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Davide Rocchetti
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Postdoc University of Bologna | @project-protest.bsky.social | Collective action, far right and (counter)protests
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hajogu.bsky.social
💫New paper out with @chjncke.bsky.social in @europeansocieties.bsky.social:

📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets"

🧵A short thread about the paper:
Title and Abstract of the paper "Far-right contention in civil society: multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets". Authors: Hans Jonas Gunzelmann, Christin Jänicke Abstract: Over the past decade, the far right has been on the rise in civil societies across Europe. Civil society organizations have been challenged by the far right in governments, political parties, and within their own ranks. However, there is little systematic research on how the far right stirs conflict within civil society. Civil society research has tended to ignore ‘uncivil’ society and has instead focused on social capital and cohesion. Research on the noninstitutional side of the far right has been growing but has largely neglected the consequences for established civil society organizations and their members. This article addresses these blind spots by providing a conceptual framework and a methodology for studying the far right in civil society, which is applied to a case study. First, we construct a conceptual framework that adapts the contentious politics paradigm to the study of civil society. We delineate far-right contention within civil society and construct typologies of the action repertoires, actors, and targets. Second, we develop a methodology that combines different lenses to expand our view on far-right contention in civil society. We propose a mixed-methods research design for mapping far-right contentious events. Third, we apply our conceptual framework and methodology to the case of Germany by empirically mapping the action repertoires, actors and targets. Our findings fundamentally shift the scholarly understanding of the far right in civil society: We find that far-right contention in civil society goes well beyond adversarial actions by far-right actors. This has important implications for researchers and practitioners.
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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dasalgon.bsky.social
"Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda" - for the @theguardian.com, @ashifakassam.bsky.social summed up our study.

@tevoelker.bsky.social and I answered some questions to put our results into context. Give it a read!

Study: bit.ly/4hhRFUN
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 18
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely. The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
daviderocchetti.bsky.social
phd defended :) grateful for all the support along the way ❤️
June 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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auroraperego.bsky.social
📣 Excited to contribute to the special issue New Perspectives on Gender and Mobilization @ejpgjournal.bsky.social

With Elena Pavan, we examine how LGBTQIA+ collaborative networks are built through shared framing strategies

Thanks to editors Maria Grasso & Marco Giugni!

👉 doi.org/10.1332/2515...
April 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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project-protest.bsky.social
The project's kick off meeting is taking place on April 7-8 2025 in Budapest. The event had the project members reflect and discuss the dedemocratisation processes and protests in select countries in Europe. The discussions of the kick-off meeting will lay foundations this exciting research project.
April 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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mazzerocri.bsky.social
🚨 Excited to share my first article (Open Access) in the Journal of Refugee Studies on the role of universities in Belarusian student displacement.

Yet, it’s a bittersweet joy, as many Belarusians remain in prison or exile.

More below 👇
doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...
Higher education in displacement: empowering pathway or double-edged institution? Insights from Belarusian students’ experiences
Abstract. Bridging forced migration and higher education (HE) studies, this study explores how HE affects the process of displacement (processual dimension
doi.org
March 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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meretstephan.bsky.social
📢 New @wzb.bsky.social Working Paper w/ @lennartschuermann.bsky.social:
“How Anti-Racist Protests Influence Pro- and Anti-Migration Voting Behavior: Evidence from National and European Elections”

❗️Main finding: Anti-racist protests can change voting behavior towards a more inclusive society

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January 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM