That rare treat of finding your own book on a shelf at a Cărturești store. P.S. Look, @granttharward.bsky.social , our books are neighbors again - in Bucharest this time!

Cool recap of little-known facts that the brilliant team of the Uncommon Sense podcast unveils in dialogue with sociologists. Listen to the ones discussed here, but even better to all of them! Find mine, on Europe and its Caribbean borders, here: thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/unc...

Many thanks for the warm reception and the exceptionally rich discussion!

Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇 lnu.se/.../events/2...

External colonialism converging with four centuries of internal colonialism.

A great, bone-chilling (pardon the pun!) report on the treatment of Romanian workers in Dutch meat plants by Dia Radu, Anna Milovanovic, Job Doornhof. So many implications for #unequalEuropes, migrant racialization in West & East, and the divide & rule of fragmenting labor struggles!!

Call For Papers!: "Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", a conference at University of British Columbia from July 21-23, 2026. Please share with faculty and grad students! Details here: www.climateandsocietylab.com/call-for-pap...

At last I also got a hard copy of the @berlinerjournal.bsky.social article that @fabios.bsky.social & I co-authored! Happy to see that our maps & illustrations make sense in black-and-white, too, but you can check out the color original. Open Access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans. Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

Since we're apparently re-litigating the Mercator Projection again, I can't resist reposting this: foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/t...

And case no. 4, conflict studies via @richardstupart.com this time. Peer review managed to catch 2 out of 4 so far.

Update: A kind soul ran the whole chapter through a citation checker and came up with many non-existing references...

„Die Mehrheit der soziologischen Gemeinschaft in Deutschland schweigt zum Völkermord in Gaza – mit einigen Ausnahmen etwa von studentischen Initiativen. Wir sehen dieses Versagen als symptomatisch für das repressive Debattenklima in Deutschland und der deutschen Wissenschaft im Besonderen.“

„Als Sozialwissenschaftler:innen, die sich mit sozialen Verhältnissen, Ungleichheit und gesellschaftlichem Wandel beschäftigen, haben wir eine besondere Verantwortung, uns gegen diese Gewalt zu positionieren – auch da sie sich gezielt gegen Bildungseinrichtungen in Gaza richtet.“

Sociologists and social scientists in and from Germany support the suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) from the International Sociological Association (ISA). This is contrary to the position of the German Sociological Association (🇩🇪 ⬇️) drive.google.com/file/d/1RrXh...

Same thing here. A recent chapter references an article that I allegedly published in Sociological Review 68 (3) in 2020 - except I didn't. The title sounds like I could have written it, and also in part like another publication of mine, which is however on a different topic and not from 2020. 🤯

Statement by sociologists and social scientists in and from Germany on the suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) by the International Sociological Association and the position of the German Sociological Association👇 t.co/DwuSnkv9Uo

Schön.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

(10) We flag the entangled histories & political economic dimensions of racism & transphobia - drawing on the work of @manuelaboatca.bsky.social, Brett StLouis, Alyosxa Tudor, @anaivas.bsky.social, @aaronwinter.bsky.social, @aurelmondon.bsky.social @franamery.bsky.social, Darcy Leigh and others.

OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Was ein elendiges hin und her wegen ein paar reaktionären Hansels. Jetzt ist klar: Morgen wird umbenannt. Berlin bekommt die Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei...

“Die Rechtslage ist komplex” - Regierungssprech für “Wir sind keine Rassisten, aber…”?

Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

Web dossier on uneasy postcolonial spaces, with contributions on Latin America, Ireland, Goa, Palestine & the European East, initially published in 2013 in honor of Fernando Coronil, is now available for free download tinyurl.com/3bp6wky6. Thanks to Louise Link for invaluable work on the new layout!

📣 CFP: Rethinking Gender in Inter- & Transimperial Contexts 🗓 Jan 16–17, 2026 | Freiburg Explores how gender shaped power, identity & interaction between empires—beyond the metropole–periphery lens. 🔗 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve... #GenderHistory #Empire #Transimperial #GlobalHistory #CFP

"Staatsräson und Geschichtsbewusstsein" Da nun die Kampagne gegen Merz losgeht, da er Waffenlieferungen nach Israel einschränkte, sollte man die Hintergründe der Staatsräson kennen. Ich hab's hier aufgeschrieben. Das Bild ist aus einem Kommentar von Reichelt open.substack.com/pub/juergenz...

