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Copenhagen Centre for Political Mobilisation and Social Movement Studies (CoMMonS)
The Copenhagen Centre for Politial Mobilisation and Social Movement Studies produces systematic research on mobilisation, protest, citizenship and political engagement in Denmark and internationally.
Watch the international workshop on social movements in times of global pandemic hosted by the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. For full videos of all panel sessions and more info on the workshop, please visit the CoMMonS online library.
Today’s democracy is shaped by struggles of historic labor and women’s movements. In recent years, new pro-democracy movements and the Global Climate Justice Movement have emerged.
How does protest succeed to spark social change? How do activists communicate through digital media? CoMMonS research addresses these questions through systemic analysis. The activities include invited lectures, digital conferences, workshops, and externally funded interdisciplinary research projects.
In the spirit of UCPH’s continuing education initiative and public engagement, CoMMonS’s mission is to advance public knowledge, societal outreach, and international expertise on protest, political mobilisation, civic engagement, and citzenship.
The Centre offers regular seminars for presentations and feedback for faculty, postdocs, PhD students and guest researchers.
The CoMMonS initiates and facilitates collaborative research projects. CoMMonS workshops for bachelor and master students, PhD students, researchers, and international guest speakers will encourage public debate, networking, and knowledge exchange between civil society, practitioners, and anyone interested in social justice, democracy, political engagement, and social movements.
Sub projects
Nicole Doerr, PolarVis—a visual and narrative analysis combining big data analysis & qualitative methods to study political mobilization, polarization, and affect in digital media communication on climate politics online, HORIZON Europe Chanse research program. (2022-2025).
Hjalmar Alexander Bang Carlsen and Jonas Toubøl “Solidarity and volunteering in the Corona crisis” Independent Research Fund Denmark (2020-21): https://www.researchgate.net/project/Solidarity-and-Volunteering-in-the-Coronavirus-Crisis
Nicole Doerr, visual and linguistic big data analysis & qualitative methods studying far right mobilization online, NORFACE Democratic Governance in a Turbulent Age research program. (2020-2022): https://www.sociology.ku.dk/staff/professor-and-associate-professor/?pure=en/persons/544628
Noa Milman, “Black Lives Matter Mobilizations in Denmark: an International Comparison” Cooperation with BMBF/DeZIM Institute (project start: 2020)
Malgorzata Kurjanska, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Project funded by the European Union “The Making and Awaking of the European Far Right: A Qualitative Analysis of Far Right Supporters In Denmark and Poland” (Project Acronym: AWAKE, project number is 894959) Starting date: September 2020
Jonas Toubøl, “Mobilization in the era of social media. Introducing the decisive role of group level factors” Carlsberg Foundation (2018-2021): https://www.sociology.ku.dk/staff/assistant-professor-and-postdoc/?pure=en/persons/291670
Noa Milman, “Diverse Just—Addressing Diversity. How Immigration Shapes Criminal Justice and Welfare Policies” EU Marie-Sklodowska Curie individual fellowship (2019-2021): https://www.sociology.ku.dk/staff/part-time-lecture-and-research-assistant/?pure=en/persons/574779
Charlotte Baarts, “Walkways--ethnography and auto ethnography” (book project).
Gritt B. Nielsen, “Fighting for e/quality: comparative ethnographies of new student movements” Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) (2020-2023): https://projects.au.dk/fighting-for-equality/
Óscar García Agustín “Geographies of Populism in Europe: Imagination, people and places”, Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) (2020-2023): #humAAU #dkforsk #GeographiesOfPopulism
Suvi Keskinen, Pauline Stoltz, Diana Mulinari (eds.) “Feminisms in the Nordic Region – Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Decolonial Critique” Palgrave forthcoming, based on the project ‘The Future of Feminisms in the Nordic Region’ Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) and the Nordic Council of Ministers by means of Nordic Information on Gender (NIKK) (2016 -2017).
Lara Monticelli, Project: ECOLABSS – Ecovillages as Laboratories of Sustainability and Social Change (EU Marie-Sklodowska Curie individual fellowship, Grant no. 798866).
Christian Franklin Svensson, “Anthropocenes of civic engagement” Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University: https://vbn.aau.dk/en/projects/anthropocenes-of-civic-engagement
Hanne Bess Boelsbjerg, “Borderlands of Living” Carlsberg Foundation (2019-2021):
https://interactingminds.au.dk/projects/borderlands-of-living/
Sophia Wathne, PhD Project “Food Sovereignty and Peasant Prefiguration” Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy (2018-2022): http://cosmos.sns.it/person/2603/
Silas Harrebye, ”De demokratiske deltagelsesformers effekt og potentiale. En undersøgelse af magtelites politiske responsivitet. 2020-2023.” Funded by Roskilde Festival Fonden
Renata Motta, Food for Justice: Power, Politics and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research, BMBF, (2019-2024): https://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/forschung/food-for-justice/index.html
Alice Mattoni, Research Project BIT-ACT (Bottom-up initiatives and anti-corruption technologies: how citizens use ICTs to fight corruption) funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant, 2019) https://site.unibo.it/bit-act/en
- SUSY Centre for Sustainabilty and Society (SUSY), University of Copenhagen
- SODAS Centre for Social Data Sciences, University of Copenhagen
- AMIS Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen
- CAPS Centre for Anthropological, Political and Social Theory, University of Copenhagen
- COSMOS Centre for Social Movement Studies Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy
- Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite), University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Centre for Social Movement and Resistance Studies, University of Göteborg, Sweden
- Centre de recherche sur l'action politique (CRAPUL), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institute for the Study of Protest and Social Movements (IPB), Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Social Movements, Bochum, Germany
- Weizenbaum-Institute Digitalisation and Democracy Research Group Berlin, Germany
- Centre for Civil Society Research in Berlin, FU and Social Science Research Centre Berlin
- Pioneer Valley Social movements group, Massachusetts, USA
- ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization
- ESA Research Network on Collective Action and Social Movements
- Research Network on Social Movements of the Council for European Studies at Columbia University
- Department Consensus and Conflict, German Center for Integraiton and Migration Research (DeZIM) Berlin
- DEMOS — Democracy, Migration and Movements Research Group, Aalborg University
- Alternatives to Capitalism research network SASE
- Oscar Agustín, Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University
- Tina Askanius, Senior Lecturer, Media and Communication, Malmö University
- Hanne Bess Bjoelsbjerg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus University
- Bolette Blaagaard, Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University
- Thomas P. Boje, Professor of Global Political Sociology, Institut for Samfundsvidenskab og Erhverv, Roskilde University
- Maria Brock, Postdoctoral Researcher, Malmö University.
- Teresa Cappiali, Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University
- Bente Castro Campos, Postdoc, Department of Agricultural Policy and Market Research, University of Giessen.
- Joost de Moor, Postdoc, Political Science Department, Stockholm University,
- Marco Antonio dos Santos Teixeira, Researcher in Sociology, Institute for Latin American Studies, Free University of Berlin
- Ane Grubb, Postdoc, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University in Copenhagen
- Christina Hansen, PhD student, Malmö University
- Silas Harrebye, Associate Professor, Global Political Sociology, Roskilde University
- Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna.
- Susi Meret, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University
- Lara Monticelli, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, CBS
- Renata Campos Motta, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Institute for Latin American Studies, Free University of Berlin
- Gritt Nielsen, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Aarhus University
- Anita Nissen, PhD student, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University
- Pauline Stoltz, Associate Professor, Political Science, Aalborg University
- Christel Stormhøj, Associate Professor, Roskilde University
- Christian Franklin Svensson (PhD), Department of Sociology and Social Work, The Faculty of Social Sciences, Aalborg University
- Cecelia Walsh-Russo, Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University
- Sophia Wathne, PhD student, Scuola Normale Superiore
- Manes Weisskircher, Researcher, Political Theory, Dresden University
- Ekatherina Zhukova, Researcher, Lund University
- Noa Milman, Researcher, DeZIM Institut, Berlin
- Mona Baker, Affiliate Professor, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE), University of Oslo
- Jean Beaman, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Thomas P. Boje, Professor, Roskilde University
- Doug McAdam, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
- Donatella della Porta, Professor, Dean of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence
- Nicole Deitelhoff, Professor, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Director of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
- Liv Egholm, Associate Professor, CBS, director of CISTAS
- Nina Eliasoph, University of Southern California
- Marco Giugni, Professor, Université de Geneve
- Peter Gundelach, Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen Sociology
- Lasse Lindekilde, Professor, Aarhus University
- Jane Mansbridge, Professor Emerita, Harvard University
- Flemming Mikkelsen, Researcher, University of Copenhagen
- Thomas Olesen, Professor, Aarhus University
- Geoffrey Pleyers, Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Birte Siim, Professor Emerita, Aalborg University
- Dieter Rucht, Professor Emeritus, Social Science Research Centre Berlin
- Jan Aart Scholte, Professor in Peace and Development at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
- Håkan Thörn, Professor, University of Gothenburg, Centre for Social Movement and Resistance Studies
- Stellan Vintagen, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Endowed Chair of Non-Violent Direct Action
- Nancy Whittier, Professor, Smith College, USA
- Ruth Wodak, Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, Lancaster University
Researchers
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carleheden, Mikael | Associate Professor | +4535323286 | |
| Krøijer, Stine | Associate Professor - Promotion Programme | +4535321581 | |
| Kurjanska, Malgorzata Maria | Marie Curie Fellow | ||
| Langa, Maria Florencia | Postdoc | +4535335796 | |
| Toubøl, Jonas | Associate Professor | +4535323268 |
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Associate Professor Nicole Doerr
Department of Sociology
University of Copenhagen
Nicole Doerr is head of the centre.
Latest news and events
10-11 October 2024
CoMMonS workshop
Polarization, Visual Storytelling and Affective Connections on Climate Justice
In the EU-funded PolarVis research project, sociologists at UCPH/ CoMMonS have studied how climate justice activists from Fridays for Future, XR, Last Generation and other groups position themselves in an international digital media environment that shifts increasingly toward affect and polarisation.
This public workshop involving activists and researchers includes a co-design workshop with activist practitioners and professionals that will explore how and why climate activists use social media.
Computer scientists and researchers will support the process through an interactive dashboard that will allow to see how different groups engage with their audience on Facebook and what kind of strategy 'works.
Meet Alexandra Segerberg, Katrin Uba, Dominik Rákos, Liv Egholm, Luca Rossi, Curd Knuepfer, Anita Nissen, María Langa, Luigi Arminio, Christina Neumayer and Nicole Doerr.
See the full programme (pdf).
Other CoMMonS events, autumn 2024
22 October 2024
CoMMonS research discussion: 'Art and social movements'
19 November 2024, 10:15 a.m.
CoMMonS Online Zoom Talk: Bernhard Forchtner, Leicester University 'Visual approaches to far right mobilization and the environment', (Link to talk will follow)
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