News from ipb

Here you will find English language posts about the activities of the ipb and its members, such as information on new projects and events, comments on current (protest) events.

Call for Papers: Workshop Politics from below

Protests and social movements are fuzzy objects to study. Scholars face a lack of clear

Neues aus der Bewegungsforschung: Publikationen von ipb-Mitgliedern (IV.2018)

Was passiert in der (deutschen) Bewegungsforschung? Was wird aktuell erforscht und publiziert? Seit Ende 2017

Neues aus der Bewegungsforschung: Publikationen von ipb-Mitgliedern (II.2018)

Was passiert in der (deutschen) Bewegungsforschung? Was wird aktuell erforscht und publiziert? Seit Ende 2017

#NoG20 in Hamburg: Tell your Story

Mapping #NoG20 is a collaborative research project of more than 20 social scientists to analyze

Neues aus der Bewegungsforschung: Publikationen von ipb-Mitgliedern (I.2018)

Was passiert in der (deutschen) Bewegungsforschung? Was wird aktuell erforscht und publiziert? Seit Ende 2017

Call for Papers: The politics of alliances: The making and breaking of social movement coalitions in polarized societies

Wie kommen soziale Bewegungen zusammen? Wie gelingt es geographische und ideologische Unterschiede zu überbrücken? Der Aufstieg

Neues aus der Bewegungsforschung: Publikationen von ipb-Mitgliedern (IV.2017)

Was passiert in der (deutschen) Bewegungsforschung? Was wird aktuell erforscht und publiziert? Beginnend mit dem

Movements & Institutions kick-off meeting

The newly established working group “Movements and Intsitutions” will hold their first Kick-Off-Meeting hosted by

Lecture by Donatella della Porta: Time intensity and eventful protests

Date: 28 January 2016, 6.00 p.m. Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Lecture Hall A, Garystraße 55 (U

Summer School “Protest and Social Movements in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives”

The international summer school Protest and Social Movements in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 19th until

These protests are primarily organised by local residents, housing movements, environmental NGOs and workers’ organisations. Their concerns go beyond simple opposition to tourism itself. Rather, protesters are questioning the distribution of tourism’s costs and benefits. While tourism generates revenue and employment, many residents feel that the gains are unevenly distributed, while the burdens fall disproportionately on local communities.
Malta Independent, 31.3.2026: What Europe’s overtourism protests are really telling us — and why Malta should pay attention
Michael Briguglio (University of Malta)
This authoritarian masculinism – experts call it “protective masculinity” – requires a counterpoint: a weak woman worthy of protection who, in traditional patriarchal and heterosexual relationships, serves the man and of course can be sexually subjugated by him. Those of a right-wing authoritarian leaning thus seek to mobilise opposition to the neoliberal notion of women taking up employment, propagating instead traditional roles such as mother and housewife. It’s not only men who do this: female influencers who dub themselves “tradwives” (short for “traditional wife”) make their money from this latter model.
Development and Cooperation, 30.12.2025: The Chainsaw Men
Birgit Sauer (Uni Wien)
The leading figures [of Generation Deutschland] come from a far-right milieu, in which former activists from the Identitarian Movement, fraternities, neo-Nazism and ethno-nationalist groups come together.
France24, 29.11.2025: German far right founds new youth wing in face of protests
Fabian Virchow (HS Düsseldorf)
“Whether you’re talking about the Communists, Yabloko or [the unregistered] Rassvet, at least they exist and they can do something,” Dollbaum told The Moscow Times. “Let’s take the Feminist Anti-War Resistance, one of the most courageous and numerous activist groups that are…very principally against the war and the regime. They [operate in Russia] anonymously…but they can’t currently be a real political actor,” he added.
The Moscow Times, 28.4.2025: Explainer: Does Russia’s ‘Systemic Opposition’ Still Exist?
Jan Matti Dollbaum (Université de Fribourg)
If climate activists foster alliances with trade unions and progressive corporations, a conservative-led government will have to deal with a powerful narrative.
dw.com, 13.2.2025: What’s next for Germany’s climate movement?
Simon Teune (FU Berlin)
A study of nonviolent action by Dalilah Shemia-Goeke finds that multinational corporations are deeply entangled with states in reciprocal relationships of dependence. While this puts constraints on the ability of states to regulate corporations, power imbalances between business and society can be redressed when people withdraw the support on which corporate entities depend.
Salon.com, 29.9.2024: Can we still prevent global catastrophe? Yes — by fighting corporate power, now
Dalilah Shemia-Goeke (Uni Marburg)

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