300+ academics at German universities have signed a declaration of conscientious objection refusing collaboration with complicit Israeli institutions and universities. Their action is inspired by the Swedish Uppsala Declaration. loom.ly/Rb9KlT8

you can donate to and volunteer for the HRF at our website: hindrajabfoundation.org/support-our-... And here is a link to donate to the Sameer Project which uses the money to purchase and supply aid directly to the people in Gaza: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

New call for applications for the Global Studies cohort of 2026! There's still time, but you can get an early start on your application & mark your calendars for our virtual info events about @gspunifreiburg.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de! Details below & here: tinyurl.com/4y2ra9p9

Just a short reminder for the public talk by Linda Martín Alcoff with the title "From Feminist Epistemology to Decolonial Epistemology" at the University of Freiburg tonight! 👉When? 6 August 2025, 18-20h 👉Where? HS 1098, Kollegiengebäude I

Habt ihr schon von der Uppsala Declaration gehört? Mit dieser erklären Wissenschaftler:innen in Deutschland aus Gewissensgründen nicht mit israelischen Institutionen zusammenzuarbeiten, die am Völkermord etc. beteiligt sind. Mehr als 270 haben bereits unterschrieben.

Very cool article! Thank you for bringing the mental maps of „heroic Europe“ in the West vs „epigonal Europe“ in #CEE into analyses of European constitutionalism so convincingly! #unequalEuropes

…hier gibt es nun auch das Video für alle, die nicht dabei waren oder sie nochmals nachhören möchten: videoportal.uni-freiburg.de/video/lehren...

Die Karibik als Labor der Moderne - nicht nur seit dem 16. Jh., sondern auch hinsichtlich der Entwicklung der Pille, für die in Puerto Rico Experimente ohne Einwilligung der betroffenen Frauen stattfanden - drei starben. Starker, verstörender Artikel von Steffi Malleier @katapultmagazin.bsky.social!

Gerade bei einem so unscharf formulierten Begriff wie dem der "Staatsräson" muss eine breite Debatte erlaubt sein. Schließlich wurde sie nie legislativ begründet und definiert. Ich habe dazu einiges in "Erinnerungskämpfe" (2023)👇 geschrieben (Zitate v Kiesewetter & Huber sind aus: shorturl.at/2JPVI)

New review of "Creolizing the Modern" @cornellupress.bsky.social by my long-time interlocutor and earlier co-author @giopicker.bsky.social is now online first in EJST, and we couldn't be happier about its main message, the inspiring critique & suggestions and the really heart-warming conclusions! 🙏🤗

Warum wir alle Migrant*innen sind. Ich hatte die Ehre, das inspirierende Buch "We Are All Migrants" von Jan Plamper zu rezensieren. Ein Mensch, der uns leider viel zu früh verlassen hat.

Historic!! Diplomat to be brought to the Belgian Court over the death of Patrice Lumumba!! "For the first time, the facts surrounding the assassination by a former colonial power of an African leader of decolonization will be subject to public and adversarial examination before a criminal court".

Interested students and researchers @uni-freiburg.de are warmly invited to join the Balzan-FRIAS Lecture by Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin), organized by Jürgen Osterhammel. 📅 25 July 2025, 16:15 | FRIAS seminar room 🔗https://uni-freiburg.de/frias/balzan-frias-lecture-sebastian-conrad/

Genial. Die Stadt Tübingen bietet das Deutschlandticket ihren Einwohnern für 45€ statt der regulären 58€ an und finanziert das durch die erhöhten Parkgebühren für SUVs. Eine tolle Idee, die bundesweit umgesetzt werden sollte❤️

Oh, das sind ja wir auf der Seite von transcript Verlag! Mehr zu unserem Buch, den Übersetzungen, bisherigen Rezensionen und Interviews sowie Podcasts hier: creolizingthemodern.com Wir freuen uns nun auf die Diskussion im deutschsprachigen Raum!

Manuela Boatcă ist Professorin für Soziologie, Anca Parvulescu Professorin für Anglistik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Zusammen haben sie jetzt das Buch „Die Kreolisierung der Moderne: Siebenbürgen zwischen Kolonialität und Interimperialität“ herausgebracht. 16/42

Our book now has a website! As it was getting hard to keep track of materials around "Creolizing the Modern" @cornellupress.bsky.social, we put them all in one place. Many thanks to Louise Link @uni-freiburg.de! We hope the overview is helpful & a possible teaching resource. creolizingthemodern.com

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

Happy about another generous review of our book, this time in the Slavic and East European Journal. Many thanks to Siobhán Seigne for carefully excavating of the many connections that brought Anca Parvulescu's & my work together before we even met! seej.org/issues/68.3....

Off to Rabat for the @isa-sociology.org World Forum that starts tomorrow. Since our Monday morning panel on #sociology and the politics of history appears differently in the online program depending on the search term, here is the correct version for those interested in joining us!