Bolaji Balogun
@bobi24.bsky.social
Lecturer @SOASanthro. Author: Race and the Colour-Line. Visiting scholar: @UEK_Krakow and @Columbia
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It's been inspiring to engage with Anca Parvulescu's & @manuelaboatca.bsky.social's book 'Creolising the Modern': rather than doing a traditional review, I decided to extract the lessons the book offers to (still quite West-centric) scholarship on race & racism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The global contours of race and histories of racialisation in the East of Europe - Aleksandra Lewicki, 2025
In this book review, Aleksandra Lewicki engages with Anca Parvulescu’s and Manuela Boatcā’s ‘Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania across Empires’ to extract key ...
journals.sagepub.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
It's been inspiring to engage with Anca Parvulescu's & @manuelaboatca.bsky.social's book 'Creolising the Modern': rather than doing a traditional review, I decided to extract the lessons the book offers to (still quite West-centric) scholarship on race & racism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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"traces eugenics’ Western origins whilst examining its circulation across Central & Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Poland...demonstrates how eugenics profoundly shaped discourses on race & national belonging & advocates for a more inclusive understanding of its racialized global impacts"
‘Raciological thinking’: Poland’s narratives of race, eugenics, and nation-formation
Drawing on Polish state archives on eugenics, this article reveals the global dimensions of eugenic practices and the intersected narratives of cleansing, hygiene, and nation-formation in Poland. B...
doi.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"traces eugenics’ Western origins whilst examining its circulation across Central & Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Poland...demonstrates how eugenics profoundly shaped discourses on race & national belonging & advocates for a more inclusive understanding of its racialized global impacts"
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📚 New open-access article by our own Bolaji Balogun:
‘Raciological thinking’ explores race, eugenics & nation-formation in Poland, challenging Western-centric narratives.
Read here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Anthropology #RaceStudies
‘Raciological thinking’ explores race, eugenics & nation-formation in Poland, challenging Western-centric narratives.
Read here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Anthropology #RaceStudies
‘Raciological thinking’: Poland’s narratives of race, eugenics, and nation-formation
Drawing on Polish state archives on eugenics, this article reveals the global dimensions of eugenic practices and the intersected narratives of cleansing, hygiene, and nation-formation in Poland. B...
www.tandfonline.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📚 New open-access article by our own Bolaji Balogun:
‘Raciological thinking’ explores race, eugenics & nation-formation in Poland, challenging Western-centric narratives.
Read here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Anthropology #RaceStudies
‘Raciological thinking’ explores race, eugenics & nation-formation in Poland, challenging Western-centric narratives.
Read here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Anthropology #RaceStudies
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📣Our weekly departmental research seminar lineup is now live!
This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA).
Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood.
Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.
This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA).
Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood.
Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.
September 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
📣Our weekly departmental research seminar lineup is now live!
This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA).
Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood.
Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.
This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA).
Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood.
Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.
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Check out this paper by @bobi24.bsky.social & #MariusTurda on #colonialism #eugenics & #race in #Central & #Eastern #Europe published by @gscjournal.bsky.social Here is the link:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Check out this paper by @bobi24.bsky.social & #MariusTurda on #colonialism #eugenics & #race in #Central & #Eastern #Europe published by @gscjournal.bsky.social Here is the link:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...
Come and work with us at SOAS! An experienced Project Manager is needed for an ERC project on sport and religion in Africa - vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/740734
July 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Come and work with us at SOAS! An experienced Project Manager is needed for an ERC project on sport and religion in Africa - vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/740734
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Until Friday, you can get our book (and all other @cornellupress.bsky.social books in print) at half price when ordering to the U.S. using the code below!!
June 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Until Friday, you can get our book (and all other @cornellupress.bsky.social books in print) at half price when ordering to the U.S. using the code below!!
It is great to see this new roundtable with colleagues published in the European History Quarterly journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
European History Quarterly Roundtable: Histories of Race in Europe and Questions of Knowledge Production - Bolaji Balogun, Sarah Demart, Claire Eldridge, Chandra Frank, Camilla Hawthorne, Stefanie Mic...
journals.sagepub.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It is great to see this new roundtable with colleagues published in the European History Quarterly journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Slava Ukraini!
a blue and yellow flag is waving in the wind against a blue sky
ALT: a blue and yellow flag is waving in the wind against a blue sky
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March 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Slava Ukraini!
Looking forward to this with Cassandra Hartblay, @ksvarnon.bsky.social and Daria Krivonos creeca.wisc.edu/event/bodies...
Bodies in Focus: Body Matters & Liberation in East European and Eurasian Studies
This is the sixth and final installment in a six-part virtual event series that examines body matters within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. The body-as-method has emerged recentl...
creeca.wisc.edu
February 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Looking forward to this with Cassandra Hartblay, @ksvarnon.bsky.social and Daria Krivonos creeca.wisc.edu/event/bodies...
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The International Sociological Association (ISA) deeply mourns the tragic passing of Michael Burawoy, a leading sociologist, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, and the 17th President of ISA. Michael was fatally struck in a hit-and-run accident on February 3rd. His loss is immeasurable.
February 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The International Sociological Association (ISA) deeply mourns the tragic passing of Michael Burawoy, a leading sociologist, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, and the 17th President of ISA. Michael was fatally struck in a hit-and-run accident on February 3rd. His loss is immeasurable.
What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding www.cfr.org/backgrounder...
What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding?
As BRICS grows in both membership and global sway, its expansion comes with divisions among its members old and new on how to set the stage for a revised world order.
www.cfr.org
January 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding www.cfr.org/backgrounder...
Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia! I'm looking forward to kolacja wigilijna!
December 24, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia! I'm looking forward to kolacja wigilijna!