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Jens Theilen

@jtheilen.bsky.social
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they/them — international law, human rights, citizenship and migration law — feminist, queer and decolonial perspectives — personal account, opinions my own

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"Ob wir Antisemitismus nur beklagen (Bild des Holocaust Mahnmals) ... oder Judenhassern wirklich die Stirn bieten (Demonstration mit Palästinaflaggen und Polizei)." Ausschnitt aus aktuellem CDU-Werbespot (www.cdu.berlin). Ich halte mich normalerweise zurück, aber hier nicht. 🧵
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Duncker & Humblot @dunckerhumblot.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Die neue Ausgabe von DER STAAT ist erschienen: duncker-humblot.de/einzelheft/s... @jtheilen.bsky.social #Asyl #Grundrecht #Landesverfassungsgericht #KI #PräventiveVerhaltensvorsage #Unionsbürgerschaft #ÖffentlichesRecht
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 29/01/2026
The European Commission is watering down AI regulation and data protection rules as part of the Digital Omnibus to avoid “missing out” on AI developments. FELIX BIEKER & KATHERINE NOLAN warn this AI FOMO risks sidelining fundamental rights. verfassungsblog.de/eu-digital-l...
Quote from our newest blogpost by Felix Bieker & Katherine Nolan: “Consumed with AI FOMO, the European Commission is ready to jettison fundamental rights protection.”
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Fingers and paws are crossed!
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
An important and wide-ranging interview with Nahed Samour on international law and Palestine, among other things on the role of law and narrative, on the relation between positivism and critique, and on transnational resistance: academic.oup.com/lril/advance...
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International law, populism and Palestine: an interview with Nahed Samour
In this interview, Dr Richard Joyce and Professor Sundhya Pahuja are joined by German-Palestinian international legal scholar, Dr Nahed Samour, currently b
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies 

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.  

