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The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is an interdisciplinary, student-led research association. RT ≠ endorsement. https://linktr.ee/asenevents We live in a world of nations.

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ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 12d

Our next #earlyview article is 'Beyond Genocide, Ethnocide and Identicide: Russia's ‘Strategic Imperial Demographic Policy’ of Russifying Ukrainian Children' by Ayşegül Aydıngün, Valeriy Morkva, and İsmail Aydıngün and it's available #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 13d

Semir Dzebo writes on 'Unpacking Populist Secessionism: Elite Discourse and Mass Attitudes in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina' for our next #earlyview and #openaccess article, available to read at onlinelibrary.wiley....

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 14d

Gianfranco Pellegrino challenges the idea that states may exclude immigrants to protect national self-determination in today's #earlyview article, 'Immigrant Nations and the Limits of the Right to Exclude', available to read now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 15d

For today's #earlyview article, @mathildaakerlund.bsky.social writes on 'The Racialisation of Rape: A Far-Right Tool for Boundary-Creation Across Borders' - it's available to read #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 16d

@emreamasyali.bsky.social & Andrei Tarasov identify 3 types of nation-building in the post-Soviet space in today's #earlyview article, 'Nation-Building in the Wake of Empire: Identifying Patterns of Minority Policies in the Aftermath of Soviet Collapse' #openaccess @ onlinelibrary.wiley....

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 18d

#ASEN2026 will take place from 21st to 23rd April 2026 at the University of Edinburgh on the topic of 'nationalism, democracy, and freedom'. The call for papers will be published in earlier October - stay tuned!

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 19d

How do political framings of remembering the past shape contemporary attitudes? Hoerner & Rodon answer in 'The Impact of Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies and Politicians' Framings on Political Attitudes in Germany' at onlinelibrary.wiley.... #earlyview #openaccess

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 19d

ICYMI: @umutozkirimli.bsky.social is working on a fourth edition of his seminal Theories of Nationalism and is crowdsourcing publications that should be covered in it. Do you know of any? Head to asen.ac.uk/theorieso... to submit them!

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 20d

Isaac Iu looks at government framings of the 2019 Hong Kong protests in 'Two Nationalisms, One City: Official and Diasporic Framings of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests', our latest #earlyview article available at onlinelibrary.wiley.... - and it's #openaccess

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 20d

The September ASEN newsletter is out now at mailchi.mp/asen/sept...

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 21d

Do you know of any publications, including forthcoming publications, that would be relevant to an updated Theories of Nationalism? If you have any you would like to share, head on over to asen.ac.uk/theorieso...!
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ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 21d

This is where you come in. While Umut’s core research is largely complete, he wants to ensure this edition is as comprehensive and up-to-date as possible. ASEN is helping crowdsource as wide a base as possible of research, case studies, and perspectives from around the world.
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ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 21d

Twenty-five years on, Umut is working on a revised and expanded fourth edition. The new edition will be a fully-fledged textbook with new features such as Key Concepts and Case Study boxes.
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ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 21d

@umutozkirimli.bsky.social’s seminal work, Theories of Nationalism, has been a standard text for students of nationalism at all levels since its first edition in 2000.
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ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 21d

A fourth edition of Theories of Nationalism?
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ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 22d

'National Horizons of Ecological Thought: The Concepts of Sustainable Nation and Green Nationalism' by Gökberk Yücel, İlhan Bilici, and Yusuf Ziya Bölükbaşı is our next #earlyview article and it's available now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 23d

How have South Korean attitudes to North Korean defectors changed over time? Yuhang Si & Hsin-Che Wu investigate in 'National Identity in a Divided Peninsula: Analysis of South Korean Attitudes Towards North Korean Defectors', available #earlyview now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · 26d

We have a bit of a special #earlyview piece for today - Michael Billig and Michael Skey reflect on banal nationalism and responses to it, thirty years after Billig's seminal work. It's #openaccess and available now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · Sep 5

We were saddened to learn of the passing of Prof Jack Spence, who was the chair of ASEN's International Advisory Board, serving from 1991 to 2017. His successor and current IAB chair, remembers him at www.kcl.ac.uk/news/r....

Remembering Professor Jack Spence

We pay tribute to Professor Jack Spence, who passed away in August this year.

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yannick Dufresne, Alexis Bibeau-Gagnon, Jérémie Drouin, Adrien Cloutier, and Evelyne Brie's new research note, "Quebec National Symbolism and Its Effects on Political Attitudes", is available on #earlyview and #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are working on getting more papers published Open Access, but we're not there yet for all of them, I'm afraid :(

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · Sep 2

Earlier this year, Michael Mann gave the Gellner Lecture at our annual conference at @weareceu.bsky.social in Budapest on "Explaining the Industrial Revolution: From Agraria to Industria", now #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley.... (and you can see the lecture at www.youtube.com/watc...)

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · Sep 2

The coordinator is tempted to do a paper on ethnosymbolism and, erm, space elves

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ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Nezihe Muhiddin and the Struggle for Women’s Franchise. The Defeat of Feminism by Nationalism in Early Republican Turkey" by Barbara Dell’Abate Çelebi is on #earlyview now at onlinelibrary.wiley.... and it's #openaccess (and a really fascinating piece, too!)

ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · Sep 1

The last application window for enrolling in the Master's in Nationalism Studies at @ucm.es for the 2025-2026 academic year is open from today until 5 September. Scholarships are available. More information at

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