In ganz Deutschland kann man den Rechtsruck in Schulen erkennen. Aber es gibt Orte, an denen die Stimmung bereits gekippt ist. Wir haben für unsere Recherche mit dem @zdfmagaz.in von @janboehm.bsky.social mit drei Schülern gesprochen, die sich wehren. Ihr solltet ihnen zuhören. THREAD 🧵

In den nächsten zwei Semestern organisieren wir diese interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe "Faschisierung – analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien". Jede Vorlesung an einer anderen Uni und hybrid! Ich spreche am 20.1. am @zfk-mr.bsky.social Marburg. krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation

Our paper "Right-Wing Populism and Museums" is out! It shows how European museums are navigating rising pressures from the far right, from direct interventions to subtle forms of influence, and how this leads to self-censorship, reshaping curatorial practices & the role of cultural institutions.

Wie groß ist die Bedrohung für den Rechtsstaat aus dem Inneren seiner Institutionen – wenn sich also Richter:innen, Polizist:innen oder Soldat:innen nicht mehr dem Grundgesetz verpflichtet fühlen? Auf viele Weckrufe sind bislang wenig echte Konsequenzen gefolgt: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2024...

'ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right'. Our new article, led by Tania Gonzáles Cantera, is out. It is an outcome of Tania's visit to the #HeritageMindsLab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social last yr doi.org/10.1080/1352...

Is “diversity taboo” or is this a segregationist regime that hopes to reinstate open white supremacy. It is absolutely wild (and fundamentally dishonest) that media is still reaching for euphemism instead of simply calling this racism.

one of the most infuriating parts of the Epstein story is over the same years that young women went to police and reported assault, and were ignored, law enforcement is pushing this idea that they need massive grants and manpower to rescue thousands of girls they say don’t even know they’re victims

"[Gaza] exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life, whatever their beliefs, skin color, or religious affiliation." thank you @joelleabirached.bsky.social for this painful but essential piece

We live in an era of democratic backsliding. But the terminology of "backsliding" isn't up to the task of making sense of the deep crisis of liberal democracy around the world. I've just finished a working paper that lays out what I think is going on. tl;dr it's about the state and society 🧵

Japan’s Long-Dominant Party Suffers Election Defeat as Voters Swing Right www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/w...

🔔 Reminder: Interested in developing your research project at our Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities? The KWI International & Thyssen@KWI Fellowships for April-September 2026 are open for applications! Make sure to submit by 29 Aug 2025. 🔗 www.kulturwissenschaften.de/cfa-kwi-fell...

Wild. „In ganz Berlin müssen wegen der Kürzungen etwa 25.000 Studienplätze abgebaut werden sowie dutzende Professuren.“ (Das betrifft die Kids, die mit Pandemie Schule hatten und jetzt zur Bundeswehr sollen. Und unsere Renten bezahlen.)

PROOFS!! What happens to cultural institutions like museums in times of right-wing populism? Our paper, which provides answers based on a comparative study across Europe, will soon be published in Museum & Society (open access).

Humiliating the supposedly weaker: For a long time, such behaviour was morally & politically unacceptable. In the meantime, it has become a source of ✨pleasure✨ for some - without shame or guilt. Listen to David Keen @lsepress.bsky.social on the power of shame next Thursday: 🔔 tinyurl.com/2uh5mp9u

Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."

Gerade haben wir unseren ersten Newsletter verschickt – mit einer Übersicht über die aktuellen Aktivitäten des Netzwerks Halt!ung und hilfreichen Ressourcen für engagierte Museen in Zeiten antidemokratischer Einflussnahme. Hier gleich reinlesen: shorturl.at/CuA5y

Der von Kai Seidensticker herausgebene Band "Fehlerkultur in der Polizei. Ausprägung, Einflussfaktoren und Möglichkeitsräume" ist soeben erschienen. Mit dabei: Beek, Howe, Zurawski: Wie werden Fehler gemacht? Die Konstruktion und Narration von Fehlern durch das polizeiliche Beschwerdemanagement

Die Petition der Studierenden, personelle Konsequenzen für sexualisierte Gewalt an der HU zu ziehen, ist online: www.change.org/p/andreas-ec...

Früher als erwartet ist heute unser neues Buch erschienen: "Nationale Narrative in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Spaltung: Empirische Einsichten und Perspektiven für die Politische Bildung" – herausgegeben von mir und mit 14 tollen Beiträgen... link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Heute um 14:35 Uhr geht's im @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy in Campus & Karriere um #Machtmissbrauch an Hochschulen. Für @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social durfte ich ein paar Worte beisteuern. #IchbinTina #IchbinHanna #IchbinReyhan

Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...

📢Call for Papers: “Visibility, Surveillance, and Policing” Bilingual (DE/EN) workshop by the AK Soziale Bewegungen und Polizei @TU Chemnitz - 28 Nov 2025 Submit 300-word abstracts to [email protected] by 15 July 2025 🔗 protestinstitut.eu/event/ipb-wo...

the new fascism is also a bit entertaining.

