Institute for Protest and Movement Research

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The Berlin Institute for Protest and Movement Research (ipb) is a research facility run by the Association for Protest and Movement Research e. V. is worn.

According to its own information, the association consists of over 130 members.

history

The idea of ​​establishing the institute goes back to a group of social scientists who presented a memorandum in April 2012 to establish it.

The institute sees itself as a "network institute". In the past it has worked with, among others, the Berlin Science Center for Social Research , the Technical University Berlin and the Institute for Social Movements in the House of the History of the Ruhr Area .

activities

The ipb conducts studies and research projects on protests , social movements and civic engagement independently or in cooperation with universities and non-university research institutions and makes the results of the research publicly available.

Examples of previous research projects are surveys at the Stop TTIP / CETA demonstration in October 2015, a ' Pegida ' demonstration in January 2015 or the so-called ' Monday vigil for peace' in June 2014. In November 2015, a study on the acceptance of refugee accommodation was carried out in the population, which was financed by the Robert Bosch Foundation . A study on media reporting on large-scale demonstrations, funded by campact and the Otto Brenner Foundation , has been in progress since May 2016 .

The association publishes the ipb working papers series and, together with the daily newspaper , the research journal Social Movements and the Movement Foundation, organizes the series of events on movement talks. Scientific conferences are organized annually. The institute's founding conference entitled "A lot of movement - little research?" in June 2013.

Dieter Rucht is the chairman of the association and Sabrina Zajak is the vice chairman. Other participating scientists are Roland Roth , Peter Ullrich , Simon Teune, Heike Walk, Jochen Roose, Priska Daphi, Ilse Lenz , Gisela Notz and others. The founding members of the sponsoring association include Donatella della Porta , Klaus Eder , Rupert Graf Strachwitz , Ansgar Klein and Wolfgang Stuppert.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the Institute for Protest and Movement Research. Retrieved July 12, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Daphi, Priska, Roland Roth, Dieter Rucht, Simon Teune, Sabrina Zajak: Independent and cross-university - the institute for protest and movement research . In: Research Journal Social Movements . tape 29 , no. 1 , 2016, p. 130-131 .
  3. ^ Memorandum. July 3, 2012, accessed July 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Survey Stop TTIP | CETA Demonstration 2015. October 12, 2015, accessed on July 12, 2016 (German).
  5. ↑ Anja Krüger: TTIP opponents are old, educated, left-wing. the daily newspaper, November 8, 2015, accessed on July 15, 2016 .
  6. ↑ PEGIDA demonstration survey 2015. January 12, 2015, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
  7. ^ Hans Vorländer , Maik Herold , Steven Schäller : PEGIDA: Development, Composition and Interpretation of an Outrage Movement . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 3-658-10981-5 (Vorländer, Herold and SChäller provide a comparison of the empirical studies on Pegida, which also includes the results of the ipb team).
  8. ↑ Marcel Leubecher: Protest researcher sees the zenith of Pegida exceeded. Die Welt, January 19, 2015, accessed July 15, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Survey on Monday vigils 2014. May 26, 2014, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
  10. ^ Lenz Jacobsen: Every Monday against everything. Zeit Online, June 16, 2014, accessed July 5, 2016 .
  11. ^ Matthias Meisner: Study advises against communal accommodation. Der Tagesspiegel, November 19, 2015, accessed on July 15, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Daniel Kaiser: On the tension of being in and against at the same time. Security Policy Blog, June 24, 2013, accessed July 15, 2016 .