So honored that our blog post with @lanihart.bsky.social made the longlist! 🎉 Really exciting that our piece translating the academic work on tribalism resonated read the blog post below and the our academic article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🎉 Congratulations to @lanihart.bsky.social and @zeaszebeni.bsky.social who made the Loop Best Blog 2024 longlist for their article 'Populism research demands more nuance: enter tribalism', from our 🔮 #FutureOfPopulism series. ➡️ ow.ly/VlNO50W3moN

It was a lovely surprise to hear that @zeaszebeni.bsky.social's and my blog post on differentiating tribalism from populism was longlisted for the best Loop blog piece of 2024. Now we're psyched to enter this year's competition! Give our almost prize-winning post a read below:

It’s official - I am #PhDone!!! I defended my thesis on populism, democracy, and collective memory through CZ & SK case studies on Friday 🎉 Huge thanks to my wonderful opponent Kevin Deegan-Krause, my custos & supervisor @emiliapalonen.bsky.social, & everyone who showed up to support me!

New Peripheral Politics newsletter post from @zeaszebeni.bsky.social, in which she explains why she just can't stop thinking about those inane AI action figure images that took over everyone's feeds a little while ago

🐀 Just launched Peripheral Politics with @lanihart.bsky.social Our new Substack explores the political stories that don't make headlines - from semi-peripheral countries to the absurd moments that reveal deeper truths. Subscribe! peripheralpolitics.substack.com

How do you sum up an entire political movement on a baseball cap? Trump figured it out with #MAGA. #Democrats... haven't. @lanihart.bsky.social uses political theory to explain why this matters way more than you'd think peripheralpolitics.substack.com/p/searching-... Also, subscribe!

But her emails

Our paper on "Populist Truth-Making" is out! This has been 4 years in the making and reflects our project's ongoing discussions about the concept. #openaccess (thanks HU!) here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An exciting hybrid event co-organized by our project on March 5 at The Institute of Ethnology in Prague with @jleser.bsky.social www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/The-...

Not that I can read this, but maybe you can! It’s building on our article about pseudohistory in nation building, looking at Slovak narratives of the medieval king Svätopluk. Will also be posting the English version soon!

Brawls with the bishops, very Henry VIII energy here, I like it

I submitted my thesis for pre-examination in November, but I honestly think I'm prouder of getting #BananaPopulism published. @zeaszebeni.bsky.social, @soschma.bsky.social, Mike Cole, and I had this idea for a funny blog about populist weirdness way back in 2019, and now it's real populism theory!

A very happy #feastoftheass to those who celebrate! Thanks to @dansavage.bsky.social for putting this very important celebration back on our collective calendar 🙏 This red currant and lemon Bundt with lemon glaze is my contribution to the festivities 🫏

Check out our newest article with @lanihart.bsky.social and Jonáš Syrovátka below. Pseudohistory, slow joy and a medieval king.. need I say more?!

🚨New publication alert!🚨 TL;DR: national identity, pseudohistory, slow memory, discourse analysis, Slovakia, medievalism Here’s the link, but read on below if you’d like a little run-down!

🚨New publication alert!🚨 TL;DR: national identity, pseudohistory, slow memory, discourse analysis, Slovakia, medievalism Here’s the link, but read on below if you’d like a little run-down!

Friss publikációnk a Qubiten! A modern törzsiségről írunk w/@lanihart.bsky.social: hogyan formálódnak értékek mentén olyan csoportok, amelyek átlépik a nemzeti határokat? Elemezzük többek között Trump MAGA és Orbán MEGA mozgalmát is: qubit.hu/2024/12/25/a...

TL;DR - Populism is old, tribalism is bold (a thread) Or, @zeaszebeni.bsky.social and I wrote an article! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (go on, you can click, it's #openaccess)