Mina Baginova
@minabagin.bsky.social
Social anthropologist specializing in the intersection of social movements, protests, feminist mobilisations, gender, culture and politics.
Really happy to see that our volume is finally out with @uclpress.bsky.social. The result of MSCA-ITN FATIGUE project under the umbrella of @uclssees.bsky.social, edited by Richard Mole and Jan Kubik, the book is available in open access 👉🏻
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uclpress.co.uk/book/the-ana...
The Anatomy of Right-Wing Populism
Over the past two decades, populist politicians and parties have enjoyed remarkable success across the globe. The rise of right-wing populism is perhaps most noticeable in post-communist Europe, espec...
uclpress.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Really happy to see that our volume is finally out with @uclpress.bsky.social. The result of MSCA-ITN FATIGUE project under the umbrella of @uclssees.bsky.social, edited by Richard Mole and Jan Kubik, the book is available in open access 👉🏻
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-ana...
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-ana...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
With 4 million girls in the Nazi youth movement, 8 million women in Nazi associations, 1.9 million subscribers to her magazine, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink promoted reproductive duties as essential to national strength. It would be the equivalent of social media today.
With 4 million girls in the Nazi youth movement, 8 million women in Nazi associations, 1.9 million subscribers to her magazine, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink promoted reproductive duties as essential to national strength. It would be the equivalent of social media today.
From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
With 4 million girls in the Nazi youth movement, 8 million women in Nazi associations, 1.9 million subscribers to her magazine, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink promoted reproductive duties as essential to national strength. It would be the equivalent of social media today.
With 4 million girls in the Nazi youth movement, 8 million women in Nazi associations, 1.9 million subscribers to her magazine, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink promoted reproductive duties as essential to national strength. It would be the equivalent of social media today.
"The EPP is making a shameful alliance with the far right for their witch-hunt on NGOs".
The European Parliament voted today to establish a working group to probe EU funding of nongovernmental organizations, with the support of right-wing political groups.
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June 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"The EPP is making a shameful alliance with the far right for their witch-hunt on NGOs".
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My first contribution to @techpolicypress.bsky.social is out!
Platforms profit from silencing women, especially those in power.
I write about gendered disinformation as infrastructure:
www.techpolicy.press/gendered-dis...
#GenderedDisformation #Democracy #HumanRights #TechPolicy #AIEthics
Platforms profit from silencing women, especially those in power.
I write about gendered disinformation as infrastructure:
www.techpolicy.press/gendered-dis...
#GenderedDisformation #Democracy #HumanRights #TechPolicy #AIEthics
Gendered Disinformation as Infrastructure: How Tech Billionaires Shape Political Power | TechPolicy.Press
Tech billionaires not only shape public debate, but also define the very boundaries of who can occupy that space, writes Carine Roos.
www.techpolicy.press
May 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
My first contribution to @techpolicypress.bsky.social is out!
Platforms profit from silencing women, especially those in power.
I write about gendered disinformation as infrastructure:
www.techpolicy.press/gendered-dis...
#GenderedDisformation #Democracy #HumanRights #TechPolicy #AIEthics
Platforms profit from silencing women, especially those in power.
I write about gendered disinformation as infrastructure:
www.techpolicy.press/gendered-dis...
#GenderedDisformation #Democracy #HumanRights #TechPolicy #AIEthics
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✍️ Submit your manuscript to the Social Movement Studies journal for a Special Issue on Artificially Enabled Social Change!
⏰ Abstract deadline: 15 June 2025
Find out more: http://spr.ly/63325NtvBt
⏰ Abstract deadline: 15 June 2025
Find out more: http://spr.ly/63325NtvBt
Artificially Enabled Social Change?
Artificially Enabled Social Change?
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May 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
✍️ Submit your manuscript to the Social Movement Studies journal for a Special Issue on Artificially Enabled Social Change!
⏰ Abstract deadline: 15 June 2025
Find out more: http://spr.ly/63325NtvBt
⏰ Abstract deadline: 15 June 2025
Find out more: http://spr.ly/63325NtvBt
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On our 8th Palestine in Focus gathering, we will show the documentary Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019), directed by Abby Martin.
the event will take place on 6 May, 16:00. There will be opportunity to talk about the film afterwards, with drinks. More info and signup: iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/pa...
the event will take place on 6 May, 16:00. There will be opportunity to talk about the film afterwards, with drinks. More info and signup: iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/pa...
April 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
On our 8th Palestine in Focus gathering, we will show the documentary Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019), directed by Abby Martin.
the event will take place on 6 May, 16:00. There will be opportunity to talk about the film afterwards, with drinks. More info and signup: iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/pa...
the event will take place on 6 May, 16:00. There will be opportunity to talk about the film afterwards, with drinks. More info and signup: iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/pa...
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Russian occupation is not peace, but torture, murder, and oppression. « However, the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx. » www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Russian occupation is not peace, but torture, murder, and oppression. « However, the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx. » www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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What draws young people to far-right movements?
🎙️ In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast episode, host @armanc.bsky.social speaks with @agadarancia.bsky.social about her new book "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe 📚
🎧 Listen: newbooksnetwork.com/living-right-2
🎙️ In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast episode, host @armanc.bsky.social speaks with @agadarancia.bsky.social about her new book "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe 📚
🎧 Listen: newbooksnetwork.com/living-right-2
April 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
What draws young people to far-right movements?
🎙️ In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast episode, host @armanc.bsky.social speaks with @agadarancia.bsky.social about her new book "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe 📚
🎧 Listen: newbooksnetwork.com/living-right-2
🎙️ In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast episode, host @armanc.bsky.social speaks with @agadarancia.bsky.social about her new book "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe 📚
🎧 Listen: newbooksnetwork.com/living-right-2
The vibe is feminist mobilisation shutting down the annual ultra-conservative 'pro-life' march in Prague 🫶
denikalarm.cz/2025/04/odpu...
denikalarm.cz/2025/04/odpu...
Odpůrci interrupcí Prahou neprošli. Protestující zablokovali Pochod pro život
Prahou měl v sobotu odpoledne projít pochod za omezení dostupnosti interrupcí, který organizovalo Hnutí pro život. Zastánci práva žen na svobodnou volbu ho zablokovali.
denikalarm.cz
April 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The vibe is feminist mobilisation shutting down the annual ultra-conservative 'pro-life' march in Prague 🫶
denikalarm.cz/2025/04/odpu...
denikalarm.cz/2025/04/odpu...
Older but still relevant article by Joanna Rzepa for @theconversation.com : Czesław Miłosz - what the Polish poet tells us about the ‘westsplaining’ of eastern and central Europe.
tinyurl.com/45h927yx
tinyurl.com/45h927yx
Czesław Miłosz: what the Polish poet tells us about the ‘westsplaining’ of eastern and central Europe
The perceived “otherness” of eastern and central Europe is a complex phenomenon, which a new book on the Polish Nobel laureate’s oeuvre brings to light.
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April 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Older but still relevant article by Joanna Rzepa for @theconversation.com : Czesław Miłosz - what the Polish poet tells us about the ‘westsplaining’ of eastern and central Europe.
tinyurl.com/45h927yx
tinyurl.com/45h927yx
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Many thanks to Baltic Worlds and Elisa Satjukow for inviting me into a conversation about the shifts we have been putting in motion with the @associationruta.bsky.social for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation 1/n
April 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Many thanks to Baltic Worlds and Elisa Satjukow for inviting me into a conversation about the shifts we have been putting in motion with the @associationruta.bsky.social for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation 1/n
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Don’t believe the doubters: protest still has power | Jan-Werner Müller
Don’t believe the doubters: protest still has power | Jan-Werner Müller
Demonstrations rarely lead to immediate policy change. But they are essential to building community and long-term resistance
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Don’t believe the doubters: protest still has power | Jan-Werner Müller
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Hundreds of people in Türkiye, mainly students, are going on trial for protesting the detention of Istanbul’s mayor.
The rushed trials show Türkiye’s restrictions on the right to assembly are arbitrary and incompatible with a democratic society based on the rule of law.
The rushed trials show Türkiye’s restrictions on the right to assembly are arbitrary and incompatible with a democratic society based on the rule of law.
Türkiye: Students, Journalists on Trial for Protest
Türkiye is set to prosecute hundreds of people, mainly students, who protested the detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoglu in hasty, mass trials, scheduled to begin on April 18, 2015, Human Rights ...
www.hrw.org
April 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hundreds of people in Türkiye, mainly students, are going on trial for protesting the detention of Istanbul’s mayor.
The rushed trials show Türkiye’s restrictions on the right to assembly are arbitrary and incompatible with a democratic society based on the rule of law.
The rushed trials show Türkiye’s restrictions on the right to assembly are arbitrary and incompatible with a democratic society based on the rule of law.
Další zo série skvelých a dôležitých @voxpot.bsky.social podcastov od @jolanah.bsky.social 🫶
👀 Co následovalo po otevření „interrupční kliniky“ v 🇵🇱? Proč ani v Česku není situace dokonalá? Jaké příběhy se vypráví o ženách, které interrupci podstoupí? A říká Hnutí pro život pravdu?
Pusťte si Puls @jolanah.bsky.social s Evou Ptaškovou z Ciocia Czesia a ASAP.
www.voxpot.cz/podcasty/pul...
Pusťte si Puls @jolanah.bsky.social s Evou Ptaškovou z Ciocia Czesia a ASAP.
www.voxpot.cz/podcasty/pul...
PULS | „Holka, co si nedala pozor.“ Jaké stigma je za interrupcemi v Polsku i Česku? - VOXPOT: reportáže, které spojují Česko se světem
Liberální polský premiér Donald Tusk sliboval, že zruší dědictví předchozí konzervativní vlády a obnoví v Polsku právo na interrupci. To se ale nestalo a situace je v zemi stále stejně bezútěšná. Co n...
www.voxpot.cz
April 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Další zo série skvelých a dôležitých @voxpot.bsky.social podcastov od @jolanah.bsky.social 🫶
Great insight into the US pronatalist movement and its connections to the Trumpist administrative and the Big Tech.
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open.spotify.com/episode/0P3s...
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
Global News Podcast · Episode
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March 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Great insight into the US pronatalist movement and its connections to the Trumpist administrative and the Big Tech.
open.spotify.com/episode/0P3s...
open.spotify.com/episode/0P3s...
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Here we go again. The well-respected German daily "Süddeutsche Zeitung" has published yet another intellectually unsound and mean-spirited essay by Jürgen Habermas on Ukraine. I understand why some experts feel the impulse to write a point-by-point rebuttal—but I think it's a bad idea. Here's why:
Forget Habermas, read Victoria Amelina
The German “debate” on Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine feels like Ground Hog Day.
open.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Here we go again. The well-respected German daily "Süddeutsche Zeitung" has published yet another intellectually unsound and mean-spirited essay by Jürgen Habermas on Ukraine. I understand why some experts feel the impulse to write a point-by-point rebuttal—but I think it's a bad idea. Here's why:
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💥Orbán's regime intensifies Hungary’s crackdown on LGBTQ rights, submitting a bill to ban Budapest Pride & allow authorities to use facial recognition technology to identify participants, fining them up to $546 under the pretense of "child protection." Why? Orbán seeks support from far-right voters.
A new anti-LGBTQ+ bill in Hungary would ban Pride event and allow use of facial recognition software
Hungary’s ruling coalition is continuing its crackdown on the country’s LBGTQ+ community. Members on Monday submitted a bill to parliament that would ban the popular Budapest Pride event and allow aut...
apnews.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
💥Orbán's regime intensifies Hungary’s crackdown on LGBTQ rights, submitting a bill to ban Budapest Pride & allow authorities to use facial recognition technology to identify participants, fining them up to $546 under the pretense of "child protection." Why? Orbán seeks support from far-right voters.
