Hans Jonas Gunzelmann
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Hans Jonas Gunzelmann
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political sociologist @wzb.bsky.social & @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
🔎 civil society, movements, organizations, secessionism, and the far right.
🎓 PhD from Scuola Normale Superiore
📖 "Organizing for Independence" AUP
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💫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"

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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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Diese Woche ist der #dgskongress2025! Meine Kolleginnen @chjncke.bsky.social und Charlotte Rößler-Prokhorenko und ich haben eine Panel zur Politisierung der Zivilgesellschaft organisiert, das am Donnerstag von 14:15 bis 17 Uhr stattfindet. Wir freuen uns auf vier spannende Beiträge!
Die Transformation der Zivilgesellschaft: Politisierung, Polarisierung und sozialer Zusammenhalt Ad-hoc-Gruppe auf dem 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie „Transitionen“ Donnerstag, 25.09.2025 14:15-17:00 Ort: SG U126 Organisation: Christin Jänicke, Hans Jonas Gunzelmann, Charlotte Rößler-Prokhorenko (Wissenschaftsze-ntrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) Programm: 14:15 – Hans Jonas Gunzelmann: Einführung 14:30 – Elias Steinhilper & Matthias Hoffmann: Der „Zement der Zivilgesellschaft“ im Wandel? Interakti-onsnetzwerke in zwei deutschen Mittelstädten vor, während und nach dem langen Sommer der Migrati-on 15:00 - Alexander Kanamüller & Christine Steiner: Politische zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure in kommunalen Bildungslandschaften: Ganz anders? 15:30 – Pause 15:40 – Lina Hehl & Ina Mayer: Zusammenhalt fordert - Zur staatlichen Mobilisierung von Zivilgesellschaft 16:10 – Susanne Worschech: Civil und Uncivil Spheres in Ostdeutschland – eine Soziologie der Zivilgesell-schaftspolarisierung auf der Basis der Civil Sphere Theory Jeffrey Alexanders 16:40 – Abschlussdiskussion 17:00 – Ende
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Fall is upon us
November 1, 2023 at 9:05 AM