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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch the Video CoMMonS online book talk by Donatella della Porta, author of How Social Movements
Can Save Democracy: Democratic Innovations from Below. Polity, 2020.

Discussants

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Professor of Sociology, New York University
  • Laura Gorriahn, Researcher, ERC Project Protest and Order. Contentious Politics, Democratic Theory and the Changing Shape of Western Democracy, Humboldt Universität of Berlin
  • Nicole Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, CoMMonS

Moderator and Co-Host:

Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bologna University, Department of Political and Social Sciences

 

Watch this video https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BCECjYXxk/ 

 

Watch the Video CoMMonS Online book panel by Eléonore Lépinard, author of Feminist Trouble. Intersectional Politics in Postsecural Times. Oxford, 2020.

Talk co-organized with the Council of European Studies Network on Immigration Research

Discussants

  • Gökce Yurdakul, Professor of Sociology, Humboldt University of Berlin
  • Teresa Cappiali, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University Department of Gender Studies

Moderator: Nicole Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen,

Head of CoMMonS

Host: Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bologna University,

Department of Political and Social Sciences

 

Watch this video: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bhne8QcKr/ 

 

Watch the CoMMonS book talk by Paul Lichterman, author of How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles, Princeton University Press, 2021. With

  • Kathleen Blee, Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
  • Benedikte Brincker, Associate Professor of Sociology, Head of Department, University of Copenhagen
  • Liv Egholm, Associate Professsor, Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy,

Head of Center for Civil Society Studies, Copenhagen Business School

  • Hjalmar Alexander Bang Carlsen, PhD, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Co-host/Moderation: Nicole Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Head of CoMMonS

Co-host: Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bologna University, Department of Political and Social Sciences

 

Watch this video:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1HA2hKm4Wx/ 

 

Watch the Video CoMMonS Online book panel Jan 18th 2023

Anita Nissen: Europeanisation of the Contemporary Far Right. Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy (2022).

Discussants:

Raphael Schlembach, University of Brighton

Manès Weiskircher, University of Oslo and TU Dresden

Host: Nicole Doerr, University of Copenhagen, Sociology, CoMMonS

 

Watch this video https://www.facebook.com/share/v/14zYm1uCJw/ 

 

 

 

 

CoMMonS book talk by Julia Rone (author of Contesting Austerity and Free Trade in the EU: Protest Diffusion in Complex Media and Political Arenas).

Discussants: Cristina Flesher (Loughborough University),

James M. Jasper (CUNY)

Moderator: Alice Mattoni, University of Bologna, Sociology

Host: Nicole Doerr, University of Copenhagen, Sociology, CoMMonS

Watch this video:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18oHADp9mp/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Researchers

Name Title Phone E-mail
Carleheden, Mikael Associate Professor +4535323286 E-mail
Krøijer, Stine Associate Professor - Promotion Programme +4535321581 E-mail
Kurjanska, Malgorzata Maria Marie Curie Fellow E-mail
Toubøl, Jonas Associate Professor +4535323268 E-mail

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Contact

Associate Professor Nicole Doerr
Department of Sociology
University of Copenhagen

Nicole Doerr is head of the centre.

Latest news and events


17 February 2025

CoMMonS online research discussion panel 

Liberal democracy faced with far right government: Europe and Trump II.

Speakers:

  • Prof. Dr. Ruth Wodak (Vienna/Lancaster Universities, emerita)
  • Anja Wehler-Schöck (Der Tagesspiegel, international editor)
  • Prof. Dr. Jens Steffek (Universität Darmstadt/ConTrust)
  • Dr. Manès Weisskircher (TUD/REXKLIMA)
  • Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak (DeZIM).

Host: Associate Prof Nicole Milman-Dörr, (PolarVis/CoMMonS UCPH),

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