Umut Özkırımlı
@umutozkirimli.bsky.social
IBEI - Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals | CIDOB - Barcelona Centre for International Affairs | Last book Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke | Currently back to writing on nationalism
Nice to see The Guardian @theguardian.com finally noticing that Matthew Goodwin is racist. Must’ve missed the memo when they ran his book promo in 2023.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
cf. @jdportes.bsky.social @robfordmancs.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
cf. @jdportes.bsky.social @robfordmancs.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Nice to see The Guardian @theguardian.com finally noticing that Matthew Goodwin is racist. Must’ve missed the memo when they ran his book promo in 2023.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
cf. @jdportes.bsky.social @robfordmancs.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
cf. @jdportes.bsky.social @robfordmancs.bsky.social
This fully revised and expanded edition will be reimagined as a fully-fledged textbook, complete with Key Concepts and Case Study features. Although the core research is done, I want this edition to reflect the most comprehensive, global, and up-to-date scholarship available.
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September 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This fully revised and expanded edition will be reimagined as a fully-fledged textbook, complete with Key Concepts and Case Study features. Although the core research is done, I want this edition to reflect the most comprehensive, global, and up-to-date scholarship available.
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Some unexpected but exciting news: after eight years away from the field, I am returning to nationalism studies. The first stop in what will be a three-book marathon is the fourth edition of Theories of Nationalism, forthcoming with
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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September 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Some unexpected but exciting news: after eight years away from the field, I am returning to nationalism studies. The first stop in what will be a three-book marathon is the fourth edition of Theories of Nationalism, forthcoming with
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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Luca Can Özkirimli Larsson
18.03.2013 - 05.07.2018... 05.07.2025 💚
18.03.2013 - 05.07.2018... 05.07.2025 💚
July 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Luca Can Özkirimli Larsson
18.03.2013 - 05.07.2018... 05.07.2025 💚
18.03.2013 - 05.07.2018... 05.07.2025 💚
Halfway through, the Barcelona Summer School 2025 has already turned into a blast of ideas, debates, and late-night conversations, leaving everyone both exhausted and exhilarated for what's still to come.
@iemed.bsky.social @ibei.org @blanquerna.bsky.social
@iemed.bsky.social @ibei.org @blanquerna.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Halfway through, the Barcelona Summer School 2025 has already turned into a blast of ideas, debates, and late-night conversations, leaving everyone both exhausted and exhilarated for what's still to come.
@iemed.bsky.social @ibei.org @blanquerna.bsky.social
@iemed.bsky.social @ibei.org @blanquerna.bsky.social
"Syria's Morning After: Who Owns the Revolution"
Public lecture by Fawaz Gerges (London School of Economics), with Yezid Sayigh (Carnegie Endowment for Intrenational Peace)
Join us at 18:30. Free admission
Venue: IEMed (Carrer de Girona, 20, L'Eixample, 08010 Barcelona)
Public lecture by Fawaz Gerges (London School of Economics), with Yezid Sayigh (Carnegie Endowment for Intrenational Peace)
Join us at 18:30. Free admission
Venue: IEMed (Carrer de Girona, 20, L'Eixample, 08010 Barcelona)
July 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"Syria's Morning After: Who Owns the Revolution"
Public lecture by Fawaz Gerges (London School of Economics), with Yezid Sayigh (Carnegie Endowment for Intrenational Peace)
Join us at 18:30. Free admission
Venue: IEMed (Carrer de Girona, 20, L'Eixample, 08010 Barcelona)
Public lecture by Fawaz Gerges (London School of Economics), with Yezid Sayigh (Carnegie Endowment for Intrenational Peace)
Join us at 18:30. Free admission
Venue: IEMed (Carrer de Girona, 20, L'Eixample, 08010 Barcelona)
Let the brainstorming begin. With @FawazGerges in Barcelona.
Join us tomorrow at CCCB
www.cccb.org/en/activitie...
@ibei.org @blanquerna.bsky.social @iemed.bsky.social @catalunyaintl.bsky.social
#BarcelonaMEDMENA
Join us tomorrow at CCCB
www.cccb.org/en/activitie...
@ibei.org @blanquerna.bsky.social @iemed.bsky.social @catalunyaintl.bsky.social
#BarcelonaMEDMENA
June 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Let the brainstorming begin. With @FawazGerges in Barcelona.
Join us tomorrow at CCCB
www.cccb.org/en/activitie...
@ibei.org @blanquerna.bsky.social @iemed.bsky.social @catalunyaintl.bsky.social
#BarcelonaMEDMENA
Join us tomorrow at CCCB
www.cccb.org/en/activitie...
@ibei.org @blanquerna.bsky.social @iemed.bsky.social @catalunyaintl.bsky.social
#BarcelonaMEDMENA
My new Substack, Partisan post - this time on “Echoes Within”.
Subscribe to Partisan for free.
🎹 "Because Echoes itself is precisely this: a patient, deliberate effort at connection, threading through all those parts we set aside in order to function."
umutozkirimli.substack.com/p/echoes-wit...
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🎹 "Because Echoes itself is precisely this: a patient, deliberate effort at connection, threading through all those parts we set aside in order to function."
umutozkirimli.substack.com/p/echoes-wit...
June 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
My new Substack, Partisan post - this time on “Echoes Within”.
Subscribe to Partisan for free.
🎹 "Because Echoes itself is precisely this: a patient, deliberate effort at connection, threading through all those parts we set aside in order to function."
umutozkirimli.substack.com/p/echoes-wit...
Subscribe to Partisan for free.
🎹 "Because Echoes itself is precisely this: a patient, deliberate effort at connection, threading through all those parts we set aside in order to function."
umutozkirimli.substack.com/p/echoes-wit...
I tried pitching a piece on the boycott of No Other Land by PACBI. What happened says a lot about how media works right now.
Read the full story on PARTISAN: “What Editors Talk About When They Talk About a Pitch”
umutozkirimli.substack.com/p/what-edito...
Read the full story on PARTISAN: “What Editors Talk About When They Talk About a Pitch”
umutozkirimli.substack.com/p/what-edito...
May 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I tried pitching a piece on the boycott of No Other Land by PACBI. What happened says a lot about how media works right now.
Read the full story on PARTISAN: “What Editors Talk About When They Talk About a Pitch”
umutozkirimli.substack.com/p/what-edito...
Read the full story on PARTISAN: “What Editors Talk About When They Talk About a Pitch”
umutozkirimli.substack.com/p/what-edito...
I'm investing more in my Substack, Partisan. There are now 3 new sections: Politics, Polemics, and Pieces, offering a fresh mix of analysis, critiques, and personal essays. Dive in—for free.
My latest is a personal memory triggered by Suzanne Vega's recent tweet.
open.substack.com/pub/umutozki...
My latest is a personal memory triggered by Suzanne Vega's recent tweet.
open.substack.com/pub/umutozki...
May 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm investing more in my Substack, Partisan. There are now 3 new sections: Politics, Polemics, and Pieces, offering a fresh mix of analysis, critiques, and personal essays. Dive in—for free.
My latest is a personal memory triggered by Suzanne Vega's recent tweet.
open.substack.com/pub/umutozki...
My latest is a personal memory triggered by Suzanne Vega's recent tweet.
open.substack.com/pub/umutozki...
Here is a short interview on cancel culture I had with Oscar Westra van Holthe in the framework of the European Peace Conference on Perpetrator-Victim Dynamics.
teamcoachzuidas.com/wp-content/u...
teamcoachzuidas.com/wp-content/u...
May 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Here is a short interview on cancel culture I had with Oscar Westra van Holthe in the framework of the European Peace Conference on Perpetrator-Victim Dynamics.
teamcoachzuidas.com/wp-content/u...
teamcoachzuidas.com/wp-content/u...
I am pleased to announce the European Peace Conference on Perpetrator-Victim Dynamics that will take place in Amsterdam between 21-30 July. I will be speaking on Day 8 & 9 | Framing and blaming in cancel cultures.
Check out the programme here: teamcoachzuidas.com/conference/
Check out the programme here: teamcoachzuidas.com/conference/
May 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I am pleased to announce the European Peace Conference on Perpetrator-Victim Dynamics that will take place in Amsterdam between 21-30 July. I will be speaking on Day 8 & 9 | Framing and blaming in cancel cultures.
Check out the programme here: teamcoachzuidas.com/conference/
Check out the programme here: teamcoachzuidas.com/conference/
📢 A quick note for applicants: Scholarships are limited, but we’re doing our best to offer as many as possible.
