biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 25/07/2026thanks for reading, and for the link to @feelingtheory.bsky.social! gotta check their work out ❤️ 000
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Had a great conversation on the New Books Network podcast about my book Worker Centered—labor organizing, leadership development, and the challenges of worker-led campaigns. Big ups to hosts Thomas Discenna and Joe Zerilli for the thoughtful discussion. Link! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...podcasts.apple.comBiko Koenig,Podcast Episode · New Books Network · March 11 · 1h 1m 031
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 26/11/2025is this about "hot fruit" and/or "wet bread" ? 100
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Thank you Ian! Love hearing a positive reflection from a local informant 😍 010
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Amen! Preach! Wow reading these you would think that one's material circumstances don't automatically lead to a predetermined political identity... 120
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Thank you so much Deva for you kind words and incredible mentorship! ❤️ 110
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 09/09/2025thanks for reading! would love to hear your take. 010
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 09/09/2025... process the grievances of their lives - what those grievances are and how they make sense of them relative to other groups - is *the* key issue (I think, anyway). I talk about this in a social movement framework in an earlier paper on the same project: www.rsfjournal.org/content/rsfj...rsfjournal.org 110
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Yes, very apt! Haven't heard of "placebo marginalization," but wow what a term; I'll have to engage with that a bit more. But yes, the process by which MAGA folks ...rsfjournal.org 110
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 09/09/2025... also play a big role, but in funkier ways than it might seem to people not inside the community. More discussion in this earlier paper if you want more ethnographic storytelling! www.rsfjournal.org/content/rsfj...rsfjournal.org 010
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Thank you, it's my privilege to be able to do it. We talk about this in the paper at length, but the root of it is a populist, anti-elite sentiment against coastal/urban/cosmopolitan elites of both parties who they think look down on them for not being those things. Race, immigration, religion... 100
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Amazing! Which program did you run? I was a rank-and-filer in NY for a long time, and did some organizing (but more supporting organizers). I'm sure you've read this banger: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...onlinelibrary.wiley.comAmerican Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online LibraryScholars and political observers point to declining labor unions, on the one hand, and rising white identity politics, on the other, as profound changes in American politics. However, there has been .... 100
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 08/09/2025all feels very "democracy for realists," group politics floating along on intuition, identity, and emotion... at least broadly! and on both sides. 120
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 08/09/2025@petesikora.bsky.social I was just chatting with a union friend who is dealing with a similar dynamic among the rank and file - Trump voters who are now losing work & jobs. Most voters don't know about (maybe don't care about?) actual policy, so it's kind of no surprise that people get surprised. 110
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 08/09/2025@cityatlas.bsky.social great connection, and thanks for reading the paper 120
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 08/09/2025you've got your finger right on it, I think. thanks for reading! 010
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 06/09/2025great point! and the whole project has me thinking a lot about what positive status-interventions (which are not a thing I don't think?) would look like in practice 000
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 06/09/2025For folks checking out the recent PoP article, here's an earlier (open access!) article, also ethnographic, on political identity // social movements, status, and MAGA. www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/6/69rsfjournal.orgPoliticizing Status Loss Among Trump Supporters in 2020Status loss—real or perceived—is seen as a key characteristic of how Donald Trump supporters make sense of the world. Drawing on five months of ethnographic and interview-based research, I argue that ... 020
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Wow, those are some kind words! thanks for reading ❤️ 110
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 06/09/2025@brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social also sorry you were treated that way! Just to chime in, the joy/anger component is (I think) strongly related to in- and out-group distinctions of "us and them" which make the cycle so full of meaning for the folks involved. 010
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 06/09/2025(and if I was to use an LMM for this, as @candidaleone.bsky.social suspects I did, I think a "fun" exercise would be to take that entire volume and just substitute modern names/dates and see how accurate the analysis is. I would suspect stronger than I would prefer!) 000
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 06/09/2025fwiw an earlier version of the paper engaged quite a bit more with more of Bell's volume. So I must also see your Lipset and raise you a david plotke intro to the third edition of TRR (2001, which I've been using lately as a primer for folks new to the discussion). And let us not forget Hofstader! 110
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 05/09/2025yes 💯. not cited in the paper (because I hadn't read it yet!) but a real comparison. 010
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 05/09/2025thanks for reading! happy to chat with your class about the project. 010
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 05/09/2025No intended shade to Lipset or others, and pretty sure we didn't use any LLM. Thanks to both of you for all your important work! We'll try to do better next time! ❤️ 110
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 05/09/2025GREAT link to Tucker, and thanks for reading! (also I love your book!!!) 110
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Great question... I think in the field the perceived fairness of the critique was strongly linked to both the tone or vibe of the critique and the perception of the critic as someone worth trusting? I'll think about this one a bit more. 000
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Thanks for reading! Yes, a very complicated and confusing part that we worked on for a loooong time, and the subject of the next paper I'm working on. more to do! 120
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 05/09/2025thanks for reading! really insightful thread below. The "losing their country" frame was very strong in the field. 122
biko koenig @professorbiko.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Thanks for sharing the paper! Would love to know how it landed for you. 000
Reposted by biko koenigPerspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 03/09/2025NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! The #Symbolic #Politics of #Status in the #MAGA #Movement By Biko Koenig & Tali Mendelberg doi.org/10.1017/S153... 0104
