Publications

Journal articles

Gøtzsche-Astrup, J (2025). Pacts of democratic truth-telling: Between ascendancy and equality. European Journal of Social Theory. Online first.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. (2025). Toward a Sociology of Democratic Truth-Telling. Sociological Theory. Online first.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. and Villadsen, K. (2025). The Dispositif is Alive! Recovering Social Agents in Foucauldian Analysis. British Journal of Sociology. Online first.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, O. and Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. (2025). Stability and Volatility in Cultural Models of Contention. Social Forces 103(3): 1087-1106.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. (2024). The Activist Character: Power and Empowerment in Bestselling Activist Memoirs in the United States. Cultural Sociology. Online first.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. (2023). Becoming an Activist: Individualisation and a Democratic Contentious Ethos in ‘How to’ Books. Sociology 57(3): 625-641.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. and Gøtzsche-Astrup, O. (2023). Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention? Sociology 57(3): 586-605.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. (2023). Contention and social order: The historical relation between political and social riot dispositives. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 10(2): 258-278.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. (2023). The constitution of political contention: The case of protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century. Current Sociology 71(7): 1348-1364.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. (2023). The political signification of riots: A dispositive perspective on the 2011 England riots. Journal of Sociology 59(1): 181-196.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. (2022). A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention. Sociological Theory 40(3): 224-248.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. (2019). Civil Society and its outside: Analysing the boundary between civil and uncivil society in the Danish anti-radicalisation discourse. Journal of Civil Society, 15(2), 162-177

Working papers

Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. A Resonant Democracy? How the US public puzzle out activists’ democratic role
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. Boundaries of Politics: Making Sense of Activist Politicians
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. and Gøtzsche-Astrup O. Democracy from within: A democratic cultural schema in the US public
Gøtzsche-Astrup, J and Gøtzsche-Astrup, O. The Meaning of Protest in the Public.
Villadsen, K and Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. Productive bodies faster at work.