Linus Westheuser

PhD candidate

Linus Westheuser is a PhD candidate at Scuola Normale Superiore, working with Donatella della Porta. Linus is interested in the sociocultural aspects of conflict and cleavages. His PhD research examines symbolic boundary making among young manual workers and sociocultural professionals, exploring themes of precarity, moral economy, and deservingness.

Linus has studied Sociology, Political Science and Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, King’s College London and the École Normale Supérieure in Cachan. He is an associate researcher of the Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity at the University of Potsdam and a member of the Berlin Institute for Protest and Movement Studies (IPB).

Contact: linus.westheuser@sns.it

Research interests: Symbolic boundaries, Morality, Cleavage theory, Class formation, and Doing gender

News

22/07/2019

Protest for a future: international report on #FridaysForFuture and the climate strike

Composition, mobilization and motives of the participants in Fridays For Future climate protests on 15 March 2019, in 13 European cities. A multi-country collaboration report, with contributions from COSMOS researchers Lorenzo Zamponi, Donatella della Porta, Martín Portos, Niccolò Bertuzzi and Daniela Chironi.

21/06/2019

Call for papers: "The Nation and the Radical Left - Practices and Discourses of National Identity in Left-Wing Politics"

The call for papers is now open for a conference on national identities and left-wing politics.

18/06/2019

Call for papers: “Class without consciousness” – The Politics of Fragmented Class Identities

The call for papers is now open for a two-day conference on class and identities at the Scuola Normale Superiore on 14-15 November 2019

Publications

Journal Article - 2019

Ballots and barricades enhanced: far‐right ‘movement parties’ and movement‐electoral interactions

Andrea Pirro

This contribution enhances our understanding of the contemporary far right by focusing on the neglected links between movements and elections within the broader context of contention.

Journal Article - 2019

From the Rainy Place to the Burnt Palace: How Social Movements Form their Political Strategies. The Case of the Six Federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba

Leonidas Oikonomakis

Exploring the case of the cocaleros of the Chapare, this article argues that more emphasis should be placed on mechanisms that are internal to the movements, such as: (a) the resonance of other political experiences at home and abroad, (b) internal struggles for ideological hegemony, and (c) the political formation of their grassroots.

Cosmos

The Centre on Social Movement Studies