Articles by Sabine Volk

June 22, 2026

🌈 Pride under pressure from the far right

Sabine Volk
In countries across Europe, Pride events celebrating LGBTQI visibility face threats of violence. This, warns Sabine Volk reveals the transnationalisation of far-right activism and the mainstreaming of trans-hostile discourse. Democratic states, she says, are failing to protect marginalised communities
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June 1, 2023

🔮 Populism: going beyond the myth of the charismatic leader

Sabine Volk
Too much populism research focuses on populist leaders, argues Sabine Volk. Yet looking through the lens of collective action offers valuable insights into how we might define populism. It also provides fresh understandings of what populism does, and how it works
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November 4, 2022

How far-right groups survive against all the odds

Sabine Volk
Germany’s largest far-right protest movement, PEGIDA, this month celebrates eight years of mobilisation and protest activity. Its survival, argues Sabine Volk, is a puzzle not explained by social movement theory. She explores an overlooked explanatory factor: PEGIDA's repetitive protest ritual
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June 25, 2021

Safeguarding German democracy during the pandemic

Sabine Volk
Actors from across the political spectrum, including the populist far right, have voiced concerns about safeguarding democracy amid the coronacrisis, writes Sabine Volk. But their different understandings of democracy reveal Germany’s political polarisation, rather than its unity
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Sabine Volk
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Helsinki / Research Associate, University of Tübingen

Sabine is undertaking an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship on The Translocal Far Right in Europe: Exploring the Mobilisation Against 'Gender’ (REXGEN) at the University of Helsinki.

She is also affiliated with the Institute for Research on Far-right Extremism (IRex) at the University of Tübingen.

Sabine's research focuses on actors and ideologies of the far right, with a special interest in gender and anti-feminism, protest politics, and memory.

Her work has been published in various journals, including Political Research ExchangeEuropean SocietiesGerman Politics, and Environmental Politics.

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