Sabrina Zajak is professor for “Globalization conflicts, Social movements and Labor” at the Ruhr-University Bochum and leads the department Consent and Conflict at the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM). She is a founding member of the Institute for Protest ad Social Movement Research in Berlin, and the vice-president of the Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements (RC47) at the International Sociology Association.