Gela Merabishvili
@gmerabishv.bsky.social
Political geography postdoc at KU Leuven
Research: borders/territory, security and conflicts
Current project: EU in the Black Sea https://research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/project/3E241158
Research: borders/territory, security and conflicts
Current project: EU in the Black Sea https://research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/project/3E241158
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"what radicalised you?"
Nothing. Wanting equal human rights and dignity for all people, wanting everybody to be able to afford food and healthcare, wanting people to have control over their lives and careers isn't radical.
It's the other side that's radical.
Nothing. Wanting equal human rights and dignity for all people, wanting everybody to be able to afford food and healthcare, wanting people to have control over their lives and careers isn't radical.
It's the other side that's radical.
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"what radicalised you?"
Nothing. Wanting equal human rights and dignity for all people, wanting everybody to be able to afford food and healthcare, wanting people to have control over their lives and careers isn't radical.
It's the other side that's radical.
Nothing. Wanting equal human rights and dignity for all people, wanting everybody to be able to afford food and healthcare, wanting people to have control over their lives and careers isn't radical.
It's the other side that's radical.
A Finnish border town economically affected by the closure of the border with Russia: "Whatever its future, Imatra won’t build itself around Russia again. 'Russian money was easy, but it left us with services oversized for the town. The easy money is gone.'”
archive.vn/T6KHW
archive.vn/T6KHW
November 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A Finnish border town economically affected by the closure of the border with Russia: "Whatever its future, Imatra won’t build itself around Russia again. 'Russian money was easy, but it left us with services oversized for the town. The easy money is gone.'”
archive.vn/T6KHW
archive.vn/T6KHW
Today at KU Leuven, Karst Berkenbosch @berkenboschk.bsky.social presented his PhD research on everyday geopolitics in the Gulf of Saint Malo. The research explores territorial issues in the local fishing industry after Brexit.
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today at KU Leuven, Karst Berkenbosch @berkenboschk.bsky.social presented his PhD research on everyday geopolitics in the Gulf of Saint Malo. The research explores territorial issues in the local fishing industry after Brexit.
Euro-patriotism?
November 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Euro-patriotism?
This is a beautiful photo-video essay, heart-wrenching and heart-warming at the same time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2e...
Ukraine's frontline photographer: this is not just another assignment | Documentary
YouTube video by The Guardian
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is a beautiful photo-video essay, heart-wrenching and heart-warming at the same time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2e...
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Cosign every bit of this essay from my UCI Philosophy colleague Anastasia Berg on what's lost cognitively -- and democratically -- when AI deprives students of the chance to work through complicated ideas with language.
Opinion | A.I. Threatens Our Ability to Understand the World
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Cosign every bit of this essay from my UCI Philosophy colleague Anastasia Berg on what's lost cognitively -- and democratically -- when AI deprives students of the chance to work through complicated ideas with language.
Reposted by Gela Merabishvili
"The way you treat us is the way you’ll be treated. This is for Mzia [Amaglobeli]."
Tamar Lortkipanidze, detained after climbing onto a police car on October 22.
Charged with violence and assault on a police vehicle, causing damage estimated at 3,300 GEL. She faces up to seven years in prison.
Tamar Lortkipanidze, detained after climbing onto a police car on October 22.
Charged with violence and assault on a police vehicle, causing damage estimated at 3,300 GEL. She faces up to seven years in prison.
October 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"The way you treat us is the way you’ll be treated. This is for Mzia [Amaglobeli]."
Tamar Lortkipanidze, detained after climbing onto a police car on October 22.
Charged with violence and assault on a police vehicle, causing damage estimated at 3,300 GEL. She faces up to seven years in prison.
Tamar Lortkipanidze, detained after climbing onto a police car on October 22.
Charged with violence and assault on a police vehicle, causing damage estimated at 3,300 GEL. She faces up to seven years in prison.
Reposted by Gela Merabishvili
Postdoctoral Researcher Performative Politics in Catalonia #ECPRMemberJobs
🎓 PhD in Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Geography, Conflict Studies, Development Studies, or similar
🇧🇪 Ghent University
⌛ Friday 31 October
buff.ly/oLuoNST
#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
🎓 PhD in Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Geography, Conflict Studies, Development Studies, or similar
🇧🇪 Ghent University
⌛ Friday 31 October
buff.ly/oLuoNST
#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
Postdoctoral Researcher Performative Politics in Catalonia
Postdoctoral Researcher Performative Politics in Catalonia
buff.ly
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Postdoctoral Researcher Performative Politics in Catalonia #ECPRMemberJobs
🎓 PhD in Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Geography, Conflict Studies, Development Studies, or similar
🇧🇪 Ghent University
⌛ Friday 31 October
buff.ly/oLuoNST
#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
🎓 PhD in Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Geography, Conflict Studies, Development Studies, or similar
🇧🇪 Ghent University
⌛ Friday 31 October
buff.ly/oLuoNST
#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
Metaphors we live by
October 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Metaphors we live by
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10 days in jail for 22-year-old Tsira — for standing on the road for 25 seconds, just 40 cm off the sidewalk.
A sixth journalist, Tsira Zhvania, working on TV Formula's social media, was just arrested.
