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Till Hilmar

@tillhilmar.bsky.social
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Sociologist, postdoc @univienna, PhD Yale @yalesoc, PI at Horizon Project CIDAPE - Climate Inequality, Democratic Action and the Force of Political Emotions, ECH Uni Vienna, Deserved @ Columbia UP cup.columbia.edu/book/deserved/9780…

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Die Wahlverwandtschaft von #noAfD und #BSW hat viel mit der Art und Weise zu tun, wie beide Parteien im Osten den verletzten Leistungsstolz ansprechen und moralisch mobilisieren. Darüber habe ich in @redaktionmerkur.bsky.social 2025 geschrieben www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/oeko...
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Ökonomische Opfer im Osten? – MERKUR
Ein Essay von Till Hilmar. Jetzt lesen in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR — Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The explicit plan of many intellectuals on the German far right is not to attack the constitution head on, but to culturally redefine key concepts of democracy, pluralism and rights so that its ethno-nationalist agenda is viewed as common sense.
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... This is a beautiful piece on how to use LLMs in qualitative research by @andreavoyer.bsky.social It lays out the methodological issues clearly and offers a lot of food for thought about what reflexive use of LLMs might look like #computationalsocialscience
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Qualitative research with LLM chatbots: Technological reflexivity for interpretative technology - Elida Izani Ibrahim, Andrea Voyer, 2026
In this article, we advocate for qualitative research using LLM chatbots. While qualitative research may seem incompatible with generative artificial intelligen...
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Christian Rau @christianrau.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Was macht die 1990er Jahre als Erinnerungsraum in post-kommunistischen Ländern Europas aus? Dieser Frage geht der Sammelband "Erinnerung im Umbruch, Umbruch der Erinnerung" von Hanna Haag und Till Hilmar nach. Ich habe ihn für das Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe rezensiert 👇
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Umbruch der Erinnerung: Die Nachwendezeit im deutschen und ostmitteleuropäischen Gedächtnis
Published in Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Thomas Lux @thomaslux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sociology in the tradition of Karl Mannheim says that what you live through in your impressionable years tends to leave a lasting imprint. But which events do people themselves count as formative for their lives? Our data visualization in Socius answers this. 1/6 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New issue! Volume 35, Issue 6 out now. With ten research articles, one brief report, and three book reviews. Full details: environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
✨ Just out: A special issue on climate change and far-right politics, edited by Manuela Caiani and Nicolò Pennucci in SocietàMutamentoPolitica oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/sm...
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Climate Change and Far-Right Politics: Between Adoption and Adaptation | SocietàMutamentoPolitica
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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...
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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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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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
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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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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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...
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Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf
Rektor Schütze:
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Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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.
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State media control influences large language models - Nature
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
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Acta Sociologica @actasociologica.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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
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Acta Sociologica - Volume 69, Number 2
Table of contents for Acta Sociologica, 69, 2
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CIDAPE EU Horizon Project @cidape.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
➡️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...
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WoodSoccDrum @wood-socc-drum2.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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...
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Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary
Democracy wins big
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A&W Blog @aundw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🍃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...
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
👉 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
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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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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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
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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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RoccoPaolillo @roccopaolillo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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...
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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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...
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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"
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
⛽ 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...
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DGS Sektion Wirtschaftssoziologie @dgswisoz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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 :)
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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...
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17/01/2026
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...
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James Quandt on Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest
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UA-DE e.V. 🇺🇦 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 @ua-de.info · 21/01/2026
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!
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Joachim Kurz (aka Mietgeist) @mietgeist.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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...
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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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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
"Today, we live in a clicktatorship, ruled by a LOLviathan. Our algothracy is governed by poster brains." Recommended:
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Life Under a Clicktatorship
What happens to government when everything is content?
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📣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
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Nora Habelitz @nhabelitz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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
Call for Papers for the International Conference entitled 'Political Emotions in Times of Conflict: Climate, Inequality, and Democracy', which will take place at Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) on 11–12 March 2026. Call for Papers for the International Conference entitled 'Political Emotions in Times of Conflict: Climate, Inequality, and Democracy', which will take place at Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) on 11–12 March 2026.
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CIDAPE EU Horizon Project @cidape.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🌿Join our CIDAPE Conference in Florence @sns.it in 2026! We're looking forward to receiving your paper proposals by 31st December 2025 💯
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🤡 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...
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LSE European Politics @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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...
