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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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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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

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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 · 29d
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
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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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👉 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
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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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🎙️ 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
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
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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.
August 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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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...
July 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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climatepod.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE ALERT

David Wallace-Wells joins to discuss the state of the climate crisis, extreme weather unfolding in 2025, and the biggest policy shifts happening now

Listen here:

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1tQy...

#climatechange #climatecrisis
July 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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📣 Glad to share that my article on how German and Polish memory organizations differently reacted to the Russian full-scale invasion of #Ukraine was just published in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #sociology #collectivememory
July 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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🙏 Stephanie Kappacher diskutiert in @soziopolis.bsky.social Ergebnisse unserer Forschung (mit Ruth Abramowski) aus der @zfs.bsky.social zu moralischen Verletzungen #soziologie www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
June 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Our workshop "Moral Economies of the Polycrisis" is coming up (U Hamburg, 16-17/06).

In his public lecture Patrick Sachweh will take stock of moral economy research today. With a commentary by Nicole Mayer-Ahuja. All welcome!

Co-organized with Laura Lüth and @tillhilmar.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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✨ Thrilled to share that my article on narratives of disruptive economic change – engaging with Weber and E.P. Thompson, and others – will be coming out soon at Sociological Theory
June 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM