A closed door event that we organise to discuss the latest process between the PKK and the state. Stay tuned for what will come next: repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/a-process...
Jan Yasin Sunca
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Political Sociology & IR @ulbruxelles.bsky.social #TheStateless #DemocraticConfederalism #DecolonialPolitics
Call for Papers Workshop on the coloniality of the modern state 🗓️ 12-13 November 2026 📍Université Libre de Bruxelles Deadline: 15 May 2026 Limited funding may be available to support travel & accommodation costs for participants sans institutional support. repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state - REPI - Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale
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CfP is out for our workshop in November. Deadline for submissions is May 15. Hope to see many of you in Brussels! “Coloniality of the modern state” repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state - REPI - Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale
This call for papers seeks contributions that engage with the following central questions: Can the modern state function as an instrument of decolonization? Or, as Audre Lorde suggested, can the master’s tools ever dismantle the master’s house? What can we learn from decoloniality as plural horizons of liberation, beyonde state-seeking naitonalisms?
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CfP is out for our workshop in November. Deadline for submissions is in mid May. Hope to see you there! repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon... @sciencepoulb.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state - REPI - Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale
This call for papers seeks contributions that engage with the following central questions: Can the modern state function as an instrument of decolonization? Or, as Audre Lorde suggested, can the master’s tools ever dismantle the master’s house? What can we learn from decoloniality as plural horizons of liberation, beyonde state-seeking naitonalisms?
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[Out] "The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power" New article out by Jan Yasin Sunca, chargé de recherche FNRS à SciencePo ULB (REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale), in Political and Legal Anthropology Review. polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...
The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power
Emergent Conversation 24 This essay is part of the series Kurdistan(s): Repression, Resistance, and the Fight for Survival, PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 24 By Jan Yasin Sunca This essay is de…
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New peiece: "The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power" I compare the PKK and FARC—the first of its kind. Part of PoLAR's special issue, edited by @adnancelik.bsky.social and @denizyonucu.bsky.social, patiently. 🙏 thank you!. 1/ polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...
The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power
Emergent Conversation 24 This essay is part of the series Kurdistan(s): Repression, Resistance, and the Fight for Survival, PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 24 By Jan Yasin Sunca This essay is de…
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L’État belge a retiré la protection internationale de Mohammed Khatib. Génocide en Palestine, politicide en dehors de la Palestine. Alors, quelle option reste-t-il pour les Palestinien·nes ? www.lesoir.be/691887/artic...
Le leader de l’organisation pro-palestinienne Samidoun déchu de son statut de réfugié
Mohammed Khatib était sous le coup d’une procédure de révision de sa protection internationale. Ce Palestinien arrivé en Belgique il y a quinze ans est la figure de Samidoun, une association dans le v...
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At the InnPeace Roundtable, @jansun.bsky.social used South (Iraqi) Kurdistan and Rojava to show how modern nation-states map the world as a battlefield shaped by colonial violence, urging peace beyond the state through plural, autonomy-based coexistence free from domination.
A chapter that I wrote on anti-colonial struggles and the Universtiy of Rojava: Decolonizing university is not merely a discursive rhetoric but a fundamental component of an overall anti-colonial struggle. If you need a copy, let me know. Link: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
El viernes a las 12:00 h (hora mexicana) voy a hablar sobre el auge de la tecno-oligarquía y los debates sobre la soberanía digital. La presentación se podrá ver por Zoom. agenda.colmex.mx/Actividad/45...
Je me demande si la Belgique, comme une bonne partie des pays européens, n’est pas contrôlée par un « troisième pays » — en l’occurrence, la Turquie — en matière de droits fondamentaux. 1/3 www.rtbf.be/article/droi...
Droit de séjour menacé pour l'activiste féministe Marie Gilow : des personnalités, dont les frères Dardenne, se mobilisent
C’est en septembre 2024, lors d’une convocation à la police, que la vie de Marie Gilow bascule. Selon ses...
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Student mobilisation strongly shakes the political Outlook in turkey, once again. And it has almost nothing to do with the organised “opposition”, apart from Imamoglu’s imprisonment being trigger.
Excited to host @hochstet.bsky.social in Bogotá on Fri 21 March as part of our ECO-DEM project on energy transitions and democracy in the Global South. @globalforum.bsky.social Prof Hochstetler (LSE) will discuss energy transitions in Amazonian countries 🌴🔋 Hybrid format. Message for details!
