Till Hilmar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 215433 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Till Hilmar |
| NOMBRES | Till |
| APELLIDO | Hilmar |
| FIRMA | HILMAR T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5112-6752 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Restoring or transforming the economy? How institutional actors in Germany and Italy framed Covid-19 economic policies
COVID-19 has deeply affected the economy in Europe and worldwide. We investigate how key institutional actors – ministries, trade associations, and trade unions – made sense of the economic relief policies adopted from the crisis outbreak to its containment. We compare Italy and Germany as two contrasting cases, characterised by varying economic conditions prior to the crisis and differing capacities to cushion their economic impact. Twitter/X te…
Signifying the present in links to the past
How do actors make sense of disruptive events through historical references? This article examines how Polish, German, and Ukrainian memory organizations responded to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, by mobilizing the past to imbue this event with meaning. Drawing on 740,720 tweets from 139 memory organizations, I apply a computational hermeneutics approach to analyze historical references, their narrative forms, and …
Narratives of Disruptive Economic Change
This article develops an analytic framework composed of six narrative forms through which disruptive economic change is interpreted and legitimized. Drawing on two eventful contexts—economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing climate transformations—I identify six narrative forms: redistribution, creative destruction, individual resilience, moral economy, decline for all, and growth for all. Each narrative constructs legitimacy throu…
Moralischverletzt – Berufsethische Ansprüche und die Artikulation kollektiver Ungerechtigkeitserfahrungen von Pflegekräften während der Coronapandemie
Während der Coronapandemie haben sich die ohnehin schon von Personal- und Zeitmangel geprägten Arbeitsbedingungen für Pflegekräfte weiter verschärft und es hat sich ein Diskurs über moralische Verletzungen entfacht. In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir, wie solche Erfahrungen artikuliert werden. Dazu werten wir Twitter-Daten zum Thema ,moralischverletzt‘ mittels einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse aus. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Konflikte zwischen…
Political emotions
The climate crisis and the policy measures intended to address it have become deeply polarized, reflecting broader political divisions. While emotions are increasingly acknowledged as central to policymaking, they are still often framed in policy debates as obstacles to rational decision-making. This persists despite substantial scholarship in political psychology showing that emotions are integral to rationality. This research note introduces th…
Cassandra from the far right
Contingencies of Solidarity
The article examines different articulations of solidarity discourse in Germany and in Italy during the COVID-19 crisis, demonstrating how its meanings varied between the two countries in conjunction with national contingencies influencing how the crisis was experienced. Text analysis with Twitter\X data is used to compare how the term was framed during the crisis. The two countries were selected based on their differing socio-economic, cultural,…
Who deserves economic relief? Examining Twitter/X debates about Covid-19 economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed in Germany
The economic shock of the Covid-19 crisis has disproportionately impacted small businesses and the self-employed. Around the globe, their survival during the pandemic often relied heavily on government assistance. This article explores how economic relief to business is understood through the lens of deservingness in the public. It examines the case of Germany, where the government has responded to the pandemic by implementing an extensive suppor…
Deep Transformations
In this introduction to the special issue, we explore the political salience of emotions in times of large-scale social change, emphasizing the role of personal narratives in understanding and framing these transformations. We introduce the concept of 'deep transformations' to analyse radical shifts in various aspects of life and their emotional and cultural implications. Focusing on cases from the post-socialist world and one contribution from p…
Emotions in a Time of Radical Change
In times of major change, people reassess what is a valuable and, therefore, prideful achievement in the context of a new societal structure and culture. Our article challenges the traditional view of achievements and pride as purely individual experiences, arguing that pride has social and cultural sources and modes of articulation, which may shift dramatically during radical change. We find that people express pride in their achievements when t…
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change
Right-wing populists legitimize their political agenda by promoting cultural ideas. At the same time, support for right-wing populists is fueled by a sense of economic injustice. How do these two factors interact? This article addresses this question by tracing how these actors promote 'economic narratives' about the past. It studies how two right-wing populist parties – AfD in post-communist (former East) Germany and ANO in the Czech Republic – …
Fragile Bonds of Recognition
Recently, as a corollary of intensified efforts to understand the rise of right-wing populism, the topic of social recognition has gained renewed attention in sociological research. It seems that a sense of misrecognition and exclusion is shaped as much by cultural as by economic factors. Just how these elements are interlinked, however, remains a black box. In this article, I offer an empirical contribution to this problem: I demonstrate that so…
Poison to the Economy
The concentration of wealth is a key component of the rise in economic inequality at the beginning of the twenty-first century. While the abolition of taxes on private wealth during the 1990s and 2000s is recognized as an important institutional driver behind this development, comparatively little is known about the justification of tax cuts for the wealthy in advanced democracies. This paper investigates how the abolishment of the personal net w…
Sich treu geblieben? Symbolische Grenzziehungen in inner-ostdeutschen Sozialgefügen vor dem Hintergrund des Nachwendeschocks
Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts zur Nachwendezeit in Ostdeutschland, das mit 41 Personen, die den Umbruch von 1989 als junge Erwachsene erlebt haben, durchgeführt wurde. Auf Basis von semi-strukturierten Interviews diskutiert der Beitrag symbolische Grenzziehungen, die Gesprächspartner/innen in Bezug auf die Erfahrungen dritter Personen nach 1989 artikulieren, und mit denen sie ein legitimes „Wir“ nach 1989…
Culture in network breaks
Tie dissolution in non-romantic relations is commonly understood as a structural process. This article challenges this prevailing view by tracing agency behind dynamics of disassociation. It distinguishes between “natural” and “moral” tie dissolution and explores the “broken tie”, as a former positive tie turned negative, theoretically and empirically. Data comes from an interview and survey study with 41 respondents with first-hand experience of…
Economic Memories” of the Aftermath of the 1989 Revolutions in East Germany and the Czech Republic
How does the aftermath of 1989 shape the meaning of this event today? On the basis of an interview study with sixty-seven respondents from former East Germany and the Czech Republic administered in 2016–2017, this article asks how individuals articulate “economic memories” against the background of the 1990s, a time in which the transition to democracy was accompanied by labor market ruptures. It documents how salient themes of change are narrate…
The Temporal Logic of Deservingness
Employing a cultural sociological approach, this article asks how individuals from two postsocialist societies articulate principles of justice by providing narrative accounts of other peoples' perceived choices and social mobility trajectories after 1989. Using data from an interview study of 67 respondents from former East Germany and the Czech Republic, I present two interrelated findings: First, as respondents negotiate the tension between th…
Narrating Unity at the European Union’s New History Museum
Power in sociological studies of memory is commonly understood as a function of political interests that are successfully framed as an inclusive and convincing story about selected elements of the past. By showing how negotiations of memory are driven by dynamics of symbolic exchange and by distinguishing techniques of narration emerging from this process, I develop a theoretical model that helps to better understand the locus of symbolic power i…
Storyboards of remembrance
A majority of today’s visitors to the Auschwitz memorial site take photos to document their stay. By calling attention to visitors’ photography on site, this article investigates the role of visual perception and visual techniques of memory for visits to memorial sites and empirically discusses the significance of historical imagination in linking the past with the present. Visitors’ photography at Auschwitz can be considered a mnemonic practice …
Economic Memories” of the Aftermath of the 1989 Revolutions in East Germany and the Czech Republic
How does the aftermath of 1989 shape the meaning of this event today? On the basis of an interview study with sixty-seven respondents from former East Germany and the Czech Republic administered in 2016–2017, this article asks how individuals articulate “economic memories” against the background of the 1990s, a time in which the transition to democracy was accompanied by labor market ruptures. It documents how salient themes of change are narrate…
The Temporal Logic of Deservingness
