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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 1d

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...

$ABSTRACT This article asks how two populist radical right parties, the German AfD and the Austrian FPÖ, communicate about climate on Twitter/X. Analyzing a corpus of 6,254 tweets, it pays special attention to a relatively underresearched aspect of climate communication by these actors: the way they reference the economy – in what I call ‘economic signification’ – in their discourse on climate. I distinguish four narratives promoted by them, climate policies threaten the economy as a whole; they unfairly burden specific ‘deserving’ groups; climate actors pursue hidden economic agendas; and they act on misguided assumptions and lack economic competence. By combining response and process skepticism, these narratives refract a broader vision of social order, allowing these parties to present themselves as a ‘voice of reason’ in the climate debate. Economic signification allows the far right to speak in the ‘realist’, warning mode, decrying the alleged economic ‘irrationality’ of mainstream parties.$

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 6d

🤝 Vielen Dank - ich freue mich auf die Lektüre des Klimawende Ausblicks!

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 8d

📣 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

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CIDAPE EU Horizon Project @cidape.bsky.social · 6d

📢 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

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CIDAPE EU Horizon Project @cidape.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Publication alert: Congratulations to our team member @tillhilmar.bsky.social on his new publication in @environmentalpol.bsky.social 👏

Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 8d

📣 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

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 8d

This is a powerful language game: Promoting counter-narratives to climate activism by mirroring a catastrophe framing, shifting the focus from environmental crisis to an imagined economic collapse

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 8d

It's based on an analysis of a large corpus of tweets by the German AfD and the Austrian FPÖ. They love to flip climate language on its head: instead of species extinction, for example, they warn of a "Kraftwerkesterben", a "dying off" of power plants #climatedelay

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 8d

📣 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

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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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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Sep 8

✨ 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

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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · Sep 3

🎙️ 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

aboutccs.net

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Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien @ifswien.bsky.social · Sep 2

📢 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

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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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Sep 1

🙏 Grateful for the sharp comments I got at @asanews.bsky.social ASA 2024 in Montreal, @dgswisoz.bsky.social 2024 meeting in Hamburg, and by the @cidape.bsky.social team in Vienna @ifswien.bsky.social

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Sep 1

I identify six narrative forms: redistribution, creative destruction, individual resilience, moral economy, decline for all, and growth for all. It's a toolbox that can help make sense of rising #economicnationalism and protectionism... like the Trump administration’s blend of economic genres

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Sep 1

People’s feelings about the economy can diverge from what the numbers say #vibecession. In the article, I dissect stories told about economic crisis and recovery (I look at climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic) and show how they convey ideas about social order

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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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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · Aug 1

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.

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 30

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...

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Jul 23

Another extraordinary conversation with David Wallace-Wells about how we gradually "normalize" the climate emergency, what our fractured sense of social solidarity has to do with it

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The Climate Pod @climatepod.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Jul 21

In this piece, I examine how memory organizations draw on past events to interpret the present event: through analogy, continuity, contextual reference, and rectification. I show that collective memory is structured through #networks.

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Jul 21

📣 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

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Jun 30

🙏 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...

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Jun 3

✨ 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

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