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 -

christoph.sorg@hu-berlin.de



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

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