Institute for Social Movements
Dr. Christoph Sorg
Researcher in the project "Digital Tools and Interest Organization in the Global South", funded by Hans Böckler foundation
Room
Telefon: | +49 (0)234 32 - |
Research interests
- Social movements and collective action
- Critical political economy / economic sociology
- Sociology of work
- Debt, financialization
- Digitalization and the future of work
- Qualitative methods, methodological debates
Academic itinerary
Since April 2020 |
Researcher in the project “Digital Tools and Interest Organization in the Global South, funded by Hans Böckler foundation |
2019 |
Visiting scholar at New York University, supervisor: Jeff Goodwin |
Fall 2016 | Visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, supervisor: Neil Fligstein |
2014-2015 | Field work in Tunisia and Egypt and studying Arabic |
2013-2018 | PhD at Humboldt Universität. PhD dissertation: „’You are not a loan’: Contentious debt politics since the North Atlantic Financial Crisis”, supervisor: Donatella della Porta |
2010-2012 | Erasmus Mundus MA in Global Studies, Vienna University, UC Santa Barbara, Wroclaw University |
2007-2010 | BA in European History, Bayreuth University |
Current research projects
Selected recent publications
Forthcoming
“The Politics of Debt on Three Continents“ (working title). Amsterdam University Press.
“Reducing the Burden: International Struggles Against Illegitimate Debt.” In: McBride, Steven and Plehwe, Dieter: Beyond Austerity. Coping is not enough. Bristol University Press.
2020
“Kapitalismus und Bewegungsforschung” In: Forschungsjournal soziale Bewegungen 2/2019
“Social movements, capitalism, and (international) political economy. Integrating insights” (co-written with Sabrina Zajak). In: Zajak, Sabrina and Haunss, Sebastian: Social stratification and social movements. Theoretical and empirical perspectives on a ambivalent relationship. Routledge.
2019
“Den Staat zerlegen: Strategisch-interaktionistische Perspektive auf den Staat”. In: Forschungsjournal soziale Bewegungen 2/2019.
“You are not a loan“. Contentious Debt Politics since the North Atlantic Financial Crisis in North Africa and the North Atlantic. PhD dissertation. Humboldt University.
Selected presentations
2019
Class without Consciousness: The Politics of Fragmented Class Identities, COSMOS Florence: “A class of debtors in and for itself? A case study of attempts to construct a debtors' union in the US”
The Great Transformation: On the Future of Modern Societies, University of Jena: “You are not a loan: Contentious Debt Politics since the North Atlantic Financial Crisis”
AltAusterity conference, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin: Contesting Debt and Austerity: A Social Movement Perspective.
2018
“Colloquium Politics from below”, Institut für Protest u. Bewegungsforschung, Berlin: Contentious Debt Politics in North Africa, Europe, and the US since the North Atlantic Financial Crisis.
Graduate Network Conference BGSS, Berlin: Contentious Debt Politics in North Africa, Europe, and the US since the North Atlantic Financial Crisis.
2017
Politics and Protest Workshop, CUNY, New York: Social Movements and Debt Politics.
ESA, Athens: Financialization and Debt Struggles in Europe and North Africa.
2016
Graduate Network Conference CEU, Budapest: Financialization and Resistance against Debt.
2015
Graduate Network Conference EUI/SNS, Florence: Social Movements Against Debt.
2014
7th International Conference on Global Studies, Shanghai University: Social Struggles in the Making of a Post-neoliberal Order? Anti-austerity in Egypt and Tunisia.
Center for Global Studies, Shanghai University: Linking Critical Political Economy and Social Movement Studies.
Graduate Network Conference SciencePo, Paris: Local Struggles, Global Transformation.
Teaching
Winter term 2020/21 |
M.A. Seminar at Vienna Uni.: Work & Digitalization in the Global South M.A. sem. at RUB Bochum: Introduction to economic sociology B.A. sem. at Charl. Uni Prague: Introduction to economic sociology |
Summer term 2020 |
M.A. Seminar at Vienna Uni.: The future of work |
Winter term 2019/20 |
M.A. seminar at Vienna Uni.: The sociology of work M.A. seminar at Wroclaw Uni.: The sociology of finance B.A. sem. at Charl. Uni Prague: Introduction to economic sociology |
Summer term 2019 |
M.A. seminar at Vienna Uni: Economic knowledge and decision-making M.A. seminar at Wroclaw Uni: Social movements and globalization Seminar at Charles Uni Prague: Qualitative methods and ethnography Erasmus Teaching Mobility at La Laguna University |
Winter term 2018/19 |
M.A. seminar at Vienna Uni.: Theories of markets Erasmus Teaching Mobility at UAB Barcelona |
Summer term 2018 |
M.A. seminar at Vienna Uni.: Sociology of debt |
Winter term 2017/18 |
M.A. seminar at Vienna Uni.: Social movements against debt |
Summer term 2017 |
M.A. seminar at Vienna Uni.: Social movements and globalization M.A. seminar at Wroclaw Uni.: Introduction to social movements Erasmus Teaching Mobility at Roskilde University |
Winter term 2016/17 |
M.A. seminar at Vienna Uni.: Financialization |
Summer term 2014 |
B.A. seminar at HU Berlin: Social structure, gender relations and spatial differentiation |