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Nations and Nationalism @nationsnationalism.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

@emreamasyali.bsky.social & Andrei Tarasov identify 3 types of nation-building in the post-Soviet space in today's #earlyview article, 'Nation-Building in the Wake of Empire: Identifying Patterns of Minority Policies in the Aftermath of Soviet Collapse' #openaccess @ onlinelibrary.wiley....

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Emre Amasyalı @emreamasyali.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Excited to be organizing this workshop with the ETHNICGOODS project: 📚 Textbooks, Identity & Conflict 🗓️ Nov 2025 | 📍 Sarajevo We'll explore how textbooks shape identity, memory & reconciliation in divided societies. Got a relevant project? Apply! 🔗 lnkd.in/d5EsSpe7 📩 ethnicgoods@ibei.org

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EthnicGoods @ethnicgoods.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

📄 This week our lead postdoc @emreamasyali.bsky.social presented an insightful paper on "Anachronism in Political Science: Value-Based, Conceptual, and Methodological", co-authored with Harris Mylonas, at @ibei.org's Methods and Inference research cluster. Looking forward to seeing it in print soon!

Anachronism in Political Science: Value-Based, Conceptual, and Methodological

by Emre Amasyali & Harris Mylonas

Scholars frequently impose contemporary concepts, moral judgments, and analytical frameworks onto historical contexts, leading to distorted interpretations of political identity, sovereignty, and state formation.

This study demonstrates how anachronistic assumptions about group boundaries, identity salience, and ethnic diversity maps undermine empirical accuracy and theoretical validity.

By critically engaging with recent scholarship, it argues that mitigating anachronism requires greater historical contextualization, methodological reflexivity, and a reconsideration of how political concepts evolve over time.

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EthnicGoods @ethnicgoods.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

👋 #AcademicSky 🙂 We are building the FIRST group-level dataset on Nation-Building! Our dataset tracks #NationBuilding policies across ethnic & national lines since 1945. It covers 5 key areas: – education – citizenship – public identity – constitutional law – state violence #Introduction #EduSky

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EthnicGoods @ethnicgoods.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We’re delighted to announce that EthnicGoods researcher, @emreamasyali.bsky.social, is featured in the latest edition of “Current Perspectives in Social Theory”, published by Emerald Global. Find out more: www.emerald.com/insight/publ... #Agency #SociologicalTheory #SocialTheory #FutureOfAgency

The Future of Agency
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol 41

EthnicGoods researcher, Emre Amasyalı, has published a series of articles co-authored with Axel van den Berg (McGill University), where they have critically examined the concept of “agency”—commonly used to describe actions perceived as independent of structural constraints. Their work questions both the theoretical foundations and empirical usage of agency in sociological analysis.
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