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New year, new publication! 🎆 Thrilled to kick off 2026 by sharing our latest work with Bilge Yabancı (@bilgeyabanci.bsky.social) in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (@scmrjems.bsky.social).

Full text: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OpenAccess in our latest issue -

"Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties" - tinyurl.com/bdbb2jhd

by @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social

Conference alert in Bilbao! 👋 Join us Oct 27-28 at Univ. of Deusto to explore radical right narratives, conspiracy theories & vigilantism. Please share and submit an abstract by 23 May!

Mülteci Hakları Merkezi çalışanları anlatıyor: Trump fonları kesti, dernek çalışanları tazminatlarını dahi alamadı Mülteci Hakları Merkezi çalışanları Trump yönetiminin fonlarda kısıtlamaya gitmesinin ardından önce ücretsiz izne zorlandıklarını, kabul etmeyenlerin ise istifaya zorlandığını, her ikisini de kabul et...

Mülteci hakları alanında çalışan herkesin bildigi MHM’nin neden oldugu bu hak gasbı maalesef çok yakınımdan birini etkilediği için doğruluğuna şahidim. Maalesef Tr’de herkes yönettiği alanın otokratı olma peşinde, hak savunuculuğu yapan STKlarda bile… sendika.org/2025/04/mult...

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#OpenAccess from @govandopp.bsky.social -

Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties - cup.org/4ie3Fpd

- @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social

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CfP is out for the upcoming conference I co-organise with @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social & Sonia Alonso Sáenz de Oger in Bilbao this coming October.

Those working on radical right movements, conspiracy theories, and societal violence, send an abstract here 👇

agenda.deusto.es/en/conferenc...

Limits of Autocratisation: Democratic Resistance and Opposition – a TWQ Special Issue - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB While authoritarianism continues to gain ground globally, this Special Issue of Third World Quarterly, titled Limits of autocratisation: actors and institutions of democratic resistance and…

Third World Quarterly's #SpecialIssue explores how political parties and #socialmovements resist autocratisation in #Africa, #Asia, #LatinAmerica, and #SoutheastEurope, with insights from Guest Editors @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social, @karabekir.bsky.social, and @keremoxford.bsky.social 🔽

Third World Quarterly Limits of autocratisation: actors and institutions of democratic resistance and opposition. Volume 46, Issue 2 of Third World Quarterly

🚨 Autocratisation is not inevitable! ✋

Our Special Issue with @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social & @keremoxford.bsky.social explores its limits through the actors & institutions of democratic resistance & opposition from an interregional, interdisciplinary perspective: 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/4...

Building an authoritarian regime from below: the practice of youth camps and summer schools in crafting ‘desired’ citizens This study investigates how authoritarian regimes seek to manufacture societal consent by mobilizing youth through government-oriented civil society organizations. Focusing on Turkey under the AKP,...

How do authoritarian regimes create societal consent? In this paper, I examine the use of camps and summer schools as strategic sites for politicized leisure. Theorizing leisure as a tool of ideological engineering enhances our understanding of autocratization. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/87IX8...

Research Staff - Postdoctoral position - Re-shaping Attitudes about Refugees and Gender Minorities in Spain and Portugal The Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Deusto is seeking a motivated and highly qualified Postdoctoral Researcher to join the project Re-shaping Attitudes about Refugees and Gen...

🚨🚨Job opportunity!
@bilgeyabanci.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc for her project "Re-shaping Attitudes about Refugees and Gender Minorities in Spain and Portugal" at the University of Deusto. The application deadline is 28 March 2025.
For details: deusto.talentclue.com/en/node/1136...

Research Staff - Postdoctoral position - Re-shaping Attitudes about Refugees and Gender Minorities in Spain and Portugal The Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Deusto is seeking a motivated and highly qualified Postdoctoral Researcher to join the project Re-shaping Attitudes about Refugees and Gen...

📢 Hiring! I am seeking a Postdoc for the project Re-shaping Attitudes about Refugees & Gender Minorities in Spain & Portugal
📍 Bilbao, Spain
📆 12 months (+6m extension possible)
🔍 PhD & strong quantitative skills (esp. survey experiments)
🔗 Details: deusto.talentclue.com/en/node/1136...

Surveil, datafy, publicize: digital authoritarianism and migration governance in Turkey Scholarly interest in digital authoritarianism has primarily focused on consolidated authoritarian regimes, where digital tools and data are employed for surveillance, repression, propaganda, and m...

Talk about the future of Syrians in Turkey has spiked. Let's also keep focus on current conditions of migrants under AKP rule - factors that can shape Syrians' decisions to stay or return.

@bilgeyabanci.bsky.social adds a digital authoritarianism perspective.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CRBRH...

The Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the study of Turkey. For more information please visit: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...