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Emre Amasyalı
@emreamasyali.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher for EthnicGoods at IBEI. Comparative Historical Sociology & Nationalism.
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@emreamasyali.bsky.social & Andrei Tarasov identify 3 types of nation-building in the post-Soviet space in today's #earlyview article, 'Nation-Building in the Wake of Empire: Identifying Patterns of Minority Policies in the Aftermath of Soviet Collapse' #openaccess @ onlinelibrary.wiley....
September 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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🚨 New open-access article out in Nations and Nationalism!

With Andrei Tarasov, I examine how post-Soviet states governed 67 minority groups in the 1990s using the @ethnicgoods.bsky.social NBP dataset.

Read the full open-access article here: doi.org/10.1111/nana...
Nation‐Building in the Wake of Empire: Identifying Patterns of Minority Policies in the Aftermath of Soviet Collapse
The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation-building strategies in post-Soviet states ...
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August 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Excited to be organizing this workshop with the ETHNICGOODS project:

📚 Textbooks, Identity & Conflict
🗓️ Nov 2025 | 📍 Sarajevo

We'll explore how textbooks shape identity, memory & reconciliation in divided societies.

Got a relevant project? Apply!

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📩 ethnicgoods@ibei.org
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📚 School textbooks are powerful political tools. They shape how societies remember the past, imagine their future, and understand their place in the world.

Join us in Sarajevo to discuss the role of textbooks in reflecting and reshaping contested #history. 1/2

#PoliticalScience #AcademicSky
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Sarajevo, BIH | Nov 2025 WORKSHOP: TEXTBOOKS, IDENTITY & CONFLICT How do school textbooks shape national identity, conflict narratives, and reconciliation in divided societies? Join us in Sarajevo for an interdisciplinary workshop exploring the role of educational materials in mediating political and social change. Apply by Sept 15
July 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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📄 This week our lead postdoc @emreamasyali.bsky.social presented an insightful paper on "Anachronism in Political Science: Value-Based, Conceptual, and Methodological", co-authored with Harris Mylonas, at @ibei.org's Methods and Inference research cluster. Looking forward to seeing it in print soon!
Anachronism in Political Science: Value-Based, Conceptual, and Methodological by Emre Amasyali & Harris Mylonas Scholars frequently impose contemporary concepts, moral judgments, and analytical frameworks onto historical contexts, leading to distorted interpretations of political identity, sovereignty, and state formation. This study demonstrates how anachronistic assumptions about group boundaries, identity salience, and ethnic diversity maps undermine empirical accuracy and theoretical validity. By critically engaging with recent scholarship, it argues that mitigating anachronism requires greater historical contextualization, methodological reflexivity, and a reconsideration of how political concepts evolve over time.
March 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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👋 #AcademicSky 🙂
We are building the FIRST group-level dataset on Nation-Building! Our dataset tracks #NationBuilding policies across ethnic & national lines since 1945.

It covers 5 key areas:
– education
– citizenship
– public identity
– constitutional law
– state violence

#Introduction #EduSky
February 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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We’re delighted to announce that EthnicGoods researcher, @emreamasyali.bsky.social, is featured in the latest edition of “Current Perspectives in Social Theory”, published by Emerald Global.

Find out more: www.emerald.com/insight/publ...
#Agency #SociologicalTheory #SocialTheory #FutureOfAgency
The Future of Agency Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol 41 EthnicGoods researcher, Emre Amasyalı, has published a series of articles co-authored with Axel van den Berg (McGill University), where they have critically examined the concept of “agency”—commonly used to describe actions perceived as independent of structural constraints. Their work questions both the theoretical foundations and empirical usage of agency in sociological analysis. (Sketch of a little puppet)
February 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM