About

I am a PhD researcher at the EUI, currently visiting and lecturing at the University of Zurich. I have a great interest in understanding dynamics between climate justice grassroots, traditional media, and public opinion formation over time. More specifically, I am working on activists’ capacity to substantially and substantively alter the discursive field around the climate crisis. I investigated feedback dynamcis between protest events, media coverage, electoral and voting behaviour, party manifestos, and legislation. More recently, I began engaging with meaning-making of protest events in traditional media. I hope to capture temporal variation in how journalists portray grassroots blocking critical infrastructure and how much voice they give to the involved actors (i.e., police, elite, bystanders, activists, etc.). I am also keen to gain insight in how newspaper readers and members of parliament react to journalistic framing and changes in the public discourse. I like to approach my research questions from different angles, and hence work quantitatively as well as qualitatively.

Research Interests

Contentious Politics, Media, Political Participation, Social Justice, Political Sociology, Climate Change, Narratives, Activism

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Participation and Mobilisation