Mid-January weather in southern Sweden is a mix of cold, humid & miserable. To escape it I’m heading to Gothenburg for much awaited FUDEM workshop on ”Envisioning (Un)democratic futures”. Not sure abt. better weather but I count on warm & enlightening intellectual conversations

In the Nordics, we're quite worried about what's next, in particular for Greenland. Some of that is directed as a concern for the prime minister of Denmark - however, with Denmark having elections this year, I am also concerned for electoral integrity, Danish democracy and the risks of interference.

And yet it moves! Delighted to be in Bruxelles/ Brussels / Brussel to celebrate 20 yrs of l’atelier genre(s) et sexualité(s) in @ulbruxelles.bsky.social enjoying the generous premises of u.square.brussels

Delighted to find my very own copy upon my return to Lund of this important scholarly contribution to the study of digital politics, memetic alliances, anti-gender politics & the manosphere, & most importantly transnational feminist resistance by @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social

Interesting research about populist radical right in municipalities across 🇸🇪

A final push before enjoying le weekend in Paris. No snow in sight but pretty crisp.

Midway in my research stay at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social I have the privilege to present my ongoing attempt to bring an intersectional perspective to canonic approaches of radical right populism.

A super short visit over the bridge to Roskilde university. It was actually the second time ever to visit the campus. I had a generative discussion abt. right-wing populism, retrogressive conservatism as alternative Europeanization process & how a gendered perspective provides a new research agenda.

Really thankful for having the opportunity to be part of the IAB of this fantastic project which brings together dedicated scholars, practitioners and artists co-creating knowledge. Also for being invited to share my thoughts on these pressing issues.

Paris has been extremely generous with its sights this past month. The surprisingly good weather has allowed me to take long walks discovering both the touristy and less touristy corners of the city.

📣 2 yrs postdoc w/in project Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture - investigates a selection of anti-gender networks & feminist LGBTQI+ networks in 5 European regions. Experience w/h ethnography/ digital network analysis & deep knowledge of language & sociopolitical contexts in Southern Europe.

The excellent work of editors @albertagiorgi.bsky.social & Hande Eslen-Ziya is bearing fruit, & this edited volume is soon available at a most needed time. In chapter w/h colleagues from Norway Iris B Segers & Charles M Ess we put in perspective institutional ethical challenges in online research

🌸 #ECPG26 @ecprgender.bsky.social Section seeking Panels & Papers ⤵️ 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTIQ+, Sexuality, Queer & Trans Studies, Policies & Politics 🪑@frammaturo.bsky.social, @norocel.bsky.social @auroraperego.bsky.social @massimoprearo.bsky.social @lrubiogrundell.bsky.social, Giada Bonu Rosenkranz ⌛👇 7 Nov

W/h 99,9% of votes counted (2272 of 2274 voting stations) it seems it seems that Moldova 🇲🇩 will continue its careful balancing act away from Kremlin. W/h a 52,19% voting presence the elections mark the victory of pro-European PAS (50,16%) ahead of pro-Kremlin Blocul patriotic (24,19%). 1/

💫📣 #ECPG2026 Call for Papers and Panels is open!! Join our LGBTIQ+, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies, Policies and Politics Section 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸: mobilizations, trans/intersex politics, anti-gender movements, links to racism/colonialism, migration, geopolitics & affect/resistance. ecpr.eu/Events/Event....

Parliamentary elections in 🇳🇴 are another example of collapse of right-wing conservatives: H performed badly & is replaced by radical right populist FrP as largest party on the right. Center-left Ap is largest party though difference between latter two not so big #Norge #Stortingsvalget 2025

The most recent e-Extreme Newsletter is now available thanks to the excellent work of @audreygagnon.bsky.social , @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social & @sabinedvolk.bsky.social

Maybe it was the best of times (see around) to try (& finish) reading Le Guin’s beautiful book. The pace is slow (reason I gave up last time) but perseverance is rewarded w/h seeing though the eyes of a (male) human from Terra the complexity of societies from Gethen whose people are ambisexual 1/

These days I’ve enjoyed deep & generous conversations w/h Mia Liinason, Marta Kolankiewicz & Luisa Voss abt. democratic decay, transformations of social contract & epistemic contestations at the kickstart of project Conjunctures of Struggle: Gender, sexuality & future of human rights in 21st century

Nothing says late summer than having a whole cloud of swarming mosquitoes (surprisingly, not visible in the pictures) over one’s head when picking blueberries (look at these beauties) in the Ostrobothnian forest in western 🇫🇮.

What is resemblance btw. the architectural tumor Tr*ump’s sycophants are going to inflict onto the White House (for ”only” 200 million $) in 🇺🇸 & Ceauşescu’s Bucharest-build monstrosity unironically called ”People’s House” in 🇷🇴 ? I suspect it may be called ”monumental autocratic chic”.

Not sure it was the wisest decision to visit Alhambra Granada in the dead of summer in July, but here you have a snapshot to (sweatily) brag about it. The white marble was simply blinding, but a whole fountain with felines was worth the effort.

