Mark Friis HauUniversity of Copenhagen · Department of Sociology
Mark Friis Hau
PhD
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen researching political participation in a broad sense
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Issues related to Catalan secessionism are central to current debates on European integration, nationalism, and territorial politics, and the Catalan independence movement has become famous for its large annual demonstrations on Catalan national day, the Diada. This paper represents the first attempt at a thorough empirical investigation of the mos...
Climate change is arguably the single most important political issue in the world today. As yet, however, there has been little research on the relationship between climate change and nationalism. In this contribution we investigate the possible existence of a ‘green nationalism’ among progressive and social democratic sub-state nationalist parties...
Issues related to anthropogenic climate change such as global warming, fossil fuel emissions, and renewable energy have emerged as some of the most important and pertinent political questions today. While the role of the state in the Anthropocene has been explored in academia, there is a severe dearth of research on the relationship between climate...
This book develops a new conceptualisation of lawfare that recognises the polysemantic nature of the term. Drawing on theoretical developments from legal anthropology, international relations, and social theory, the book scrutinises the multiple dimensions of this phenomenon. It illustrates the multifaceted character of lawfare with a wide range of...
Since both conflict and co-operation are at the heart of employment relations, unions need to strike a balance between mobilizing workers against employers and ‘social dialogue’ when communicating with members and the public. Drawing on a case study of unions and grassroots communication on Facebook during sector collective bargaining, this article...
Platform work represents an important challenge for the ‘Danish model’ of unionisation. Using interviews and ethnographic data, this article analyses the strategies of the Danish grassroots union movement the Wolt Workers' Group, representing principally migrant couriers using the food‐delivery platform Wolt. This study is an attempt to map an emer...
This chapter offers novel perspectives on how Catalan national identity, rather than being a predetermined, passively assigned ethnic category, is socially constructed through active choices and technologies of the self. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered among activists of the pro-independence, left-wing party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya,...
In this article I analyze the politicized spatial engagements of Catalan activists from the separatist party ERC in Barcelona. Through strategies of inhabitation and cultivated perceptions, activists attempt to practice ‘Catalan lives’ in an otherwise heterogeneous city space. Hegemonic ideas of nation and state are encountered and contested in Bar...
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This project deals with the importance of social media for the development of new organizational and mobilization activities among active union members. The study focuses primarily on Facebook, which is the world's largest social media (Giglietto et al 2012: 149) and where Danish trade unions and their members are most active. This includes both official sites from established union actors such as 3F or Dansk Metal and grassroots networks such as ‘Arbejdere i Bevægelse ’.
Social media or Social Networking Sites (SNS) is an important but understated piece of the puzzle surrounding union membership. Previous studies such as Panagiotopoulos (2012) show how important it is for the trade union movements to gain the necessary knowledge about social media in order to adapt their communication strategies to a new digital reality.
Several studies, however, indicate that there is no sharp dividing line between online and offline activism, but that the use of online resources can lead to increased physical activism and 'traditional' protests (Harlow and Harp 2012; Gerbaudo 2012; Greijdanus et al. 2020 ). However, there are significant regional differences in activists' use of social media (Harlow and Harp 2012), which is why a study of specific Danish conditions is necessary.
Climate change, cultural homogenization and the nation-state.