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When my parents caught me listening to RadioFreeEurope, they rushed to shut the windows, so no one will hear it & report us. Now Trump/Musk are shutting down RFE, a source of truthful info for Belarus, Russia, Iran etc. Who really are the "crazy people"?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Czechs appeal for EU help with Radio Free Europe after Trump cuts
The US president signed an executive order on Friday to stop funding the American global broadcaster, following criticism from Elon Musk.
www.bbc.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When my parents caught me listening to RadioFreeEurope, they rushed to shut the windows, so no one will hear it & report us. Now Trump/Musk are shutting down RFE, a source of truthful info for Belarus, Russia, Iran etc. Who really are the "crazy people"?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Very heartening to see masses of youth engaged in pro-democracy protests, in Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Tbilisi, USA and so many other places. Authoritarianism works through trying to instill isolation and fear. Solidarity and critical resistance are powerful antidotes, and they are contagious.
March 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Very heartening to see masses of youth engaged in pro-democracy protests, in Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Tbilisi, USA and so many other places. Authoritarianism works through trying to instill isolation and fear. Solidarity and critical resistance are powerful antidotes, and they are contagious.
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The @ecpr.bsky.social Gender Study 2024 just came in. I am shocked by the numbers. Especially dramatic is the percentage of women authors published in ECPR-journals: 26% in 2024, compared to 35% in 2023. Please, don't try to fix the women, fix the @##$! system.
March 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The @ecpr.bsky.social Gender Study 2024 just came in. I am shocked by the numbers. Especially dramatic is the percentage of women authors published in ECPR-journals: 26% in 2024, compared to 35% in 2023. Please, don't try to fix the women, fix the @##$! system.
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Přílepek zákona týkající se „poradenství“ na těhotenských testech se vrátil do hry. Na návrhu má podíl i protipotratové Hnutí pro život. O co mu jde❓ Rozebíráme s Jaroslavem Hrochem ze Seznam Zpráv a socioložkou Evou Svatoňovou👇
Sněmovní stopa protipotratového hnutí. Jsou schopní lobbisté, říká expertka - Seznam Zprávy
Přílepek zákona týkající se informací na krabičkách těhotenských testů se vrací do hry. Poslankyně Romana Bělohlávková z KDU-ČSL přišla s novou verzí. Co o vzniku návrhu, na němž má otisk i protipotra...
www.seznamzpravy.cz
March 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Přílepek zákona týkající se „poradenství“ na těhotenských testech se vrátil do hry. Na návrhu má podíl i protipotratové Hnutí pro život. O co mu jde❓ Rozebíráme s Jaroslavem Hrochem ze Seznam Zpráv a socioložkou Evou Svatoňovou👇
Must-listen so skvelou @sva-eva.bsky.social o Hnutí pro život a anti-genderových stratégiách v Čechách.
Přílepek zákona týkající se „poradenství“ na těhotenských testech se vrátil do hry. Na návrhu má podíl i protipotratové Hnutí pro život. O co mu jde❓ Rozebíráme s Jaroslavem Hrochem ze Seznam Zpráv a socioložkou Evou Svatoňovou👇
Sněmovní stopa protipotratového hnutí. Jsou schopní lobbisté, říká expertka - Seznam Zprávy
Přílepek zákona týkající se informací na krabičkách těhotenských testů se vrací do hry. Poslankyně Romana Bělohlávková z KDU-ČSL přišla s novou verzí. Co o vzniku návrhu, na němž má otisk i protipotra...
www.seznamzpravy.cz
March 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Must-listen so skvelou @sva-eva.bsky.social o Hnutí pro život a anti-genderových stratégiách v Čechách.
THIS.
🗣️ "Illiberalism was once wrongly perceived to be specific to Eastern European politics. It is now clearer than ever that both East and West are being swept up in the same illiberal wave."
✍️ @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍️ @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
The myth of Eastern European illiberalism - EUROPP
Illiberalism was once perceived to be specific to Eastern European politics. It is now clear that both East and West are caught in the same illiberal wave.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
THIS.