• since 08/2024: Research Associate (Postdoc) at the Faculty of Macrosociological Analysis of Contemporary Societies, University of Kassel
  • 05/2022-08/2024: Research Associate (Postdoc) at the Institute for Work and Qualification (IAQ), University of Duisburg-Essen
  • 07/2022: Doctorate at the University of Hamburg ('summa cum laude')

Title: Hegemony and social change. Indignados movement, populism and democratic practice in Spain, 2011-2016.

Link to the book (Open Access)

  • 2018-2020: Fellow at the Institute for Social Research (IfS) at Goethe University Frankfurt
  • 2016-2022: part-time work as a freelance journalist, in retail and in elderly care
  • 2014-2017: Doctoral scholarships from the Hans Böckler Foundation and the DAAD
  • 2014-2017: Fellow at the Centre d'Estudis sobre Moviments Socials (CEMS, Social Movements Research Group) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
  • 2011-2014: M.A. degree in Sociology at the University of Hamburg
  • 2010-2011: Work in the fields of public health (Fribourg) and urban planning (Basel)
  • 2005-2010: B.A. in Sociology and Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and the University of Basel
  • 2005: German and Spanish Abitur at the German School Barcelona

 

Memberships

  • Sections Sociology of Work and Industry, Sociology of Europe and Sociology of Culture in the DGS

 

Reviewer activities

  • European Journal of Social Theory, Journal for Theoretical Sociology

Lluis, Conrad, 2024 (ed.): Back to hegemony. From Laclau/Mouffe to a sociological theory of hegemony. In: Journal for Theoretical Sociology (2/2024)

Barthel, Georg / Lluis, Conrad 2024: For a good season. Seasonal work in German agriculture between precarization, regulation and politicization. Duisburg: Institute for Work and Qualification. IAQ-Report 2024-09| Info | Read

Lluis, Conrad, 2023: Work and migration. A research overview with a focus on precarization. Duisburg: Institute for Work and Qualification. IAQ Research 2023-02| Info | Read

Jaehrling, Karen / Lluis, Conrad, 2023: The laboratory of a different kind of work. Care and agriculture under pandemic refraction - between neoliberal structuring and experimental regulation . In: Sociological Studies in Labor and Industry 16 (2), pp. 27-42| Info | Read

Jaehrling, Karen / Lluis, Conrad / van Gerven, Minna / Salm, Aino, 2023: DEFEN-CE: Social Dialogue in Defense of Vulnerable Groups in Post-COVID-19 Labour Markets. Report on Germany and the Netherlands. Funded by the Directorate-General for Employment, the European Commission. Duisburg [et al.] | Read

Lluis, Conrad, 2023: Hegemony and social change. Indignados Movement, Populism and Democratic Practice in Spain, 2011-2016. Cf. dissertation, University of Hamburg, 2022. Bielefeld: Transkript Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-8394-6625-4 | Info | Read

Lluis, Conrad, 2022: Outraged Spain. The Indignados and their afterlife. In: Mittelweg 36 (4), pp. 36-53

Lluis, Conrad, 2020: New people, different country. Populism as a practice in Spain. In: Kim Seongcheol and Aristotelis Agridopoulos (eds.): Populism. Discourse - Hegemony - State, pp. 253-275

Lluis, Conrad, 2019: The protests of the Indignados ... and their analysis using an expanded theory of hegemony. In: Judith Vey et al. (eds.): Handbook of poststructuralist perspectives on social movements, pp. 88-107

Lluis, Conrad, 2018: Review of: Right-wing populism and hegemony. The rise of the SVP and the discursive transformation of political Switzerland. In: Swiss Journal of Sociology 44 (1), pp. 189-191

Lluis, Conrad, 2017: The fear remains. Spain's economy grows, society remains poor. In: Matices. Journal on Latin America, Spain and Portugal 93| Info

Lluis, Conrad / Arndt, Sophie, 2016: Spain facing the question of incorporation. In: Forum Law H. 2, p. 56-59

Lluis, Conrad, 2014: The antagonistic bet of social theory. Review of: The impossible object. A post-fundamentalist theory of society by Oliver Marchart, Theorieblog.de, blog for political theory, philosophy and history of ideas, 5.5.2014

Lluis, Conrad, 2014: Review of: The Left Hemisphere. Mapping Critical Theory Today by Razmig Keucheyan. In: Journal for Philosophical Literature 2 (3): 45-55

Lluis, Conrad / Hildebrand, Marius, 2012: The negation of power - from structuration theory to the politics of the Third Way. In: Distinction: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory 13 (2), pp. 187-207

Hegemony and social change
Indignados movement, populism and democratic practice in Spain, 2011-2016