Sabine Volk
Biographic Data
| ID | 356202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabine Volk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabine |
| FAMILY NAME | Volk |
| SIGNATURE | VOLK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jagiellonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0675-516X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The people against the sun? ideology and strategy in far-right parties' climate obstruction of solar energy
Pride im Visier: Rechtsextremismus, Queerfeindlichkeit und die aktuelle Bewegungsforschung
Rallying ‘round the drag: Anti-gender mobilization and the mainstreaming of the far right
This article explores the link between anti-gender mobilization and the mainstreaming of the far right. It addresses the question of to what extent and how the far right allies with ‘mainstream’ actors in the context of anti-gender protest. Drawing from a social movement approach, the article contributes a novel operationalization of the mainstreaming of the far right in terms of discourse coalitions and protest alliances, with anti-gender frames…
Populism in Central and Eastern Europe: Manifestations and Impact in Interdisciplinary Perspective
In light of the increasing autocratization of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), this thematic cluster focuses on the many manifestations of (right-wing) populism and illiberalism and their impact on CEE politics and societies. The interdisciplinary approach constitutes the main contribution of this cluster, which includes four articles that analyze specific aspects of the “chameleon” of populism. While much of the literature explores the politica…
The AfD and Antifeminism in Germany, 2014–2025: Family First, Trans Panic Second
Grundlagen für die Gegenwart
Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right Pegida during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article analyzes how a preexisting far-right social movement organization responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the case of the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident (PEGIDA) in Germany. We show that PEGIDA quickly adapted its previous immigration-related collective action frame, now predominantly portraying itself as a defender of democracy, constitutionality, and civil rights, while accusing the German gove…
Introduction: Heritage and the making of ‘Europe’
The notion of ‘European heritage’ plays an increasingly important role in the discursive constructions of a collective sense of European belonging. This Special Issue critically reviews some of the contemporary instrumentalizations of European heritage as processes of borderwork by which various political and non-political actors demarcate the boundaries of Europe and European identity. Specifically, the nine contributions shed light on some of t…
Conceptualising Europe from the far right: The mobilisation of intellectual heritage in Germany
Against the backdrop of multiple European crises and the end of the ‘liberal consensus’ on European integration, this article explores the increasing politicisation of ‘Europe’ by the populist far right. As a case study, it focuses on how key far-right actors in Germany deploy a term from the country’s intellectual history, namely the notion of the Abendland (‘Occident’), to construct ‘Europe’ and ‘European civilisation’ according to an exclusion…
Patriotic History in Postcolonial Germany, Thirty Years After “Reunification
Germany has long been championed for its exemplary Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung: its self-critical “working through the past.”1 Centred around the commemoration of the Holocaust as a “breach of civil
Resisting ‘leftist dictatorship’? Memory politics and collective action framing in populist far-right street protest
This article contributes to cultural approaches to populism, focusing on the uses of memory in far-right protest politics. Conceptually, it develops a novel approach to memory politics suitable to investigate the uses of memory in grassroots mobilization by integrating scholarship on 'the politics of memory' and the 'movement-memory nexus'. Also, it argues for the conceptualization of populism as a collective action frame to explain the emergence…
Explaining Pegida's 'strange survival: An Ethnographic Approach to Far-Right Protest Rituals
This article examines the unexpected persistence of the German anti-Islam movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) through an ethnographic lens. Focusing on the movement's weekly demonstrations in Dresden, the study analyzes these gatherings as protest rituals, exploring how they create a sense of community and shared identity among participants. By examining the performative aspects of these rituals, includi…
Far-Right Digital Activism During and Beyond the Pandemic: A Patchwork Ethnographic Approach
While digital activism has formed part of social movements' contentious repertoires for at least two decades, online forms of protest have risen to unprecedented importance across the globe in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article studies continuities and shifts in digital activism before, during and beyond the pandemic, drawing from a case study conducted of the Dresden-based far-right social movement organisation PEGIDA. Seeking to…
Die rechtspopulistische Pegida in der Covid-19-Pandemie: Virtueller Protest „für unsere Bürgerrechte“
Dieser Beitrag thematisiert die Reaktionen der Dresdner rechtspopulistischen Protestbewegung „Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes“ (PEGIDA) auf die COVID-19-Pandemie in Deutschland. Er beschäftigt sich mit Kontinuitäten und Brüchen in PEGIDAs Aktivismus während der ersten Pandemie-Welle und „Lockdown“, insbesondere im Hinblick auf Aktionsformen, Netzwerke und diskursive Deutungsrahmen. Auf Grundlage des Verständnisses vo…
Political Performances of Control During Covid-19: Controlling and Contesting Democracy in Germany
Drawing from interpretive, namely discursive-performative approaches to both institutional and grassroots (populist) politics, this article explores political performances and counter-performances of control in Germany during the so-called first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodologically, the article constructs a comparative analytical framework including three cases from both within and outside of the federal institutional structure of Germ…
Speaking for “the European people”? How the transnational alliance Fortress Europe constructs a populist counter-narrative to European integration
Speaking for “the European people”? How the transnational alliance Fortress Europe constructs a populist counter-narrative to European integration
Cet article examine un des rares cas de populisme transnational dans le contexte de la (dés)intégration européenne, en se concentrant sur le mouvement d’extrême droite Fortress Europe (« l’Europe forteresse »). En utilisant de nouvelles sources primaires telles que des textes numériques, des images et des vidéos, l’article effectue une analyse critique du discours et des performances de Fortress Europe. L’analyse révèle comment l’alliance constru…
Wir sind das Volk!’Representative Claim-Making and Populist Style in the Pegida Movement’s Discourse
This study examines the processes of representative claim-making in populist discourse, tying in with discursive-performative approaches to political representation, populism and social movements. The theoretical framework integrates Saward's constructivist theory of representation and Moffitt's approach to populism as a political style. It develops contentious repertoires, stages, mise-en-scène, scripts, audiences and constituencies as analytica…
Concrete and abstract ways to deontology: Cognitive capacity moderates construal level effects on moral judgments
Wir sind das Volk!’Representative Claim-Making and Populist Style in the Pegida Movement’s Discourse
This study examines the processes of representative claim-making in populist discourse, tying in with discursive-performative approaches to political representation, populism and social movements. The theoretical framework integrates Saward's constructivist theory of representation and Moffitt's approach to populism as a political style. It develops contentious repertoires, stages, mise-en-scène, scripts, audiences and constituencies as analytica…
Resisting ‘leftist dictatorship’? Memory politics and collective action framing in populist far-right street protest
This article contributes to cultural approaches to populism, focusing on the uses of memory in far-right protest politics. Conceptually, it develops a novel approach to memory politics suitable to investigate the uses of memory in grassroots mobilization by integrating scholarship on 'the politics of memory' and the 'movement-memory nexus'. Also, it argues for the conceptualization of populism as a collective action frame to explain the emergence…
Speaking for “the European people”? How the transnational alliance Fortress Europe constructs a populist counter-narrative to European integration
Cet article examine un des rares cas de populisme transnational dans le contexte de la (dés)intégration européenne, en se concentrant sur le mouvement d’extrême droite Fortress Europe (« l’Europe forteresse »). En utilisant de nouvelles sources primaires telles que des textes numériques, des images et des vidéos, l’article effectue une analyse critique du discours et des performances de Fortress Europe. L’analyse révèle comment l’alliance constru…
Concrete and abstract ways to deontology: Cognitive capacity moderates construal level effects on moral judgments
Explaining Pegida's 'strange survival: An Ethnographic Approach to Far-Right Protest Rituals
This article examines the unexpected persistence of the German anti-Islam movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) through an ethnographic lens. Focusing on the movement's weekly demonstrations in Dresden, the study analyzes these gatherings as protest rituals, exploring how they create a sense of community and shared identity among participants. By examining the performative aspects of these rituals, includi…
The people against the sun? ideology and strategy in far-right parties' climate obstruction of solar energy
Rallying ‘round the drag: Anti-gender mobilization and the mainstreaming of the far right
This article explores the link between anti-gender mobilization and the mainstreaming of the far right. It addresses the question of to what extent and how the far right allies with ‘mainstream’ actors in the context of anti-gender protest. Drawing from a social movement approach, the article contributes a novel operationalization of the mainstreaming of the far right in terms of discourse coalitions and protest alliances, with anti-gender frames…
Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right Pegida during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article analyzes how a preexisting far-right social movement organization responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the case of the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident (PEGIDA) in Germany. We show that PEGIDA quickly adapted its previous immigration-related collective action frame, now predominantly portraying itself as a defender of democracy, constitutionality, and civil rights, while accusing the German gove…
Far-Right Digital Activism During and Beyond the Pandemic: A Patchwork Ethnographic Approach
While digital activism has formed part of social movements' contentious repertoires for at least two decades, online forms of protest have risen to unprecedented importance across the globe in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article studies continuities and shifts in digital activism before, during and beyond the pandemic, drawing from a case study conducted of the Dresden-based far-right social movement organisation PEGIDA. Seeking to…
Patriotic History in Postcolonial Germany, Thirty Years After “Reunification
Germany has long been championed for its exemplary Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung: its self-critical “working through the past.”1 Centred around the commemoration of the Holocaust as a “breach of civil
Political Performances of Control During Covid-19: Controlling and Contesting Democracy in Germany
Drawing from interpretive, namely discursive-performative approaches to both institutional and grassroots (populist) politics, this article explores political performances and counter-performances of control in Germany during the so-called first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodologically, the article constructs a comparative analytical framework including three cases from both within and outside of the federal institutional structure of Germ…
Concrete and abstract ways to deontology: Cognitive capacity moderates construal level effects on moral judgments
Speaking for “the European people”? How the transnational alliance Fortress Europe constructs a populist counter-narrative to European integration
Speaking for “the European people”? How the transnational alliance Fortress Europe constructs a populist counter-narrative to European integration
Cet article examine un des rares cas de populisme transnational dans le contexte de la (dés)intégration européenne, en se concentrant sur le mouvement d’extrême droite Fortress Europe (« l’Europe forteresse »). En utilisant de nouvelles sources primaires telles que des textes numériques, des images et des vidéos, l’article effectue une analyse critique du discours et des performances de Fortress Europe. L’analyse révèle comment l’alliance constru…
Wir sind das Volk!’Representative Claim-Making and Populist Style in the Pegida Movement’s Discourse
This study examines the processes of representative claim-making in populist discourse, tying in with discursive-performative approaches to political representation, populism and social movements. The theoretical framework integrates Saward's constructivist theory of representation and Moffitt's approach to populism as a political style. It develops contentious repertoires, stages, mise-en-scène, scripts, audiences and constituencies as analytica…
Die rechtspopulistische Pegida in der Covid-19-Pandemie: Virtueller Protest „für unsere Bürgerrechte“
Dieser Beitrag thematisiert die Reaktionen der Dresdner rechtspopulistischen Protestbewegung „Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes“ (PEGIDA) auf die COVID-19-Pandemie in Deutschland. Er beschäftigt sich mit Kontinuitäten und Brüchen in PEGIDAs Aktivismus während der ersten Pandemie-Welle und „Lockdown“, insbesondere im Hinblick auf Aktionsformen, Netzwerke und diskursive Deutungsrahmen. Auf Grundlage des Verständnisses vo…
Political Performances of Control During Covid-19: Controlling and Contesting Democracy in Germany
Drawing from interpretive, namely discursive-performative approaches to both institutional and grassroots (populist) politics, this article explores political performances and counter-performances of control in Germany during the so-called first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodologically, the article constructs a comparative analytical framework including three cases from both within and outside of the federal institutional structure of Germ…
Introduction: Heritage and the making of ‘Europe’
The notion of ‘European heritage’ plays an increasingly important role in the discursive constructions of a collective sense of European belonging. This Special Issue critically reviews some of the contemporary instrumentalizations of European heritage as processes of borderwork by which various political and non-political actors demarcate the boundaries of Europe and European identity. Specifically, the nine contributions shed light on some of t…
Conceptualising Europe from the far right: The mobilisation of intellectual heritage in Germany
Against the backdrop of multiple European crises and the end of the ‘liberal consensus’ on European integration, this article explores the increasing politicisation of ‘Europe’ by the populist far right. As a case study, it focuses on how key far-right actors in Germany deploy a term from the country’s intellectual history, namely the notion of the Abendland (‘Occident’), to construct ‘Europe’ and ‘European civilisation’ according to an exclusion…
Patriotic History in Postcolonial Germany, Thirty Years After “Reunification
Germany has long been championed for its exemplary Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung: its self-critical “working through the past.”1 Centred around the commemoration of the Holocaust as a “breach of civil
Resisting ‘leftist dictatorship’? Memory politics and collective action framing in populist far-right street protest
This article contributes to cultural approaches to populism, focusing on the uses of memory in far-right protest politics. Conceptually, it develops a novel approach to memory politics suitable to investigate the uses of memory in grassroots mobilization by integrating scholarship on 'the politics of memory' and the 'movement-memory nexus'. Also, it argues for the conceptualization of populism as a collective action frame to explain the emergence…
Explaining Pegida's 'strange survival: An Ethnographic Approach to Far-Right Protest Rituals
This article examines the unexpected persistence of the German anti-Islam movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) through an ethnographic lens. Focusing on the movement's weekly demonstrations in Dresden, the study analyzes these gatherings as protest rituals, exploring how they create a sense of community and shared identity among participants. By examining the performative aspects of these rituals, includi…
Far-Right Digital Activism During and Beyond the Pandemic: A Patchwork Ethnographic Approach
While digital activism has formed part of social movements' contentious repertoires for at least two decades, online forms of protest have risen to unprecedented importance across the globe in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article studies continuities and shifts in digital activism before, during and beyond the pandemic, drawing from a case study conducted of the Dresden-based far-right social movement organisation PEGIDA. Seeking to…
Grundlagen für die Gegenwart
Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right Pegida during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article analyzes how a preexisting far-right social movement organization responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the case of the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident (PEGIDA) in Germany. We show that PEGIDA quickly adapted its previous immigration-related collective action frame, now predominantly portraying itself as a defender of democracy, constitutionality, and civil rights, while accusing the German gove…
Pride im Visier: Rechtsextremismus, Queerfeindlichkeit und die aktuelle Bewegungsforschung
Rallying ‘round the drag: Anti-gender mobilization and the mainstreaming of the far right
This article explores the link between anti-gender mobilization and the mainstreaming of the far right. It addresses the question of to what extent and how the far right allies with ‘mainstream’ actors in the context of anti-gender protest. Drawing from a social movement approach, the article contributes a novel operationalization of the mainstreaming of the far right in terms of discourse coalitions and protest alliances, with anti-gender frames…
Populism in Central and Eastern Europe: Manifestations and Impact in Interdisciplinary Perspective
In light of the increasing autocratization of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), this thematic cluster focuses on the many manifestations of (right-wing) populism and illiberalism and their impact on CEE politics and societies. The interdisciplinary approach constitutes the main contribution of this cluster, which includes four articles that analyze specific aspects of the “chameleon” of populism. While much of the literature explores the politica…
The AfD and Antifeminism in Germany, 2014–2025: Family First, Trans Panic Second
The people against the sun? ideology and strategy in far-right parties' climate obstruction of solar energy
Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · German legal, social, and political studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Art (5 works)