Employing a cultural sociological approach, this article asks how individuals from two postsocialist societies articulate principles of justice by providing narrative accounts of other peoples' perceived choices and social mobility trajectories after 1989. Using data from an interview study of 67 respondents from former East Germany and the Czech Republic, I present two interrelated findings: First, as respondents negotiate the tension between th…
Poison to the Economy
The concentration of wealth is a key component of the rise in economic inequality at the beginning of the twenty-first century. While the abolition of taxes on private wealth during the 1990s and 2000s is recognized as an important institutional driver behind this development, comparatively little is known about the justification of tax cuts for the wealthy in advanced democracies. This paper investigates how the abolishment of the personal net w…
Storyboards of remembrance
A majority of today’s visitors to the Auschwitz memorial site take photos to document their stay. By calling attention to visitors’ photography on site, this article investigates the role of visual perception and visual techniques of memory for visits to memorial sites and empirically discusses the significance of historical imagination in linking the past with the present. Visitors’ photography at Auschwitz can be considered a mnemonic practice …
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change
Right-wing populists legitimize their political agenda by promoting cultural ideas. At the same time, support for right-wing populists is fueled by a sense of economic injustice. How do these two factors interact? This article addresses this question by tracing how these actors promote 'economic narratives' about the past. It studies how two right-wing populist parties – AfD in post-communist (former East) Germany and ANO in the Czech Republic – …
Culture in network breaks
Tie dissolution in non-romantic relations is commonly understood as a structural process. This article challenges this prevailing view by tracing agency behind dynamics of disassociation. It distinguishes between “natural” and “moral” tie dissolution and explores the “broken tie”, as a former positive tie turned negative, theoretically and empirically. Data comes from an interview and survey study with 41 respondents with first-hand experience of…
Political emotions
The climate crisis and the policy measures intended to address it have become deeply polarized, reflecting broader political divisions. While emotions are increasingly acknowledged as central to policymaking, they are still often framed in policy debates as obstacles to rational decision-making. This persists despite substantial scholarship in political psychology showing that emotions are integral to rationality. This research note introduces th…
Deep Transformations
In this introduction to the special issue, we explore the political salience of emotions in times of large-scale social change, emphasizing the role of personal narratives in understanding and framing these transformations. We introduce the concept of 'deep transformations' to analyse radical shifts in various aspects of life and their emotional and cultural implications. Focusing on cases from the post-socialist world and one contribution from p…
Sich treu geblieben? Symbolische Grenzziehungen in inner-ostdeutschen Sozialgefügen vor dem Hintergrund des Nachwendeschocks
Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts zur Nachwendezeit in Ostdeutschland, das mit 41 Personen, die den Umbruch von 1989 als junge Erwachsene erlebt haben, durchgeführt wurde. Auf Basis von semi-strukturierten Interviews diskutiert der Beitrag symbolische Grenzziehungen, die Gesprächspartner/innen in Bezug auf die Erfahrungen dritter Personen nach 1989 artikulieren, und mit denen sie ein legitimes „Wir“ nach 1989…
Narratives of Disruptive Economic Change
This article develops an analytic framework composed of six narrative forms through which disruptive economic change is interpreted and legitimized. Drawing on two eventful contexts—economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing climate transformations—I identify six narrative forms: redistribution, creative destruction, individual resilience, moral economy, decline for all, and growth for all. Each narrative constructs legitimacy throu…
Cassandra from the far right
Contingencies of Solidarity
The article examines different articulations of solidarity discourse in Germany and in Italy during the COVID-19 crisis, demonstrating how its meanings varied between the two countries in conjunction with national contingencies influencing how the crisis was experienced. Text analysis with Twitter\X data is used to compare how the term was framed during the crisis. The two countries were selected based on their differing socio-economic, cultural,…
Who deserves economic relief? Examining Twitter/X debates about Covid-19 economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed in Germany
