Publications

Journal articles

Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan. 2026. “Pacts of Democratic Truth-Telling”. European Journal of Social Theory 29(1): 43-62.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan and Oluf Gøtzsche-Astrup. 2026. “Democracy from Within: A Democratic Cultural Schema in the US Public.” The British Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70148.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan and Kaspar Villadsen. 2026. “More Productive Bodies Faster! Human Capital and Anti-Intellectualism in Danish University Reform.” The British Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70129.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan, Carsten Bagge Laustsen, Thomas Olesen, and Kristina Bakkær Simonsen. 2025. “Politisk sociologi – ”uden bindestreg.” Dansk Sociologi 36(3): 51-64.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan. 2025. “Toward a Sociology of Democratic Truth-Telling.” Sociological Theory 43(1): 1-26.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan and Kaspar Villadsen. 2025. ”The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis.” The British Journal of Sociology 76(2): 442-456.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan. 2025. “The Activist Character. Power and Empowerment in Bestselling Acitivst Memoirs in the United States.” Cultural Sociology 19(4): 614-648.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Oluf and Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup. 2025. “Stability and Volatility in Cultural Models of Contention.” Social Forces 103(3): 1087-1106.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan. “Becoming an Activist: Individualisation and a Democratic Contentious Ethos in ‘How to’ Books.” Sociology 57(3): 625-641.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan and Oluf Gøtzsche-Astrup. 2023. “Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention.” Sociology 57(3): 586-605.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan. 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, Johan. 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, Johan. 2023. “The political signification of riots: A dispositife perspective on the 2011 England riots.” Journal of Sociology 59(1): 181-196.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan. 2022. “A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention.” Sociological Theory 40(3): 224-248.
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan. 2019. “Civil society and its outside: Analysing the boundary between civil and uncivil society in the Danish anti-radicalization discourse.” Journal of Civil Society 15(2): 162-177.

Working papers

Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan. “A Passionate Democracy? Activists and Moral Problems in the U.S. Public.” Under review
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan. “Do Activists Make Good Politicians? Boundaries Between the Street and Institutions in the US Public.” Under review
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan and Oluf Gøtzsche Astrup. “Democratic Dissent or Degeneration? The Meaning of Protesting in the UK Public.” Under review
Gøtzsche-Astrup, Johan. “How do the public listen to truth-tellers?”