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Uzbek Forum for Human Rights @uzbekforum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The appalling human cost when development banks @ebrd.bsky.social & @ifcorg.bsky.social fail to enforce social & environmental safeguards. Some 10,000 livelihoods were destroyed by the Indorama Agro #cotton project in #Uzbekistan but no-one appears to be responsible. tinyurl.com/yc3sndpa

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It is time to hold MDBs accountable for enforcing environmental and social safeguards

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

2️⃣ Migrant Scholars: Grappling with Authoritarianism at Home and Democratic Backsliding Abroad ID: PL-4447 Themes: migrant scholars facing authoritarianism, democratic backsliding, and hostile mobility regimes: struggles, voices and perspectives 👉 wc2027.ipsa.org/wc/panel/mig...

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Migrant Scholars: Grappling with Authoritarianism at Home and Democratic Backsliding Abroad

Migrant scholars, researchers, and graduate students from illiberal and autocratic regimes operate within a landscape of barriers and dilemmas unique to their condition. Caught between the global surg...

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1️⃣ Theorising Engagement, Participation and Contestation in Autocracies: Beyond the Democratisation Paradigm? ID: PL-4450 Themes: strategies, forms, repertoires, structures, and legacies of activism, civic engagement, and participation in authoritarian regimes 👉 wc2027.ipsa.org/wc/panel/the...

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Theorising Engagement, Participation and Contestation in Autocracies: Beyond the Democratisation Paradigm?

This panel explores forms and adaptations of participation, mobilisation, and civil society engagements in autocracies. In recent years, scholarly inquiry has problematised conceptualisations of civil...

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS! If you’re in political science and working on migrant scholars navigating mobility regimes and the global democratic backsliding, or mobilization & civil society in autocracies, please consider submitting to one of the 2 panels I’m co-organizing at @ipsa.org’s 29th World Congress 👇

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Grateful to #SISP 39 Annual Conference and Università di Trento for this opportunity to present my work on processual approaches to the study of mobilisation in divided societies & the participation of unaffiliated activists #Iraq #Tishrīn [my paper is published by Nationalism and Ethnic Politics!]

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The de Groot Foundation @degrootfoundation.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Meet 2026 Director's Grantee Abdelrahman ElGendy! 🎉 @elgendy95.bsky.social Abdelrahman was awarded a grant for his memoir HUNA: A MEMOIR OF REVOLUTION, PRISON, AND BECOMING, forthcoming from Hogarth on September 1, 2026. Learn more & pre-order your copy: degrootfoundation.org/abdelrahman-...

Quote from 2026 Director's Grantee Abdelrahman ElGendy, which reads: “Huna is a reckoning with what it takes—and what it costs—to remain when erased, and with what endures, perhaps more faithfully, beyond hope.” The black text is on top of a white rectangle, with a dark blue background behind it.

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What contribution can processual approaches make to the study of mobilization in divided societies? Can they help answer the question of why unaffiliated activists protest and participate in revolutions? Out now in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3VETP... #Iraq

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Invisible Politics: Lessons from the Iraqi Tishreen on Unaffiliated Activist Trajectories and Long Revolutions in Divided Societies

Non-ethnic mobilization in divided societies is often read through a lens of exceptionalism shaped by the adoption of narrowly outcome-oriented paradigms. Processual approaches have problematized s...

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“These are online behaviours that map onto existing precedents, that draw on the same intolerances and historic prejudices” 👇

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🇸🇾 How is the legacy of the revolution, conflict violence, and 50+ years of regime-sponsored manipulation of communal divides shaping today’s Syria? 👇a really great episode of the Tahrir Podcast introducing Robin Yassin-Kassab’s new book on #Syria after the fall on the regime!

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Grateful to @devcomms.bsky.social for the opportunity to present my work on the NGO crisis’ impact on civil society adaptations in autocracies ( #Egypt and #Syria), and to hear from #Gaza scholars about best practices and challenges in academic solidarity against scholasticide at #DSA2026 🇮🇪🇵🇸

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Why do movements leverage “nationalist discourse” to reclaim popular sovereignty, and what can it tell us about global modernity regimes shaped by neoliberalism and imperialism? 👉 Out now in Social Movement Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfresearch.bsky.social #Iraq #Tishreen

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Wholeheartedly grateful to @ipsarc14.bsky.social @ipsa.org @euracminorities.bsky.social @autonomyexperience.bsky.social for the inspiring exchange of research ideas, directions, and dilemmas at #ipsarc14bz! Love to know there are such great people doing research on politics in our troubled times.

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Word count would not allow for me to tag them above, but special thanks for hosting us go naturally also to @autonomyexperience.bsky.social !

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Looking forward to next week’s @ipsarc14.bsky.social Colloquium “Minorities under siege? Plural societies facing plural challenges” organised by @ipsa.org @euracminorities.bsky.social. Will present a forthcoming article on movements’ mobilisation of “nationalism” in the 21st century 👇 #ipsarc14bz

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The #Italian government opposes the suspension of the EU-Israel #AssociationAgreement, proving that the suspension of the renewal of the 🇮🇹-🇮🇱 defense memorandum which came earlier this month was no more than a symbolic move to placate discontent with #Meloni’s leadership. Genocidal fascists

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Just published in the new ESA Special Issue, my amazing colleague A.Gileva on the 2024 student protests in #Serbia and the legacy of anticapitalist movements europeansociology.org/european-soc...

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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

What is happening in Darfur is utterly devastating, made more painful by how we all saw it coming. You can’t really say you didn’t know, but if you didn’t, read this: An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

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An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter

Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.

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Claudio Francavilla @claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

#Brazil: Illegal cattle ranching has devastated territories in the #Amazon, right where #COP30 will be held Some of that beef may have come into the EU - and keep coming if EU Deforestation Law #EUDR is delayed New @hrw.org report: hrw.org/news/2025/10... @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Horrifying images coming out of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, this morning after a massive Russian drone and missile attack overnight. As Syrians, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian nation, which is under terrorist attack. Targeting residential neighborhoods is a war crime.

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

“This revelation highlights the continued presence of Western technology in Moscow's weapons, despite years of sanctions”

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International Sociological Association (ISA) @isa-sociology.org · 03/09/2025

ISA RC 47 “Social classes and social movements” invites: 🎙️ Lectio Magistralis by Geoffrey Pleyers, ISA President “Social change is never linear. Social movements in polarized times” 🗓️ 9 September 2025 📍 University Guglielmo Marconi, Via Plinio 44, Rome & online 🔗 usgm.link/socialchange

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Social change is never lineal. Social movements in polarized times

Lezione del Prof. Ceoff rey Pleyers Social change is never lineal. Social movements in polarized times - Sito internet: https://www.unimarconi.it Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unimarconi/ Instagr...

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

“[the] National Transitional Justice Authority […] is set to only investigate crimes committed by the Assad regime, excluding abuses by other parties. This undermines victims’ rights and any prospect for real accountability” #Syria timep.org/2025/08/28/o...

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Only a Whole Truth and a Comprehensive Justice Can Heal a Divided Syria

Syria’s National Transitional Justice Authority is set to only investigate crimes committed by the Assad regime and not other violations committed by other parties. This undermines victims’ rights and...

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

#ReArmEurope will impact European public spending, but what are the effects on the EU normative frameworks on #arms production and transfers? An analysis of the new Common Position 2008/944/CFSP for IRIAD. 📌 www.archiviodisarmo.it/analisi-se-i... #disarmament #armscontrol #europe

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Se il riarmo determina la normativa europea in materia di armamenti

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

APPELLO della RUP al Presidente della Repubblica perché intervenga con assoluta urgenza e con ogni mezzo a disposizione per interrompere lo sterminio della popolazione di Gaza portato avanti da Israele. 📝 Testo della lettera e link per aderire: cloud.reterup.it/apps/forms/s...

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Mabruk to #SFHR on their report documenting hundreds of enforced disappearances in #Sinai and exposing Sisi’s “security campaign” for what it is: a ruthless exercise of power consolidation through state terror 🇪🇬 sinaifhr.org//upload//2gz... 🇬🇧 sinaifhr.org//upload//1lx...

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The Syria Campaign @thesyriacampaign.org · 21/07/2025

🚨 #Syria is on the brink of civil war. Join us in urging the UN to act immediately before it’s too late. ✍️Sign the petition and share widely: act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/prevent...

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Call for action to prevent civil war in Syria: Sign this petition

The hope for a peaceful Syria rooted in justice hangs in the balance.

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The Syria Campaign @thesyriacampaign.org · 16/07/2025

In solidarity with the people of Suwayda and everywhere else where civilians live in fear for their lives, loved ones and homes. Stop the killing. We want to build a Syria for all.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 09/07/2025

NEW – Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning? | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/LkitgK7

Aerial view of illegal Amazon deforestation. Credit: Paralaxis / Alamy Stock Photo

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This is the only thing that matters. Nothing European politicians claim to believe in matters. The only thing that matters is what they’re doing.

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The Syria Campaign @thesyriacampaign.org · 04/07/2025

Family and friends of Syrian activist Ali Mustafa, forcibly disappeared by Assad since 2013, gathered in Damascus to commemorate the first anniversary of his arrest since the fall of the tyrant, and to demand truth and justice for Ali and all of Syria’s disappeared. 📸 Ali Haj Sulieman

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Still very relevant and insightful today, especially the considerations about campism and centring the agency of ordinary citizens and movements👇 🇸🇾

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A precious reading on #ecocide and #oil, the “state within the state” in #Iraq by Azhar al Rubaie, Sara Manisera and Daniela Sala @irpimedia.eu 🔗 irpimedia.irpi.eu/iraq-ecocidi...

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

An amazing resource on the political landscape in #Syria post-revolution and the struggle of Syrians for the future of their beautiful country👇

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The #OHCHR report on the Impact of Arms Transfers on Human Rights is out! So honored by the inclusion of #EgyptWide ‘s contribution on the “revolving doors” in state authorisation processes and licensed #arms production offshore. 🇪🇺 exporters, we see you! 🔗 documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

@adalahjustice.bsky.social launched a petitition in support of Palestine advocate #MahmoudKhalil facing arbitrary detention & risk of deportation from the #USA over his activism at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. #StopGenocide, free 🇵🇸 & all political prisoners! actionnetwork.org/letters/rele...

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Federal Judge Jesse M. Furman has ordered that greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil not be removed from the United States unless and until the court orders otherwise. He has also ordered counsel for all parties to appear for a Wednesday conference involving Mahmoud's habeas petition.

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