Very pleased to announce the publication of our recent special issue on "Citizenship in the global struggles for democracy", co-edited with Jelena Džankić and Szabolcs Pogonyi @scmrjems.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The special issue looks at how democratisation and democratic backsliding intersect with citizenship across a range of case studies in central and eastern Europe, the Caucasus, sub-Saharan Africa, East and South Asia, and the Middle East
The first article by @rameshg.bsky.social explores how the demos is redefined in Abkhazia as a tool of ethnodemographic security and whether and how this intersects with democratic backsliding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Jing-Han Chen & Yi-Chen Huang explore changes in Taiwanese citizenship during decolonisation and the impact on indigenous rights www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Happy to see this article published: Exploring the link between democratisation and citizenship: comparing Kosovo and Albania
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Great to see our paper @cpsjournal.bsky.social out now!
As the "Ultras" phenomenon will be more central in the next iteration of my "Soccer and Politics" course, I ordered two more books on the topic.
Am still looking for a clear definition of the phenomenon...
Des mois et des mois que je le répète à qui veut l'entendre: cette posture stratégique ne peut qu'échouer, et à force de vouloir "arrimer la Serbie à l'Europe", c'est l'Europe qui s'arrime non pas à la Serbie mais au régime de Vučić.
J'ai fait un article important sur ce point bientôt publié. TBC
This is absolutely terrifying... and yet, the (potential) reality for many of us teaching in GOP-controlled states.
Last but not least in our themed section on #IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties, Avigail Eisenberg's article, "Integration Before Multiculturalism", compares multiculturaism with racial integration in the USA #earlyview #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley....
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"Does ‘Super-Diversity’ Address Majority Anxieties?", asks Jan Willem Duyvendak in the next article in our themed section on #IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties - it's on #earlyview and #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....
Delighted to see this excellent and very timely piece by my PhD student Sarah Cheung now published. @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The world is failing the Palestinian people https://on.ft.com/4faO5L5 | opinion
The first and longest-lasting parliaments were created under conditions of homogeneity.
Read "Religious Exclusion and the Origins of Democracy" by Şener Aktürk:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war.
📕📕📕NEW BOOK!!
Supported by the EUI Widening Europe Programme and GGP - Southeastern Europe, the book is based on an exchange about democracy and geopolitics among scholars from the #WesternBalkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and EUI-based postdoctoral fellows.
cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/...
Worrying developments in the US on upscaling of denaturalization proceedings.
To see how this fits in the 🌎 picture, check out new @theguardian.com article discussion of two @globalcit.bsky.social studies on the rise of security-based citizenship deprivation.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
JUST published (free access) Full article: Warrior ethos and the spirit of nationalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘All her characters know it, though Olga Tokarczuk herself can’t quite face up to it: the work to make the world more liveable can only start once the novel has been finished. Out there, with everybody else, in the actual world.’
Jenny Turner reads ‘The Empusium’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Israel wages war invoking “self-defence”.Nuclear armed Israel/US attack Iran to stop it making nuclear weapons it wasn’t making.Europeans call for diplomacy without condemning the attack that killed it.Russia opposes the violation of int law, while doing far worse in Ukraine.As Orwellian as it gets
@sinisamalesevic.bsky.social talking about National Henosis (nationalism’s magic side) at the @asenevents.bsky.social Summer School in Zadar
John Hutchinson’s talk on Nationalism and Borderlands (Ukraine’s case) at the @asenevents.bsky.social Summer School
Jonathan Hearn kicks off the 4th @asenevents.bsky.social annual summer school ‘Nationalism in the Contemporary World’
Fascinating/original study!
On June 5th, we head over the road to KCL, for a discussion on Pavan Mano's new book, 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘏𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮.
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Join us here on Facebook or in person at Bush House. Full details, including sign-up for free tickets, are at asen.ac.uk/event/mano/. We hope to see lots of you at one or both, in person or virtually!
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We have two events next week, both of which are in person and online but we can't fit them in one post, so read on to find out more! 👀
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Our final monthly pick for May is "The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance" by Sara Kalm (@pollu.bsky.social). Be sure to give it a read!
#OpenAccess #Citizenship #Governance
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