Die Koalition will einen Rentenfonds nach 🇸🇪 Vorbild, in den 2% des Lohns fließen. Wie schon bei Lindners Aktienrente (remember him?) greift die progressive Kritik an diesem Element der #rentenreform viel zu kurz. Internationale Evidenz zeigt: Kapitaldeckung = Finanzialisierungsmaschine. 🧵

📢 Postdoc alert! The University for Continuing Education Krems is hiring a coordinating Postdoctoral Researcher for an ERC project on migrant solidarity. 5-year full-time position, starting Nov 2026. Deadline to apply: 27 August

Offene Stellen in Wissenschaft & Verwaltung

Hier finden Sie alle aktuellen Stellenausschreibungen der Universität für Weiterbildung Krems.

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Happy and excited to say I've just signed a contract with OUP @academic.oup.com for my first book, tentatively titled "Illegitimate Borders: Liberal Democracy and the Restriction of Movement." I reckon it will come out some time in 2028!

Happy and excited to say I've just signed a contract with OUP @academic.oup.com for my first book, tentatively titled "Illegitimate Borders: Liberal Democracy and the Restriction of Movement." I reckon it will come out some time in 2028!

Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft hat den Anthropologen Ghassan Hage entlassen, weil er Israels Völkermod scharf kritisierte. Stattdessen darf Hedwig Richter—die den Massenmord gerechtfertigt hat (für den sei eigentlich Hamas Schuld)—auf der Jahresversammlung über Demokratie "diskutieren".

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft@maxplanck.de · 2mo ago

Vom 16. bis 17. Juni sind wir in #Frankfurt zu Gast: Während unserer Jahresversammlung wird das #Startup Ovo Labs den Max-Planck-Gründungspreis des Stifterverbandes erhalten. Hedwig Richter und Steffen Mau diskutieren die Zukunft der #Demokratie. @hedwigrichter.bsky.social @steffenmau.bsky.social

In our introductory article, we trace how the transformations of the polycrisis have generated deep political conflict over whether to prioritize the inclusiveness or the robustness of democratic citizenship; we argue that this antagonism is neither desirable nor inevitable. doi.org/10.1080/1654...

Between openness and resilience: rethinking citizenship in times of polycrisis

Under present conditions of multiple, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing crises, both the internal and external dimensions of citizenship have come under pressure. Externally, higher migration f...

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Lukas Schmid@lukasschmid.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How can we bolster the moral value and political function of democratic citizenship in times of polycrisis? Can we make it more robust and more inclusive, or are these irreconcilable goals? Our new Ethics & Global Politics special issue tries to find answers. www.tandfonline.com/toc/zegp20/1...

How can we bolster the moral value and political function of democratic citizenship in times of polycrisis? Can we make it more robust and more inclusive, or are these irreconcilable goals? Our new Ethics & Global Politics special issue tries to find answers. www.tandfonline.com/toc/zegp20/1...

Job! Postdoc in refugee studies! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Reseacher within DEMCAMP

Description of the workplace The Department of Philosophy is divided into Practical Philosophy, Theoretical Philosophy, and Cognitive Science and is part of the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theol

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In our introductory article, we trace how the transformations of the polycrisis have generated deep political conflict over whether to prioritize the inclusiveness or the robustness of democratic citizenship; we argue that this antagonism is neither desirable nor inevitable. doi.org/10.1080/1654...

Between openness and resilience: rethinking citizenship in times of polycrisis

Under present conditions of multiple, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing crises, both the internal and external dimensions of citizenship have come under pressure. Externally, higher migration f...

doi.org

Lukas Schmid@lukasschmid.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How can we bolster the moral value and political function of democratic citizenship in times of polycrisis? Can we make it more robust and more inclusive, or are these irreconcilable goals? Our new Ethics & Global Politics special issue tries to find answers. www.tandfonline.com/toc/zegp20/1...

How can we bolster the moral value and political function of democratic citizenship in times of polycrisis? Can we make it more robust and more inclusive, or are these irreconcilable goals? Our new Ethics & Global Politics special issue tries to find answers. www.tandfonline.com/toc/zegp20/1...