The economic shock of the Covid-19 crisis has disproportionately impacted small businesses and the self-employed. Around the globe, their survival during the pandemic often relied heavily on government assistance. This article explores how economic relief to business is understood through the lens of deservingness in the public. It examines the case of Germany, where the government has responded to the pandemic by implementing an extensive suppor…
Emotions in a Time of Radical Change
In times of major change, people reassess what is a valuable and, therefore, prideful achievement in the context of a new societal structure and culture. Our article challenges the traditional view of achievements and pride as purely individual experiences, arguing that pride has social and cultural sources and modes of articulation, which may shift dramatically during radical change. We find that people express pride in their achievements when t…
Storyboards of remembrance
A majority of today’s visitors to the Auschwitz memorial site take photos to document their stay. By calling attention to visitors’ photography on site, this article investigates the role of visual perception and visual techniques of memory for visits to memorial sites and empirically discusses the significance of historical imagination in linking the past with the present. Visitors’ photography at Auschwitz can be considered a mnemonic practice …
Narrating Unity at the European Union’s New History Museum
Power in sociological studies of memory is commonly understood as a function of political interests that are successfully framed as an inclusive and convincing story about selected elements of the past. By showing how negotiations of memory are driven by dynamics of symbolic exchange and by distinguishing techniques of narration emerging from this process, I develop a theoretical model that helps to better understand the locus of symbolic power i…
The Temporal Logic of Deservingness
Employing a cultural sociological approach, this article asks how individuals from two postsocialist societies articulate principles of justice by providing narrative accounts of other peoples' perceived choices and social mobility trajectories after 1989. Using data from an interview study of 67 respondents from former East Germany and the Czech Republic, I present two interrelated findings: First, as respondents negotiate the tension between th…
Economic Memories” of the Aftermath of the 1989 Revolutions in East Germany and the Czech Republic
How does the aftermath of 1989 shape the meaning of this event today? On the basis of an interview study with sixty-seven respondents from former East Germany and the Czech Republic administered in 2016–2017, this article asks how individuals articulate “economic memories” against the background of the 1990s, a time in which the transition to democracy was accompanied by labor market ruptures. It documents how salient themes of change are narrate…
Sich treu geblieben? Symbolische Grenzziehungen in inner-ostdeutschen Sozialgefügen vor dem Hintergrund des Nachwendeschocks
Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts zur Nachwendezeit in Ostdeutschland, das mit 41 Personen, die den Umbruch von 1989 als junge Erwachsene erlebt haben, durchgeführt wurde. Auf Basis von semi-strukturierten Interviews diskutiert der Beitrag symbolische Grenzziehungen, die Gesprächspartner/innen in Bezug auf die Erfahrungen dritter Personen nach 1989 artikulieren, und mit denen sie ein legitimes „Wir“ nach 1989…
Culture in network breaks
Tie dissolution in non-romantic relations is commonly understood as a structural process. This article challenges this prevailing view by tracing agency behind dynamics of disassociation. It distinguishes between “natural” and “moral” tie dissolution and explores the “broken tie”, as a former positive tie turned negative, theoretically and empirically. Data comes from an interview and survey study with 41 respondents with first-hand experience of…
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change
Right-wing populists legitimize their political agenda by promoting cultural ideas. At the same time, support for right-wing populists is fueled by a sense of economic injustice. How do these two factors interact? This article addresses this question by tracing how these actors promote 'economic narratives' about the past. It studies how two right-wing populist parties – AfD in post-communist (former East) Germany and ANO in the Czech Republic – …
Fragile Bonds of Recognition
Recently, as a corollary of intensified efforts to understand the rise of right-wing populism, the topic of social recognition has gained renewed attention in sociological research. It seems that a sense of misrecognition and exclusion is shaped as much by cultural as by economic factors. Just how these elements are interlinked, however, remains a black box. In this article, I offer an empirical contribution to this problem: I demonstrate that so…
Poison to the Economy
