Electromobility and the Politics of Climate Change: Far-right Climate Obstruction and its Impact on Mainstream Parties.
Manès Weisskircher leads the research group REXKLIMA at the Institute of Political Science at Technische Universität Dresden. He is also affiliated with the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo and the Center for Civil Society Research at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). Weisskircher's research focuses on social movements, political parties, democracy, and the far right.
At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Weisskircher will study how electric vehicle policies have become politicized by far-right parties such as Germany’s AfD and Italy’s Fratelli d’Italia. The project investigates far-right stances on e-mobility, cross-national variation, and influence on mainstream parties.
Weisskircher holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute and has taught at universities in Bonn, Bucharest, Düsseldorf, Dresden and Vienna as well as the social science college of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
This information is accurate for the time period that the visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.
Electromobility and the Politics of Climate Change: Far-right Climate Obstruction and its Impact on Mainstream Parties.
Weisskircher M. and Volk, S. “The People Against the Sun? Ideology and Strategy in Far-Right Parties' Climate Obstruction of Solar Energy,” Environmental Politics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2025.2458380
Weisskircher, M. (ed.). Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics. From the Streets to Parliament. Routledge, 2024. https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Germany-and-the-Fourth-Wave-of-Far-Right-Politics-From-the-Streets-to-Parliament/Weisskircher/p/book/9780367634094?srsltid=AfmBOooJSTfA9MGvUgwUu6_P0QGeAyqK3I9zXFjiOr6AVOLQBa3TBRSM
Jasper, J. Elliott-Negri, L., Jabola-Carolus, I., Kagan, M., Mahlbacher, J., Weisskircher, M. and Zhelnina, A. Gains and Losses: How Protestors Win and Lose. Oxford University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197623251.001.0001
