PSA Ethnopolitics Specialist Group
@psaethnopolitics.bsky.social
We are the Ethnopolitics Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social)
Convenors: @giudifontana.bsky.social and @lpcooley.bsky.social
Web: https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/ethnopolitics
Convenors: @giudifontana.bsky.social and @lpcooley.bsky.social
Web: https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/ethnopolitics
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Hello, Bluesky! We're the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Ethnopolitics Specialist Group. Thanks to everyone who participated in or came to our panels at the recent PSA Annual Conference in Birmingham. Expect to hear more from us here in the coming months. SG members, do tag us in relevant posts!
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3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh:
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Applications for the 3 PhD scholarships close at 23:59 GMT on Thursday 11th December 2025. Late applications cannot be accepted.Following a European Advanced Grant Award funded by UKRI to Professor An...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh:
edin.ac/4hVNTAL
edin.ac/4hVNTAL
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ICYMI: Umut Özkırımlı is working on a 4️⃣th edition of his seminal Theories of Nationalism and is crowdsourcing publications that should be covered in it. Do you know of any? Head to asen.ac.uk/theorieso... to submit them!
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
ICYMI: Umut Özkırımlı is working on a 4️⃣th edition of his seminal Theories of Nationalism and is crowdsourcing publications that should be covered in it. Do you know of any? Head to asen.ac.uk/theorieso... to submit them!
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One perhaps surprising consequence of the Anglo-Irish Agreement was the inclusion of an Irish language question in the 1991 NI census – and with it, worries about the prospect of a unionist boycott. Here's a thing I wrote about that. #censuspolitics #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
One perhaps surprising consequence of the Anglo-Irish Agreement was the inclusion of an Irish language question in the 1991 NI census – and with it, worries about the prospect of a unionist boycott. Here's a thing I wrote about that. #censuspolitics #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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*PSA PEOPLE* Meet our amazing trustees as we celebrate #TrusteesWeek. They are at the heart of our charity, governing the PSA and ensuring our successful strategy, stability, and charitable purpose for the future of #PoliticalStudies.
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*PSA PEOPLE* Meet our amazing trustees as we celebrate #TrusteesWeek. They are at the heart of our charity, governing the PSA and ensuring our successful strategy, stability, and charitable purpose for the future of #PoliticalStudies.
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📢 Great news: we have launched 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹'𝘀 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴!
If you are interested in #regionalism and #federalism, take a look at the first article and find out how you can contribute:
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If you are interested in #regionalism and #federalism, take a look at the first article and find out how you can contribute:
www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/blog/2025/sh...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
📢 Great news: we have launched 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹'𝘀 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴!
If you are interested in #regionalism and #federalism, take a look at the first article and find out how you can contribute:
www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/blog/2025/sh...
If you are interested in #regionalism and #federalism, take a look at the first article and find out how you can contribute:
www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/blog/2025/sh...
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*PSA26 Annual Conference* - taking place 30 March - 1 April 2026, Oxford.
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📆 Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025
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📍 Call for papers, registration fees, and FAQs information online.
📆 Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025
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September 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
*PSA26 Annual Conference* - taking place 30 March - 1 April 2026, Oxford.
📍 Call for papers, registration fees, and FAQs information online.
📆 Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025
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📍 Call for papers, registration fees, and FAQs information online.
📆 Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025
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We're offering three small grants of £130 each, to support research activities relevant to the SG. All members can apply but we'll prioritise early career scholars. Applications close 30 September. See the email sent to the Ethnopolitics JiscMail for full details, or contact us if you don't have it.
September 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We're offering three small grants of £130 each, to support research activities relevant to the SG. All members can apply but we'll prioritise early career scholars. Applications close 30 September. See the email sent to the Ethnopolitics JiscMail for full details, or contact us if you don't have it.
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*PSA FILM* Watch the third film in our NEW #Equality, #Diversity and #Inclusion (EDI) Video Series. In these short films, contributors reflect on what #EDI means to them, why it matters, and the challenges the discipline still faces.
