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PSA Ethnopolitics Specialist Group @psaethnopolitics.bsky.social · 13d

We're offering three small grants of £130 each, to support research activities relevant to the SG. All members can apply but we'll prioritise early career scholars. Applications close 30 September. See the email sent to the Ethnopolitics JiscMail for full details, or contact us if you don't have it.

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 15d

*PSA FILM* Watch the third film in our NEW #Equality, #Diversity and #Inclusion (EDI) Video Series. In these short films, contributors reflect on what #EDI means to them, why it matters, and the challenges the discipline still faces.
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John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social · 16d

Good news that this edited volume has hit the shelves. Self-promotion klaxon: lovely to see the review quotes describe our chapter as "worth the price of the whole book": brill.com/display/book...

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Ian O'Flynn @delibnet.bsky.social · Sep 2

Anything by Allison is worth reading (with Anna Drake, one of the first to write on deliberative consociation).

BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · Sep 1

📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR 27(3)

'Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems' by Allison McCulloch.

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Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension

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IPSA RC14 Politics and Ethnicity @ipsarc14.bsky.social · 28d

Hello Bluesky! We're @ipsa.org Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity. We're looking forward to sharing news from the RC and its members with you all here.

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PSA Ethnopolitics Specialist Group @psaethnopolitics.bsky.social · Sep 4

A reminder that this event is happening today at 14:00 UK time. Join us to hear from the authors of some fascinating new research about food and peace, filmic activism, cultural heritage damage during conflict, and more!

PSA Ethnopolitics Specialist Group @psaethnopolitics.bsky.social · Jun 20

On 4 September, join @giudifontana.bsky.social and some of the authors of articles from the new special issue of @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension' for an online event launching the issue. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gove...

This webinar launches the Special Issue on Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension, published by Nationalism and Ethnic Politics in June 2025.

Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension

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Allison McCulloch @allimcculloch.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join us for the online launch of a special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension.' Expertly edited by @giudifontana.bsky.social with some great articles by @elisabethking.bsky.social @laiabalcells.bsky.social and many others! 4 Sept, 9am EST

PSA Ethnopolitics Specialist Group @psaethnopolitics.bsky.social · Jun 20

On 4 September, join @giudifontana.bsky.social and some of the authors of articles from the new special issue of @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension' for an online event launching the issue. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gove...

This webinar launches the Special Issue on Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension, published by Nationalism and Ethnic Politics in June 2025.

Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension

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Olwen Purdue @olwenpurdue.bsky.social · Aug 15

Join us on 4 September for the launch of this Special Issue on 'Conflict and Peace: the Cultural Dimension'. @laiabalcells.bsky.social will be discussing our article on the roles of museums in addressing Northern Ireland's violent past

PSA Ethnopolitics Specialist Group @psaethnopolitics.bsky.social · Jun 20

On 4 September, join @giudifontana.bsky.social and some of the authors of articles from the new special issue of @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension' for an online event launching the issue. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gove...

This webinar launches the Special Issue on Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension, published by Nationalism and Ethnic Politics in June 2025.

rc14.ipsa.org - Bolzano/Bozen 2026

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PSA Ethnopolitics Specialist Group @psaethnopolitics.bsky.social · Aug 28

Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity of @ipsa.org will be organising a colloquium hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026. See the RC14 website for further details. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...

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rc14.ipsa.org - Bolzano/Bozen 2026

PSA Ethnopolitics Specialist Group @psaethnopolitics.bsky.social · Aug 28

Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity of @ipsa.org will be organising a colloquium hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026. See the RC14 website for further details. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...

Image credit: Eurac Research | Marion Lafogler

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · Aug 28

*PSA Specialist Groups* The PSA has 50 specialist groups dedicated to specific areas of #PoliticalStudies and #InternationalRelations.

Learn more and get involved with the groups.

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ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · Aug 26

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....

Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?

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Laurence Cooley @lpcooley.bsky.social · Aug 26

Since the lough is back in the (national) news, here's the blog version of my co-authored @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article from earlier in the year. #LoughNeagh

Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · May 9

‘Lough Neagh is dying and it's dying in plain sight’.

Would a ‘rights of nature’ approach protect #LoughNeagh in #NorthernIreland, and aid the reversal of the damage to its ecology?

#Blog of an article by Laurence Cooley and Elliott Hill. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/are-the...

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Would a ‘rights of nature’ approach protect Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland, and aid the reversal of the damage to its ecology?

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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · Aug 22

In his recent article, just attributed to the latest issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, PhD candidate Alexandre Raffoul explores conceptual issues in the typology of ethnic power-sharing – and proposes ways to "reassemble" the framework more productively: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Unstable Concepts, Unresolved Controversies: Reassembling Power-Sharing, Consociationalism, and Centripetalism

After half a century of research, the literature on institutional design for ethnic conflict management is still in search of a scientific consensus. This article argues that underlying conceptual ...

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · Aug 22

*PSA26 Annual Conference* - Call for Papers is now open!
If you've got a question or query, check out the extensive FAQs.
Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025
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PSA26 FAQs and Additional Information | The Political Studies Association (PSA)

How can I stay up to date with announcements about PSA26? The dedicated webpage for PSA26 will include all the latest information, deadline dates and related links. PSA Members will also receive…

Project MUSE - Accommodating Territorial Contestation and National Constitutional Change: The Cases of Cyprus and Ireland

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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨Another new open access #ARINS article:
‘Accommodating Territorial Contestation and National Constitutional Change: The Cases of Cyprus and Ireland’ — on EU approaches to conflict & potential reunification.

Read here📚:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · Aug 13

*PSA26 Annual Conference* 📢 Call for Papers.
Submission details online. If you've got a question or query, check out the FAQs.
📆 Proposal deadline 17 October 2025.
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#OpenCall #PoliticalStudies #ResearchPapers #Politics #PIR

How can I stay up to date with announcements about PSA26? The dedicated webpage for PSA26 will include all the latest information, deadline dates and related links. PSA Members will also receive…

The unlikely slogan Sinn Féin might soon be using: Keep Northern Ireland

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Laurence Cooley @lpcooley.bsky.social · Aug 4

I missed this at the time, but some interesting analysis of NILT data from @katyhayward.bsky.social and @jonnyhhanson.bsky.social here, also summarised on QPOL. #LoughNeagh

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Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · Aug 3

Interesting piece on the evolving thinking by some in Sinn Fein on the ‘how do you solve a problem like Maria (or should that be Martha)?’ Q for Irish Unity - what, if anything, should be kept of the territorial identity, and governance, of N Ireland post-unification #stormont #devolution

Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social · Aug 3

There was a time when Sinn Féin campaigned under the slogans ‘No Return to Stormont’ and ‘Smash Stormont’.
Increasingly, modern Sinn Féin is inching towards a once-unthinkable slogan: Keep Northern Ireland.

There was a time when Sinn Féin campaigned under the slogans ‘No Return to Stormont’ and ‘Smash Stormont’.

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Valery Perry @valeryperry.bsky.social · Jul 24

The final part of Peter Lippman's six part series on environmental threats and civic activism in Bosnia & Herzegovina is up… It explores the issue through a number of rivers that are being destroyed, a huge loss in a country that has some of Europe's last wild rivers: lefteast.org/grassroots-r...

Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part VI: Two, Three, Many Rivers: The Open Veins of Central Bosnia - Lefteast

Editors’ note: This article is the last of a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. It seems that at every place in Bosnia-Herzegovina where ...

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · Aug 2

🌟PSA75🌟 This year marks 75 years of the PSA being the home of #PoliticalStudies. Since 1950 we have been advancing, supporting & promoting the global study of #politics and #InternationalRelations.
🎬 Watch this 3 minute film to learn more.

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ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · Aug 2

Why does power-sharing lead to peace in some cases but not others? Alexandre Wadih Raffoul investigates looking at #Burundi and #NorthernIreland in "Practicing Power-Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly", #earlyview and #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

BISCA PhD Studentships - University of Birmingham

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Tim Haughton @timhaughton.bsky.social · Aug 1

Know a potential PhD student interested in #democraticresilience, environmental politics & the Baltics? If so pls encourage them to check out this funded studentship & chance to work with my wonderful colleagues Licia Cianetti and Fiona Nunan. For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

PhD opportunities in Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA) at the University of Birmingham.