Gëzim Krasniqi
gezimk.bsky.social
Gëzim Krasniqi
@gezimk.bsky.social
Lecturer in Nationalism & Political Sociology; Programme Co-Director, MSc Nationalism in Global Perspective https://tinyurl.com/ymp99suc @uoe-sps.bsky.social
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MSc Nationalism in Global Perspective

Applications are open for this pioneering MSc where students gain an understanding of nationalism as one of the most powerful social forces of the modern era.

Apply by 30 June www.sps.ed.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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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...
September 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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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
Editorial board @financialtimes.com: "Realpolitik has reflected a desire not to see #Serbia slip into Russia’s orbit. But this hands-off approach is no longer tenable. Vučić has to be pushed to be more accountable and hold genuinely fair elections; ...
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Time to stop indulging Serbia’s authoritarian president
Europe must raise pressure on Aleksandar Vučić to avoid a deeper democratic retreat
www.ft.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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This is absolutely terrifying... and yet, the (potential) reality for many of us teaching in GOP-controlled states.
What's happening in Indiana should be a warning for all of higher ed.

IU sanctioned a Professor--who was previously arrested and sanctioned during a campus protest--for allegedly violating the state's "intellectual diversity" law, based on an anonymous complaint.

www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
August 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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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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August 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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....
August 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The world is failing the Palestinian people https://on.ft.com/4faO5L5 | opinion
The world is failing the Palestinian people
As starvation stalks Gaza, western allies must press for an end to Israeli offensive
on.ft.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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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...
July 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war.
Two Israeli human rights groups say their country is committing genocide in Gaza
It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war.
n.pr
July 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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📕📕📕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/...
The (geo)politics of democracy in wider Europe
The global geopolitical planes have shifted with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war in Gaza. These geopolitical shifts have revealed how intimately connected democracy is to geopol...
cadmus.eui.eu
July 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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NEW PUBLICATION🎉
Happy to finally share the new @globalcit.bsky.social Report on the State of #Citizenship in #Ukraine (2014~2024) co-authored with @faburkhardt.bsky.social
#EUI #passportisation
hdl.handle.net/1814/92966
July 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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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...
Trump seizes on ‘moral character’ loophole as way to revoke citizenship
A new justice department directive may signal a crackdown on US citizens as part of Trump’s deportation agenda
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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JUST published (free access) Full article: Warrior ethos and the spirit of nationalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Warrior ethos and the spirit of nationalism
In popular culture, nationalism is often associated with the battlefields. The combatants are often deemed to be inspired by a strong sense of patriotic duty. From the French revolutionary armies a...
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June 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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‘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...
Jenny Turner · Something Is Surviving: Olga Tokarczuk’s Mycophilia
Mushrooms,​ trees, turf, twigs, bushes, moss-covered stones: nature is a force in Olga Tokarczuk’s Empusium,...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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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
June 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
@sinisamalesevic.bsky.social talking about National Henosis (nationalism’s magic side) at the @asenevents.bsky.social Summer School in Zadar
June 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
John Hutchinson’s talk on Nationalism and Borderlands (Ukraine’s case) at the @asenevents.bsky.social Summer School
June 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Jonathan Hearn kicks off the 4th @asenevents.bsky.social annual summer school ‘Nationalism in the Contemporary World’
June 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Fascinating/original study!
May 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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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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May 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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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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May 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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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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May 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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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

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance
Since the 2008 financial crisis, more and more states have started to “sell” citizenships and residence permits to the global economic elite in return for investments. This trade is mediated by tra...
www.tandfonline.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Honoured to welcome Sinisa Malesevic, one of the world’s most renowned scholars of nationalism. Come join us at CBEES, Södertörn University for a highly topical lecture! Also online webcasting. Register below.
Please share!

www.sh.se/kalender/kal...
Nationalism in Dangerous Times: Past, Present and Future - CBEES Distinguished Lecture - Spring 2025
In this lecture, Professor Siniša Malešević critically examines present-day nationalism and far-right populist attacks on cultural diversity in Europe. Rather than a deviant anomaly, he argues that na...
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May 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM