Below you find a list of my publications, as well as projects I am currently working on. My Google Scholar Page is here.
Book
Mau, Steffen, Lux, Thomas, Westheuser, Linus (2023): Triggerpunkte. Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft. Berlin: Suhrkamp. www.suhrkamp.de/triggerpunkte
⸺ SPIEGEL best seller list; best seller FOCUS/stern/Börsenblatt
⸺ Best Non-Fiction 2023 by DIE ZEIT/Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Welt/Neue Zürcher Zeitung
⸺ Prize “Best Political Book” 2024, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
- 2024 – “Cleavage Politics in Ordinary Reasoning. How Common Sense Divides” (with Koen Damhuis). European Societies, Online First. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616696.2023.230064
- 2024– “The Sociocultural Approach to Populism. Toward a Cultural Class Analysis of Populist Appeals.” (with Pierre Ostiguy) In: Elgar Research Handbook of Populism, ed. Giorgos Katsambekis and Yannis Stavrakakis. Edward Elgar. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379145842_The_socio-cultural_approach_to_populism_toward_a_cultural_class_analysis_of_populist_appeals
- 2022 – “Verletzte Ansprüche. Zur Grammatik des politischen Bewusstseins von ArbeiterInnen” (with Linda Beck), Berliner Journal für Soziologie 32(2), 279-316. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11609-022-00470-0
- 2022 – “Class Without Consciousness. The Politics of Demobilized Class Society” (with Donatella della Porta), Berliner Journal für Soziologie 32(2), 165-172. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11609-022-00474-w
- 2020 – “Populism as Symbolic Class Struggle. Homology, Metaphor, and English Ale”, in Participation & Conflict 13(1) 2020: 256-283. http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/download/21989/18561
- 2015 – “Männer, Frauen und Stefan Hirschauer: Undoing Gender zwischen Praxeologie und Rhetorischer Modernisierung”, GENDER – Zeitschrift für Gesellschaft, Geschlecht und Kultur 3: 109-125. https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v7i3.20846
Other Publications
- 2022 – “This is not America: Politische Polarisierung in Deutschland als Schimäre”, Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 35(2). https://tinyurl.com/politische-polarisierung
- 2020 – “The Symbolic Politics of Populism Reflects the Class Alliances it Seeks to Assemble.”, LSE British Politics and Policy Blog: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-class-politics-of-populism/
- 2019 – “The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Great Recession”, Mobilization 24(4): 531-2. https://tinyurl.com/tea-party-ows-review
- 2018 – “Doing Gender”. Gender Glossar. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-170183
- 2012 – “‘Obviously I’m Not a D*ck, Right?’ Positioning Male Identities on the Mediated Conversational Floor of a Dating Show”. Soziologiemagazin 2: 124-136. https://www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/Soz/article/download/8932/7767
Work in Progress
Moral Roots of a New Cleavage. Working and Middle Class Lives and the Transformation of Political Conflicts. Book Manuscript.
with Delia Zollinger: Cleavage Theory Meets Bourdieu: An Agenda for Studying New Cleavage Identities. Under Review.
Theorizing Cleavage Identities: The Contribution of Cultural Sociology. Under Review. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xv6se/
with Steffen Mau and Thomas Lux: Asymmetrical Cleavage Formation. Mapping the Uneven Structure of Contemporary Conflicts. Working Paper.
with Steffen Mau and Thomas Lux: The Moral Economy of Controversy. Working Paper
with Steffen Mau and Thomas Lux: Four Arenas of Inequality Conflict. Working Paper.
with Thomas Lux: Class Interest Consciousness and Political Attitudes. Work in Progress.
with Paulus Wagner and Koen Damhuis: Politicizing the Deservingness of Those Who Work. A Comparative Analysis of Parties’ Moral Repertoires. Work in Progress.