Below is a list of my publications and ongoing projects.

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

• In Progress: Moral Roots of a New Political Cleavage. Working and Middle Class Lives and the Transformation of Political Conflicts in Germany. Under contract at Oxford University Press.

Journal 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
• 2024 – “‘Ja, aber’. Gesellschaftliche Konflikte verstehen.” (with Steffen Mau and Thomas Lux), Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11577-024-00964-0
• 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

• 2024 – “Quanto conta la classe? Strutture e concezioni in mutamento.” (with Donatella della Porta), Parole-Chiave 1/2024. DOI: 10.7377/113871 https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.7377/113871
• 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

“Cleavage Theory Meets Bourdieu: Studying the Role of Group Identities for Cleavage Formation.” Under Review. With Delia Zollinger.

“Four Arenas of Inequality Conflict”. Under Review. With Steffen Mau and Thomas Lux.

“Theorizing Cleavage Identities: The Contribution of Cultural Sociology”. Under Review. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xv6se/ 

“Politicizing Work. Changing Rhetorical Paradigms in the Reinventions of European Social Democracy”. Working Paper. With Koen Damhuis, Susi Meret, and Paulus Wagner.

“Class Consciousness in the Tripolar Political Space”. Working Paper. With Thomas Lux.

“The Moral Economy of Fuel Prices.” Work in progress. With Till Hilmar.

“Asymmetrical Cleavage Formation. Mapping the Uneven Structure of Contemporary Conflicts”. Work in Progress. With Steffen Mau and Thomas Lux.