I guess I will have to use this platform more often from now on.
Sladjana Lazic
@sladjanalazic.bsky.social
The so-called ‘peace scholar’ | assistant professor | Yugoslawomen+ Collective | queer | she/they | the Balkans | talks loudly & carries a chihuahua |
Join us in welcoming @sandeepbak.bsky.social who will be giving a guest lecture «Queer Praxis, Violence, and Emancipation» at the @innpeace-online.bsky.social on the 17th November
Israel has assassinated almost 270 Palestinian journalists. This is aimed at suppressing coverage of its livestreamed genocide and creating a media blackout ahead of its plan to commit further atrocities. Take action now. Read more: loom.ly/A8L7S08
Israel has assassinated almost 270 Palestinian journalists
This is aimed at suppressing coverage of its livestreamed genocide and creating a media blackout ahead of its plan to commit further atrocities. Take action now.
loom.ly
As it happens, I only get to read more expansively/deeply during the summer/buyout, so late to this excellent contribution to theorising peace by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - timely, thinking of all possible states of "war" right now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace
This Special Issue delves into the concept of peace beyond traditional definitions, engaging with decolonial and feminist perspectives to emphasize peace not merely as the absence of war or conflic...
tandfonline.com
Join us this Thursday as my co-editor @ebstavrevska.bsky.social & I chat with four of our 9 contributors to the SI. Joining us this time are Mahdis Azarmandi, Garrett FitzGerrald, Yasin Sunca, & Isabela Munoz Gomez
Innpeace Research Center for Peace & Conflict@innpeace-online.bsky.social · last yr.You're Invited! 📅 Date: 10th of April 2025 🕒 Time: 5pm - 6:30pm 📍 Online – Link upon registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi... 👉 We look forward to seeing you there!
The video of 🇮🇱 envoy to 🇦🇹 during a meeting in Innsbruck was shared by media www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli.... That same individual also met with the highest representatives of the University of Innsbruck & the so called Austria-Israel Academic Network Innsbruck.
Israeli envoy to Austria suggests executing Gaza children in secret recording
The Israeli ambassador downplayed Palestinian civilian deaths and threatened to destroy EU rebuilding efforts in Gaza
middleeasteye.net
In times of siege, we have no alternative but to besiege the state of siege in the hope to open new horizons for us and others. —Mahmoud Darwish
Submission to the colonial logic that vilifies the violence of the oppressed & turns a blind eye to the oppressor’s violence became the price of admission. The above thought by Mohammed El-Kurd is an indictment of our (academics) refusal to confront our complicity in upholding colonial difference.
New UN report shows "Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence ... and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
“More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023
GENEVA - Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination ...
ohchr.org
Nothing humbles me more than Bulgarian split squats
Full support for @filipejdus.bsky.social ! Attacks against him are part of an attempt to discredit critical voices in Serbia. ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/02/cond...
Condemnation of the Attack on Filip Ejdus
The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory fully supports the response of the Faculty of Political Sciences, which we hereby transmit in full.
ifdt.bg.ac.rs
All around us institutions built on/sustained by our own labour are hollowed out by a lethal mix of mismanagement, moral decrepitude, and political inertia. No time to sit silent—Organise and mobilise whenever/wherever you can.
BDS in International Studies@bdsatisa.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat's happening at the International Studies Association (ISA)? A whole catalogue of censorship & punitive actions against sections & caucuses by the ISA leadership is silencing democratic discussion, especially among Global South & marginalised members.. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...
International Studies people, please sign & share this open letter in support of our colleague: docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...
Open Letter to the International Studies Association on the targeting and harassment of our colleague Dr Catherine Charrett
*** We invite scholars to sign this Open Letter *** Dear colleagues, We write as scholars working on gender, feminist and queer international relations, racism and (settler) colonialism, issues pertai...
docs.google.com
What's happening at the International Studies Association (ISA)? A whole catalogue of censorship & punitive actions against sections & caucuses by the ISA leadership is silencing democratic discussion, especially among Global South & marginalised members.. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...
Censorship & Antidemocratic Governance at the ISA
The International Studies Association (ISA) claims to be “an organization that is governed by and answerable to its membership.” However…
medium.com
I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent. -- Antonio Gramsci (born 22.01.1891)
Thousands of people gathered today in #Belgrade to demand accountability from the Vučić regime for the 15 lives lost in Novi Sad, in what appeared to be yet another corruption scandal. The protests are led by university students. More here: apnews.com/article/serb...
Great to see this #CallforPapers on Gaza, genocide and sociology from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social go live - responding to our manifesto call to challenge injustice and envision alternative futures - with thanks to all those involved in making this happen thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Special Section in The Sociological Review journal
thesociologicalreview.org
Some of the ideas were first put on paper back in 2019, so it has been many years in the making. In navigating a pandemic, precarity, & life during multiple genocides, all the brilliant contributors, @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & I have brought a lot of love and hope in creating this collective space
In the intro, one of the hardest things ever to write, @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & I reflect on the inspiration behind it, largely through our post-Yugoslav experiences, the process of bringing it all together & on thinking about peace and writing during genocide www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace
This Special Issue delves into the concept of peace beyond traditional definitions, engaging with decolonial and feminist perspectives to emphasize peace not merely as the absence of war or conflic...
tandfonline.com
The @jisb.bsky.social special issue, Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial & Feminist Approaches to Peace, @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & I co-edited, with a lot of care, comradery & grief, has been out for a little while, so finally getting around to sharing it here www.tandfonline.com/toc/risb20/1...
Congratulations to the editors and all the authors!
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding@jisb.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are incredibly excited to announce that this wonderful Special Issue is out with Issue 4 of 2024! Edited by Sladjana Lazic and Elena B Stravrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace Read the intro👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We are incredibly excited to announce that this wonderful Special Issue is out with Issue 4 of 2024! Edited by Sladjana Lazic and Elena B Stravrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace Read the intro👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace
This Special Issue delves into the concept of peace beyond traditional definitions, engaging with decolonial and feminist perspectives to emphasize peace not merely as the absence of war or conflic...
tandfonline.com