...first time as Tarantino, second time as farce

Brilliant book, Žižek's endorsement notwithstanding. It discusses the conditions making a major, revolutionary change possible, without making it anticipated. No wonder it is being republished now

Such a brilliant piece

Today, @charnab.bsky.social guides us through the lives and legacies of ostajnicas—a historical range of gender expressions that simultaneously reinforced and destabilized the heteronormative binary in the Balkan mountains.
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/third...

Loved this piece from @charnab.bsky.social and this last passage in particular really hit and resonated with me, it's the core dynamic of so much transmisogyny, not just in the Balkans but everywhere. The idea that being a woman is so obviously shit that anyone *choosing* to be one is an abomination

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I am very grateful to Lea Horvat & Ana Sekulić for creating Women* write the Balkans as a platform for conversation and experimentation, as well as for their masterful editorial guidance and patience. I enjoyed writing this para-ethnographic story and might do more of that in the future

A World without Empire? Encounters and connections between African, European, and Soviet Communists, 1920s to 1970s - Edizioni della Normale edited by Silvio Pons pp. 461 Scarica il PDF CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

@doratot.bsky.social has published "Challenging Socialist Solidarity: Yugoslav Perspective on Intra-Social
ist Competition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Algeria (1959-1965)" available in open access here 👇
#socialistsolidarity #globalhistory

edizioni.sns.it/prodotto/a-w...

Between Blocs: Socialist Yugoslavia as a Pragmatic Player in the International Refugee Regime This essay analyses how Yugoslavia’s unique geopolitical position between the blocs, after its 1948 split with Moscow, played out in its refugee policies. First, it investigates the way in which Yu...

Francesca Rolandi’s article, “Between Blocs: Socialist Yugoslavia as a Pragmatic Player in the International Refugee Regime,” is now available: 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tandfonline.bsky.social

Shot of river Morača, the sport center Morača, and the sky in Podgorica, Montenegro

Podgorica

David Graeber on political pleasure: "Part of the pleasure is a certain kind of abandonment of self, which comes from a trust in others, that other people are actually sometimes smarter than you are, or that a group as a whole becomes this collective mind which is smarter than you are"

Art piece by Sarkis, presented at the 1991 Cetinjsko Bijenale

Super interesting discussions on how to write critique in the moment of crisis are popping up everywhere, from the CEU IAS Budapest workshop on social critique to Allegra's podcasts. Still, poets lead the way 💫

Grateful that the first conversation about "Realigning Humanitarianism" after its publication will be held in Podgorica, with Paul Stubbs as the discussant and Natalija Vujošević as the moderator, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, on 2 April, 7 pm @paul-stubbs.bsky.social

Thanks for sharing this, Andy. I have just ordered the book.

Bogdan Iacob and Marek Eby discuss "socialist malariology" and the role of socialist models of disease control in shaping malaria programmes in the global south (The Global Health Histories podcast)
globalhealthhistories.podbean.com/e/epsiode-8-...

Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.

Grateful for the support from @iupress.bsky.social @europeatharvard.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social

When in Mainz...
kunstundbau.rlp.de/kunstwerke/k...

A proud editor moment: this piece hits with exactly the right intensity, and I might spend the next few days asking everyone around me to read it.
+ @anasekulic.bsky.social did an amazing job streamlining the story

Carna Brkovic holding the book "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans"

Happy to share that my book, "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" has just been published!
iupress.org/978025307522...

Call for Applications: Co-Editor-in-Chief at Ethnologia Europaea – Journal of European Ethnology (same text as accessable the link given)

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬🗒️🖋️ for Co-Editor-in-Chief at 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐞𝐚!

We invite applications for the position of co-editor-in-chief, beginning 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕. Shadowing of the current editor’s duties would begin in 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔.

Find more info and key duties here:
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I am delighted that the special issue ‘Socialist Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century’ has now been published in the Journal of Contemporary History. This special issue was a joy to edit and brings together a dream team of contributors. I'll post the contributions in this thread...

Congratulations on this amazing and important issue!!

📣 New article online!

'Blood Knows No Borders: Blood Donation and Transfusion Systems in Yugoslavia', by Ivan Simic | @ivansimic.bsky.social

📖 Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Meanwhile, meta analyses of generations of anthropological research on hunter-gatherer societies show that Darwin was deeply wrong in his conclusions about sex and gender. Showing clear and consistent evidence of women in prominent hunting roles.

stories.spu.edu/articles/pro...

Zohran Mamdani Wants to Reclaim Efficiency From the Right New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to demonstrate that the public sector can match or even surpass the private sector in excellence. It’s high time the Left reclaimed the value of “efficienc...

Yes to democratic socialist excellence: “For too long, we have turned to the private sector for greatness, while accepting mediocrity from those who serve the public”...
This focus on “democratic excellence” marks a significant innovation for the Left jacobin.com/2026/02/zohr...

Rest in power, Henrike Naumann

Now I want to know more about how you decided to study ex-YU

Rest in power, Henrike Naumann