Volk Lab

Humboldt University of Berlin

Berlin (DE3) · Germany

ERC-funded
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ERC Starting Grant · 2017

Protest and Order. Democratic theory, contentious politics, and the changing shape of western democracies

The research project aims to analyze the interrelationship between protest and political order under the contextual conditions of the changing shape of modern western democracy. Two groups of ques-tions are connected to this study perspective, which will be answered by means of a democratic-theoretically-led synchronous comparison of selected contemporary protest movements – anonymous digi-tal protest movements, transnationally organized alter-globalization protest movements, the No Border movement and the rightwing identitarian protest movement: The aim is to clarify firstly (1) the extent to which the new forms of protest question the premises of democratic orders, what potential for…

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