Dalilah Shemia-Goeke

Dalilah Shemia-Goeke is a civil resistance researcher with a special focus on transnational corporations. Her research is interdisciplinary combining nonviolent action research (situated within conflict studies) with social movement research, labour studies and global political economy. She works qualitatively and on the development of theoretical and analytical frameworks. She has worked on corporate accountability, anti-corporate activism, labour revitalisation strategies, grassroots unionism and on concepts and understandings of power and social change.

2023: 
Awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with the dissertation titled “Nonviolent Action and Multinational Corporations”

2018- 2020: 
Peace worker for German Civil Peace Service (forumZFD) in Israel /Palestine, project manager “grassroots and social movements”
Certification International Peace and Conflict Consultant (Academy for Conflict Transformation)

2016 - 2018:
independent researcher and lecturer on strategic nonviolence
Certification International Project manager

2014 – 2016:
Labour and community organiser

2014:
M.A. Global political Economy
M.A. thesis: Qualitative study on grassroots unionism in Greece

2011: 
B.A. Social Sciences
Sociology, Political Sciences (major)
Psychology (minor)

2025 (forthcoming), /People Power Strategies to Curtail Corporate Power - Serving the Public/ /Good,/ Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature.

2024, 'Rebalancing Power between (Civil) Society and Corporations', Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZefKo), Special issue: Conflict and Transnational Corporations. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42597-024-00129-y

2023, 'Die Nuancen von Bewegungsdynamiken', /Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen/, 36: 170-73.

2023, 'Strategische Gewaltfreiheit: Skizze für den Widerstand gegen multinationale Konzerne', /Wissenschaft & Frieden/, 1: 41–42.

2022,Brown, Chris, Brian Martin, Liane Munro, and Dalilah Shemia-Goeke. 'Activists and pre-suasion', /Peace Studies Journal/*,* 15: 12-27.

2022, 'Jeremy Brecher: Common Preservation: In a time of mutual destruction', /Journal of Resistance Studies/, 8: 124-27.

2021, Onken, M., D. Shemia-Goeke and B. Martin. "Learning from Criticisms of Civil Resistance." /Critical Sociology/ 47(7-8): 1191 –1203.

2021, "Resistance to economic reforms in Greece." /Interface: a journal for and about social movements/ 13(1): 225 – 253.

2017, Reuben-Shemia, D. "Power and social change: The case of the European social justice movement." /Social Alternatives/ 36(4): 51-59.

2017, Reuben-Shemia, Dalilah*.* *„*Trade Unions in Greece between Crisis and Revitalization*“*. In: /New Research in Global Political Economy/. Working Paper Series, Universität Kassel: <https://portal.ub.uni-kassel.de/kobra/download/New_Research_in_GPE_3_2017.pdf>https://kobra.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/bitstream/urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2017062752910/3/New_Research_in_GPE_3_2017.pdf <https://kobra.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/bitstream/urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2017062752910/3/New_Research_in_GPE_3_2017.pdf>