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Happy and excited to say I've just signed a contract with OUP @academic.oup.com for my first book, tentatively titled "Illegitimate Borders: Liberal Democracy and the Restriction of Movement." I reckon it will come out some time in 2028!

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Spoiler: The historical and material circumstances of nominally liberal-democratic governance, at least in the Global North, erect a system of barriers that keeps liberal democracies from living up to (what should be) their own value commitments.

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The book will provide a new account of the conditions under which states may legitimately exclude outsiders from their territories; argue that liberal democracies today almost never meet these conditions; and provide a historicizing analysis of why this is so.

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Torsten Menge @tmenge.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft hat den Anthropologen Ghassan Hage entlassen, weil er Israels Völkermod scharf kritisierte. Stattdessen darf Hedwig Richter—die den Massenmord gerechtfertigt hat (für den sei eigentlich Hamas Schuld)—auf der Jahresversammlung über Demokratie "diskutieren".

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In our introductory article, we trace how the transformations of the polycrisis have generated deep political conflict over whether to prioritize the inclusiveness or the robustness of democratic citizenship; we argue that this antagonism is neither desirable nor inevitable. doi.org/10.1080/1654...

Between openness and resilience: rethinking citizenship in times of polycrisis

Under present conditions of multiple, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing crises, both the internal and external dimensions of citizenship have come under pressure. Externally, higher migration f...

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How can we bolster the moral value and political function of democratic citizenship in times of polycrisis? Can we make it more robust and more inclusive, or are these irreconcilable goals? Our new Ethics & Global Politics special issue tries to find answers. www.tandfonline.com/toc/zegp20/1...

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We think this is possible, to the extent that it comes with a shift in our conceptions of what citizenship *is* - an institutionalized guarantee of social equality for all those present, not some lever of privilege reserved for the deserving few. See Daniel Sharp's piece for more on this point.

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Between openness and resilience: rethinking citizenship in times of polycrisis

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Finally, Julian Culp examines the notion of 'digital citizenship,' arguing that it has not only failed to live up to its promises of broadening and deepening citizenship, but has acted as an ideology to obfuscate opposite processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Damaging democratic citizenship: the ideology of digital empowerment

In this article I advance the inquiry of democratic citizenship in the digital age or ‘digital citizenship,’ for short, through an ideology critique of what I refer to as the ideology of digital em...

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In the fifth essay, Rainer Bauböck argues that the climate crisis requires both a further broadening of national citizenship boundaries and a deepening of citizenship practices, and that 'climate cosmopolitans' must find arguments that resonate within national politics. doi.org/10.1080/1654...

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In the fourth essay, Sandra Seubert looks at how institutonal arrangements above and beyond the nation-state can broaden and deepen civic entitlements, arguing that supranational citizenship need not come with a lack of democratic substance. doi.org/10.1080/1654...

Boundaries of citizenship: federal perspectives and democratic minimum standards in the EU

In recent decades, we have witnessed a growing mismatch between systemic interdependencies and political structures as well as political identities, calling for strategies to cope and create new sy...

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In the second essay, Francesca Strumia argues that the goals of a 'broader' and a 'deeper' citizenship are only at oods with each other where boundaries between insiders and outsiders are conceived as hard. To deepen and broaden citizenship, we must blur these boundaries. doi.org/10.1080/1654...

Broadening through blurring? Rethinking citizenship across the ‘us’/‘them’ divide

This contribution explores an argument for the deepening of citizenship as political membership through the blurring of the boundary between the ‘us’ of the citizens and the ‘them’ of the non-citiz...

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · 02/06/2026

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#JobPost 📣 The Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Critical Border Studies. This is a four-year position based in Joensuu, starting 1 September 2026. No Finnish required. Deadline: 30 June Read more: uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Critical Border Studies

The Karelian Institute of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies invites applications for one Postdoctoral Researcher position in Critical Border Studies on the Joensuu Campus. The positi

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 29/05/2026

#OtD 29 May 1830 Paris Communard, anarchist Louise Michel was born. After the Commune, she was deported to the prison colony of New Caledonia, where she supported an uprising of the Indigenous people, and later returned a national hero stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🚨Job alert🚨 Postdoc position: Political Theory and History of Ideas (100%, 3+2 years) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Deadline: 24.06.26 Happy to answer questions via email. Please share widely! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

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Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Associate - Professorship for Political Theory and History of Ideas 26/ES02

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🚨Stellenausschreibung🚨 Postdoc-Stelle: Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte (100%, 3+2 Jahre) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Bewerbungsfrist: 24.06.26 Bei Fragen gerne per E-Mail bei mir melden. Gerne teilen! www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...

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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in - Lehrstuhl für Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte 26/ES02

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Just noticed my book on the UK’s outsourced immigration detainee escorting system & how it’s run like a logistics system is 50% off @princetonupress.bsky.social, only £15: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Supply Chain Justice

How the UK’s immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain

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Lukas Schmid @lukasschmid.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Thanks, Daniel. And I will of course make my own post to spotlight the entire special issue once it is fully out. Should be very soon.

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Lukas Schmid @lukasschmid.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I wrote a brief review of Shuk Ying Chan's excellent book Postcolonial Global Justice. Check it out (gift link): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JFJWZ...

Postcolonial Global Justice

Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

In the last 20 years, the "two state solution" has been a discursive mechanism to convince people that (1) this is a "conflict between neighbouring peoples" rather than between the state and dominated/colonised people within (2) That there's a credible route towards partition, when there isn't one

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Lukas Schmid @lukasschmid.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I wrote a brief review of Shuk Ying Chan's excellent book Postcolonial Global Justice. Check it out (gift link): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JFJWZ...