Nächste Woche moderiere ich ein Panel an @unileipzig.bsky.social, auf das ich mich schon riesig freue, kann man hinkommen nach #Leipzig, kann man wohl auch online schauen:

„Wissenschaft darf daher zum grassierenden Rechtsextremismus nicht schweigen.[…] Sie muss sich in die Debatte um das dringend gebotene AfD-Verbotsverfahren einmischen; ja, sie sollte sich an die Spitze einer konzertierten gesellschaftlichen Aktion zum Schutz der Demokratie setzen“ #LauteWissenschaft

15 Unis dürfen sich bewerben, 5 werden gefördert, 10 vernichten Steuergelder. Dazu mehr von @amreibahr.bsky.social und mir: substack.com/home/post/p-.... #ExitExzellent #ExStra #ArbeitInDerWiss

New @RISjnl article by @debfrombrazil.bsky.social and @casaroes.bsky.social 🎉 'Heritage as power: History and tradition in constructing Brazil’s far-right populism' @CUP_PoliSci DOI to read: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

📘 Our book on "Police Use of Excessive Force in Germany" is now available in English! This is the most comprehensive empirical study on police violence in Germany to date— based on surveys with over 3,000 affected individuals and 63 expert interviews.

New @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org article out in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics with @georgenewth.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 Short 🧵 on the key ideas 1/

PROOFS! (der Band "Nationale Narrative in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Spannung: Empirische Einsichten und Perspektiven für die Politische Bildung" wird im Juli/August erscheinen, yay)

"The increased depiction of immigration as a threat to the nation-state in elite discourse illustrates increasingly blurred lines between the mainstream and far right. This includes the mainstream’s adoption of the far-right framing of immigration as a ‘legitimate concern’"

We find that about 20% (!) of German adults believe in the strong version of the "great replacement theory"—that white majorities are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants in a secretive attempt by malevolent elites to undermine their own country

"Es gibt nur sehr wenige Menschen, die diese Forschung betreiben - es gibt noch zwei oder drei weitere Wissenschaftler, die über Schwarze in der Nazizeit forschen" - Katharina Oguntoye (Historikerin) Langer Artikel, über ein Thema das mE zu wenig bekannt ist. #Erinnerungskultur

Today at 5pm, Tania Li will give a keynote on structural violence – please join us if you are in/around Marburg!

“There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social. My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.

Auf diesen Text www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss... von @niklasweber.bsky.social wird man schwerlich zu oft hinweisen können, deshalb auch noch mal hier – mich interessiert hier unter anderem, wie man das Engagement von Studierenden in dieser Sache weiter ermutigen und unterstützen kann. /1

Next week on Friday we will host a public lecture by Tania Li in Marburg on: "Do we see what our interlocutors see? Bridging divergent perspectives on structural violence" Prof. Tania Li 9 May 2025, 5 pm CNMS-Vortragsraum, Deutschhausstraße 12, Marburg

I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical exhibits from museums is no different from burning books. bsky.app/profile/adam...

The German office for the protection of the Constitution has, after a long period of monitoring, declared the AfD a “confirmed far-right party” — a landmark decision, meaning they’ve been declared a party that acts against the German Constitution and democratic order: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

For May Day, a timely reminder that migrant sex workers are workers. Calling them “slaves” or victims of traffickers is a “racist, xenophobic distortion of the actual sources of exploitation and violence in their lives—the state, the police, & immigration control agents.” inquest.org/the-righ...

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

New special issue on ‘The Racism Debate in Germany’, tracing the continuities & transformations of racism, its denial & structural entrenchment, the neglected importance of anti-racist struggles & critical theorizing, and the need for solidarity against division www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/4...

“Most of us would find it horrible to be told that we aren’t worth engaging with, that our views are socially unacceptable ... But that it is painful to be on the receiving end of such remarks doesn’t mean that one’s own rights to ‘free speech’ are thereby imperilled“ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Very pleased to share my new article exploring how institutional disregard for researcher safety online produces structural failures of care. Early view, open access here 👇👇👇 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

CfP Kritische Sexarbeitsforschung, Workshop 14.-16.11.2025 in Wien, Deadline 30.6.2025. #GenderStudies www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some thoughts on defending public libraries.

Goldsmiths are advertising for a Post-doctoral Research Associate to work on the Horizon Europe-funded (RIA Research and Innovation Action) You-DARE (Debunking the Gendered Arguments of Far-Right Extremism) project (as part of the UK-based team).

See information below for all precarious female academics at Max Planck Institutes in need of mentorship (confidential, of course) ⬇️ @ngawiss.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social #Machtmissbrauch #Hochschule #Wissenschaft #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #Befristung #Prekarisierung

Die preußische Landnahme in Polen, Litauen und anderen osteuropäischen Regionen zeigt: Koloniale Strukturen existierten auch innerhalb Europas. Felix Ackermann & Agnieszka Pufelska über Postpreußen. geschichtedergegenwart.ch/postpreussen/

I'll be speaking in Prague today about "The figure of the wolf in German right-wing politics". Thanks @mempop.bsky.social for hosting me!