🎙️ In our latest podcast, @fratrupia.bsky.social and Marina Simakova discuss the ideological co-optation of Antonio Gramsci’s ideas by the contemporary (far-)right. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4a9jeuur

What do we do during the #genocide in #Gaza? I try to show EUrope's necropolitics and their reverberations in the #Balkans 👉 link.springer.com/book/9783031...

@amnesty.org Bulgaria urges everyone to take action against the urban eviction of Roma. Sign up this letter actionnetwork.org/letters/roma... to be sent to the Mayor of Sofia. Myy piece from sometimes ago, looking at BG's age-old, state-run biopolitics against Roma 👉 trafo.hypotheses.org/55511

My article is #openacess 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In "Otherness as a Commodity", @fratrupia.bsky.social investigates the phenomena of contemporary Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in Central and Eastern Europe by tracing out the genealogy of far-right tradition from the time of ‘global socialism’.

First #publication of #2025 on #young #Bosnian #Muslims and #Islamophobia in the West 👉https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683857.2024.2448353?src=exp-la

#2 fieldwork in Hora e Arbëreshëvet, #Sicily 🇮🇹 🇦🇱 In memory of Damiano Lo Greco, Arbëreshë paesant and pacifist, killed by Carabinieri - #Italy's gendarmerie - after taking to the streets with his comrades against #US #West stance on #Korea war, 1950. #Read more: postcomer.umk.pl?task=news&ac...

#1 fieldwork in Hora e Arbëreshëvet, #Sicily 🇮🇹 🇦🇱 At the municipality: a plaque to Nicola Barbato, Arbëreshë socialist who fought against the Mafia, supporting social justice and the struggle of the local peasantry to claim back the lands. #Read more: postcomer.umk.pl?task=news&ac...

Finally out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Written two years ago, but the unsettling events in the #Middle #East give this paper a new meaning and significance for #Central and #Southeast #Europe.

Packing my things for a new fieldwork in the Valley of Albanians. #arberesche #memory #postcomer 👉 read more: postcomer.umk.pl?task=news&ac...

🔥 Our first keynote speaker at the conference "Un/Doing Academia in time of Polycrisis" 👉 Submit your abstract here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and don't miss the chance to attend Prof. Boatcă's speech.

How my 2025 starts looking like. 🔗 www.routledge.com/Islamophobia...

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Trump is back, and his minions in Europe are simply mimicking him. I wrote this piece early this year, which is coming to end with more worries and upheavals than solutions. "Putinism became the flash point for making a global nightmare come true"

🏫 What's the role of academia and scholars in times of wars, genocide and unsettling events? 📢 Do postulates of solidarity matter among scholars and beyond academia? Submit your abstract anc ome to Toruń 🇵🇱 next springtime!