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CIDAPE EU Horizon Project
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EU Horizon research project "Climate, Inequality and Democratic Action: The Force of Political Emotions"

Find more info here: https://cidape.eu
Project coordination by @ifswien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
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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.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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New guest post!

Turning Climate Action into Economic Threat: The Far Right’s Moral Storytelling by @tillhilmar.bsky.social

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/guest-posts/...
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
👉 Check out our CIDAPE blog series, where researchers share their impressions from our work:

“The Responsibility to Connect: The Importance of Collective Emotions for Democracies in Times of Climate Change “ by Sarah Helena Schäfer

Read here: cidape.eu/blog/the-res...
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Recommended reading “From consensus to domination: inductive theorizing of the mechanisms of mini-publics deliberation on climate change” w/ Ondřej Císař (@charlesuni.cuni.cz),@michelpoiccard.bsky.social, @veronikafrantova.bsky.social
👉 link-springer-com.uaccess.univie.ac.at/article/10.1...
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Meet Sonja Blum @sonjablum.bsky.social - Professor of Comparative Politics and Public Policy and lead of Work Package 2 in CIDAPE.
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Civil Sphere Theory Conference at @univie.ac.at w/ CST Network & @arbeiterkammer.at Wien. Incl. special guest Jeffrey Alexander; roundtable “Democratic resilience in the making?" w/ CIDAPE's @evrop-anka.bsky.social & @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social & papers by @tillhilmar.bsky.social and Sarah Schäfer
October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
@tillhilmar.bsky.social maps how we narrate #ClimateChange & how those stories legitimise inequality and the state’s role. 6 forms: redistribution, creative destruction, individual resilience, moral economy, growth-for-all, decline-for-all.
👀➡️Open Access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Meet Veronika Ebner @veronikaebner.bsky.social - PhD researcher at CIDAPE

#socialmedia #communication #climatenarratives
October 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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📣 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....
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 ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📢 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
October 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🚨Publication alert: Congratulations to our team member @tillhilmar.bsky.social on his new publication in @environmentalpol.bsky.social 👏
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🌿Mid-term conference in #Tartu this month - We discussed ways to strengthen interdisciplinary research on #ClimateEmotions, innovative methodologies and staged an interactive #deliberative #democratic assembly on #ClimatePolitics led by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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✨ 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
September 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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A Horizon meeting @cidape.bsky.social in Tartu under way. With a lot of great people!
September 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Brainstorming with the consortium at our mid-term conference in #Tartu.

#ClimateEmotions #Democracy #Deliberation #Equality
September 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
PhD researcher Sarah Helena Schäfer from @ifswien.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at speaking to Tibetan Buddhist nuns and monks in #India about the role of #emotions in #climate action. Here, she's with a group of exceptionally savvy nuns from Ladakh talking about #SpiritualClimateDiscourse for CIDAPE🌿
September 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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😨 Fear and 😟 anxiety often drive policy, especially in times of crisis.

How emotions shape protective policymaking is the focus of our latest #PROTEMOInsights.

📲 Take a look 👉 www.protemo.eu/news/protemo...

#PROTEMO #Emotions #Democracy
June 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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How can collective emotions -and cardboard- fuel democracy under the strain of war?

👉 Read the full blogpost here: www.pledgeproject.eu/pledge-blog-...

#Ukraine #CardboardRevolution #Democracy #PoliticalEmotions #CivicEngagement #PLEDGE #EU
September 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Had a wonderful time at the @ecpr.bsky.social conference in Thessaloniki! Great exchanges on #Emotions and Public #Policy, especially in the panel chaired by @kaylamgabehart.bsky.social and in the panels by our @protemo.bsky.social and @pledge-project.bsky.social colleagues.
Nora Habelitz and Nikos Saridakis at #ECPR General Conference in #Thessaloniki. Nikos chaired a panel on #FarRight Mobilisation, @nhabelitz.bsky.social‬ presented a paper with @sonjablum.bsky.social‬ and @fabiennelind.bsky.social‬ on #emotions in policy communication during the 2024 #EU elections.
September 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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🎙️ 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/
Observing Opinions – What is it about CCS
aboutccs.net
September 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Meet Susanna Soosaar - postdoc researcher at CIDAPE
September 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Nora Habelitz and Nikos Saridakis at #ECPR General Conference in #Thessaloniki. Nikos chaired a panel on #FarRight Mobilisation, @nhabelitz.bsky.social‬ presented a paper with @sonjablum.bsky.social‬ and @fabiennelind.bsky.social‬ on #emotions in policy communication during the 2024 #EU elections.
September 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Check out one of the first publications from the CIDAPE project @cidape.bsky.social on „Climate, Inequality and Democratic Action - The Force of Political Emotions“ 👇
New article just published - together with @evrop-anka.bsky.social, @sonjablum.bsky.social , @maartenhajer.bsky.social, O. Císař and Till Hilmar, we introduce the concept of "political emotions" and show how it helps us understand the climate crisis. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Sylvia Herzog and Sarah Helena Schäfer from @univie.ac.at @ifswien.bsky.social presented at the @isa-sociology.org confere ce in #Rabat #Morocco this week in a session on "Multiple Civil Spheres Shaping Environmental Solidarities" #ClimateBoundaries #Inequality #ClimateEmotions #EmotionalKnowledge
July 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM