It's been a pleasure to work on this and be part of such an amazing team!
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It's been a pleasure to work on this and be part of such an amazing team!
Download it today 4 free: Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space. Hidden Connection, ed. by Roman Kuhar & Adriana Zaharijevic!
Bragging rights: endorsements by Judith Butler, @ericfassin.bsky.social, Ruth Wodak & @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social :)
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Generative A.I. This class helps you to be a better writer and thinker. Generative AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, and other platforms) is neither writing nor thinking. Any use of Al in this class (whether to write, brainstorm, outline, or summarize) will be considered a violation of academic integrity. It undermines your intellectual development, for one: AI content is often inaccurate or hallucinatory and is always boring, banal, and average. This is by design, as generative Al works by predicting the most obvious or basic sequencing of words. Good writingwriting that is persuasive, powerful, lively, funny, surprising, rousing, insightful, transformative, provocative-requires human work. Human creativity is weird and variable and uneven, but it holds the capacity for growth, revelation, empathy, and brilliance. We urge you not to abandon the glorious experiential potential of human messiness and transformation for the tedium of robot sentences. One further reason to abjure generative Al, especially in a class on environmental literature: in addition to its counterproductivity to your work as a writer and thinker, Al is enormously environmentally destructive.
Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:
Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI
A corollary to this principle is that finding a single hallucinated citation should lead to an automatic rejection. Automatic. This should be a matter of policy.
And this is one of easier AI-related problems for our journals!
Journal editors: I suggest manually clicking on DOI links in the references section of submitted manuscripts. You may be surprised by what you see.
Gen AI has lots of uses, and one of them is generating fraudulent citations.
The US government is now targeting anyone applying for a H-1b visa that have worked on "activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others."
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
For some reasons, @eppgroup.bsky.social has decided to emulate Orbanβs autocratic playbook and target civil society actors. This comes at a time where EPP AFCO Chair previously did his best to normalise fake judges and anti-rule of law pseudo βexpertsβ
@saskiabr.bsky.social and I wrote in @foreignpolicy.com about the dismantling of gender equality architecture in U.S. foreign policy, including offices that were created more than six decades ago with bipartisan consensus. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...
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Timely keynote by Donatella della Porta @ipsa.org : moral panic as a mechanism of repression of academic freedom.
2020 Polish Const. Tribunal imposes near-total abortion ban.
2022 U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Today Germany delays Const. Court appointment after anti-abortion groups target pro-choice nominee.
Abortion rights under attack - court by court, country by country.
p.dw.com/p/4xJLb
Indeed, measures similar to Reform's Trump-style book bans for children have already been found in breach of ECHR rights to freedom of expression - www.ilga-europe.org/news/europea...
Does higher state capacity go together with lower risk of democratic breakdown? Many political scientists certainly believe so!
Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
Our Element is out! π
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target womenβs and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in peopleβs attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
A very important book. Iβll be putting on my reading lists
With @sarahbush.bsky.social & @laurenrprather.bsky.social we document the rise of low-quality election monitors who legitimate host elections regardless of fraud & show that authoritarian-led regional IOs--esp. those anchored by Russia--have pioneered the tactic
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The autocrat needs enemies. Great, short explainer by @pepinneff.bsky.social
Checking in from parental leave to share my latest paper with @carnegiedcg.bsky.social!
What's behind the contemporary anti-gender backlash? How does it manifest across different countries and regions? And why has it been difficult to mount an effective response?
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Gender conflict subtly but powerfully shaped South Koreaβs election.
βοΈCristΓ³bal Rovira Kaltwasser examines how far-right actors harness anti-feminist rhetoric to mobilize voters, resist the expansion of rights, and contest the very meaning of democracy.
Read it π: tinyurl.com/8mbkfumm
The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration.
My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...
This is a very interesting observational paper for those working on gendered dynamics of far-right, descriptive rep & femonationalism
Does women's descriptive rep. lower anti-gender discourse among far-right? No, it *increases* it (according to parl speech data 2009-2023)
doi.org/10.1177/1465...
@politico.eu: "The bill says threats to national sovereignty include influencing public opinion, promoting democratic debate, or challenging state-defined values like Christian culture and traditional family roles."
Ecem NazlΔ± ΓΓ§ok (@ecprgender.bsky.social) explores how student protests in Turkey, Serbia, and Georgia reflect more than isolated unrest β they reveal a transnational wave of political mourning π, democratic erosion π, and Gen Z-led resistance β.
β‘οΈ bit.ly/4d9s8uC
Graph showing 97 'ayes' on the left hand side and 363 'noes' on the right hand side.
Some rare good news for trans people β the transphobic amendment to the Data Bill was defeated by a large margin. It would have forced trans people to out themselves virtually daily, putting people's safety and dignity at risk, so it's great to see MPs reject it comprehensively.
Is Ernst Fraenkelβs dual state theory a useful template for making sense of Trumpβs assault on the rule of law?
WILLIAM SCHEUERMAN on what the theory might have gotten wrong by presuming that capitalism and economic actors favor legal predictability.
verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as...