Un beau et joyeux 14:e juillet 🇫🇷 ! A beautiful and happy Bastille day 🇫🇷! (c) Musée d’Orsay

🎓 Vacature: Postdoc Sociologie (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Bijna 4 jaar aan de slag met onderzoek én onderwijs binnen een fijne onderzoeksgroep? Dan is dit iets voor jou.👇

📢 Call for Special Issue Proposals 📢 PLC invites proposals for a special issue, focusing on a key political science theme relevant to the Low Countries, ideally connecting local developments to broader international or comparative debates. #OpenPublishing #Openaccess #DiamondOpenAccess 🧵

My department at Lund University recruits 3 Associate Senior Lecturers (BUL) Gender studies: lnkd.in/dPzNNC7G; Social anthropology: lnkd.in/deXFaPXf; Sociology: lnkd.in/dK5BnZxz. Positions correspond to tenure-track (50/50 research/teaching) w/h permanent employment after 4 yrs. Apply by 31 August!

I take science outreach seriously & participated to panel in 🇸🇪 abt. Where is democracy heading to at 2025 Malmö Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. We had an engaging conversation abt. anti-gender mobilization, rich billionaires who support it, & what engaged politicians, researchers & ordinary citizens can do to resist it.

This message from Rome Pride 2020 could not be more apt for today’s Budapest Pride 2025. In solidarity with the entire 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 community.

Glad midsommar 🌻! Hauskaa juhannusta 🌺!

Early this week, I welcomed to Lund researchers from 🇩🇪 , 🇷🇴 , 🇸🇪 & 🇬🇧 to explore European inter-imperial peripheries, benefiting from the conceptual insights of Manuela Boatcă’s keynote. I’m tired, but extremely satisfied after this generative intellectual exchange & projects to spring out of this

I am guest editing a special issue of the Political Studies Review to mark the United States’ 250th anniversary (semiquincentennial). Deadline for abstracts 1 September. Submissions and questions to [email protected]. Special issue calls (second item): journals.sagepub.com/page/psw/cal...

#SGED25 at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social we have the joke-peppered keynote of @kai-arzheimer.com who takes us down the memory lane mapping out A Quarter Century of Extremism & Democracy - Now What? #ecpr #polisky

Attending inaugural conference of the Standing Group of Extremism and Democracy New & Old Challenges of Populism & Radicalism @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social in London 🇬🇧. I get the chance to chair an extremely interesting section on Identities. More info about the event at: ecpr.eu/Events/322 #SGED25

We had two intense days at Elisefarm for research retreat w/h RJ research programme ”At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present”. We’ve read carefully & critically each others’ chapters on apocalyptic imaginaries for our coming book.

2025 re-run #Romania #presidentialelections results indicate that both candidates qualified to runoff are so-called anti-systemic: George #Simion, leads the far-right “suveranist” front; Nicușor #Dan, independent candidate, behind whose candidacy right-progressive mobilization has taken place.

#Romania #presidentialelections #alegeri exit polls (extremely unreliable as 50% of respondents refused to indicate whom they did vote w/h) seem to indicate #farright candidate #Simion qualified into runoffs while 2nd place is disputed b/w mainstream candidate #Antonescu independent candidate #Dan

May Day in solidarity ✊

We kick off the two-day workshop on the topic of ”Gendering militarization in Europe” w/h the keynote of @chrisagius13.bsky.social on ”Gendered inversions of militarization” & a super promising lineup of presenters & a couple of public-facing events as well

For those interested in PhD opportunities in Political Science, see these opportunities at Mid Sweden University.

Today in #Lund is an academic celebration & I have the privilege to be part of examining committee for this timely PhD thesis defence by Esether ML Calvo of her work on ”rhetorical responses of mainstream parties towards a radical right party”; generous opponent is @fghjorth.bsky.social.

Today’s view for the ”No-strings-attached writing session” w/h colleagues in my division. The ambition is to simply meet & write together for the first part of the day (breaks for tea & coffee refill always welcome). Excellent way to start the working week

Local elections in #Finland #Suomi w/h 50% votes counted seem to indicate a downward correction for #Orpo conservative #Kok #Saml & a significant loss for main coalition partner radical right populist #PerusS #Sannf #svenskayle

@manuelaboatca.bsky.social delivers the first keynote aptly titled Counter-Mapping as Method in Times of Asymmetric Ignorance of the inaugural iteration of NFTW at #Lunduniversity #feministresearch #globalsociology #KerstinHesselgrenprofessur

This is a nuanced contribution on the subject of how fragile democracy is in a context in which knowledge is undermined. Most of the commentaries pertain the Swedish case but arguably this could be extended to other settings as well.

CfP: Racialised Space and the Politics of Emotions! Workshop 6th June, Sheffield, UK and online Limited ECR travel bursaries available Please share widely! Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Any questions, contact me or @drashleec.bsky.social for further info

📢 New OA publication in European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG). Together with my brilliant colleague Iris B Segers I turn a critical & reflexive eye on the field of far-right studies, and look at the researchers themselves. 1/Polisky gendersky

A crisp Monday morning, barely just above freezing point. Maybe the sun will come up later on today.

Signs of spring in Lund

The updated USA Orwellian ”Newspeak” just dropped. Where are those brave ”free speech warriors” to defend science? Crickets (still allowed, not sure for how long)?!?

🌈#GenderingDemocracy No.21 🗣️ Far-right politicians around the world have mastered the art of epistemic warfare, threatening academic freedom. Iris B. Segers reflects on the challenges of feminist resistance 🫸 to a bizarre political reality rife with lies. #IWD2025 👉 bit.ly/4h9S2yL