest post! Turning Climate Action into Economic Threat: The Far Right’s Moral Storytelling by @tillhilmar.bsky.social environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/guest-posts/...

Lots of important findings in Chancel et al.'s 2025 Climate and Inequality Report: shorturl.at/3MGrj. I'm surprised by how unequal the distribution of insurance coverage for climate losses is, even across Europe: