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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · 9d

Claus Offe has passed. He was such an important intellectual voice and great person. He will be missed. RiP

Hertie School @hertieschool.bsky.social · 9d

The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · 10d

Fantastisch, herzlichen Glückwunsch Steffen, und Max Planck!

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · 18d

Congratulations and welcome!

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Aug 15

Missing him and his voice in all this madness dearly

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Aug 10

Just reread the handmaiden's tale. Could not be more timely

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Jul 14

Fantastic, my warmest congratulations!

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you so much, @benediktbender.bsky.social

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Apr 30

This is super important work in who owns the Land in BiH

Katarina Kušić @katkusic.bsky.social · Apr 30

Over the last few months, I've been working with colleagues in BiH and @ecodiya.bsky.social on updating the #LandMatrix database on land deals in BiH. We also wrote a small report, now published! You can check out the database here: landmatrix.org/map/

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Apr 29

Michel Aglietta has passed. He was such an inspiring scholar, and the French Regulation Theory remains one of the must reads in political economy.

Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay @mdtremblay.bsky.social · Apr 29

www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

Michel Aglietta, un « jardinier » visionnaire en économie, est mort

Le grand économiste, cofondateur dans les années 1970 de la théorie de la régulation, qui analyse les dynamiques du capitalisme à la lumière des institutions, est mort, jeudi 24 avril, à l’âge de 87 a...

www.lemonde.fr

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Apr 27

I like that!

Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Apr 27

and putting the radical right vote a bit in context (a small consolation, but still )

Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social · Apr 27

However, worth noting that, while a major win for the FPÖ, this is by far not the FPÖ's best result in Vienna. They got ~ 28% in 1996, ~ 26% in 2010 and almost 31% in 2015. The meagre result in 2020 was largely due to the Ibiza affair.
www.jede-stimme.at/wahlen/analy...

Jede Stimme - Alle Nationalrats- Landtags- und EU-Wahlen Österreichs

Die Ergebnisse aller Nationalratswahlen, Landtagswahlen und EU-Wahlen gesammelt und interaktiv visualisiert. Jede Stimme, bei jeder Wahl, für jede Partei. Detailinformationen zur historischen Entwickl...

www.jede-stimme.at

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Apr 27

Something to be grateful for in todays crazy politics

Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social · Apr 27

Elections in "Red Vienna" today: Social Democrats came in first as expected but lost around 2 percentage points compared to last time, currently placing them just above their worst election result in the city (39.15%). Meanwhile, the far-right FPÖ received ~20.5%, up from 7% in the last election.

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Ognjen Kojanić @okojanic.bsky.social · Apr 10

Registration open (participation is free of charge):
capitalist-transformations.com/registration/

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · Apr 8

An die Quali-Kolleg:innen: Unsere Fokusgruppen aus dem Triggerpunkte-Projekt sind nun archiviert und frei verfügbar. Neben Sekundäranalysen zu politischen Debatten eignen sie sich erfahrungsgemäß auch gut für Interpretationsübungen in der Lehre.

Zum Datensatz: doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANG...

Neuer Datensatz mit Fokusgruppeninterviews zur Wahrnehmung von Ungleichheit und gesellschaftlichen Konflikten - Qualiservice Data Sharing

Im Qualiservice-Katalog ist ein neuer Datensatz ab sofort unter https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.975394 verfügbar. Es handelt sich um sechs Transkripte von Fokusgruppeninterviews, die im Rahmen des Lei...

www.qualiservice.org

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Apr 5

This is how the German liberal party reacts to a Great Depression size stock market crash: its time to introduce the private pension pillar

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Mar 28

Another demand of CDU: We will conduct a constitutional review to determine whether we can withdraw German citizenship from supporters of terrorism, anti-Semites and extremists who call for the abolition of the free and democratic basic order if they hold another nationality.

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · Mar 26

The Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy aims to address the continued underrepresentation of women in political economy. Join us!

📅 Cologne, September 22–25, 2025
👩‍🎓 For current PhD students or recent PhD graduates – free of charge
⏳ Apply by April 25, 2025

Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy

The Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy aims to establish a network of women working in political economy and to contribute to ameliorating existing gendered inequalities in the fi...

www.mpifg.de

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Björn Bremer @bjoernbremer.bsky.social · Mar 18

Exciting news! The Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy is back this September at @mpifg.bsky.social.

Huge thanks to the fantastic @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social for making it happen.

Please spread the word!

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Mar 17

A timely workshop organized by a great team. If you have a paper idea, send it their way.

Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · Mar 17

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

"Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times"

Workshop, June 16-17
University of Hamburg

Deadline for abstracts: 07/04
Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social

linuswestheuser.com/cfp-moral-ec...

Moral Economies of the Polycrisis
Conflict, Critique and Legitimation in Critical Times

International Workshop. 16-17 June 2025. University of Hamburg. Organizers: Laura Lüth (University of Hamburg), Till Hilmar (University of Vienna), and Linus Westheuser (Humboldt University Berlin).