Cevap aradığım sorular: - Ne oldu da “kardeşlik” şimdi pratiğe döküldü? - Bunun Kürt sorununun tarihsel bölgesel dinamikleriyle ne alakası var? - PKK nasıl ikna oldu? - Devlet (ve Bahçeli) neden söylemsel makasını değiştirdi? Buyrun…
Artı Gerçek@artigercek.bsky.social · last yr.Ortadoğu’nun Kürt çıkmazı aşılırken Suriye ve İran’daki gelişmeleri göz önüne aldığımızda bile, Türkiye’nin neden bu aşamada Öcalan ile bir diyalog geliştirip, onun ideolojik ve politik önderliğini kabul eden tüm yapılarla ilişki kurmak istediği daha anlaşılır hale gelmektedir.
Many make similar points, without considering the process how we've come here. There was a year long process during which letters have been exchanged, meetings held and positions clarified among actors, resulting in this call. It should've beeen public, but it doesn't mean there is no pre-set agenda
Nate Schenkkan@nateschenkkan.bsky.social · last yr.He says the Turkish parliament should now take steps, but what steps? Nothing specific has been publicly promised
A Historic Declaration and Call by Abdullah Öcalan Here are some contextual and extra-textual details:
well, better avoid this kind of hyperbols, and ignore their authors, particularly the "Guardianised" versions of it that obscures the historical responsabilities and silences the victims... That is, there is potential but basically it is a continuation of what was put off 10 years ago by Turkey.
First thing is first: This call is not the first of its kind and what comes afterwards will be decisive of its implications as well as implementation.
Jan Yasin Sunca@jansun.bsky.social · last yr.Öcalan calls for laying down the arms, calls on the PKK to orgainse its congress and to dissolve itself.
Öcalan calls for laying down the arms, calls on the PKK to orgainse its congress and to dissolve itself.
Reminder: happening in a couple of hours. Kobane, a Decade Later: Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria and the Global War Regime. Tuesday February 25th 8:00am Bogota time 2 pm CET 6:30 in Colombo zoom link : ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...
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Jan Yasin Sunca@jansun.bsky.social · last yr.Kobane, a Decade Later: Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria and the Global War Regime. Speakers: Nazan Üstündağ & Jan Yasin Sunca Tuesday February 25th 8:00am Bogota time 2 pm CET 6:30 in Colombo @globalforum.bsky.social link: ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...
LECTURE: @aysezarakol.bsky.social is visiting us in Brussels, to give a lecture on a topic that is probably the most widely debated yet less successfully explained issue of contemporary international relations: the crisis of liberal international order.
Sciencepo ULB@sciencepoulb.bsky.social · last yr.[Event] The REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale welcomes you to the seminar: 'Is the disorder of our times unprecedented?'. With Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge) Friday, March the 14th at 12:00 Spaak Room Av. Fr. Roosevelt, 39 1050 Brussels
Kobane, a Decade Later: Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria and the Global War Regime. Speakers: Nazan Üstündağ & Jan Yasin Sunca Tuesday February 25th 8:00am Bogota time 2 pm CET 6:30 in Colombo @globalforum.bsky.social link: ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.” — Audre Lorde
The University of Sheffield was so proud of its role in creating F-35s that it chose to cite the project as a case study in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). This is what 'impact' looks like in our morally bankrupt academy. source: sheffield-coalition.co.uk
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.Campaigners urge F-35 fighter jet producing nations to stop supplying Israel
“Authoritarianism” is the limit of understanding the situation. Naming it correctly would open up new ways of seeing it. One would otherwise continue wishing for “the business as usual” which is the primary cause of so-called “authoritarianism”
David Roberts@volts.wtf · last yr.History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Javier Milei advertised a new cryptocurrency called $Libra in a social media post. Prices shot up and then crashed a few hours later. He is being investigated for links to the token and being accused of fraud. @veronicagago.bsky.social and Luci Cavallero on the "Ponzi President":
Un presidente Ponzi
¿Qué significa que son los mandatarios quienes devienen influencers para “crear” confianza para invertir en un activo digital? ¿Qué tiene que ver esta estafa especulativa con un modo de masculinidad q...
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💵 Ending US #dollar dominance alone will not end monetary imperialism. Only appropriate multilateral arrangements to clear international payments can meet Global South aspirations for sustainable development. By Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Ndongo Samba Sylla, @ipsnews.net 👉 www.cetri.be/An-Exorbitan...
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Skybridged those I follow on Twitter once again. I think we need to do that regularly....
A debate on how of (and not negotiations on) fundamental rights of all citizens, and most importantly the ongoing isolation of Ocalan and other political prisoners, are on top of priority list. The contributions to the process will be easier if there is a relative freedom.
Jan Yasin Sunca@jansun.bsky.social · 2y agoA historically significant meeting is taking place on #Imrali island, between #Öcalan and @demparti.bsky.social delegation, the first after the collapse of #PeaceTalks in 2015. Its importance is beyond possible political results; it happens asa a result of a process.