Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

	eMail	anne.nassauer (at) staff.hu-berlin.de
	Institution	Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences
	Office	Luisenstr. 56
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	Fax	+49 (0)30 2093 5348
	Postal Address	Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin

Dissertation Topic
Violence in demonstrations. A comparative analysis of situational interaction dynamics at social movement protests.
 

Abstract
Why do some social movement protests turn violent, while the majority stays peaceful? This dissertation deals with the emergence of physical violence in demonstrations of generally peaceful social movements. Special attention will be paid to situational interaction dynamics, assuming that they are crucial for the occurrence of violent. The internal structure of the event courses of leftist demonstrations will be reconstructed and analyzed using Qualitative Comparative Analysis.
 

Supervisors
Prof. Klaus Eder

Prof. Randall Collins

Prof. Debra Minkoff
 

Research Interests
Violence, social movements, relational sociology, contentious politics, visual analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis
 

Brief Biography

10/2009-10/2012

• PhD candidate at Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

02/2012-04/2012

• Research associate in the project ‘Subterranean Politics’ (coordinated by the LSE Global Civil Society Programme) for the German research team of Professor Helmut K. Anheier at Hertie School of Governance, Berlin

09/2010-06/2011

• Visiting scholar at Columbia University, Department of Sociology, New York (USA)

10/2008-10/2009

• Introductory year at Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences

10/2008

• Graduate Degree in Sociology and Contemporary History from Humboldt Universität, zu Berlin and in French Philology (focus: cultural sciences) from Universität Potsdam (Germany)

10/2002-10/2008

• Studies at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Universität Potsdam (Germany), with studies abroad at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (Spain), Université Stendhal and Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble (France)

Publications

• Labigne, Anael & Nassauer, Anne. 2012. Violence in Civil Society. Insights from the CIVICUS Civil Society Index Databases. In: Dörner, W. & List, R. (eds). Civil Society, Conflict and Violence. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
• Nassauer, Anne. 2010. “From Hate to Collective Violence. Research and Practical Implications.” Journal of Hate Studies, Vol. 9 (1).
• Nassauer, Anne. 2010. “Protest und Gewalt. Zur Notwendigkeit einer empirischen Untersuchung situativer Interaktion.” BGSS Working Paper No. 2, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin.