Presented my paper on the reconfiguration of authoritarianism in post-war Azerbaijan at #IPSA2025 in Seoul. Great wrap of conference season!
Laura Luciani
@drlauluciani.bsky.social
postdoc researcher at Ghent University, affiliated at VUB | South Caucasus, critical EU studies, feminist & queer IR, civil society, (in)security
In mezzo a tanti ottimi contributi, ci sono anch'io con un pezzo dal titolo "La trappola geopolitica" sui limiti del binarismo Occidente-Russia in Georgia.
L'Occidente ai confini della realtà - Jacobin Italia
L'immagine trionfalistica dell’Occidente presente nei discorsi dei leader spesso si accompagna all’horror vacui di un mondo che non esiste più: in questo spazio nascono i mostri
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Dal 13 giugno in libreria il numero 27 di Jacobin Italia "C'era una volta il West" Ecco la copertina disegnata per noi da Filippo Frizza per Mimaster Illustrazione 👉 Leggi qui tutto il sommario: jacobinitalia.it/rivista/cera... 👉 Qui l'editoriale del numero: jacobinitalia.it/loccidente-a...
Whose security does a 'geopolitical' European Union serve in Armenia, and how is this received by people on the ground? Happy and proud to see my contribution to the SI "Critical perspectives on the EU's global role" finally published in @jcms-eu.bsky.social 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Geopolitics, (In)security and Resilience. A Feminist Critique of the EU's Engagement in Armenia After the Second Nagorno‐Karabakh War
This article interrogates the EU's ‘geopolitical turn’ by examining its external engagement in Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drawing o...
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🛫 I've got a new research article out in Mobilities, as part of a special issue on the Caucasus (check it out!!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Title : "Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)"
Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)
This article examines the role that infrastructure and logistics have played as a method of authoritarian conflict management implemented by Azerbaijan after it regained control of most of the disp...
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1/ My recently published article @ifjpglobal.bsky.social studies how feminist activists in #Armenia negotiate the European Union's interventions to combat domestic violence amidst competing pressures. A thread👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @giesugent.bsky.social @dfuturevub.bsky.social
European values, Eurasian family, or neither? A contrapuntal reading of the European Union’s agenda to combat domestic violence in Armenia
This article studies how feminist activists in Armenia negotiate the agenda of the European Union (EU) to combat domestic violence in a contested geopolitical environment. Drawing on post-socialist...
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Happy to see my contribution to the @jcms-eu.bsky.social Special Issue “Towards Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union's Global Role” published. doi.org/10.1111/jcms...
Global Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the European Union in Times of Dissensus Over LGBT Equality
In times of heightened dissensus over the liberal democratic order, normative theories of the EU need to adapt to be able to capture how the promotion and enforcement of values go hand in hand with t...
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Had a packed week at #EUIA25: presented my work on EU (in)security in post-2020 Armenia (coming soon @jcms-eu.bsky.social -stay tuned!) & discussed brilliant papers by @dfuturevub.bsky.social colleagues. We also stood in solidarity with Gaza & against academic complicity in the ongoing genocide.
Don’t miss our 2 panels in #EUIA25! We’ll be sharing early findings from the forthcoming SI we've guest edited in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with @norafisheronar.bsky.social and @dhuber.bsky.social "Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the #EU’s role as a Global Actor". @aissr.bsky.social
❗Our Call for Papers (Abstracts) is officially out! 1/2 👉Please follow the link below and click on the 'Call for Papers Open until 1 July 2025' hyperlink to fill out the information and upload your abstracts. ✨Call for Papers link: securityhub.ee/news/announc...
Announcing “Between Peripheries”: CEEShub’s Inaugural Conference - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub
Submit your abstract to “Between Peripheries,” a conference on CEE–Global South security, postcolonial IR, and critical peace studies.
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Today, researcher & @charlesuni.cuni.cz PhD candidate Bahruz Samadov is spending 30th birthday behind bars in Azerbaijan, where critical scholarly work is criminalized, labeled as treason. There shld be more academic voices demanding Bahruz's freedom. #FreeBahruz www.psapopulism.org/blog/news/fr...
Free Bahruz Samadov
International Academic Community Calls for the Release of Young Azerbaijani Scholar Bahruz Samadov
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🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨 Karolina Kluczewska & @drlauluciani.bsky.social unpack the framing of feminism in Eurasia doi.org/10.1332/2515... PoliSky GenderSky
We are proud to share the CFP for ASIAC 2025📕: After last year's success, yet again at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. Theme: "Knowledge Production about Central Asia and the Caucasus". Please send papers, panels and from this year posters and visual contributions. www.asiac.net/eventi/xix-a...
XIX ASIAC annual conference – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 15-16-17 December 2025 – Call for panels and individual papers – ASIAC
On 15-17 December 2025, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice will host the annual conference of the Italian Association for the Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus (ASIAC).
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Really enjoyed presenting our research w/Elisabed Gedevanishvili at the @europeamerica.bsky.social @leibniz-ios.de conference. We discussed how decoloniality is translated through cultural projects, the possibilities for queer solidarity & (weak) resistance in the Caucasus @giesugent.bsky.social
The conference "Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations" kicks off tomorrow! @europeamerica.bsky.social @leibniz-ios.de @uniregensburg.bsky.social
Inaugurating my bsky account to share our new article with Karolina Kluczewska, just published in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social🎉 doi.org/10.1332/2515... @giesugent.bsky.social We shared some of our first findings on @opendemocracy.net & @lseblogs.bsky.social 👇