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John Nagle
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Academic with an interest in divided cities, protest and power-sharing.

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John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social · 1d
Our intro to the 2026 Ethnopolitics special issue on Protest & Power-Sharing is out. It brings together great scholars & cases — Lebanon, Bosnia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Northern Ireland — on how protest & power-sharing interact. Grateful to contributors: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Contesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies
This introduction outlines an agenda for research on protest and power-sharing. Power-sharing scholarship has ignored grassroots contentious politics, viewing protest as a threat to the top-down mo...
www.tandfonline.com

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 10d
New article out now with @smokegatherer.bsky.social and Nasir Almasri on the Palestinian movement and demobilization. We look at the protests of 2021, the unity intifada, and their aftermath on the structure of the movement. Hopefully the 1st of a few articles on this topic

doi.org/10.3167/cont...

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John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social · Oct 8
"It's not a bubble; it's just frothy" (every finance bro, 2025)

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John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social · Sep 23
Good news that this edited volume has hit the shelves. Self-promotion klaxon: lovely to see the review quotes describe our chapter as "worth the price of the whole book": brill.com/display/book...
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John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social · Sep 4
Fantastic to see this highly important book on civic parties and divided societies by a really excellent scholar and author: www.mqup.ca/civic-partie...
Civic Parties in Divided Societies | McGill-Queen’s University Press
McGill-Queen’s University Press
www.mqup.ca

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Nations and Nationalism @nationsnationalism.bsky.social · Jul 26
John Nagle looks at ideational frames justifying irredentist claims in our next #earlyview article, "Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands & Causes & the National Family" (and neatly sums up the 3 frames in the title!). It's #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

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John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social · Jun 18
Financial Times article on upcoming Kneecap trial: www.ft.com/content/8346...
Belfast rap group Kneecap defiant ahead of UK terrorism hearing
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara, due in Westminster Magistrates’ Court over alleged Hizbollah flag incident
www.ft.com

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John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social · Jun 13
Al Jazeera article on Ballymena riots: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
Why have anti-immigration riots broken out in Northern Ireland?
Anti-immigrant riots began in Ballymena, but economic grievances may not be enough to explain the phenomenon.
www.aljazeera.com

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John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social · Jun 9
My new open access article on power-sharing: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The end of consociational power-sharing? Its causes and what can Be done
Consociational power-sharing has been described as ‘hegemonic’ as the international community’s preferred institutional framework for ending intrastate conflicts. Consociationalism’s dominance is i...
www.tandfonline.com

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John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social · May 22
Enjoyed reading this wonderfully rich account of street art in postwar Beirut: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A war of colors: Graffiti and street art in postwar Beirut
Published in Politics, Religion & Ideology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com

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John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social · May 22
All thanks and credit to @profmabon.bsky.social for this excellent article on how Bahrain's regime seeks to to use space to try&manage and crush dissent
intlspectator.bsky.social The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · May 22
⚠️New #openaccessarticle online!

🛡️Space, #Security and #SovereignPower: The Case of #Bahrain

🔍 How does Bahrain’s regime use —physical and social— space in the securitisation process? Find out more here: shorturl.at/YH62c

✒️ @profmabon.bsky.social & @johnnagle1.bsky.social

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · May 22
⚠️New #openaccessarticle online!

🛡️Space, #Security and #SovereignPower: The Case of #Bahrain

🔍 How does Bahrain’s regime use —physical and social— space in the securitisation process? Find out more here: shorturl.at/YH62c

✒️ @profmabon.bsky.social & @johnnagle1.bsky.social

Reposted by John Nagle, Élise Féron, Jennifer Thomson

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · May 1
She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social
Book cover with sculpture made out of yellow lego

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John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social · Feb 25
My new article in Nations&Nationalism identifies the ideational content of irredentist frames in a range of cased, including Russia/Ukraine, Croatia/Herceg-Bosna, Armenia.Nagorno-Karabakh: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family
Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the numb...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com