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Elsa Kugelberg

@elsakugelberg.bsky.social
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Political theorist at the University of Oxford. Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social. Affiliated researcher mintresearch.org/ and @ki.se Global & Sexual Health Research Group. elsakugelberg.com

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Dagens ETC @etc.se · 02/10/2026
Varför får vissa 4 000 likes på Tinder och andra inte en enda? Hur kommer det sig att en falsk anmälan kan stänga ute en användare för gott, och varför vägrar appföretagen berätta hur deras algoritmer fungerar?
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Filosofens krav för bättre dejtingappar: ”Kan skapa rättvisa i den sexuella sfären”
Internetdejting får skulden för allt från sjunkande födelsetal till manlig ensamhet – men kan apparna i själva verket vara lösningen på våra problem?
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was interviewed by @etc.se about my research on online dating and the demands of justice we can and should place on digital platforms www.etc.se/kultur-noje/...
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Filosofens krav för bättre dejtingappar: ”Kan skapa rättvisa i den sexuella sfären”
Internetdejting får skulden för allt från sjunkande födelsetal till manlig ensamhet – men kan apparna i själva verket vara lösningen på våra problem?
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was interviewed by @etc.se about my research on online dating and the demands of justice we can and should place on digital platforms www.etc.se/kultur-noje/...
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Filosofens krav för bättre dejtingappar: ”Kan skapa rättvisa i den sexuella sfären”
Internetdejting får skulden för allt från sjunkande födelsetal till manlig ensamhet – men kan apparna i själva verket vara lösningen på våra problem?
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@henrikdku.bsky.social and I are excited to be presenting our work on the Digital Private Sphere at @sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social Center for Philosophies of Markets later today. www.hhs.se/research/cen...
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Center for Philosophies of Markets
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Mary Jo MacDonald @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In our new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social , Geertje Bol and I turn to Tory feminists who use flattery between the sexes to challenge our assumptions about what flattery is, in what environments it flourishes, and the dangers it poses to politics. doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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From Courtiers to Courtship: Tory Feminism and the Political Dangers of Flattery | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
From Courtiers to Courtship: Tory Feminism and the Political Dangers of Flattery
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Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Exciting news! UCL’s Institute of Law, Politics & Philosophy is partnering with Law and Philosophy to launch the annual Ronald Dworkin Lecture. We’re delighted that Arthur Ripstein (Toronto) will deliver the first Inaugural Dworkin lecture in May 2027. More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/ucl-ins...
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More happy news! @henrikdku.bsky.social’s and my other project, on the politics and normative significance of the pace of social and technological change, was awarded 6M sek by Formas Research Council. www.vr.se/english/swec...
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Swecris – search for Swedish research projects
Swecris is a national database, where you can see how the participating research funding bodies have distributed their funds to researchers in Sweden. The database contains data from both governmental...
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tomorrow at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social!
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More happy news! @henrikdku.bsky.social’s and my other project, on the politics and normative significance of the pace of social and technological change, was awarded 6M sek by Formas Research Council. www.vr.se/english/swec...
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Swecris – search for Swedish research projects
Swecris is a national database, where you can see how the participating research funding bodies have distributed their funds to researchers in Sweden. The database contains data from both governmental...
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Some exciting news: mine and @henrikdku.bsky.social's project on the 'Digital Private Sphere' has been awarded 4.9M SEK by @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social!! www.vr.se/english/appl...
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Research project grant within humanities and social sciences
The Swedish Research Council has decided on the applications to be awarded project grants within humanities and social sciences 2026. Our total grant amount for 2026-2030 is nearly 473 million SEK.
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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Elsa Kugelberg's paper on dating apps and the digital sexual sphere is discussed in a recent episode of major Swedish politics and culture podcast, Cafe Bambino. Listen here: tinyurl.com/y8ctpb8s Also hear Kugelberg on Swedish public service radio yesterday: tinyurl.com/6j2eabxd
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fick prata om min forskning om den digitala sexuella sfären i P1 idag: sverigesradio.se/play/avsnitt...
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fick prata om min forskning om den digitala sexuella sfären i P1 idag: sverigesradio.se/play/avsnitt...
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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
PPRF in Politics Elsa Kugelberg comments in @theguardian.com on online dating and argues that it has become too entrenched in daily life to fail:
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As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems?
Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as ‘swipe fatigue’ grows
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In today’s episode of Scandinavia’s best and smartest podcast @cafebambino.bsky.social Tone Schunnesson & @karinp.bsky.social discuss my @apsrjournal.bsky.social on the digital sexual sphere and dating as a social institution and explain it better than I ever could😭 open.spotify.com/podcast-chap...
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Elsa Kugelberg om dejtingappar som social institution
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I @cafebambino.bsky.social pratar Tone Schunnesson och @karinp.bsky.social om min artikel i @apsrjournal.bsky.social om dating som social institution och vilka krav man kan ställa på politiken och på plattformarna. Extremt bra förklarat och kontextualiserat här: open.spotify.com/podcast-chap...
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Elsa Kugelberg om dejtingappar som social institution
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Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I wrote about Locke, the liberal establishment, and the role of universities for Persuasion, here: open.substack.com/pub/persuasi... Come for Guy Verhoefstadt's Locke tweets, stay for the (unsung) significance of William Popple for so-called "Lockean" toleration...
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What Locke Knew About Elites
How liberals learned to stop worrying and love the establishment.
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 18/08/2026
A really great essay @aeon.co by Geertje Bol, on the case for righteous zeal:
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Polite debate has privilege. The marginalised need zealotry | Aeon Essays
Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why?
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Luke Brunning @lukebrunning.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the print edition of the Guardian today alongside @elsakugelberg.bsky.social and Adam Peacock. Also here: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
A picture of the print edition of the Guardian newspaper article about online dating.
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I spoke to @theguardian.com about the future of online dating: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems?
Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as ‘swipe fatigue’ grows
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Our paper on self-driving cars and AI dilemmas is featured in @efn.se Vetenskap! @henrikdku.bsky.social efn.se/ai-behover-f...
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Forskarna: Sluta jaga AI:s värsta scenarier
Ny studie: Moraldilemman har fått för stort fokus
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In this now published paper @henrikdku.bsky.social and I argue for domain-specific theorising, and against the use of abstract thought experiments: autonomous cars are more like participants in the institution of traffic and less like trolleys, for example. 🚗🫧 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
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Practice-Dependent Governance of AI
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Practice-dependent governance of AI doi.org/10.1007/s105... Paper in Journal of Business Ethics by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @elsakugelberg.bsky.social and Associate Member @henrikdku.bsky.social
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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I’m honoured to announce that I have been awarded Best Paper by @apsa.bsky.social's Foundations of Political Theory Section for my paper ‘Utopia and the History of Yiddish Political Thought’!
Title slide reads: 'Utopia and the History of Yiddish Political Thought'
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In this now published paper @henrikdku.bsky.social and I argue for domain-specific theorising, and against the use of abstract thought experiments: autonomous cars are more like participants in the institution of traffic and less like trolleys, for example. 🚗🫧 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
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Practice-Dependent Governance of AI
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 11/06/2026
Geertje Bol with an excellent new essay on liberalism and centrism in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social 👇 www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 05/05/2026
Asking international organisations to “just follow the science” sounds great – not least in response to “anti-expert” pushback. But that defence fundamentally misrepresents how expertise and IOs relate. My new book asks: where does expert-centred international governance actually come from? 🧵1/7
Cover of "The Technocratic International" (OUP) - tinyurl.com/yk94b8rv
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Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Next Wednesday, @elsakugelberg.bsky.social will be talking to use about institutional power and the sexual sphere!
Institutional power and the sexual sphere Wednesday the 13th May, 3-5pm

A joint CAMP and CLSR talk from Elsa
Kugelberg (University of Oxford).

'Institutional Power and the Sexual Sphere.

Botany House, room
1.03Talk abstract: 'When institutions exercise power over individuals, liberals argue this power must be justified to them.
In important domains of social life, liberals have taken this to entail the claims to noninterference, to equal standing, and to choice improvement.
However, even though sexuality and intimate relationships are shaped by, and bound up with, formal and informal institutions, liberals have treated the sexual sphere as separated from public life. In this domain, therefore, liberals have endorsed only one structural claim - to noninterference. To show that this asymmetry is unwarranted, I present four arguments from within liberal egalitarianism for going beyond mere noninterference: from self-respect, from fair equality of opportunity, from conditions for entry, and from adequacy. From these arguments, 1 derive a framework on which justice in the sexual sphere includes claims to opportunities to develop sexual standing and to pursue sexual life plans, in addition to noninterference.'
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Presenting my work on institutional power and the sexual sphere at @manchester.ac.uk Centre for Political Theory today! This is part of my book project on what justice in this domain requires beyond mere noninterference
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 23/04/2026
My book is now published online, and will be in print 5 May! 🤓 Online version: academic.oup.com/book/62632 Pre-order your copy (or ask your university library to do so) here: global.oup.com/academic/pro... For review copies, see here for more info: global.oup.com/academic/pre...
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The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere
Abstract. How did experts become central actors in international affairs? The Technocratic International tells the surprisingly neglected story of how nine
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My and @henrikdku.bsky.social paper on regulating AI is accepted in Journal of Business Ethics! We argue for domain specific theorising and against the use of abstract thought experiments: autonomous cars are better understood as participants in the traffic institution than as trolleys, for example.
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
From our November Issue: Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere by @elsakugelberg.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Nuffield College, Oxford @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Congratulations to Nuffield College alumni John de Bhal and Sam Holcroft, and current Nuffield Fellow Elsa Kugelberg, on receiving Department of Politics and International Relations prizes for outstanding DPhil theses. Read more: tinyurl.com/2d9ervh3 Image credit: Kinga Lubowiecka
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Pratade med @efntv.bsky.social om min forskning 💕📱 efn.se/marknaden-fo...
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Paradoxen i nätdejting – så blev kärlek en handelsvara
Marknaden som formar våra intima relationer • ”Två logiker som krockar”
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 22/01/2026
📚 Out with OUP this summer: "Experts in a Turbulent World" 📚 An edited volume that connects historical and contemporary perspectives on the role of experts in international organisations. 1/3 👇 #HistIR global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 29/01/2026
🌐 How do Rapid Response Mechanisms at the UN affect the making & use of expertise? My new article @risjnl.bsky.social, part of a special issue by Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, @uribejuanita.bsky.social & Leandro Montes Ruiz on sources of expert authority beyond objectivity 👇 tinyurl.com/yzn422nn
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Time frames: Crisis expertise and rapid response mechanisms | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Time frames: Crisis expertise and rapid response mechanisms
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 18/01/2026
This will be excellent — “Partisan Virtue” by Geertje Bol @whpt.bsky.social 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
CFP: OXFORD GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY! Welcoming submissions in any area of political theory—including critical theory, analytic political philosophy, and the history of political thought. Submit by 31 January: forms.gle/v6Zv1cH7a6Da...
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 12/12/2025
My forthcoming book - The Technocratic International - appears in the catalogue now, so I guess it's happening! Out with OUP @academic.oup.com some time spring/early summer next year! More info 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The UCL Ronald Dworkin Colloquium is back for the new term! It is our main interdisciplinary seminar in normative legal and political philosophy at UCL Institute for Law, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP), and it runs in a pre-read format >> www.eventbrite.com/cc/dworkin-c...
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Dworkin Colloquium series, 2025-26
The Dworkin Colloquium series, organised by the UCL Institute for Laws, Politics and Philosophy (ILPP)
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere By Elsa Kugelberg, University of Oxford The online dating application has in recent years become a major avenue for meeting potential partners. However, while the digital public sphere has gained the attention of…
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Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere
Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere By Elsa Kugelberg, University of Oxford The online dating application has in recent years become a major avenue for meeting potential partners. However, while the digital public sphere has gained the attention of political philosophers, a systematic normative evaluation of issues arising in the “digital sexual sphere” is lacking. I provide a philosophical framework for assessing the conduct of dating app corporations, capturing both the motivations of users, and the reason why they find usage unsatisfying.
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Abstractions without principles are mere euphemisms.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
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Yeah, what is 'Post-Liberalism' anyway?
Questions for Ross Douthat
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome? politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
My paper on institutions and intimacy now got its @apsrjournal.bsky.social issue number 📚 ⌨️ !! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere - Volume 119 Issue 4
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Henrik D Kugelberg @henrikdku.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Pratar maktkoncentration, upphovsrättsintrång, och techbubblor i P3 ID. www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/del-...
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Del 2: Sam Altman – maskinernas framtid, mänsklighetens dilemma - P3 ID
Han har blivit AI-kapplöpningens ansikte utåt men anklagas för att vara alldeles för riskbenägen. Det här är andra och sista delen om Sam Altman.
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
My friend Kal thinks you should vote everyday 🗳️🤔🕒 :) This is an unusually creative piece of theory and a fantastic paper
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Our new issue drops soon! @leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +
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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
My new article, 'Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration', is now available (open access) in APSR @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
no words
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
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