Tamta Gelashvili
@tamtagelashvili.bsky.social
Researcher, Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) @crexuio.bsky.social | nationalism, far right, social movements, & methods and ethics
Join us for the first webinar of this academic year: @sabinedvolk.bsky.social will talk about ethnographic methods in researching the far right!
Audrey Gagnon@audreygagnon.bsky.social · 2w agoCANSES/@crexuio.bsky.social webinar series on Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics is back for another academic year! 🤩 STD for the first webinar on Sept 16, 11am-12(EDT)/5-6pm(CEST), featuring @sabinedvolk.bsky.social! Organized & moderated by @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social and yours truly!
- Nye funn: 150.000 nordmenn støtter høyreekstreme ideer. Les mer om hovedfunn fra vår nye bok "Høyreekstremisme i Norge etter 22. juli" i VG. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/n1...
Nye funn: 150.000 nordmenn støtter høyreekstreme ideer
Etter 22. juli skulle Norge ta et oppgjør med høyreekstremismen. Nye tall viser at holdningene lever videre 15 år senere.
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I dag er det fire år siden terrorangrepet under Oslo Pride. I denne kronikken (fra 2025) deler jeg og @oyvindbs.bsky.social nedslående funn fra vår studie om konsekvenser av angrepet for både direkte og indirekte berørte skeive i Norge: klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...
Alvorlige konsekvenser
I dag er det tre år siden det målrettede terrorangrepet mot skeive under Oslo Pride. Frem til nå har det vært mangel på kunnskap om konsekvensene av a...
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🛡️ New on RightNow! How can individual, community, and institutional strategies better protect researchers from online harassment? By @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social & @audreygagnon.bsky.social - read more: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
Individual, Community, and Institutional Strategies to Protect Researchers from Online Harassment - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
In today’s digital age, online harassment has become more common, and researchers are no exception. This particularly affects those who work on politicized or contested topics, especially after they a...
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For a reflection by @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social and me on how online harm to researchers can be prevented and mitigated, see this new chapter 👇
The rise of online harm | 16 | Individual, community, and institutiona
In an increasingly polarized and reactionary world, researchers are more and more likely to be the target of online harm. Faced with this reality and
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We do have a cover (by Ozan Soubois)! Edited with Hande Eslen-Ziya, with so many great contributions - including, here on BlueSky, @ariannarubi.bsky.social @norocel.bsky.social @debbieging.bsky.social @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social @audreygagnon.bsky.social
(Un)Silencing Academia in Times of Epistemic Conflicts: Navigating Online Violence
This volume tackles the pressing issue of online violence against academics, considering the diverse forms that cyberbullying and harassment can take, as well as their likely targets. Offering both th...
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📢 New article 🌟 👥 Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social and Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social (ISV) 🔎 How can institutions better support researchers? The case of extremism and terrorism research 📗 Open access in Qualitative Research doi.org/10.1177/1468...
Excited to share this new article co-authored with the amazing @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social on how institutions can foster safe organizational cultures and support researchers working on extremism & terrorism through safety tools and protocols doi.org/10.1177/1468...
How can institutions better support researchers? The case of extremism and terrorism research - Audrey Gagnon, Tamta Gelashvili, 2025
Research in certain fields of study may carry emotional and safety-related risks. For example, scholars in the field of extremism and terrorism often navigate p...
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"Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric has been a central element of the Georgian Dream’s anti-democratic turn towards the far right. How do anti-LGBTQ+ statements and policies help GD expand its grip on power, and why does this strategy work?" @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social on @boell.de www.boell.de/en/2025/04/1...
How Anti-LGBTQ+ Ideas Help the Georgian Dream Consolidate Power | Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric has been a central element of the Georgian Dream’s anti-democratic turn towards the far right. How do anti-LGBTQ+ statements and policies help GD expand its grip on power, and why...
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So excited to see this paper published! The brilliant @annanhelgoy.bsky.social and Ana Catalano Weeks on how mental load can reduce women's engagement in political and work life:
Ana Catalano Weeks@anacweeks.bsky.social · 2y agoHow does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵 1/9
Very excited to join this discussion on care and safety when researching the far right! Join us tomorrow here:
C-REX@crexuio.bsky.social · 2y agoDon't miss this week's C-REX/@reacpolrn.bsky.social/CASEI webinar: 'Care and safety when researching the far right' w/ @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social, Iris B. Segers, Kayla Preston & Luc S. Cousineau. Time and place: Jan. 16, 2025 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Online www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
On Friday, I defended my PhD. Thank you to @manesweisskircher.bsky.social and @lenkabustikova.bsky.social for being excellent opponents, and to everyone who supported me throughout this PhD!
Our webinar with @crexuio.bsky.social and CASEI will be back on 16th January with a session on care and safety when researching the far right from @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social, Iris B. Segers, Kayla Preston and Luc S. Cousineau. Sign up below! reacpol.net/webinar-seri...
Webinar series: The Ethics of Researching the Far Right - Reactionary Politics Research Network
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Then on to Oslo for meeting with friends & colleagues at @crexuio.bsky.social & this public event w Univ Oslo www.uio.no/english/abou... 2/
Explaining the rise of far-right ideology - University of Oslo
Join us when world-leading extremism researcher Cynthia Miller-Idriss explores how extremist ideologies continue to attract new followers in the U.S and around the world.
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Finally online! The article I have been most excited about, coauthored with Audrey Gagnon, on the benefits and challenges of researching the far right as a woman. Available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Published a bit later than I had hoped, but still: some angry words on #GeorgianDream|'s initiative "against pseudo-liberal propaganda" eurasianet.org/perspectives...
Perspectives: Unpacking the Georgian government’s understanding of “pseudo-liberal ideology”
Georgian Dream co-opting far-right ideas.
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💫 The call for the 4th ECPR Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’ is now open! The event will be held at C-REX, University of Oslo, 1–5 July 2024. Apply no later than 25 January 2024. @pietrocastellig.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social ecpr.eu/Events/261
Glad to see the conversation about ethics in research on the far right evolving. This recent commentary on care ethics by Iris B. Segers, @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social and Audrey Gagnon is highly recommended. Wish I had such solid reflection at hand when I started researching the far right years ago.
Intersectionality and care ethics in researching the far right
Close-up research on the far right comes with inherent challenges related to issues of power, justice, and ethics, which are often gendered and intersect with other axes of inequality, like race, e...
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Cannot recommend this summer school highly enough!
Andrea Pirro@andreapirro.it · 3y agoThe 4th edition of the ECPR Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’ is shaping up real nice. The call for applications will be out soon! Mark your calendars—the event will take place in Oslo, 1-5 July 2024. @ecpr.bsky.social @pietrocastellig.bsky.social
Incidentally, you might be interested in checking out this forthcoming volume I and many other great authors have contributed to: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152617387...
Manchester University Press - The ethics of researching the far right
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Finally online! This was a challenging paper to write, as the far right in 🇺🇦 has been so politicized by Russia. But for this same reason, it is maybe also the most important paper I have written, studying the actual movement to counter misconceptions around it: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🆕PUBLICATION ALERT To what extent and how do terrorist attacks influence public debates? What are the differences between public debates after extreme right and Islamist terrorist attacks? Very happy to see my single-authored paper out @JEPP #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/1350... Polisky🧵1/
Paper acceptance is a good excuse for my very first post here, right? Overly excited that the second article of my PhD, “Political Opportunities and Mobilization on the Far Right in Ukraine,” will soon appear in East European Politics! 🥳