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September 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
*PSA FILM* Watch the third film in our NEW #Equality, #Diversity and #Inclusion (EDI) Video Series. In these short films, contributors reflect on what #EDI means to them, why it matters, and the challenges the discipline still faces.
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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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September 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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Anything by Allison is worth reading (with Anna Drake, one of the first to write on deliberative consociation).
📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR 27(3)
'Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems' by Allison McCulloch.
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'Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems' by Allison McCulloch.
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September 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Anything by Allison is worth reading (with Anna Drake, one of the first to write on deliberative consociation).
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Hello Bluesky! We're @ipsa.org Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity. We're looking forward to sharing news from the RC and its members with you all here.
September 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hello Bluesky! We're @ipsa.org Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity. We're looking forward to sharing news from the RC and its members with you all here.
A reminder that this event is happening today at 14:00 UK time. Join us to hear from the authors of some fascinating new research about food and peace, filmic activism, cultural heritage damage during conflict, and more!
On 4 September, join @giudifontana.bsky.social and some of the authors of articles from the new special issue of @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension' for an online event launching the issue. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gove...
Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension
This webinar launches the Special Issue on Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension, published by Nationalism and Ethnic Politics in June 2025.
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September 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A reminder that this event is happening today at 14:00 UK time. Join us to hear from the authors of some fascinating new research about food and peace, filmic activism, cultural heritage damage during conflict, and more!
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Join us for the online launch of a special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension.' Expertly edited by @giudifontana.bsky.social with some great articles by @elisabethking.bsky.social @laiabalcells.bsky.social and many others! 4 Sept, 9am EST
On 4 September, join @giudifontana.bsky.social and some of the authors of articles from the new special issue of @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension' for an online event launching the issue. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gove...
Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension
This webinar launches the Special Issue on Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension, published by Nationalism and Ethnic Politics in June 2025.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Join us for the online launch of a special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension.' Expertly edited by @giudifontana.bsky.social with some great articles by @elisabethking.bsky.social @laiabalcells.bsky.social and many others! 4 Sept, 9am EST
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Join us on 4 September for the launch of this Special Issue on 'Conflict and Peace: the Cultural Dimension'. @laiabalcells.bsky.social will be discussing our article on the roles of museums in addressing Northern Ireland's violent past
On 4 September, join @giudifontana.bsky.social and some of the authors of articles from the new special issue of @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension' for an online event launching the issue. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gove...
Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension
This webinar launches the Special Issue on Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension, published by Nationalism and Ethnic Politics in June 2025.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
August 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Join us on 4 September for the launch of this Special Issue on 'Conflict and Peace: the Cultural Dimension'. @laiabalcells.bsky.social will be discussing our article on the roles of museums in addressing Northern Ireland's violent past
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Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity of @ipsa.org will be organising a colloquium hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026. See the RC14 website for further details. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...
rc14.ipsa.org - Bolzano/Bozen 2026
Image credit: Eurac Research | Marion Lafogler
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August 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity of @ipsa.org will be organising a colloquium hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026. See the RC14 website for further details. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...
Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity of @ipsa.org will be organising a colloquium hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026. See the RC14 website for further details. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...
rc14.ipsa.org - Bolzano/Bozen 2026
Image credit: Eurac Research | Marion Lafogler
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August 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity of @ipsa.org will be organising a colloquium hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026. See the RC14 website for further details. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...
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*PSA Specialist Groups* The PSA has 50 specialist groups dedicated to specific areas of #PoliticalStudies and #InternationalRelations.
Learn more and get involved with the groups.
Learn more and get involved with the groups.
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In "A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status", Serena Hussain asks what happens to residents in an annexed area, and how control is maintained over such areas - up #openaccess and #earlyview at onlinelibrary.wiley....
August 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In "A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status", Serena Hussain asks what happens to residents in an annexed area, and how control is maintained over such areas - up #openaccess and #earlyview at onlinelibrary.wiley....