Fees accessible, with discounts (10–20%) and bundles for multiple courses — but we know a week in Barcelona isn’t easy.
If you can make it, it’ll be worth it. Two special events included
Fees accessible, with discounts (10–20%) and bundles for multiple courses — but we know a week in Barcelona isn’t easy.
If you can make it, it’ll be worth it. Two special events included
April 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📢 A quick note for applicants: Scholarships are limited, but we’re doing our best to offer as many as possible.
Fees accessible, with discounts (10–20%) and bundles for multiple courses — but we know a week in Barcelona isn’t easy.
If you can make it, it’ll be worth it. Two special events included
Fees accessible, with discounts (10–20%) and bundles for multiple courses — but we know a week in Barcelona isn’t easy.
If you can make it, it’ll be worth it. Two special events included
The clock is ticking!
⌛️A month left to benefit from the 10% early bird discount 🔜 June 2, 2025.
⌛️ Three weeks to apply for a scholarship 🔜 May 23, 2025.
Join the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and help shape the change.
bit.ly/BarcelonaSummerSchool
⌛️A month left to benefit from the 10% early bird discount 🔜 June 2, 2025.
⌛️ Three weeks to apply for a scholarship 🔜 May 23, 2025.
Join the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and help shape the change.
bit.ly/BarcelonaSummerSchool
April 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The clock is ticking!
⌛️A month left to benefit from the 10% early bird discount 🔜 June 2, 2025.
⌛️ Three weeks to apply for a scholarship 🔜 May 23, 2025.
Join the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and help shape the change.
bit.ly/BarcelonaSummerSchool
⌛️A month left to benefit from the 10% early bird discount 🔜 June 2, 2025.
⌛️ Three weeks to apply for a scholarship 🔜 May 23, 2025.
Join the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and help shape the change.
bit.ly/BarcelonaSummerSchool
2⃣ Two years later, everything I warned about has happened. The culture war wasn’t lost in a skirmish—it was a total rout.
3️⃣ Yet the woke left survived, mostly by moving to Bluesky or Canada, while others — deported students, immigrants, workers—paid the real price.
thecritic.co.uk/how-the-anti...
3️⃣ Yet the woke left survived, mostly by moving to Bluesky or Canada, while others — deported students, immigrants, workers—paid the real price.
thecritic.co.uk/how-the-anti...
April 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
2⃣ Two years later, everything I warned about has happened. The culture war wasn’t lost in a skirmish—it was a total rout.
3️⃣ Yet the woke left survived, mostly by moving to Bluesky or Canada, while others — deported students, immigrants, workers—paid the real price.
thecritic.co.uk/how-the-anti...
3️⃣ Yet the woke left survived, mostly by moving to Bluesky or Canada, while others — deported students, immigrants, workers—paid the real price.
thecritic.co.uk/how-the-anti...
I’m a small fish here, but those with big platforms need to speak up. A “far-right expert” with 11.8k followers likens the UK to Weimar Germany and calls anyone who defines womanhood on the basis of biological sex a "transphobe". This isn’t analysis—it’s unhinged.
April 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I’m a small fish here, but those with big platforms need to speak up. A “far-right expert” with 11.8k followers likens the UK to Weimar Germany and calls anyone who defines womanhood on the basis of biological sex a "transphobe". This isn’t analysis—it’s unhinged.
I read it in high school (don't laugh, compulsory reading in French high schools!) and I had it in my notes since then. I don't have the book with me now, but I downloaded it to answer: 8th walk. Translations vary of course.
Now going back to marking papers. 🙂
Now going back to marking papers. 🙂
April 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I read it in high school (don't laugh, compulsory reading in French high schools!) and I had it in my notes since then. I don't have the book with me now, but I downloaded it to answer: 8th walk. Translations vary of course.
Now going back to marking papers. 🙂
Now going back to marking papers. 🙂
I'm afraid you're wrong, @carmunist.bsky.social is right.
The quote is from Rousseau’s “Reveries of the Solitary Walker” (Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire). In the original, it reads: "Le monde réel a ses limites; le monde imaginaire est infini."
The quote is from Rousseau’s “Reveries of the Solitary Walker” (Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire). In the original, it reads: "Le monde réel a ses limites; le monde imaginaire est infini."
