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Manuela Boatcă

@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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Romanian/German sociologist, Head of School of the Global Studies Program @UniFreiburg, writes about global inequalities, empire, race, citizenship & forgotten Europes https://tinyurl.com/wbt9wyrm

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

Creolizing the Modern Transylvania across Empires by Anca Parvulescu & Manuela Boatcă

Presenting the award-winning book

creolizingthemodern.com

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 4h

Vielen Dank euch für die Initiative, die Einladung und die tolle Zusammenarbeit! 🤗

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Neues @mittelweg36.bsky.social -Heft mit spannenden Beiträgen zum Oberthema "Pluralisierung der Aufklärung"!

Leon Wolff @wolffle.bsky.social · 1d

www.hamburger-edition.de/zeitschrift-...

Zur Pluralisierung der Aufklärung

»Wie soll man sich also eine plurale Aufklärung vorstellen? Die kurze und deshalb abstrakte Antwort: als eine eng verwobene Praxis, die gleichermaßen irritiert wie erhellt, affiziert wie analysiert – ...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 6d

Fantastisch, herzlichen Glückwunsch!

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Henning Melber @he-mel.bsky.social · 6d

Ausgerechnet heute dazu erschienen
unrast-verlag.de/produkt/der-...

Der lange Schatten des deutschen Kolonialismus – UNRAST VERLAG

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Kai Koddenbrock @kaikodden.bsky.social · 11d

So glad this finally happened. It took us too long and I hope this is only the beginning. 100.000 in the streets of Berlin to end Germany's complicity in the Gaza genocide. Thank you to the wonderful and courageous organizers, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and all the others!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14d

As the further details note, the 'sugar trade' referenced here was 'built on slavery'.

Call it by its name.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 14d

Nicht als Metapher für die Migrationspolitik missverstehen! 😎
www.n-tv.de/der_tag/Deut...

Deutschland erwartet beste Kartoffelernte seit 25 Jahren

Der Tag

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to present new research on the investment migration industry at REMESO, Linköpings universitet's Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society to scholars of migration with whom I have long been in dialogue. All welcome!
liu.se/en/event/man...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 17d

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!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 25d

Yikes, needs a trigger warning!

Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 28d

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...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 29d

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

Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 29d

We very happily welcomed @manuelaboatca.bsky.social to #Concurrences today, for a rousing seminar on Romani Europeans and the Challenge of Unthinkable Histories, underlining the necessity to understand the persistence of coloniality within Europe.

Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Sep 6

External colonialism converging with four centuries of internal colonialism.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Sep 4

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!!

balkandesk.bsky.social @balkandesk.bsky.social · Sep 3

Treated Like Meat: Romanians Suffer Violence, Broken Promises in Dutch Industry

Romanian migrants recruited by employment agencies often end up in some of the toughest and lowest-paid jobs in the Netherlands, most notably in the meat industry.

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...

www.climateandsocietylab.com

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Sep 1

Erinnert mich an diesen Post 😎.

Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Aug 29

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...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Aug 29

Both a plea and a bit of hope in this moving, inspiring award-winning documentary about the Aral Sea by Katerina Suvorova www.imdb.com/de/title/tt4...

Sea Tomorrow (2016) ⭐ 7.0 | Dokumentarfilm

1h 28m | PG

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Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · Aug 11

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