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Since the lough is back in the (national) news, here's the blog version of my co-authored @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article from earlier in the year. #LoughNeagh
‘Lough Neagh is dying and it's dying in plain sight’.
Would a ‘rights of nature’ approach protect #LoughNeagh in #NorthernIreland, and aid the reversal of the damage to its ecology?
#Blog of an article by Laurence Cooley and Elliott Hill. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/are-the...
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Would a ‘rights of nature’ approach protect #LoughNeagh in #NorthernIreland, and aid the reversal of the damage to its ecology?
#Blog of an article by Laurence Cooley and Elliott Hill. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/are-the...
#Ukpol
Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?
Would a ‘rights of nature’ approach protect Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland, and aid the reversal of the damage to its ecology?
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August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Since the lough is back in the (national) news, here's the blog version of my co-authored @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article from earlier in the year. #LoughNeagh
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In his recent article, just attributed to the latest issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, PhD candidate Alexandre Raffoul explores conceptual issues in the typology of ethnic power-sharing – and proposes ways to "reassemble" the framework more productively: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unstable Concepts, Unresolved Controversies: Reassembling Power-Sharing, Consociationalism, and Centripetalism
After half a century of research, the literature on institutional design for ethnic conflict management is still in search of a scientific consensus. This article argues that underlying conceptual ...
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August 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In his recent article, just attributed to the latest issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, PhD candidate Alexandre Raffoul explores conceptual issues in the typology of ethnic power-sharing – and proposes ways to "reassemble" the framework more productively: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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*PSA26 Annual Conference* - Call for Papers is now open!
If you've got a question or query, check out the extensive FAQs.
Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025
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*PSA26 Annual Conference* - Call for Papers is now open!
If you've got a question or query, check out the extensive FAQs.
Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025
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🚨Another new open access #ARINS article:
‘Accommodating Territorial Contestation and National Constitutional Change: The Cases of Cyprus and Ireland’ — on EU approaches to conflict & potential reunification.
Read here📚:
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‘Accommodating Territorial Contestation and National Constitutional Change: The Cases of Cyprus and Ireland’ — on EU approaches to conflict & potential reunification.
Read here📚:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
Project MUSE - Accommodating Territorial Contestation and National Constitutional Change: The Cases of Cyprus and Ireland
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August 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🚨Another new open access #ARINS article:
‘Accommodating Territorial Contestation and National Constitutional Change: The Cases of Cyprus and Ireland’ — on EU approaches to conflict & potential reunification.
Read here📚:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
‘Accommodating Territorial Contestation and National Constitutional Change: The Cases of Cyprus and Ireland’ — on EU approaches to conflict & potential reunification.
Read here📚:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
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*PSA26 Annual Conference* 📢 Call for Papers.
Submission details online. If you've got a question or query, check out the FAQs.
📆 Proposal deadline 17 October 2025.
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#OpenCall #PoliticalStudies #ResearchPapers #Politics #PIR
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📆 Proposal deadline 17 October 2025.
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#OpenCall #PoliticalStudies #ResearchPapers #Politics #PIR
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August 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
*PSA26 Annual Conference* 📢 Call for Papers.
Submission details online. If you've got a question or query, check out the FAQs.
📆 Proposal deadline 17 October 2025.
➡️ buff.ly/oIgRfxQ
#OpenCall #PoliticalStudies #ResearchPapers #Politics #PIR
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📆 Proposal deadline 17 October 2025.
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#OpenCall #PoliticalStudies #ResearchPapers #Politics #PIR
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I missed this at the time, but some interesting analysis of NILT data from @katyhayward.bsky.social and @jonnyhhanson.bsky.social here, also summarised on QPOL. #LoughNeagh
August 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I missed this at the time, but some interesting analysis of NILT data from @katyhayward.bsky.social and @jonnyhhanson.bsky.social here, also summarised on QPOL. #LoughNeagh