October 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
10 days in jail for 22-year-old Tsira — for standing on the road for 25 seconds, just 40 cm off the sidewalk.
real(estate)politik
October 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
real(estate)politik
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The closer a country lies to Russia, the greater the chance that its people see the Kremlin as a top threat facing Europe — but that doesn't mean the EU is viewed as a savior.
The closer to Russia the greater the fear, opinion poll finds
A YouGov survey finds a rift in how EU nations perceive security and their general reluctance to rearm under Brussels’ supervision.
www.politico.eu
October 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The closer a country lies to Russia, the greater the chance that its people see the Kremlin as a top threat facing Europe — but that doesn't mean the EU is viewed as a savior.
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Just submitted my third publication (🤞) on soccer and politics, this one co-authored with my graduate student Nicolas Roulier.
Should be part of a special World Cup forum of the journal Communication and Cultural/Critical Studies.
Should be part of a special World Cup forum of the journal Communication and Cultural/Critical Studies.
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just submitted my third publication (🤞) on soccer and politics, this one co-authored with my graduate student Nicolas Roulier.
Should be part of a special World Cup forum of the journal Communication and Cultural/Critical Studies.
Should be part of a special World Cup forum of the journal Communication and Cultural/Critical Studies.
Problematic maps and cartographic anxieties
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
China seizes 60,000 maps over 'mislabelled' Taiwan
The maps also omitted "important islands", the source of competing claims between Beijing and its neighbours.
www.bbc.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Problematic maps and cartographic anxieties
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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JUST IN: at least 9 people were arrested this morning, and it seems like in all cases their homes wer stormed very early in the morning by the Special Tasks forces.
Activist Mariam Mekantsishvili who has a 6-year-old daughter is among them. 1/
Activist Mariam Mekantsishvili who has a 6-year-old daughter is among them. 1/
October 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
JUST IN: at least 9 people were arrested this morning, and it seems like in all cases their homes wer stormed very early in the morning by the Special Tasks forces.
Activist Mariam Mekantsishvili who has a 6-year-old daughter is among them. 1/
Activist Mariam Mekantsishvili who has a 6-year-old daughter is among them. 1/
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2/ The cousin of another detained person, Simon Makharadze, said that police “arrested him like he was a terrorist, pointing guns at a 4-year-old child.” “The child said, ‘Not me,’ crying,” Makharadze’s cousin added.
October 17, 2025 at 6:49 AM
2/ The cousin of another detained person, Simon Makharadze, said that police “arrested him like he was a terrorist, pointing guns at a 4-year-old child.” “The child said, ‘Not me,’ crying,” Makharadze’s cousin added.
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I reviewed Darya Tsymbalyuk's soul-crushing yet vital book "Ecocide in Ukraine," my latest for @kyivindependent.com.
kyivindependent.com/new-book-exp...
kyivindependent.com/new-book-exp...
New book exposes Russia’s ecocide as a war against Ukraine’s land – and memory
When Russia destroyed Ukraine’s Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam in June 2023, unleashing catastrophic floods across the country’s south, it seemed like such a blatant act of environmental and humanitarian ...
kyivindependent.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I reviewed Darya Tsymbalyuk's soul-crushing yet vital book "Ecocide in Ukraine," my latest for @kyivindependent.com.
kyivindependent.com/new-book-exp...
kyivindependent.com/new-book-exp...
"the future of constitutional democracy in the United States depends on shifting power to the legislative branch".
#NoKings
#NoKings
October 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"the future of constitutional democracy in the United States depends on shifting power to the legislative branch".
#NoKings
#NoKings
white billionaire's burden
Musk claims that his right wing propaganda house of mirrors is "saving Western Civilization." The MAGA propagandists on the streets of Portland who are getting boosted by his algorithm claim they're "saving Portland" from imaginary Communists. It's all so stupid. bsky.app/profile/karl...
October 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM
white billionaire's burden
Essential reading on Ivanishvili
by Stephen Jones and Gabriel Chubinidze
www.cacianalyst.org/resources/Iv...
by Stephen Jones and Gabriel Chubinidze
www.cacianalyst.org/resources/Iv...
www.cacianalyst.org
September 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Essential reading on Ivanishvili
by Stephen Jones and Gabriel Chubinidze
www.cacianalyst.org/resources/Iv...
by Stephen Jones and Gabriel Chubinidze
www.cacianalyst.org/resources/Iv...
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Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Charles R Butcher, co-author of “Before Colonization: Non-Western States and Systems in the Nineteenth Century” @columbiaup.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...
September 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Charles R Butcher, co-author of “Before Colonization: Non-Western States and Systems in the Nineteenth Century” @columbiaup.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...
This is happening because the regime has criminalized almost all forms of peaceful protest. You have to either go big or go home. No middle ground anymore.
Georgians a few months ago: stop speaking of a revolution, stay disciplined in demands and methods.
Georgians now: whoever says anything other than a revolution is a traitor!
Georgians now: whoever says anything other than a revolution is a traitor!
September 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is happening because the regime has criminalized almost all forms of peaceful protest. You have to either go big or go home. No middle ground anymore.