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 17/09/2025
How does the struggle over the term "genocide" shape international law? @isafei.bsky.social & members of #Ö examine genocide not only as mass killing but as the dismantling of the common - the social, cultural, & ecological relations that sustain communities. voelkerrechtsblog.org/whats-in-a-n...
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What’s in a Name? Genocide, the Universal and the Common in International Law
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Another article from our special issue on frames of human rights is out: @esrademir.bsky.social’s fantastic piece on oppositional frames, analysing how concepts like authoritarianism and populism are used and what this tells us about the Council of Europe itself www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A screenshot of the article’s abstract, entitled “The shifting frames of the Council of Europe: from totalitarianism to authoritarianism, from populism to democratic backsliding”
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
a timely and important symposium at @voelkerrechtsblog.org : ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’ voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
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Introducing the Symposium ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’
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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
In our article in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social and I share our discomfort with equating justice to punishment in Palestine Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise doi.org/10.1017/S092...
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Today is the offical @versobooks.bsky.social release date of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine, by Adam Hanieh, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
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Martin Glasenapp @martinglasenapp.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Licht und Schatten im BVG-Urteil zu Ramstein – mit Blick auf mögliche Präzedenzwirkung für Waffenlieferungen nach Gaza. Ein lesenswerter Beitrag! verfassungsblog.de/ramstein-voe...
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Vertrauen und Vertretbarkeit
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Von Thunfisch und Panther bis zu Kritik am Beck Verlag ist alles dabei im Beitrag von @isalischewski.bsky.social zu “Genderverboten” an Schulen 🔥 elibrary.duncker-humblot.com/article/7560...
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Duncker & Humblot - Berlin: Recht schreiben?
Ein Forum für die Wissenschaft seit 1798.
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Sué González Hauck @gonzalezhauck.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
@jtheilen.bsky.social und ich haben für @verfassungsblog.de das Ramstein-Urteil analysiert. Trotz der sehr hohen Hürden, die das Gericht für staatliche Schutzpflichten aufstellt, wird klar: Bei Waffenlieferungen an Israel muss eine solche Pflicht greifen.
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Vertrauen und Vertretbarkeit
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Great analysis and contextualisation of the IACtHR’s Advisory Opinion on the climate emergency by @juanauz.bsky.social
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Now available for preorder - Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social "Profound and compelling … A book that I couldn’t put down." - Adam Hanieh
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Extractive Capitalism
Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives re...
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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Has the European Convention of Human Rights overcome its colonial origins? Jens T. Theilen argues that the civilizational hierarchies around the idea of ‘Europe’ still permeate contemporary understandings of ‘European consensus’ and the extraterritorial application of the ECHR.
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Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights
Abstract. When the European Convention on Human Rights was adopted, several states parties were major colonial powers forcefully engaged in retaining that
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Jacob Katz Cogan @jkatzcogan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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Call for Papers: Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism
The ANZSIL Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group has issued a call for papers for a workshop on "Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism," to take place October 31, 2025, at Melbourne Law School. The call is here.      
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Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
We wrote a thing about academic silencing of Palestine within the (feminist/queer) refugee law community. Hope you enjoy the read 🍉 feministiqa.net/en/you-canno...
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You cannot pinkwash genocide: Why the (queer) refugee law studies community should be talking about Palestine – and why it is not - Feministiqa
You cannot pinkwash genocide: Why the (queer) refugee law studies community should be talking about...
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Hendrik Simon @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🎙️ PODCAST: @erik.d-64.social und ich sprechen in der neuesten Folge des Völkerrechtspodcasts (@voelkerrechtsblog.org ) über Völkerrechtsgeschichte(n) Unsere Gäst:innen sind Prof. Dr. Miloš Vec (Wien) sowie @gonzalezhauck.bsky.social (Hamburg). voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/48-geschi...
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#48: Geschichten des Völkerrechts: Von Grotius zu kritischen Ansätzen
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Blog of the European Society for Comparative Legal History @esclh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
ARTICLE: Jens T. THEILEN, "Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights" (EJIL XXXVI (2025), nr. 1, 113-142) @ejiltalk.bsky.social esclh.blogspot.com/2025/07/arti...
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ARTICLE: Jens T. THEILEN, "Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights" (EJIL XXXVI (2025), nr. 1, 113-142)
(image source: OUP ) Abstract: When the European Convention on Human Rights was adopted, several states parties were major colonial powers...
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Aww thank you! Made my day 🥰
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, well deserved!
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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 18/06/2025
#Ö-Editorial 46 is here! Isabel Lischewski calls for a queerer legal imagination—one that resists flattening, embraces complexity, and reimagines international law beyond normativity and rigidity. #LGBTQIA+Rights, #Pride voelkerrechtsblog.org/editorial-46...
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Editorial #46: We Need A Queerer Legal Imagination
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A screenshot of the title and abstract of Nurbanu Hayır’s paper entitled “Non-member migrants in spaceless zones: the spatial membership frame of embassies and consulates in the European Court of Human Rights”, available at the link in the quoted post
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Another paper from our special issue on Frames of European human rights is out: “Seriously ill migrants in European human rights: Framing global inequalities” by @vanditak.bsky.social — absolute must-read on humanitarianism, responsibility & structural inequality www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The article’s abstract, available at the link in the post
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A really superb piece by Amin Parsa: 'The key to understanding the impact of advanced visual technology of targeting... requires acknowledging how the laws of war themselves produce an ‘order of visibility’ in order to legitimize lethal violence' criticallegalthinking.com/2025/06/09/t...
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The Politics of Vision, Targeting, and Palestine
‘The whole history of Palestinian struggle has to do with the desire to be visible.’ Edward Said On the evening of March 3rd, 1991, Rodney King, a
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
ROUNDTABLE on Intellectual Property and Industrial Property (in the Era of Trump) Wellcome Collection, London | 19 June | 3:30-5pm GMT In-person and online & open to public With @mbarber.bsky.social @kathybowrey.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social Vitor Ido, Svitlana Lebendeko, Caoimhe Ring, me
A flyer for the roundtable with a picture of multiple Trumps holding an executive order where only his signature is visible. For the full text (it is long), please message me or leave a reply.Biography of the speakers. It is a long text and doesn't fit the space here. For the full text, please message me or leave a reply.
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Now published open access in the current issue of @ejiltalk.bsky.social — in wonderful company including @kalokyip.bsky.social on the right to life during hostilities and @gonzalezhauck.bsky.social on systematicity in the liberal internationalist ethos 🔗 academic.oup.com/ejil/issue/3...
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Volume 36 Issue 1 | European Journal of International Law | Oxford Academic
Covers rapidly evolving issues of international law through a distinctive combination of theoretical and practical approaches. Provides systematic coverage of the relationship between international la...
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Out now in open access and sure to be an absolute banger — can’t wait to read! 🌱
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Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Happy to share my first piece in @opiniojuris.bsky.social on "Settler Tourism in #WesternSahara and the Commodification of Occupied Territories", where I take aim at @ryanairofficial.bsky.social & others and draw comparisons with Trump's plans for Palestine as Riviera opiniojuris.org/2025/05/23/d...
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Development as Domination: Settler Tourism in Western Sahara and the Commodification of Occupied Territories in Trumpist International Law
[Andrea Maria Pelliconi is a Lecturer in Human Rights Law & Global Justice at the University of Southampton, where she researches demographic engineering, displacement, and inter…
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
“[T]he criminalization approach provides the Court with an alibi for not recognizing or attending to the deeply structural racialized, colonial, sexual, gendered, and homophobic violence in Europe, particularly but not only against Roma communities and Black and Muslim migrants”
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
"Gaza is unique in the annals of starvation because of the simplicity of this calculation...." "Israel controls every shekel, every sack of flour, every connection to the outside world."
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“Ist die menschenverachtende Gleichgültigkeit einmal mühevoll erschaffen, lässt sie sich schwer wieder ablegen.” Mein Kommentar zu Gaza und der deutschen Linken heute in der @taz.de taz.de/Krieg-im-Gaz...
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“This is one of the most ostentatious and merciless manifestations of the desecration of human life and dignity” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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End unfolding genocide or watch it end life in Gaza: UN experts say States face defining choice
GENEVA – Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an out...
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Teaching the judgment this week and “Alien v Predator of constitutional moments” went straight to my slides 🙌
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Oh you, thank you so much! 💜
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Lauren Stokes @laurenstokes.bsky.social reviews 'Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement', By Tiffany N. Florvil @tnflorvil.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @illinoispress.bsky.social
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Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement, By Tiffany N. Florvil
Black German activists in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) confronted false beliefs that they did not belong there, and the national myth that the FRG
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
[New Event] Join us for Race, Refuge & Repair: Rethinking Migration from the Global South (29–30 May, hybrid) — a powerful colloquium exploring the ties between colonial and postcolonial governance, international law, migration, and refugee protection: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Mega, herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🤩
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Danke dir — und ja, es gäbe noch unendlich viel mehr zum Europabegriff zu schreiben!
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thank you!
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Oh, I had missed this — congratulations, Jaka!
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Helpful thread by @maartenpvink.bsky.social summarising today’s ECJ ruling concerning investment citizenship and earlier legal commentary 👇 For the broader dynamics at play I recommend @manuelaboatca.bsky.social’s work on the coloniality of citizenship, e.g.: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Coloniality of Citizenship and Occidentalist Epistemology.2019
PDF | A growing number of Western states currently scandalize the claims to residence and citizenship of people racialized as non-European, non-Western,... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📄 New article: Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
A screenshot of the title (“Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights”) and abstract of the paper available at the link above
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Esra Demir-Gürsel @esrademir.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
On European human rights, frames, and critique. @jtheilen.bsky.social and I had a very insightful conversation with Daniela Rau from Völkerrechtsblog about studying European human rights, authoritarianism, climate change, and migration through the lenses of critique and framing.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
💥FREE EBOOK!💥 This book is a transfeminist call for collective liberation. Because there's no liberation without trans liberation Download your copy here: www.plutobooks.com/978074534941...
Promotional graphic for a free ebook from Pluto Press. The image features the book cover of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds by Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, which has a gradient background of orange, pink, and purple. To the right of the book cover, large white text reads “FREE EBOOK,” with the Pluto Press logo and name beneath it. The background is a solid mauve color.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
No government or court ruling can legitimately decide who I am - or, indeed, who I am not.
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Eilidh Beaton @eilidhbeaton.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)

 A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI
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Eilidh Beaton, Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem - PhilPapers
Political philosophy has long been criticised for its state-centricity. A recent version of this objection asserts that the discipline perpetuates a problematic methodological nationalism. Critics arg...
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