Carna Brkovic
@charnab.bsky.social
Professor @ Uni Mainz | Europeanization | humanitarianism | historical anthropology of socialism | surfing ambivalences for a living | new book: Realigning humanitarianism in the Balkans, Indiana UP | ERC CG Racial Socialism
https://carnabrkovic.net/
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Carna Brkovic
@charnab.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Proofs are ready and "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" (Indiana UP 2026) can be pre-ordered 🥂
iupress.org/978025307522...
iupress.org/978025307522...
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One further piece in the plague-puzzle I’ve been inadvertently building, showing how #18thC #plague policy implementation was negotiated to the tiniest detail when it came to the circulation of cows, but apparently less important when it came to people. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Urban Governance and Battling the “Evil of Contagion”. Measures Against the 1738–1739 Plague in Sibiu/Hermannstadt
PDF | On Dec 16, 2025, Oana Sorescu-Iudean published Urban Governance and Battling the “Evil of Contagion”. Measures Against the 1738–1739 Plague in Sibiu/Hermannstadt | Find, read and cite all the re...
www.researchgate.net
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
One further piece in the plague-puzzle I’ve been inadvertently building, showing how #18thC #plague policy implementation was negotiated to the tiniest detail when it came to the circulation of cows, but apparently less important when it came to people. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Ethnologia Europaea 55(2) is out! The special issue "Delayed and Displaced Gifts" explores the many sides of gifts and gifting
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
www.berghahnjournals.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Ethnologia Europaea 55(2) is out! The special issue "Delayed and Displaced Gifts" explores the many sides of gifts and gifting
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
Ethnologia Europaea 55(2) is out! The special issue "Delayed and Displaced Gifts" explores the many sides of gifts and gifting
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
www.berghahnjournals.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Ethnologia Europaea 55(2) is out! The special issue "Delayed and Displaced Gifts" explores the many sides of gifts and gifting
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
🔗🎁 Read open-access here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology
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If you’re excited by @danielsoar.bsky.social’s @lrb.co.uk review of Pynchon’s new novel, you’re going to want to follow our project #LiminalWater, the premise of which is that Rijeka (Fiume) is in fact the centre of the universe. chanse.org/liminalwater/
December 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
If you’re excited by @danielsoar.bsky.social’s @lrb.co.uk review of Pynchon’s new novel, you’re going to want to follow our project #LiminalWater, the premise of which is that Rijeka (Fiume) is in fact the centre of the universe. chanse.org/liminalwater/
A gem and one of only three YT recordings of the Piva Jazz Band
youtu.be/YmlBbxy8_F4?...
youtu.be/YmlBbxy8_F4?...
Centar za kulturu Berane PIVA JAZZ 31 03 2009 god
YouTube video by Fadil Krasnić
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A gem and one of only three YT recordings of the Piva Jazz Band
youtu.be/YmlBbxy8_F4?...
youtu.be/YmlBbxy8_F4?...
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Now under contract from @manchesterup.bsky.social: PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS on #Eurovision and its narratives of queer, national, European belonging in post-Cold-War Europe bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
The history and memory behind where we now are.
The history and memory behind where we now are.
‘Performing Queer Nations: the Eurovision Song Contest Since 1990’ is coming in 2027
In 1990, Toto Cutugno won the Eurovision Song Contest celebrating a future Europe integrated under the same sky, stars and ideals from the stage of a Zagreb that hoped for democracy. In 1997, Icela…
bakercatherine.wordpress.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Now under contract from @manchesterup.bsky.social: PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS on #Eurovision and its narratives of queer, national, European belonging in post-Cold-War Europe bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
The history and memory behind where we now are.
The history and memory behind where we now are.
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Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.
The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣
349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!
👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV
#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!
👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV
#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.
Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.
The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣
349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!
👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV
#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!
👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV
#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.
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✊ Each December, Yugoslavia held nationwide humanitarian campaigns in support of global liberation struggles.
📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
✊ Each December, Yugoslavia held nationwide humanitarian campaigns in support of global liberation struggles.
📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
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The original slavic stare: youtube.com/shorts/Y29tb...
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The original slavic stare: youtube.com/shorts/Y29tb...
The original slavic stare: youtube.com/shorts/Y29tb...
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The original slavic stare: youtube.com/shorts/Y29tb...
A group of MA students from the @unimainz.bsky.social travelled to the Red Cross archives in Geneva to study the everyday life of international organizations during the Cold War. The result has been published by @alameda.institute
alameda.institute/dossier/non-...
alameda.institute/dossier/non-...
Non-Aligned approaches to humanitarianism? Yugoslav interventions in the international Red Cross movement in the 1970s – ALAMEDA
alameda.institute
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A group of MA students from the @unimainz.bsky.social travelled to the Red Cross archives in Geneva to study the everyday life of international organizations during the Cold War. The result has been published by @alameda.institute
alameda.institute/dossier/non-...
alameda.institute/dossier/non-...
I enjoyed reading and reviewing Chelsi West Ohueri's book "Encountering Race in Albania. An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife" @leibniz-ios.de
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Chelsi West Ohueri: Encountering Race in Albania. An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife
Article Chelsi West Ohueri: Encountering Race in Albania. An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife was published on September 1, 2025 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 73,...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I enjoyed reading and reviewing Chelsi West Ohueri's book "Encountering Race in Albania. An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife" @leibniz-ios.de
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Exklusiv | In der Fördergeldaffäre um Ahmad Mansour springt ihm nun die Ethnologin Susanne Schröter publizistisch zur Seite. Sie gibt die neutrale Beobachterin.
Interne Dokumente zeigen jedoch: Auch sie sollte von den rund 9 Millionen Euro für Mansours Projekt profitieren. 1/x
Interne Dokumente zeigen jedoch: Auch sie sollte von den rund 9 Millionen Euro für Mansours Projekt profitieren. 1/x
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Exklusiv | In der Fördergeldaffäre um Ahmad Mansour springt ihm nun die Ethnologin Susanne Schröter publizistisch zur Seite. Sie gibt die neutrale Beobachterin.
Interne Dokumente zeigen jedoch: Auch sie sollte von den rund 9 Millionen Euro für Mansours Projekt profitieren. 1/x
Interne Dokumente zeigen jedoch: Auch sie sollte von den rund 9 Millionen Euro für Mansours Projekt profitieren. 1/x
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Proofs are ready and "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" (Indiana UP 2026) can be pre-ordered 🥂
iupress.org/978025307522...
iupress.org/978025307522...
October 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Proofs are ready and "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" (Indiana UP 2026) can be pre-ordered 🥂
iupress.org/978025307522...
iupress.org/978025307522...
2nd (3rd, 4th...) generation migrants are a policy fantasy. You either migrate across space - or you don't, in which case you are not a migrant.
October 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
2nd (3rd, 4th...) generation migrants are a policy fantasy. You either migrate across space - or you don't, in which case you are not a migrant.
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Hot off the press! 🚨 A new #OpenAccess entry on #Humanitarianism by @pedrosrlima.bsky.social & @malayfiroz.bsky.social is out now - check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.29164/25h...
#Anthropology #OA
🔗 doi.org/10.29164/25h...
#Anthropology #OA
Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism can be broadly understood as a concern with human suffering and a moral desire to alleviate it. It manifests not only through discrete acts of helping, but also through a set of practi...
doi.org
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Hot off the press! 🚨 A new #OpenAccess entry on #Humanitarianism by @pedrosrlima.bsky.social & @malayfiroz.bsky.social is out now - check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.29164/25h...
#Anthropology #OA
🔗 doi.org/10.29164/25h...
#Anthropology #OA
Es geht weiter...
taz.de/AfD-hetzt-ge...
taz.de/AfD-hetzt-ge...
AfD hetzt gegen Hochschulen: Angriff auf die Freiheit der Wissenschaft
Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.
taz.de
October 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Es geht weiter...
taz.de/AfD-hetzt-ge...
taz.de/AfD-hetzt-ge...
Proofs are ready and "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" (Indiana UP 2026) can be pre-ordered 🥂
iupress.org/978025307522...
iupress.org/978025307522...
October 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Proofs are ready and "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" (Indiana UP 2026) can be pre-ordered 🥂
iupress.org/978025307522...
iupress.org/978025307522...
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Genauso wie man den deutschen (deutschsprachigen) Sonderweg der Habilitation endlich aufgeben sollte, sollte man die Ausbeutung der Privatdozent*innen durch unentgeltliche Titellehre sein lassen. Sie ist ein Instrument der sozialen Auslese.
Ich habe unterschrieben. Unterschreib Du auch!
Ich habe unterschrieben. Unterschreib Du auch!
Der Brief und die Möglichkeit zur Unterschrift sind unter folgendem Link zu finden:
chng.it/VhcP5tDBBY
chng.it/VhcP5tDBBY
Diese Kampagne braucht deine Unterstützung
An die Bildungsministerkonferenz: Schluss mit dem Prekariat der Privatdozent:innen!
chng.it
October 7, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Genauso wie man den deutschen (deutschsprachigen) Sonderweg der Habilitation endlich aufgeben sollte, sollte man die Ausbeutung der Privatdozent*innen durch unentgeltliche Titellehre sein lassen. Sie ist ein Instrument der sozialen Auslese.
Ich habe unterschrieben. Unterschreib Du auch!
Ich habe unterschrieben. Unterschreib Du auch!
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Join in the #SIEF European Ethnology Transnational Syllabus Collective and send in your thoughts by 01st December 2025
www.siefhome.org/higher_ed/sy...
www.siefhome.org/higher_ed/sy...
www.siefhome.org
September 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Join in the #SIEF European Ethnology Transnational Syllabus Collective and send in your thoughts by 01st December 2025
www.siefhome.org/higher_ed/sy...
www.siefhome.org/higher_ed/sy...
Join in the #SIEF European Ethnology Transnational Syllabus Collective and send in your thoughts by 01st December 2025
www.siefhome.org/higher_ed/sy...
www.siefhome.org/higher_ed/sy...
www.siefhome.org
September 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Join in the #SIEF European Ethnology Transnational Syllabus Collective and send in your thoughts by 01st December 2025
www.siefhome.org/higher_ed/sy...
www.siefhome.org/higher_ed/sy...
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Here's academia.edu for you, folks. Quite sure this rubbish does not comply with the European GDPR.
Gonna download all my papers and move to Knowledge Commons hcommons.org #medievalsky #academia
Gonna download all my papers and move to Knowledge Commons hcommons.org #medievalsky #academia
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Here's academia.edu for you, folks. Quite sure this rubbish does not comply with the European GDPR.
Gonna download all my papers and move to Knowledge Commons hcommons.org #medievalsky #academia
Gonna download all my papers and move to Knowledge Commons hcommons.org #medievalsky #academia