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Till Hilmar
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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, Deserved @ Columbia UP https://cup.columbia.edu/book/deserved/9780231209786
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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Sep 1
👉 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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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
www.artforum.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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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!
January 21, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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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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January 15, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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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?
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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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)
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November 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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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.
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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🌿Join our CIDAPE Conference in Florence @sns.it in 2026!

We're looking forward to receiving your paper proposals by 31st December 2025 💯
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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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...
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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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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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.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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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...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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environmentalpol.bsky.social
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
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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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:
October 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Interessante Veranstaltung, und ein schöner Titel!
renner-institut.at Karl-Renner-Institut @renner-institut.at · Oct 20
Was bedeutet Neutralität heute noch?
Wir werfen heute Abend mit @barbaratoth.bsky.social @fwenninger.bsky.social und @sarahmknoll.bsky.social einen Blick auf ihre Geschichte, ihren Wandel und ihre Zukunft.

Info & Anmeldung: renner-institut.at/veranstaltun...
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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👇 Join us for this event next week on Wednesday, 18h! The location will be Aula, Campus Altes AKH, Hof 1 @univie.ac.at!
cidape.bsky.social CIDAPE EU Horizon Project @cidape.bsky.social · Oct 2
📢 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 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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environmentalpol.bsky.social
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...
ABSTRACT 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.
October 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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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
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📢 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
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🚨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
tillhilmar.bsky.social
📣 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
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tillhilmar.bsky.social
👉 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/...
September 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
tillhilmar.bsky.social
✨ 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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🎙️ 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
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September 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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📢 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
tillhilmar.bsky.social Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Sep 1
👉 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/...
September 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM