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Elena B. Stavrevska

@ebstavrevska.bsky.social
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Lecturer in International Relations at Uni of Bristol | Feminist peace scholar | Member of the Yugoslawomen+ Collective | she/таа

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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
📢We are looking for a Postgraduate Convenor to join the South East Europe Working Group (SEE WG) team alongside @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Stavrevska and @matesuba.bsky.social 📩 Apply by: 1 December 2025 ✉️ Send your expression of interest to: seewg.group@bisa.ac.uk More info: tinyurl.com/37czc6pr
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South-East Europe Working Group - Call for new postgraduate convener- South East Europe (SEE) | BISA
- South East Europe (SEE) Working Group
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Thank you, BISA team. Please note, though, that this is a closed workshop and for those already accepted to participate only.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Call for papers ‼️ BISA South East Europe is holding its fourth annual workshop and they need you 🎉 'Worlding from South East Europe, Remaking International Relations' 🌎 Deadline for abstracts: 6 October 📆 Find out more 👉 ow.ly/aNlk50X49M8 Elena B. Stavrevska Mate Subašić
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Call for papers: Worlding from South East Europe, remaking international relations- South East Europe (SEE) | BISA
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Leave it to me to be nearly three months late in responding on BlueSky 🙈 This is really really kind, Jana! Thank you very much.
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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....
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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...
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hahaha, that might be a tough boundary to cross 😆 But I echo Vjosa - this is way too kind! And let's keep these connections growing. Hope it's not too long before we meet again in person.
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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📍 South East Europe Working Group rountable at #BISASA2025: "Life and Death on the Balkan Route: Violent Borders" 🧵 How EU border regimes regulate life, death, and mobility on the move? #Migration #BorderViolence #BalkanRoute
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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨 #BISA2025 is live! We kicked off with a powerful panel on movements and contestations in South East Europe: 🔋 Lithium mining 🌱 Green activism ⚖️ Transitional justice 🇪🇺 EU–Kosovo–Western Balkans interaction #InternationalRelations #Balkans
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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🎓 Are you heading to #BISA2025? Don't miss what the South East Europe Working Group has in store!
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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
📘 New blog post alert! 🚨 Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle What does it mean to decolonise knowledge in a region caught between the legacies of socialism, neoliberal transitions, and war? Read more on our blog. 🔗 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
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Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle- South East Europe (SEE) | BISA
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Making notes The New Racial Regime, Alana Lentin (2025). Opening citation from Bassel el-Araj is lit: "You want to be an intellectual? Then you must resist. Otherwise you and your education are useless."
Book cover of Alana Lentin's book The New Racial Regime (Pluto, 2025)Table of Contents of the bookScreenshot of Prologue and Acknowledgements with the citation from Bassel al-Araj 'You want to be an intellectual? Then you must resist. Otherwise you and your education are useless.'Screenshot of the first page of Introduction from the book.
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
You can register to join the virtual conversation about our SI on decolonial and feminist approaches to peace this Thursday here zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Roundtable: Peace in Plural . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The InnPeace invites you for an online discussion about the recently published Special Issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (Vol.18, no.4) - "Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and ...
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Sladjana Lazic @sladjanalazic.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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
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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Roundtable of past convenors discussing 20 years of the working group. @danielalai.bsky.social @ebstavrevska.bsky.social @drdeiana.bsky.social @richmondbridge.bsky.social @katkusic.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social Lydia Cole and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik
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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We are pleased to mark 20 years since our @mybisa.bsky.social working groups emerged. Thanks to @livunipol.bsky.social at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for welcoming us to Liverpool for a full-day workshop. The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.
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BDS in International Studies @bdsatisa.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
No conferencing as usual during genocide! #EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
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BDS in International Studies @bdsatisa.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
No conferencing as usual during genocide! #EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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...
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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.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The @BISA_SEE_WG workshop with @LivUni Europe and the World Centre is coming up (27 Mar) Focusing on the theme of different types of violences and resistances in SEE View the programme & register now! www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @ebstavrevska.bsky.social @matesuba.bsky.social
A photograph of the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge on the Drina River, Višegrad
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
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University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students
These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza
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Katarina Kušić @katkusic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Super excited to share a CfP on political ecologies in SEE 🌱 Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures? Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
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Katarina Kušić @katkusic.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This is the start to my working year (even though it came out on Dec 30) — I was a part of a great Forum organised by Birte Vogel and Nemanja Džuverović. I wrote about the Global East, and the difficulty of speaking to very different audiences in our research. Wishing us all a more global 2025 🌱
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adnito @a-d-n.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"Nowadays when we know that progress didn’t so much enhance as it delegitimized and eventually erased entire worlds of human existence, we tend to look for redemption in the vanished ways of life. We seek wisdom in former hardships and discomfort." www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/the-w...
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The Weight of Wool — Women* Write the Balkans
Ottoman and Habsburg coins turned into jewelry; the remnants of successive empires worn on the women’s chests. In some cases, the đerdans are so elaborate that they almost entirely occlude their weare...
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Reminder: today is the last day to apply for our Between continuities and ruptures: exploring violence and resistance in South East Europe workshop
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
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BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Thank you for sharing, Tereza! 🙌
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
As w/anything, through the ups & the 'what even is the point of thinking about peace in times like these?', this was truly a collective effort. We're grateful for the comrades, colleagues & reviewers w/ whom we've learned & who've helped us create this space to think, know, and do peace otherwise.
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
And finally, engaging with the same question of knowers of peace & sources of peace knowledge, inspired by The Arab Apocalypse by Etel Adnan, we have Andrew Delatolla "Listening to the Stories People Tell: Poetry as Knowledge Disruption on the Lebanese Civil War" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Listening to the Stories People Tell: Poetry as Knowledge Disruption on the Lebanese Civil War
This article considers how using poetry in research allows novel ways of thinking about problems in conflict and peace research. Specifically, this article draws from the epic poem The Arab Apocaly...
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Then, thinking through the plurality of voices & silences when researching peace, engaging with the questions of who gets to know peace is Isabella Muñoz Gómez's "Women and the War on Drugs: A Decolonial Feminist Reading of Coca Growers’ Everyday Experiences" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Women and the War on Drugs: A Decolonial Feminist Reading of Coca Growers’ Everyday Experiences
This article challenges the 'War on Drugs' narrative by exploring the lives of Colombian women coca growers through a decolonial feminist lens. It uncovers the intersecting oppressions they face—co...
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Relatedly, pushing us to (re)think where and under what conditions peace is even possible is Jan Yasin Sunca's "Decolonial Politics: State, Statelessness, and Coexistence in Peace" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Decolonial Politics: State, Statelessness, and Coexistence in Peace
Due to the colonial continuities encoded in postcolonial nation-states, formal decolonisation reproduced new dominations rather than peaceful intergroup coexistence. Reflecting on the ‘how’ of deco...
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Then, thinking through the question of how, where and by whom peace can be built and imagined, we have Sarah Day, Nick Malherbe, Shahnaaz Suffla & Mohamed Seedat's "Building Decolonial Peace into the Everyday: A Feminist Intervention" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Building Decolonial Peace into the Everyday: A Feminist Intervention
Coloniality structures everyday (i.e. the familiar, dynamic experiences that constitute people's day-to-day lives). It is, however, possible to build decolonial peace into the everyday as a means o...
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Tackling the same question from a different perspective, we have Garrett FitzGerald's "Unsettling Peace: The Settler-Colonial Challenge to the Local Turn" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Unsettling Peace: The Settler-Colonial Challenge to the Local Turn
The local turn in Peace Studies has raised important practical and normative questions around the ‘liberal peace’ approach that defines post-Cold War international peacebuilding. However, recent cr...
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
First, urging us to rethink what peace, justice, and liberation are and who they are for, we have Mahdis Azarmandi's piece "Disturbing a Discipline: Towards Pluriversal Peace and Conflict Studies" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Disturbing a Discipline: Towards Pluriversal Peace and Conflict Studies
This article examines the implications of race critical and decolonial theories for peace and conflict studies. It critiques dominant epistemological frames in the field that overlook coloniality a...
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Embracing plural temporalities and spaces, the SI is shaped around the three core themes of: (1) plurality of peace; (2) plurality of voices and silences when researching peace; and (3) the plurality of peace appearances and ‘formations’.
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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....
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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...
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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...
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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding @jisb.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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....
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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...
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Our book on Syria (2022) 👇 for those interested in the background of recent events. Most importantly it contains multiple chapters by Syrian scholars & chapters on the oft-neglected human impact of the conflict. TOC: www.routledge.com/Actors-and-D...
Book on Syria by Gani & Hinnebusch "Actors & Dynamics in the Syrian conflict". Image of a boy on a bicycle in front of a building destroyed by the war.
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Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
On Thursday, @bisasee.bsky.social, @uclssees.bsky.social, Piro Rexhepi & I will be hosting the virtual book launch of Feminist encounters in statebuilding: The role of women in making the state in Kosovo, edited by the feminist powerhouses @vjosamusliu.bsky.social & Itziar Mujika Chao. Zoom sign-up👇
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
anyone who claims the uk has "open borders" has a) not had to deal with the home office and b) is wrong, lying, or both. ask a student, a work visa holder, any spouse, any refugee what kind of fun old open borders time they had of things upon first contact with the home office
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