Our next #earlyview article is 'Beyond Genocide, Ethnocide and Identicide: Russia's ‘Strategic Imperial Demographic Policy’ of Russifying Ukrainian Children' by Ayşegül Aydıngün, Valeriy Morkva, and İsmail Aydıngün and it's available #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Semir Dzebo writes on 'Unpacking Populist Secessionism: Elite Discourse and Mass Attitudes in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina' for our next #earlyview and #openaccess article, available to read at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Gianfranco Pellegrino challenges the idea that states may exclude immigrants to protect national self-determination in today's #earlyview article, 'Immigrant Nations and the Limits of the Right to Exclude', available to read now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

For today's #earlyview article, @mathildaakerlund.bsky.social writes on 'The Racialisation of Rape: A Far-Right Tool for Boundary-Creation Across Borders' - it's available to read #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

@emreamasyali.bsky.social & Andrei Tarasov identify 3 types of nation-building in the post-Soviet space in today's #earlyview article, 'Nation-Building in the Wake of Empire: Identifying Patterns of Minority Policies in the Aftermath of Soviet Collapse' #openaccess @ onlinelibrary.wiley....

#ASEN2026 will take place from 21st to 23rd April 2026 at the University of Edinburgh on the topic of 'nationalism, democracy, and freedom'. The call for papers will be published in earlier October - stay tuned!

How do political framings of remembering the past shape contemporary attitudes? Hoerner & Rodon answer in 'The Impact of Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies and Politicians' Framings on Political Attitudes in Germany' at onlinelibrary.wiley.... #earlyview #openaccess

ICYMI: @umutozkirimli.bsky.social is working on a fourth edition of his seminal Theories of Nationalism and is crowdsourcing publications that should be covered in it. Do you know of any? Head to asen.ac.uk/theorieso... to submit them!

Isaac Iu looks at government framings of the 2019 Hong Kong protests in 'Two Nationalisms, One City: Official and Diasporic Framings of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests', our latest #earlyview article available at onlinelibrary.wiley....#earlyview- and it's #openaccess

The September ASEN newsletter is out now at mailchi.mp/asen/sept...

A fourth edition of Theories of Nationalism? 1/5

'National Horizons of Ecological Thought: The Concepts of Sustainable Nation and Green Nationalism' by Gökberk Yücel, İlhan Bilici, and Yusuf Ziya Bölükbaşı is our next #earlyview article and it's available now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

How have South Korean attitudes to North Korean defectors changed over time? Yuhang Si & Hsin-Che Wu investigate in 'National Identity in a Divided Peninsula: Analysis of South Korean Attitudes Towards North Korean Defectors', available #earlyview now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

We have a bit of a special #earlyview piece for today - Michael Billig and Michael Skey reflect on banal nationalism and responses to it, thirty years after Billig's seminal work. It's #openaccess and available now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

We were saddened to learn of the passing of Prof Jack Spence, who was the chair of ASEN's International Advisory Board, serving from 1991 to 2017. His successor and current IAB chair, remembers him at www.kcl.ac.uk/news/r....

Yannick Dufresne, Alexis Bibeau-Gagnon, Jérémie Drouin, Adrien Cloutier, and Evelyne Brie's new research note, "Quebec National Symbolism and Its Effects on Political Attitudes", is available on #earlyview and #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Earlier this year, Michael Mann gave the Gellner Lecture at our annual conference at @weareceu.bsky.social in Budapest on "Explaining the Industrial Revolution: From Agraria to Industria", now #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley.... (and you can see the lecture at www.youtube.com/watc...#openaccess

The coordinator is tempted to do a paper on ethnosymbolism and, erm, space elves

"Nezihe Muhiddin and the Struggle for Women’s Franchise. The Defeat of Feminism by Nationalism in Early Republican Turkey" by Barbara Dell’Abate Çelebi is on #earlyview now at onlinelibrary.wiley....#earlyviewand it's #openaccess (and a really fascinating piece, too!)

The last application window for enrolling in the Master's in Nationalism Studies at @ucm.es for the 2025-2026 academic year is open from today until 5 September. Scholarships are available. More information at

A quick personal note from the coordinator. This month marks five years since I joined ASEN. I feel really lucky to have this job - it's lots of fun, and I work with great colleagues who have been supportive of me during some harder personal times. 1/4

How is nationalism learned within educational institutions? Lejla Voloder discusses in "Education and Learning in Studies of Nationalism: Anderson and Weber in Focus", available #openaccess and on #earlyview now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

A simple question with a rather harder answer - "How Old Is the Serbian Nation? Conceptual Analysis of Ethno-National Terms in the Works of the First Serbian Writers 1199–1235" by Jovo Bakić is our latest #earlyview article, available now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Check out Jean Yu-Chen Tseng and Wen-Hsuan Tsai's new article, "Archaeological Nationalism in Contemporary China and the Official Construction of Ancient Chinese History", on #earlyview now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

"Economic Dependencies and Nationalist Divergences: Public Versus Private Sector Employment and Beyond in Corsican Separatist Nationalism" by Durukan Imrie-Kuzu and Saliha Metinsoy is on #earlyview and #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Why do some members of an ethnic group support ethnic group rights but not others? Oner Yigit finds out in "Explaining Variation in Support for Ethnic Group Rights: The Role of Forced Displacement & Conflict Proximity", #earlyview and #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....#earlyview

The last application window for enrolling in the Master's in Nationalism Studies at @ucm.es for the 2025-2026 academic year will be open between 1 and 5 September. Scholarships are available. More information at

In "A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status", Serena Hussain asks what happens to residents in an annexed area, and how control is maintained over such areas - up #openaccess and #earlyview at onlinelibrary.wiley....

@andrew-whitehead.bsky.social and @profsamperry.bsky.social find a link between Christian nationalism & votes for Trump in 2024 in "Christian Nationalism and the Vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential Election: A State-Level Analysis", #earlyview & #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Our next #earlyview article is "National Colonialism: Nation-State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan" by Benham Amini and it's available now #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Why has Biafran separatism revived in Nigeria? "Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self-Determination in Nigeria" by Promise Frank Ejiofor investigates at onlinelibrary.wiley.... #earlyview #openaccess

How does linguistic relativity affect liberal nationalism? Rhianwen Daniel's #earlyview article, "Liberal Nationalism and the Objectivity of National Culture: A Linguistic Relativity-Based Reassessment", investigates - it's ready to read #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

"Constructing Eco-Responsible National Identities Through Collective Memory: Settler and Māori Histories of Environmental Change in Aotearoa New Zealand" by Olli Hellmann is our latest #earlyview article, and it's #openaccess at

"How Do Nationalist Leaders Respond to International Human Rights Criticisms?" Seung-Whan Choi finds out in our latest #earlyview article, available now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

How do nationalist leaders balance national demands with supra-national currency? Nicola Nones investigates in her #openaccess and #earlyview article, "European Identity and the Euro in Kosovo", available now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

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....#IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties,#earlyview#openaccess2

Gurpreet Mahajan argues multiculturalism offers the best framework for shared community in "Confronting Polarization: The Indispensability of Multicultural Inclusivity" in our themed section, #IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties onlinelibrary.wiley....#IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties#earlyview

Geoffrey Brahm Levey's article, "Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture", is next in our themed section on #IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties. It's on #earlyview and #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

We continue our themed section on #IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties with Tariq Modood on developing a multicultural national identity in "Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation", available on #earlyview and #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

@tamardewaal.bsky.social looks at the future roles of multiculturalism in the latest #earlyview article for our themed section on #IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties, "Democratic Equality in a Populist Anti-Multicultural Era" - it's #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

"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....

"Perceptions of Diversity: “Multicultural Values” and Living Well Together" by Lori G. Beamann is the next article in our themed section on #IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties - it's on #earlyview and #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

ASEN vice-president @dafnoukos.bsky.social shares her research on why people vote for the far right at TEDxVitoriaGasteiz www.youtube.com/watc...

Jeff Spinner-Halev examines "The Politics of Multicultural Integration in the United States" in the next article in our themed section on #IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties, available on #earlyview at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Next in our #IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties themed section, Riva Kastoryano looks at "Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization", available #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Is multiculturalism responsible for the current socio-political polarization in liberal democracies? Does it undermine and fragment the national narrative? 1/4

Does a dance embody a nation? Wojciech Klimczyk and Tomasz Nowak look at the polonaise danced at high school proms in "Kinetic Polishness: A Sociopolitical History of the Polonaise", available now on #earlyview at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Our next #earlyview article is "‘Liberation’ of ‘Younger Brothers’ or Genocide of Subhumans? Genocidal Discourses on Ukrainians in Putin's Regime" by Martin Laryš, available #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

We have a special symposium on Carmichael, D'Auria, and Roshwald's new 'Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism' with reviews from Eric Storm and John Breuilly and responses from the authors. This fascinating exchange is #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

"Can Social Identity Theory Address the Measurement Tangle in Survey-Based National Identity Research?" Matthias Mader and @marleneanna.bsky.social answer the question they pose in our next #earlyview article, available #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....