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Laura Luciani @drlauluciani.bsky.social · Jul 13

Presented my paper on the reconfiguration of authoritarianism in post-war Azerbaijan at #IPSA2025 in Seoul. Great wrap of conference season!

Laura Luciani @drlauluciani.bsky.social · Jun 19

In mezzo a tanti ottimi contributi, ci sono anch'io con un pezzo dal titolo "La trappola geopolitica" sui limiti del binarismo Occidente-Russia in Georgia.

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Laura Luciani @drlauluciani.bsky.social · Jun 19

Whose security does a 'geopolitical' European Union serve in Armenia, and how is this received by people on the ground? Happy and proud to see my contribution to the SI "Critical perspectives on the EU's global role" finally published in @jcms-eu.bsky.social 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Geopolitics, (In)security and Resilience. A Feminist Critique of the EU's Engagement in Armenia After the Second Nagorno‐Karabakh War

This article interrogates the EU's ‘geopolitical turn’ by examining its external engagement in Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drawing o...

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Yéléna Mac-Glandières @macglandieres.bsky.social · May 26

🛫 I've got a new research article out in Mobilities, as part of a special issue on the Caucasus (check it out!!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Title : "Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)"

Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)

This article examines the role that infrastructure and logistics have played as a method of authoritarian conflict management implemented by Azerbaijan after it regained control of most of the disp...

www.tandfonline.com

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Laura Luciani @drlauluciani.bsky.social · May 28

6/ The article is based on 30+ interviews I conducted in 2021-22 with Armenian women's rights defenders, feminist activists and scholars. It is the 4th and final output from my PhD thesis, which studied the politics of the EU's human rights promotion in the South Caucasus.

Laura Luciani @drlauluciani.bsky.social · May 28

5/ Third, by connecting the fight against domestic violence with campaigns against mining, I argue that women's insecurities are sustained by neoliberal and neocolonial agendas that cut across the EU-Russia binary.

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Laura Luciani @drlauluciani.bsky.social · May 28

4/ Second, I pay attention to how feminist activists expose and challenge gendered power structures in the EU's agenda through complaint, subversion and resistance.

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Laura Luciani @drlauluciani.bsky.social · May 28

3/ First, I examine the problematic logics behind EU interventions (conditionality and civil society funding) and the tensions they create for activists on the ground amid Russia-inspired anti-gender campaigns, Soviet legacies, and neoliberal hegemony.

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Laura Luciani @drlauluciani.bsky.social · May 28

2/ Over the past decade, the issue of domestic violence in Armenia became a geopolitical battleground between so-called "European values" and a "Eurasian family" model. This article deconstructs the geopolitical framing of gender struggles in three ways.

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Laura Luciani @drlauluciani.bsky.social · May 28

1/ My recently published article @ifjpglobal.bsky.social studies how feminist activists in #Armenia negotiate the European Union's interventions to combat domestic violence amidst competing pressures. A thread👇
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@giesugent.bsky.social @dfuturevub.bsky.social

European values, Eurasian family, or neither? A contrapuntal reading of the European Union’s agenda to combat domestic violence in Armenia

This article studies how feminist activists in Armenia negotiate the agenda of the European Union (EU) to combat domestic violence in a contested geopolitical environment. Drawing on post-socialist...

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Malte Breiding (he/him/his) @mbreiding.bsky.social · May 27

Happy to see my contribution to the @jcms-eu.bsky.social Special Issue “Towards Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union's Global Role” published.

doi.org/10.1111/jcms...

Global Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the European Union in Times of Dissensus Over LGBT Equality

In times of heightened dissensus over the liberal democratic order, normative theories of the EU need to adapt to be able to capture how the promotion and enforcement of values go hand in hand with t...

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Laura Luciani @drlauluciani.bsky.social · May 27

Had a packed week at #EUIA25: presented my work on EU (in)security in post-2020 Armenia (coming soon @jcms-eu.bsky.social -stay tuned!) & discussed brilliant papers by @dfuturevub.bsky.social colleagues. We also stood in solidarity with Gaza & against academic complicity in the ongoing genocide.

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Dimitris Bouris @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social · May 21

Don’t miss our 2 panels in #EUIA25! We’ll be sharing early findings from the forthcoming SI we've guest edited in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with @norafisheronar.bsky.social and @dhuber.bsky.social "Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the #EU’s role as a Global Actor". @aissr.bsky.social

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Vjosa Musliu @vjosamusliu.bsky.social · May 26

It was great to be part of the panel "Outsourced Empire? Questioning Norms and Values of EU External Relations" at #EUIA2025 with DFUTURE colleagues.

In times of genocide, we refused to carry on with “conference as usual", a small but necessary act of refusal against complicity.

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CEEShub @securityhub.ee · May 6

❗Our Call for Papers (Abstracts) is officially out! 1/2

👉Please follow the link below and click on the 'Call for Papers Open until 1 July 2025' hyperlink to fill out the information and upload your abstracts.

✨Call for Papers link: securityhub.ee/news/announc...

Announcing “Between Peripheries”: CEEShub’s Inaugural Conference - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub

Submit your abstract to “Between Peripheries,” a conference on CEE–Global South security, postcolonial IR, and critical peace studies.

securityhub.ee

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najmin kamilsoy @knecmin.bsky.social · Apr 29

Today, researcher & @charlesuni.cuni.cz PhD candidate Bahruz Samadov is spending 30th birthday behind bars in Azerbaijan, where critical scholarly work is criminalized, labeled as treason. There shld be more academic voices demanding Bahruz's freedom. #FreeBahruz

www.psapopulism.org/blog/news/fr...

Free Bahruz Samadov

International Academic Community Calls for the Release of Young Azerbaijani Scholar Bahruz Samadov

www.psapopulism.org

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · Apr 28

🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨

Karolina Kluczewska & @drlauluciani.bsky.social‬ unpack the framing of feminism in Eurasia

doi.org/10.1332/2515...
PoliSky GenderSky

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ASIAC Studies on Central Asia & Caucasus in Italy @asiacitalia.bsky.social · Apr 25

We are proud to share the CFP for ASIAC 2025📕: After last year's success, yet again at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. Theme: "Knowledge Production about Central Asia and the Caucasus". Please send papers, panels and from this year posters and visual contributions. www.asiac.net/eventi/xix-a...

XIX ASIAC annual conference – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 15-16-17 December 2025 – Call for panels and individual papers – ASIAC

On 15-17 December 2025, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice will host the annual conference of the Italian Association for the Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus (ASIAC).

www.asiac.net

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Laura Luciani @drlauluciani.bsky.social · Apr 25

Really enjoyed presenting our research w/Elisabed Gedevanishvili at the @europeamerica.bsky.social @leibniz-ios.de conference. We discussed how decoloniality is translated through cultural projects, the possibilities for queer solidarity & (weak) resistance in the Caucasus @giesugent.bsky.social