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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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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
👉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...
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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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LSE European Politics @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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...
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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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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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...
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New guest post! Turning Climate Action into Economic Threat: The Far Right’s Moral Storytelling by @tillhilmar.bsky.social environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/guest-posts/...
In this guest post, Till Hilmar discusses the research from his recently published article in Environmental Politics: Cassandra from the far right: how the German and Austrian populist radical right links climate skepticism with economic issues.photo of author
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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:
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Interessante Veranstaltung, und ein schöner Titel!
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
👇 Join us for this event next week on Wednesday, 18h! The location will be Aula, Campus Altes AKH, Hof 1 @univie.ac.at!
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
New article! Cassandra from the far right: how the German and Austrian populist radical right links climate skepticism with economic issues by Till Hilmar / @tillhilmar.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0964...
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This article asks how two populist radical right parties, the German AfD and the Austrian FPÖ, communicate about climate on Twitter/X. Analyzing a corpus of 6,254 tweets, it pays special attention to a relatively underresearched aspect of climate communication by these actors: the way they reference the economy – in what I call ‘economic signification’ – in their discourse on climate. I distinguish four narratives promoted by them, climate policies threaten the economy as a whole; they unfairly burden specific ‘deserving’ groups; climate actors pursue hidden economic agendas; and they act on misguided assumptions and lack economic competence. By combining response and process skepticism, these narratives refract a broader vision of social order, allowing these parties to present themselves as a ‘voice of reason’ in the climate debate. Economic signification allows the far right to speak in the ‘realist’, warning mode, decrying the alleged economic ‘irrationality’ of mainstream parties.
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
📣 In a new open access article in @environmentalpol.bsky.social, I examine how appeals to "economic realism" – like the claim that we "can’t afford climate policy" – have long structured far-right #climateskepticism @cidape.bsky.social @ifswien.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Cassandra from the far right: how the German and Austrian populist radical right links climate skepticism with economic issues
This article asks how two populist radical right parties, the German AfD and the Austrian FPÖ, communicate about climate on Twitter/X. Analyzing a corpus of 6,254 tweets, it pays special attention ...
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CIDAPE EU Horizon Project @cidape.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
📢 JOIN OUR ROUNDTABLE 🗓️ 22 Oct @univie.ac.at Hosted by @ifswien.bsky.social, Civil Sphere Network, @arbeiterkammer.at Wien, CIDAPE, chair: @evrop-anka.bsky.social . Speakers: @karenner.bsky.social, Csaba Szalo (@masarykuniversity.bsky.social), Adriana Zaharijević, @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social
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CIDAPE EU Horizon Project @cidape.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨Publication alert: Congratulations to our team member @tillhilmar.bsky.social on his new publication in @environmentalpol.bsky.social 👏
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
📣 In a new open access article in @environmentalpol.bsky.social, I examine how appeals to "economic realism" – like the claim that we "can’t afford climate policy" – have long structured far-right #climateskepticism @cidape.bsky.social @ifswien.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Cassandra from the far right: how the German and Austrian populist radical right links climate skepticism with economic issues
This article asks how two populist radical right parties, the German AfD and the Austrian FPÖ, communicate about climate on Twitter/X. Analyzing a corpus of 6,254 tweets, it pays special attention ...
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
✨ My article on #climateskepticism in AfD's and FPÖ's social media communication will soon be out in Environmental Politics – stay tuned! @cidape.bsky.social @ifswien.bsky.social
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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🎙️ New @ccspod.bsky.social episode! I unpack how computational methods transform the study of opinionated communication + share insights from my work on studying climate change campaigns on social media with @cidape.bsky.social Listen here 👉 aboutccs.net/opinion/
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Observing Opinions – What is it about CCS
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Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien @ifswien.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📢 New article by our colleague Till Hilmar in Sociological Theory: "Narratives of Disruptive Economic Change: Claiming and Contesting the Social Order" #OpenAccess ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Sociology @univie.ac.at
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Now available! Highlighting the trade-off between freedom and financial security, WHITE-COLLAR BLUES reveals the hidden costs of conflating the quest for socioeconomic status with the pursuit of happiness. buff.ly/WA5PKEy #WhiteCollarBlues #Socioeconomics #Turkey @mustafa-yavas.bsky.social
Now Available: White-Collar Blues: The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class, by Mustafa Yavaş. Includes the book's cover and a blurb by Steven Peter Vallas.  Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.
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