By disrupting what is taken for granted, moments of economic, political, and ecological crisis reveal the implicit modus operandi of a society. As routines get derailed and settled arrangements come under strain, institutions are forced to explicate the “implicit social contract” (Barrington Moore) underpinning power, domination, and inequality. Who deserves protection when times get rough? Whose suffering matters and whose claims are made to count? Who is blamed? And what even counts as a crisis and what is shrugged off and fades into a ‘new normal’?

These questions touch on a tacit structure of social expectations commonly discussed under the heading of moral economy. Drawing on thinkers like E.P. Thompson, James C. Scott, or Marion Fourcade, the moral economy perspective examines expectations of unequal reciprocity and distributive claims in economic relations; ideas of systemic legitimacy resting on mutual obligations between dominant and dominated groups; or political priorities tied to assumptions about the (un)deservingness and moral worth of social groups. Moral economy approaches focalize the ideational and institutional architecture of capitalist societies by parsing how legitimacy and hegemony are embedded in everyday moral reasoning. In addition these approaches also often look at social practices, struggles, and forms of critique centered around the violation of moral claims.

At our workshop, we want to discuss work in the moral economy paradigm that sheds light on the current “polycrisis” composed of geopolitical turmoil, economic shocks, ecological breakdown, as well as crises of care and political legitimacy.

What can the moral economy perspective teach us about the way capitalist societies navigate these crises?
To what extent do crises open up a space in which dominated groups can critique inequality and demand a renegotiation of the implicit social contract?
How do demands and political responses informed by existing moral economies deepen inequality and domination?
How do institutions like the welfare state or social and eco-social policies seek to mend rifts in the moral economy?
What are moral background assumptions that make some developments (such as migration) but not others (such as poverty and extreme wealth) appear as crises?
And what is the explanatory status of moral economy as a concept? For instance, are popular moral sentiments and subjective aspirations a driver of political and economic action, or are they merely a symptom of existing power relations? Is moral economy about agency or structure? And if both, how exactly?

These are some of the questions we want to discuss with a group of international scholars.

We invite papers taking a moral economy perspective to empirically research or theorize the current conjuncture. Papers can be at all stages of development, the event is meant to collaboratively discuss work in progress. We especially welcome submissions from doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. Limited funds are available to assist with travel and accommodation for those lacking institutional support.

Please send an abstract of max. 500 words to: laura.lueth@uni-hamburg.de, till.hilmar@univie.ac.at and linus.westheuser@hu-berlin.de

Deadline for abstract submissions: 7 April, 2025

The workshop is supported by the Economic Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS), the Research Unit Economic Sociology at the University of Hamburg, and the Research Unit Macrosociology at Humboldt University Berlin.

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Doro Bohle @dorobohle.bsky.social · Feb 5

Devastating news. Michael Burawoy died in a hit and run accident. He never drove himself. He was such an inspiring scholar.
www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

Oakland resident dead in hit-and-run crash at intersection

The collision happened around 7:10 p.m. Monday near the entrance to Children’s Fairyland.

www.mercurynews.com

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Sven Giegold @sven-giegold.de · Jan 30

Es ist eine große Freude, jetzt endlich auch hier auf BlueSky zu sein, der– wie ich finde – besten Alternative zu X/Twitter. Bitte helft mir, hier Wurzeln zu schlagen mit einem Repost. Danke!

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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · Jan 27

Over at the Socio-Economic Review, we're planning a special issue on offshore finance! Historical contributions are very welcome. CfP here: academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf.... Please share and spread the word! Excited to be working with @ebharrington.bsky.social and Kimberly Kay-Hoang on this!

Call for Papers

Offshore Finance: The Socio-Economics of a Global System Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review Guest editors Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, (Brooke.H

academic.oup.com

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · Jan 21

Back from @weareceu.bsky.social after a wonderful workshop on recent works by @ankehassel.bsky.social in the context of her Karl Polanyi Visiting Professorship, incl.
•the much-anticipated 2nd volume of Growth & Welfare with @bpalier.bsky.social
•joint work with @donatodc.bsky.social & Martin Höpner

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Aida A. Hozic @hozic.bsky.social · Jan 20

At @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC in Bologna, @dorobohle.bsky.social @thunen.bsky.social and I are chairing a section on Europe as a periphery in the global economy. The call for abstracts is now open - eisa-net.org/abstract-sub... We welcome proposals on Euro dependency in labor, finance, resources.

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Florian Klenk 👨🏻‍💻 @klenkflorian.bsky.social · Jan 15

Abonniert den Standard. (Und den Falter). Wir brauchen Euch jetzt.
abo.falter.at

DER STANDARD @derstandard.at · Jan 15

Jeder Beitrag zählt und stärkt unabhängigen Qualitätsjournalismus! Hier entlang: https://checkout.derstandard.at/produkt/einmalige-unterstuetzung?ref=SupporterPosting&utm_source=derstandard&utm_medium=instagram&utm_campaign=Supporter&utm_content=InstagramStory

Ein Social-Media-Beitrag mit einem Bild einer Gruppe von Männern.

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