#JobPost 📣 The Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Critical Border Studies. This is a four-year position based in Joensuu, starting 1 September 2026. No Finnish required. Deadline: 30 June Read more: uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Critical Border Studies

The Karelian Institute of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies invites applications for one Postdoctoral Researcher position in Critical Border Studies on the Joensuu Campus. The positi

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#OtD 29 May 1830 Paris Communard, anarchist Louise Michel was born. After the Commune, she was deported to the prison colony of New Caledonia, where she supported an uprising of the Indigenous people, and later returned a national hero stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

🚨Job alert🚨 Postdoc position: Political Theory and History of Ideas (100%, 3+2 years) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Deadline: 24.06.26 Happy to answer questions via email. Please share widely! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

🚨Stellenausschreibung🚨 Postdoc-Stelle: Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte (100%, 3+2 Jahre) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Bewerbungsfrist: 24.06.26 Bei Fragen gerne per E-Mail bei mir melden. Gerne teilen! www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...

Just noticed my book on the UK’s outsourced immigration detainee escorting system & how it’s run like a logistics system is 50% off @princetonupress.bsky.social, only £15: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Supply Chain Justice

How the UK’s immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain

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New paper! “Immigration and social citizenship in times of crisis: deepening and broadening citizenship.” doi.org/10.1080/1654...

Immigration and social citizenship in times of crisis: deepening and broadening citizenship

Citizenship regimes are under pressure. Decades of neoliberalism have eroded the social rights that make citizenship into a form of equal membership. Concurrently, democracies have hardened the bor...

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I wrote a brief review of Shuk Ying Chan's excellent book Postcolonial Global Justice. Check it out (gift link): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JFJWZ...

Postcolonial Global Justice

Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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In the last 20 years, the "two state solution" has been a discursive mechanism to convince people that (1) this is a "conflict between neighbouring peoples" rather than between the state and dominated/colonised people within (2) That there's a credible route towards partition, when there isn't one

I wrote a brief review of Shuk Ying Chan's excellent book Postcolonial Global Justice. Check it out (gift link): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JFJWZ...

Postcolonial Global Justice

Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

tandfonline.com

JOB! I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy as part of the ERC LEAD Project. Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after. Feel free to contact me with any questions - Share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

I’m excited to see this published in @polbehavior.bsky.social! When faced with historical harms committed by an ingroup, what is the effect of ‘whataboutism’ — appeals to ‘worse’ harms committed by other groups? 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We Could Have Been Worse: ‘Whataboutism’ and Defensive Memory Among Perpetrator Groups - Political Behavior

Can exposure to harmful acts committed by other groups obstruct meaningful confrontation with one’s own group history? This paper explores the extent to which favourable inter-group comparison — the i...

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Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

New paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Where does accountability lie in contemporary border regimes?

Devolution, delegation, and digitisation: Accountability gaps in fragmented border regimes

Contemporary borders are increasingly fragmented and dispersed, variously through externalisation practices and inwardly through everyday bordering ch…

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CFP: Special Issue of Moral Philosophy & Politics on "Citizenship and Global Inequality". Please consider sharing & submitting. Open to interdisciplinary work that engages with philosophical debates. #migcitsky #poltheory #philsky www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

🚨New publication! Thrilled to finally see this paper out in @psrm.bsky.social 🎉 📊I study how gender shapes coalition preferences among politicians. Turns out mayors prefer forming governments with women-led parties, perceiving them as better communicators and more competent governors.

Political Science Research and Methods@psrm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🧑‍🤝‍🧑Do politicians consider the gender of leaders when selecting coalition partners? ➡️Using a conjoint on 979 Spanish mayors, @albahuidobro.bsky.social finds that mayors, especially those on the center and left, prefer coalitions with parties led by women www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

In stark contrast to the Trump administration's prioritization of the deportation machine, Spain's progressive government just announced a minimal-conditions program for the regularization of undocumented immigrants, estimated to benefit more than 500.000 people.

EL PAÍS@elpais.com · 6mo ago

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Podemos anuncia un acuerdo con el Gobierno para una regularización extraordinaria de migrantes

In stark contrast to the Trump administration's prioritization of the deportation machine, Spain's progressive government just announced a minimal-conditions program for the regularization of undocumented immigrants, estimated to benefit more than 500.000 people.

EL PAÍS@elpais.com · 6mo ago

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Podemos anuncia un acuerdo con el Gobierno para una regularización extraordinaria de migrantes

M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

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📢New article in International Migration Review! w/ @svidal.bsky.social (@lifelongmove.bsky.social) and Louise Caron, we study how immigrant descent and migration experiences in childhood shape later-life aspirations towards migration. Check it out (it's OpenAccess!) 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Where to (Next)? Family and Childhood Migration Experience and Migration Aspirations in Adulthood - Claudia Brunori, Louise Caron, Sergi Vidal, 2026

Migration is increasingly recognized as a dynamic, often recurrent, and intergenerational process. Yet, little research has examined how childhood exposure to i...

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