The concentration of wealth is a key component of the rise in economic inequality at the beginning of the twenty-first century. While the abolition of taxes on private wealth during the 1990s and 2000s is recognized as an important institutional driver behind this development, comparatively little is known about the justification of tax cuts for the wealthy in advanced democracies. This paper investigates how the abolishment of the personal net w…
Deep Transformations
In this introduction to the special issue, we explore the political salience of emotions in times of large-scale social change, emphasizing the role of personal narratives in understanding and framing these transformations. We introduce the concept of 'deep transformations' to analyse radical shifts in various aspects of life and their emotional and cultural implications. Focusing on cases from the post-socialist world and one contribution from p…
Emotions in a Time of Radical Change
In times of major change, people reassess what is a valuable and, therefore, prideful achievement in the context of a new societal structure and culture. Our article challenges the traditional view of achievements and pride as purely individual experiences, arguing that pride has social and cultural sources and modes of articulation, which may shift dramatically during radical change. We find that people express pride in their achievements when t…
Signifying the present in links to the past
How do actors make sense of disruptive events through historical references? This article examines how Polish, German, and Ukrainian memory organizations responded to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, by mobilizing the past to imbue this event with meaning. Drawing on 740,720 tweets from 139 memory organizations, I apply a computational hermeneutics approach to analyze historical references, their narrative forms, and …
Narratives of Disruptive Economic Change
This article develops an analytic framework composed of six narrative forms through which disruptive economic change is interpreted and legitimized. Drawing on two eventful contexts—economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing climate transformations—I identify six narrative forms: redistribution, creative destruction, individual resilience, moral economy, decline for all, and growth for all. Each narrative constructs legitimacy throu…
Moralischverletzt – Berufsethische Ansprüche und die Artikulation kollektiver Ungerechtigkeitserfahrungen von Pflegekräften während der Coronapandemie
Während der Coronapandemie haben sich die ohnehin schon von Personal- und Zeitmangel geprägten Arbeitsbedingungen für Pflegekräfte weiter verschärft und es hat sich ein Diskurs über moralische Verletzungen entfacht. In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir, wie solche Erfahrungen artikuliert werden. Dazu werten wir Twitter-Daten zum Thema ,moralischverletzt‘ mittels einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse aus. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Konflikte zwischen…
Political emotions
The climate crisis and the policy measures intended to address it have become deeply polarized, reflecting broader political divisions. While emotions are increasingly acknowledged as central to policymaking, they are still often framed in policy debates as obstacles to rational decision-making. This persists despite substantial scholarship in political psychology showing that emotions are integral to rationality. This research note introduces th…
Cassandra from the far right
Contingencies of Solidarity
The article examines different articulations of solidarity discourse in Germany and in Italy during the COVID-19 crisis, demonstrating how its meanings varied between the two countries in conjunction with national contingencies influencing how the crisis was experienced. Text analysis with Twitter\X data is used to compare how the term was framed during the crisis. The two countries were selected based on their differing socio-economic, cultural,…
Who deserves economic relief? Examining Twitter/X debates about Covid-19 economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed in Germany
The economic shock of the Covid-19 crisis has disproportionately impacted small businesses and the self-employed. Around the globe, their survival during the pandemic often relied heavily on government assistance. This article explores how economic relief to business is understood through the lens of deservingness in the public. It examines the case of Germany, where the government has responded to the pandemic by implementing an extensive suppor…
Restoring or transforming the economy? How institutional actors in Germany and Italy framed Covid-19 economic policies
COVID-19 has deeply affected the economy in Europe and worldwide. We investigate how key institutional actors – ministries, trade associations, and trade unions – made sense of the economic relief policies adopted from the crisis outbreak to its containment. We compare Italy and Germany as two contrasting cases, characterised by varying economic conditions prior to the crisis and differing capacities to cushion their economic impact. Twitter/X te…
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