Nicole Doerr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Doerr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Doerr |
| SIGNATURE | DOERR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4495-7085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Momentary symbols
While a growing sociological literature documents how visuality shapes collective identities, less attention is given to the temporal dimension of symbol construction and the shifting meanings and practices associated with prominent images and objects. We introduce the concept of momentary symbols to describe and examine processes where objects for a shorter period rapidly grow into a dominant symbol for a collective, but just as quickly acquire …
The Politics of Trust
Studies have shown how online political communication mobilizes support by appealing to the audience's emotions. The role of the visual affordances of digital technologies in this process, however, remains insufficiently studied. This paper analyzes visual narratives surrounding international political debates on climate change at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of 2021. Our findings highlight that images are key in conveying emotion…
Bridging contexts, reinforcing exclusions? Activism, agency, and acts of translating gendered belongings and concepts
Climate translators” building trust and local democratic cooperation on green transition
This article investigates how climate activists engage in building trust in public debates and local political conflicts over green transition. The article applies the empirically grounded concept of “climate translators” to study the challenges of intermediary trust-building by both independent climate activists and institutionally embedded activists who aim to stimulate climate policy change at the local level. In Denmark, municipalities endors…
Digital Images Translating Climate Justice Online to inspire Transformative Ecological Visions of World Order from the Margins
This paper aims to study alternative visions of the world as they emerge creatively through digital media storytelling about floods, forest fires, and consequences of climate change that emerge within transnational climate justice activist networks and their digital media practices of translation and visual storytelling. Focusing on intersectional digital media practices among Fridays for Future (FFF) activists in Germany, it highlights the impor…
Emphasised, feared, despised and hegemonic
In this article, we deliver an empirical analysis of far-right visualisations of womanhood on US Telegram channels. Previous studies show that the far right, which increasingly engages in misogynist, anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rhetoric, and opposition to feminism, is marked by the growing involvement of women in the roles of political leaders. Such engagement by women within the far right causes an ‘image problem’, as it makes th…
Translation as a cultural tool for mediating conflict in queer and feminist grassroots democratic coalitions in Denmark, Germany and Sweden
In this article, I present the findings of a three-year qualitative research project studying feminist and queer activist groups that support refugees in Denmark, Germany and Sweden. My findings show how multilingual activists volunteered as linguistic interpreters to enable inclusive dialogue between refugees and host-country citizens in joint grassroots democratic coalition meetings. Based on interviews with different groups, I show that their …
How anti-gender and gendered imagery translate the Great Replacement conspiracy theory in online far-right platforms
This article is based on a case study of online media practices of the Czech far-right group Angry Mothers, the biggest far-right Facebook group in the Czech political context in 2018. We show how the group used visual storytelling to translate the narratives of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which has become one of the most dominant narratives in European and US far-right discourses over recent years. The conspiracy theory was introduc…
Activists' visibility acts of citizenship and media (mis)representation of BLM
This paper takes a novel approach to studying the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that emerged in the summer of 2020. Drawing on multimodal qualitative visual analysis methods, we study acts of deliberate altering and erasure of statues that represent heroes of colonialism in Greenland and Denmark. The paper conceptualises these actions as ‘visibility acts of citizenship’ in which racialised minorities claim their symbolic space in the public…
Black Lives Matter and the new wave of anti-racist mobilizations in Europe
This Special Issue investigates the European Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that followed the protests in the USA against police brutality in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May 2020. It takes an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective, interested in cultural and political contexts and the mechanism of how street protests and social movements influence public debates. It shows in various dimensions how the BLM mobilisation transfo…
Ethnography
This chapter takes a close look at the role of ethnography in the study of deliberative practice. It describes ethnography as both a perspective and a toolbox. As a perspective, ethnography is a fitting methodology to fulfil critical theory’s task of rendering political power visible, particularly in its subtle and insidious forms. The ethnographic perspective is also responsive to developments in deliberative theory, such as the recognition of t…
"Far-right boundary construction towards the "other
This paper explores how images are used in online far-right political communication to create distinct groups of "otherness." Focusing on the Danish People's Party, we look at how symbolic boundaries are constructed through images to emphasize an exclusive conception of the nation and its citizens, who need protection from the threatening "others." In order to understand the global rise of the far right, scholars of social movements and digital m…
The Visual Politics of the Alternative for Germany (AfD)
This article is an empirical investigation into the visual mobilization strategies by far-right political parties for election campaigns constructing Muslim immigrants as a "threat" to the nation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary theoretical approach of social movement studies and research on media and communication, I focus on the far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has produced several widespread inflammatory series of…
Inequality in Interaction
In this paper, we supplement existing scholarship on the interactional process within volunteering with one that focuses on how inequality between volunteer and recipient of help is handled and (re)produced through interactions within voluntary groups. We focus on how empowerment projects with different interactional styles produce different forms of (in)equality on an interactional level despite dealing with very similar structural inequalities.…
Social Movements and Referendums from Below
How right-wing versus cosmopolitan political actors mobilize and translate images of immigrants in transnational contexts
This article examines visual posters and symbols constructed and circulated transnationally by various political actors to mobilize contentious politics on the issues of immigration and citizenship. Following right-wing mobilizations focusing on the Syrian refugee crisis, immigration has become one of the most contentious political issues in Western Europe. Right-wing populist political parties have used provocative visual posters depicting immig…
Bridging language barriers, bonding against immigrants
With the growing importance of digital and social media, visual images represent an increasingly attractive medium for far-right political entrepreneurs to mobilize supporters and mainstream voters in the context of increasing polarization and widespread fears of immigrants and refugees. This article investigates how far-right activists use cartoon images poking fun at immigrants to construct a shared ethno-nationalist bond of solidarity across m…
Funerary emotions
no abstract
Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements
Translating democracy
Linguistic barriers may pose problems for politicians trying to communicate delicate decisions to a European-wide public, as well as for citizens wishing to protest at the European level. In this article I present a counter-intuitive position on the language question, one that explores how grassroots activists in social movements use translation as a novel practice to debate political alternatives in the European Union's (EU) multilingual public …
The Disciplining of Dissent and the Role of Empathetic Listeners in Deliberative Publics
How would it affect our theorizing of radical democracy if dissent within deliberative politics was disciplined not so much through linguistic mechanisms as through a ‘habit’ of ‘selective listening’? Concerned with the constraints on radical democracy in the current global justice movement, I analyze rebellious rituals that re-interpret the hegemonic public transcript of deliberative politics in the European Social Forum (ESF). The ESF is a pref…
Language and Democracy ‘in Movement’
In recent years new cross-European protests and movements have developed on global justice and within the loose platform of the European Social Forum (ESF). One of the major challenges for transnational communication and grassroots democracy within the Social Forums is linguistic communication problems and the ‘work of translation’ required to create a democratic setting. In the willingness to provide open access beyond linguistic communication p…
Deliberative Discussion, Language, and Efficiency in the World Social Forum Process
The World Social Forum (WSF) and European Social Forum (ESF) processes represent a new platform for experimenting with multilingual practices of "deliberative talk." Activists come together in meetings that take place at the regional level between these larger social forum events. The "European Social Forum Preparatory Assemblies" (EPA), for instance, allow activists in the ESF process to hold regular meetings in a multilingual format using simul…
Images within the Precarity Movement in Italy
The recent cycle of social struggles against precarity in Italy has been characterized by an extensive use of images representing precarious workers. This contribution explores this in the case of the Euro Mayday Parade (EMP) protest campaign. The subversion of existing popular culture traditions was the main objective of the activists' newly created icons such as San Precario, Serpica Naro and other visual tools. The visual work on gender in the…
Bridging language barriers, bonding against immigrants
With the growing importance of digital and social media, visual images represent an increasingly attractive medium for far-right political entrepreneurs to mobilize supporters and mainstream voters in the context of increasing polarization and widespread fears of immigrants and refugees. This article investigates how far-right activists use cartoon images poking fun at immigrants to construct a shared ethno-nationalist bond of solidarity across m…
The Visual Politics of the Alternative for Germany (AfD)
This article is an empirical investigation into the visual mobilization strategies by far-right political parties for election campaigns constructing Muslim immigrants as a "threat" to the nation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary theoretical approach of social movement studies and research on media and communication, I focus on the far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has produced several widespread inflammatory series of…
Translating democracy
Linguistic barriers may pose problems for politicians trying to communicate delicate decisions to a European-wide public, as well as for citizens wishing to protest at the European level. In this article I present a counter-intuitive position on the language question, one that explores how grassroots activists in social movements use translation as a novel practice to debate political alternatives in the European Union's (EU) multilingual public …
"Far-right boundary construction towards the "other
This paper explores how images are used in online far-right political communication to create distinct groups of "otherness." Focusing on the Danish People's Party, we look at how symbolic boundaries are constructed through images to emphasize an exclusive conception of the nation and its citizens, who need protection from the threatening "others." In order to understand the global rise of the far right, scholars of social movements and digital m…
Deliberative Discussion, Language, and Efficiency in the World Social Forum Process
The World Social Forum (WSF) and European Social Forum (ESF) processes represent a new platform for experimenting with multilingual practices of "deliberative talk." Activists come together in meetings that take place at the regional level between these larger social forum events. The "European Social Forum Preparatory Assemblies" (EPA), for instance, allow activists in the ESF process to hold regular meetings in a multilingual format using simul…
Inequality in Interaction
In this paper, we supplement existing scholarship on the interactional process within volunteering with one that focuses on how inequality between volunteer and recipient of help is handled and (re)produced through interactions within voluntary groups. We focus on how empowerment projects with different interactional styles produce different forms of (in)equality on an interactional level despite dealing with very similar structural inequalities.…
How right-wing versus cosmopolitan political actors mobilize and translate images of immigrants in transnational contexts
This article examines visual posters and symbols constructed and circulated transnationally by various political actors to mobilize contentious politics on the issues of immigration and citizenship. Following right-wing mobilizations focusing on the Syrian refugee crisis, immigration has become one of the most contentious political issues in Western Europe. Right-wing populist political parties have used provocative visual posters depicting immig…
How anti-gender and gendered imagery translate the Great Replacement conspiracy theory in online far-right platforms
This article is based on a case study of online media practices of the Czech far-right group Angry Mothers, the biggest far-right Facebook group in the Czech political context in 2018. We show how the group used visual storytelling to translate the narratives of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which has become one of the most dominant narratives in European and US far-right discourses over recent years. The conspiracy theory was introduc…
Activists' visibility acts of citizenship and media (mis)representation of BLM
This paper takes a novel approach to studying the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that emerged in the summer of 2020. Drawing on multimodal qualitative visual analysis methods, we study acts of deliberate altering and erasure of statues that represent heroes of colonialism in Greenland and Denmark. The paper conceptualises these actions as ‘visibility acts of citizenship’ in which racialised minorities claim their symbolic space in the public…
Black Lives Matter and the new wave of anti-racist mobilizations in Europe
This Special Issue investigates the European Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that followed the protests in the USA against police brutality in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May 2020. It takes an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective, interested in cultural and political contexts and the mechanism of how street protests and social movements influence public debates. It shows in various dimensions how the BLM mobilisation transfo…
Language and Democracy ‘in Movement’
In recent years new cross-European protests and movements have developed on global justice and within the loose platform of the European Social Forum (ESF). One of the major challenges for transnational communication and grassroots democracy within the Social Forums is linguistic communication problems and the ‘work of translation’ required to create a democratic setting. In the willingness to provide open access beyond linguistic communication p…
Images within the Precarity Movement in Italy
The recent cycle of social struggles against precarity in Italy has been characterized by an extensive use of images representing precarious workers. This contribution explores this in the case of the Euro Mayday Parade (EMP) protest campaign. The subversion of existing popular culture traditions was the main objective of the activists' newly created icons such as San Precario, Serpica Naro and other visual tools. The visual work on gender in the…
Climate translators” building trust and local democratic cooperation on green transition
This article investigates how climate activists engage in building trust in public debates and local political conflicts over green transition. The article applies the empirically grounded concept of “climate translators” to study the challenges of intermediary trust-building by both independent climate activists and institutionally embedded activists who aim to stimulate climate policy change at the local level. In Denmark, municipalities endors…
Digital Images Translating Climate Justice Online to inspire Transformative Ecological Visions of World Order from the Margins
This paper aims to study alternative visions of the world as they emerge creatively through digital media storytelling about floods, forest fires, and consequences of climate change that emerge within transnational climate justice activist networks and their digital media practices of translation and visual storytelling. Focusing on intersectional digital media practices among Fridays for Future (FFF) activists in Germany, it highlights the impor…
The Politics of Trust
Studies have shown how online political communication mobilizes support by appealing to the audience's emotions. The role of the visual affordances of digital technologies in this process, however, remains insufficiently studied. This paper analyzes visual narratives surrounding international political debates on climate change at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of 2021. Our findings highlight that images are key in conveying emotion…
Translation as a cultural tool for mediating conflict in queer and feminist grassroots democratic coalitions in Denmark, Germany and Sweden
In this article, I present the findings of a three-year qualitative research project studying feminist and queer activist groups that support refugees in Denmark, Germany and Sweden. My findings show how multilingual activists volunteered as linguistic interpreters to enable inclusive dialogue between refugees and host-country citizens in joint grassroots democratic coalition meetings. Based on interviews with different groups, I show that their …
The Disciplining of Dissent and the Role of Empathetic Listeners in Deliberative Publics
How would it affect our theorizing of radical democracy if dissent within deliberative politics was disciplined not so much through linguistic mechanisms as through a ‘habit’ of ‘selective listening’? Concerned with the constraints on radical democracy in the current global justice movement, I analyze rebellious rituals that re-interpret the hegemonic public transcript of deliberative politics in the European Social Forum (ESF). The ESF is a pref…
Images within the Precarity Movement in Italy
The recent cycle of social struggles against precarity in Italy has been characterized by an extensive use of images representing precarious workers. This contribution explores this in the case of the Euro Mayday Parade (EMP) protest campaign. The subversion of existing popular culture traditions was the main objective of the activists' newly created icons such as San Precario, Serpica Naro and other visual tools. The visual work on gender in the…
Deliberative Discussion, Language, and Efficiency in the World Social Forum Process
The World Social Forum (WSF) and European Social Forum (ESF) processes represent a new platform for experimenting with multilingual practices of "deliberative talk." Activists come together in meetings that take place at the regional level between these larger social forum events. The "European Social Forum Preparatory Assemblies" (EPA), for instance, allow activists in the ESF process to hold regular meetings in a multilingual format using simul…
Language and Democracy ‘in Movement’
In recent years new cross-European protests and movements have developed on global justice and within the loose platform of the European Social Forum (ESF). One of the major challenges for transnational communication and grassroots democracy within the Social Forums is linguistic communication problems and the ‘work of translation’ required to create a democratic setting. In the willingness to provide open access beyond linguistic communication p…
The Disciplining of Dissent and the Role of Empathetic Listeners in Deliberative Publics
How would it affect our theorizing of radical democracy if dissent within deliberative politics was disciplined not so much through linguistic mechanisms as through a ‘habit’ of ‘selective listening’? Concerned with the constraints on radical democracy in the current global justice movement, I analyze rebellious rituals that re-interpret the hegemonic public transcript of deliberative politics in the European Social Forum (ESF). The ESF is a pref…
Translating democracy
Linguistic barriers may pose problems for politicians trying to communicate delicate decisions to a European-wide public, as well as for citizens wishing to protest at the European level. In this article I present a counter-intuitive position on the language question, one that explores how grassroots activists in social movements use translation as a novel practice to debate political alternatives in the European Union's (EU) multilingual public …
Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements
Funerary emotions
no abstract
How right-wing versus cosmopolitan political actors mobilize and translate images of immigrants in transnational contexts
This article examines visual posters and symbols constructed and circulated transnationally by various political actors to mobilize contentious politics on the issues of immigration and citizenship. Following right-wing mobilizations focusing on the Syrian refugee crisis, immigration has become one of the most contentious political issues in Western Europe. Right-wing populist political parties have used provocative visual posters depicting immig…
Bridging language barriers, bonding against immigrants
With the growing importance of digital and social media, visual images represent an increasingly attractive medium for far-right political entrepreneurs to mobilize supporters and mainstream voters in the context of increasing polarization and widespread fears of immigrants and refugees. This article investigates how far-right activists use cartoon images poking fun at immigrants to construct a shared ethno-nationalist bond of solidarity across m…
Social Movements and Referendums from Below
Inequality in Interaction
In this paper, we supplement existing scholarship on the interactional process within volunteering with one that focuses on how inequality between volunteer and recipient of help is handled and (re)produced through interactions within voluntary groups. We focus on how empowerment projects with different interactional styles produce different forms of (in)equality on an interactional level despite dealing with very similar structural inequalities.…
The Visual Politics of the Alternative for Germany (AfD)
This article is an empirical investigation into the visual mobilization strategies by far-right political parties for election campaigns constructing Muslim immigrants as a "threat" to the nation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary theoretical approach of social movement studies and research on media and communication, I focus on the far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has produced several widespread inflammatory series of…
Ethnography
This chapter takes a close look at the role of ethnography in the study of deliberative practice. It describes ethnography as both a perspective and a toolbox. As a perspective, ethnography is a fitting methodology to fulfil critical theory’s task of rendering political power visible, particularly in its subtle and insidious forms. The ethnographic perspective is also responsive to developments in deliberative theory, such as the recognition of t…
"Far-right boundary construction towards the "other
This paper explores how images are used in online far-right political communication to create distinct groups of "otherness." Focusing on the Danish People's Party, we look at how symbolic boundaries are constructed through images to emphasize an exclusive conception of the nation and its citizens, who need protection from the threatening "others." In order to understand the global rise of the far right, scholars of social movements and digital m…
Emphasised, feared, despised and hegemonic
In this article, we deliver an empirical analysis of far-right visualisations of womanhood on US Telegram channels. Previous studies show that the far right, which increasingly engages in misogynist, anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rhetoric, and opposition to feminism, is marked by the growing involvement of women in the roles of political leaders. Such engagement by women within the far right causes an ‘image problem’, as it makes th…
Translation as a cultural tool for mediating conflict in queer and feminist grassroots democratic coalitions in Denmark, Germany and Sweden
In this article, I present the findings of a three-year qualitative research project studying feminist and queer activist groups that support refugees in Denmark, Germany and Sweden. My findings show how multilingual activists volunteered as linguistic interpreters to enable inclusive dialogue between refugees and host-country citizens in joint grassroots democratic coalition meetings. Based on interviews with different groups, I show that their …
How anti-gender and gendered imagery translate the Great Replacement conspiracy theory in online far-right platforms
This article is based on a case study of online media practices of the Czech far-right group Angry Mothers, the biggest far-right Facebook group in the Czech political context in 2018. We show how the group used visual storytelling to translate the narratives of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which has become one of the most dominant narratives in European and US far-right discourses over recent years. The conspiracy theory was introduc…
Activists' visibility acts of citizenship and media (mis)representation of BLM
This paper takes a novel approach to studying the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that emerged in the summer of 2020. Drawing on multimodal qualitative visual analysis methods, we study acts of deliberate altering and erasure of statues that represent heroes of colonialism in Greenland and Denmark. The paper conceptualises these actions as ‘visibility acts of citizenship’ in which racialised minorities claim their symbolic space in the public…
Black Lives Matter and the new wave of anti-racist mobilizations in Europe
This Special Issue investigates the European Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that followed the protests in the USA against police brutality in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May 2020. It takes an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective, interested in cultural and political contexts and the mechanism of how street protests and social movements influence public debates. It shows in various dimensions how the BLM mobilisation transfo…
Bridging contexts, reinforcing exclusions? Activism, agency, and acts of translating gendered belongings and concepts
Climate translators” building trust and local democratic cooperation on green transition
This article investigates how climate activists engage in building trust in public debates and local political conflicts over green transition. The article applies the empirically grounded concept of “climate translators” to study the challenges of intermediary trust-building by both independent climate activists and institutionally embedded activists who aim to stimulate climate policy change at the local level. In Denmark, municipalities endors…
Digital Images Translating Climate Justice Online to inspire Transformative Ecological Visions of World Order from the Margins
This paper aims to study alternative visions of the world as they emerge creatively through digital media storytelling about floods, forest fires, and consequences of climate change that emerge within transnational climate justice activist networks and their digital media practices of translation and visual storytelling. Focusing on intersectional digital media practices among Fridays for Future (FFF) activists in Germany, it highlights the impor…
Momentary symbols
While a growing sociological literature documents how visuality shapes collective identities, less attention is given to the temporal dimension of symbol construction and the shifting meanings and practices associated with prominent images and objects. We introduce the concept of momentary symbols to describe and examine processes where objects for a shorter period rapidly grow into a dominant symbol for a collective, but just as quickly acquire …
The Politics of Trust
Studies have shown how online political communication mobilizes support by appealing to the audience's emotions. The role of the visual affordances of digital technologies in this process, however, remains insufficiently studied. This paper analyzes visual narratives surrounding international political debates on climate change at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of 2021. Our findings highlight that images are key in conveying emotion…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Social Media and Politics (10 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Democracy (6 works)