devorahmanekin
Social scientist, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Excited to share that my project on polarization and nonviolent resistance was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. So grateful to the many colleagues who supported the work along the way, and looking forward to the research ahead!
- The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣 349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG! 👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV #FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
- Reposted by devorahmanekin@tmitts.bsky.social, author of Safe Havens for Hate, speaks with Miranda Melcher about her new book for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Listen to the full interview:
- Reposted by devorahmanekinNice thread here! It’s incredibly important for thinking about violence and protest tactics. What counts as violence depends on who is protesting and who is observing those protests. So, one-size-fits-all judgments about whether specific tactics “work” would definitely benefit from more skepticism.
- 7. Bottom line: tactics matter but so do our own biases when observing and reacting to resistance. Worth approaching coverage with skepticism and holding media accountable. www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Excellent op-ed on nonviolent protest from @robbwiller.bsky.social and @owasow.bsky.social on the importance of nonviolence here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o.... Some additional points worth noting:
- 1.@chenoweth.bsky.social & Stephan's data is often used to show nonviolence is more effective, but it compares armed to nonarmed violence, with nonarmed violence treated as nonviolent. The data also pertains to maximalist campaigns (e.g. revolutions), calling for caution in extrapolating results.
- 2. Research on unarmed, disruptive violence, such as seen in Los Angeles and elsewhere, is more ambiguous, as summarized by @chenoweth.bsky.social here: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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View full thread7. Bottom line: tactics matter but so do our own biases when observing and reacting to resistance. Worth approaching coverage with skepticism and holding media accountable. www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Reposted by devorahmanekinAn important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.
- Yes, but tactics are perceived and covered through racialized lenses that frame them as threatening regardless of facts on the ground.
- Consider two photos: one of an immigrant mother being separated from her child and another of a burning car. Which leads the news? Which focuses attention on the harms of mass deportations? A challenge of violent protest tactics is that they often shift attention away from the injustices they decry.
- see e.g. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by devorahmanekinJumping in with a favorite article, by Devorah Manekin and Tamara Mitts, which asks how ethnicity affects both the success of non-violent protests and the likelihood of observers judging a given protest as violent/non-violent. Spoilers: racialized folks can’t win. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by devorahmanekinBig thanks to @devorahmanekin.bsky.social for an engaging talk on how affective polarization may shape nonviolent resistance!
- Reposted by devorahmanekinJoin @stevelevitsky.bsky.social & me on April 3 at 4pm ET. We’ll catch up on the current state of backsliding and resistance in the US. Register below.
- Large, sustained anti-government and anti-war protests taking place in both Israel and in Gaza.
- Reposted by devorahmanekinThere are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
- Reposted by devorahmanekin@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
- Reposted by devorahmanekinbsky.app/profile/reil... this is bonkers and deeply disturbing. Private security, DOJ, DOGE, and the DC police together worked to take control over a private building the government *does not own* and dismiss the staff *whom the president does not employ,* removing them, it seems, with armed force
- WashPost has a tick-tock this morning (gift link): wapo.st/42dj8kl
- Reposted by devorahmanekinA crucial moment in global democratic backsliding www.ft.com/content/c1a2...
- Reposted by devorahmanekinI cannot overemphasize how important it is for you to contact your local papers and offer to give an interview about the protest you participated in. We got three articles and counting in local papers this week because of cold calls and unsolicited letters to the editor.
- Reposted by devorahmanekinMsafer yatta in the Oscar’s, and brilliant speeches by Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham!!! A million congratulations, and may their vision lead our way. ברכות חמות ליובל אברה והצוות על הזכייה. נאומים מדהימים של באסל ויובל. הלוואי שנלך בדרך שהם מראים לנו.
- Reposted by devorahmanekinApproaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men
- Reposted by devorahmanekinIf you sum it up, 49% of young German men voted for a right-leaning party, but only 28% of young women. Conversely, 59% of young women voted for a left-leaning party, but only 38% of young men. (BSW left out.)
- Reposted by devorahmanekinFeaturing work by my brilliant friend @decelles.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by devorahmanekin🚨 Postdoc Fellow at LSE in Political Behaviour 🚨 We're hiring a 2-3 year postdoc fellow at the LSE to join our great department (with some teaching in political behaviour and comparative European or EU politics) Please spread the word and reach out with questions! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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