Bolaji Balogun
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Lecturer @SOASanthro. Author: Race and the Colour-Line. Visiting scholar: @UEK_Krakow and @Columbia
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Aleks Lewicki
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It's been inspiring to engage with Anca Parvulescu's &
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social
's book 'Creolising the Modern': rather than doing a traditional review, I decided to extract the lessons the book offers to (still quite West-centric) scholarship on race & racism:
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The global contours of race and histories of racialisation in the East of Europe - Aleksandra Lewicki, 2025
In this book review, Aleksandra Lewicki engages with Anca Parvulescuās and Manuela BoatcÄās āCreolizing the Modern. Transylvania across Empiresā to extract key ...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02685809251392484d
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Rebecca Sear
2 months ago
"traces eugenicsā Western origins whilst examining its circulation across Central & Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Poland...demonstrates how eugenics profoundly shaped discourses on race & national belonging & advocates for a more inclusive understanding of its racialized global impacts"
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āRaciological thinkingā: Polandās narratives of race, eugenics, and nation-formation
Drawing on Polish state archives on eugenics, this article reveals the global dimensions of eugenic practices and the intersected narratives of cleansing, hygiene, and nation-formation in Poland. B...
https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2025.2570598
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Bolaji Balogun
SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology
2 months ago
š New open-access article by our own Bolaji Balogun: āRaciological thinkingā explores race, eugenics & nation-formation in Poland, challenging Western-centric narratives. Read here ā”ļø
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#Anthropology
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āRaciological thinkingā: Polandās narratives of race, eugenics, and nation-formation
Drawing on Polish state archives on eugenics, this article reveals the global dimensions of eugenic practices and the intersected narratives of cleansing, hygiene, and nation-formation in Poland. B...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1070289X.2025.2570598
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Bolaji Balogun
SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology
3 months ago
š£Our weekly departmental research seminar lineup is now live! This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA). Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood. Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.
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Confront-Eugenics
3 months ago
Check out this paper by
@bobi24.bsky.social
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#MariusTurda
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#colonialism
#eugenics
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#race
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#Central
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#Eastern
#Europe
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@gscjournal.bsky.social
Here is the link:
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Come and work with us at SOAS! An experienced Project Manager is needed for an ERC project on sport and religion in Africa -
vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/740734
5 months ago
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Manuela BoatcÄ
6 months ago
Until Friday, you can get our book (and all other
@cornellupress.bsky.social
books in print) at half price when ordering to the U.S. using the code below!!
add a skeleton here at some point
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It is great to see this new roundtable with colleagues published in the European History Quarterly
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European History Quarterly Roundtable: Histories of Race in Europe and Questions of Knowledge Production - Bolaji Balogun, Sarah Demart, Claire Eldridge, Chandra Frank, Camilla Hawthorne, Stefanie Mic...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02656914251328511
8 months ago
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Slava Ukraini!
10 months ago
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Looking forward to this with Cassandra Hartblay,
@ksvarnon.bsky.social
and Daria Krivonos
creeca.wisc.edu/event/bodies...
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Bodies in Focus: Body Matters & Liberation in East European and Eurasian Studies
This is the sixth and final installment in a six-part virtual event series that examines body matters within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. The body-as-method has emerged recentl...
https://creeca.wisc.edu/event/bodies-in-focus-body-matters-liberation-in-east-european-and-eurasian-studies/
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International Sociological Association (ISA)
11 months ago
The International Sociological Association (ISA) deeply mourns the tragic passing of Michael Burawoy, a leading sociologist, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, and the 17th President of ISA. Michael was fatally struck in a hit-and-run accident on February 3rd. His loss is immeasurable.
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What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding
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What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding?
As BRICS grows in both membership and global sway, its expansion comes with divisions among its members old and new on how to set the stage for a revised world order.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-brics-group-and-why-it-expanding
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Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia! I'm looking forward to kolacja wigilijna!
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