April 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I'm afraid you're wrong, @carmunist.bsky.social is right.
The quote is from Rousseau’s “Reveries of the Solitary Walker” (Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire). In the original, it reads: "Le monde réel a ses limites; le monde imaginaire est infini."
The quote is from Rousseau’s “Reveries of the Solitary Walker” (Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire). In the original, it reads: "Le monde réel a ses limites; le monde imaginaire est infini."
❌ They are not progressive. They are not radical. They are simply reactionaries, a loud tribal minority hollowing out genuine leftist politics. Their "activism"—selfish, dangerous, and divisive—is the dictionary definition of reactionary politics.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
❌ They are not progressive. They are not radical. They are simply reactionaries, a loud tribal minority hollowing out genuine leftist politics. Their "activism"—selfish, dangerous, and divisive—is the dictionary definition of reactionary politics.
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⛔️ Identitarian activism embodies an insidious form of privilege, advocating a defeatist stance oblivious to the harm inflicted upon the marginalized communities they claim to represent. While actual victims struggle for survival, identitarians virtue-signal from comfortable perches on Bluesky.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
⛔️ Identitarian activism embodies an insidious form of privilege, advocating a defeatist stance oblivious to the harm inflicted upon the marginalized communities they claim to represent. While actual victims struggle for survival, identitarians virtue-signal from comfortable perches on Bluesky.
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⛔️ Identitarian activism rarely engages in meaningful debate, preferring hyperbole, ad hominem attacks, and emotional appeals over reasoned argumentation.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
⛔️ Identitarian activism rarely engages in meaningful debate, preferring hyperbole, ad hominem attacks, and emotional appeals over reasoned argumentation.
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⛔️ Identitarian activism is untethered from reality, swiftly embracing misinformation whenever politically convenient.
⛔️ Identitarian activism is deeply unprincipled, upholding liberal democratic values only when outcomes align perfectly with its own agenda.
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⛔️ Identitarian activism is deeply unprincipled, upholding liberal democratic values only when outcomes align perfectly with its own agenda.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
⛔️ Identitarian activism is untethered from reality, swiftly embracing misinformation whenever politically convenient.
⛔️ Identitarian activism is deeply unprincipled, upholding liberal democratic values only when outcomes align perfectly with its own agenda.
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⛔️ Identitarian activism is deeply unprincipled, upholding liberal democratic values only when outcomes align perfectly with its own agenda.
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UK Supreme Court clarifies the legal definition of “woman” under the Equality Act 2010 while protecting trans rights.
➡️.......... [crickets. confusion. meltdown.]
Why? Because outrage is a choice, never consistent.
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➡️.......... [crickets. confusion. meltdown.]
Why? Because outrage is a choice, never consistent.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
UK Supreme Court clarifies the legal definition of “woman” under the Equality Act 2010 while protecting trans rights.
➡️.......... [crickets. confusion. meltdown.]
Why? Because outrage is a choice, never consistent.
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➡️.......... [crickets. confusion. meltdown.]
Why? Because outrage is a choice, never consistent.
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A federal judge blocks Trump’s attempt to revoke legal status and work permits for half a million people.
➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
Italian judges thwart Giorgia Meloni’s plan to outsource asylum seekers to Albania
➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
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➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
Italian judges thwart Giorgia Meloni’s plan to outsource asylum seekers to Albania
➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A federal judge blocks Trump’s attempt to revoke legal status and work permits for half a million people.
➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
Italian judges thwart Giorgia Meloni’s plan to outsource asylum seekers to Albania
➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
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➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
Italian judges thwart Giorgia Meloni’s plan to outsource asylum seekers to Albania
➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
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The impeccable logic of the identitarian activist: a brief guide to how “rule of law” becomes a matter of vibes and tribal allegiance.
Marine Le Pen is sentenced to four years in prison and fined €100,000 for embezzlement.
➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
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Marine Le Pen is sentenced to four years in prison and fined €100,000 for embezzlement.
➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The impeccable logic of the identitarian activist: a brief guide to how “rule of law” becomes a matter of vibes and tribal allegiance.
Marine Le Pen is sentenced to four years in prison and fined €100,000 for embezzlement.
➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
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Marine Le Pen is sentenced to four years in prison and fined €100,000 for embezzlement.
➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy.
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