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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The paper focuses on the 5 former British colonies in the #Caribbean – Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts, St. Lucia – which have turned their former colonial citizenships into strategic bargaining currency in the nooks & crannies of a global capitalist system not of their own making.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Instead, they are "cunning states" - a term initially proposed by Shalini Randeria for India - navigating the murky waters of #coloniality by commodifying #citizenship rights for wealthy investors and partnering up with financial consultancies who themselves evade revenue tax on their business.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Rather, (newly) independent Caribbean states are compelled to "smell like a market" so as to compete as economic actors in a global market in which investment migration & the migration industry play ever more significant roles. That doesn't make them "weak" states, as Eurocentric literature argues.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My article takes a longue durée approach that recenters the Caribbean in migration history & the political economy of capitalism. It borrows its title from Fernando Coronil's review of James Scott to argue that seeing like a (European) state isn't an option for formerly colonized, peripheral states.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Very happy to see this labor of love online, open access and part of an @ersjournal.com special issue titled "Migration Industry: Governance, Capital Accumulation and Global Dehumanization" co-edited by two inspiring luminaries of migration studies, Anna Triandafyllidou and Nina Glick Schiller.

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Global Studies Programme @gspunifreiburg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Do you want to study globalisation in a transdisciplinary and transnational setting? Do you like to critically engage with concepts and methods of the Social Sciences? Then apply for the 2027 intake of the Global Studies Programme 🌍 Applications open Sept 15 - Nov 30: uni-freiburg.de/global-studi...

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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder

Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026

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Helge Schwiertz @helgeschwiertz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

💥Out now💥 Gesellschaft der Migration. Zur sozialtheoretischen Revision einer kontroversen Wissenspraxis Hg. Helge Schwiertz / Serhat Karakayalı #OpenAccess www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

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Helge Schwiertz @helgeschwiertz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Mit Beiträgen von: Anna Amelina, @karobarg.bsky.social, @cbcmoi.bsky.social, Inken Bartels, @manuelaboatca.bsky.social, @heikedelitz.bsky.social, Coretta Ehrenfeld, Fabian Georgi, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Serhat Karakayalı, @fabios.bsky.social, @helgeschwiertz.bsky.social, Anja Weiß

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Next Monday afternoon in Freiburg, Sujata Patel, Ali Meghji and I, together with Ercüment Çelik, will be discussing how to address, navigate, and critique positionalities in our research and who gets to do so in academic contexts with or beyond decolonial and anticolonial commitments. Join us!

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We are also looking for a postdoc to conduct a study on socialist Bulgaria for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55196

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Starting tomorrow - the inaugural conference of the new Institute for Slavic and Eastern European Studies at the University of Zurich! Delighted to be on this fantastic opening panel that asks all the right questions - hope we'll be able to provide a few answers! Join us if you're around!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Bin dabei, mich mit ihrer Arbeit vertraut zu machen - schöner Zufall, dass Sie ausgerechnet jetzt fragen. Und danke fürs Posten! Mir geht es gut, Ihnen hoffentlich auch?

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kat köppert @katonymous.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Die Reihe "Faschisierung - analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien" geht in die zweite Runde, organisiert von der KriSol-AG "Was ist Faschisierung?". Alle Vorträge hybrid. @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

"The past is a foreign country", sex tourist edition.

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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I am very grateful to Lea Horvat & Ana Sekulić for creating Women* write the Balkans as a platform for conversation and experimentation, as well as for their masterful editorial guidance and patience. I enjoyed writing this para-ethnographic story and might do more of that in the future

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Seebrücke @seebruecke.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Am 8. April, dem Internationalen Tag der Rom*nja und Sinti*zze, erinnern wir an den ersten Welt Roma Kongress 1971 in London und damit an den Beginn einer internationalen Bürger*innenrechtsbewegung. "Romani Zor" heißt auch den Kampf heute weiterzuführen. #RomaDay #8April #InternationalRomaDay

Flagge der Rom*nja und Sinti*zze davor weiße box und in orangener Schrift:
8. April, Internationaler Tag der Rom*nja & Sinti*zze
Für Sichtbarkeit, Erinnerung und Widerstand.

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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Was machen eigentlich die deutschen Regierungsvertreter aus den Parteien mit dem C im Namen gerade...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

No, @britannica.com, it's not "the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution", it's the Haitian Revolution - with Black political subjects carrying out their own revolutionary acts, not subsumed under/inspired by white Europeans' revolutionary actions. #trouillot #silencingthepast

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Norbert Maria Schüssler @nmschuessler.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Sklaverei verschweigen Zwei neu auf Deutsch erschienene Bücher erforschen die Geschichte des Kapitalismus und die Funktion von Auslassungen im historischen Kanon www.akweb.de/gesellschaft...

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Sklaverei verschweigen

Zwei neu auf Deutsch erschienene Bücher erforschen die Geschichte des Kapitalismus und die Funktion von Auslassungen im historischen Kanon

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Louis Berger @ajournomento.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Papst Leo XIV. in seiner Osteransprache: „Wer Waffen in der Hand hält, lege sie nieder! [...] Wir sind gerade dabei, uns an die Gewalt zu gewöhnen, wir finden uns damit ab und werden gleichgültig. [...] Es gibt eine immer ausgeprägtere ‚Globalisierung der Gleichgültigkeit‘.“

Papst Leo XIV. auf der Benediktionsloggia.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Danke für die Einladung und die sehr schöne Diskussion mit der engagierten und interessierten Gruppe! Hat Spaß gemacht! 🤗

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Mary @mariamunteanca.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Alfred Bulai a fost trimis în judecată, după investigația Snoop

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The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science @mpips.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict under @steffenmau.bsky.social is looking for Postdoctoral & Doctoral Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Can't believe I'm saying this, but here is a serious warning against "Theory & Society" as a publication venue, which seems to be run by a right-wing board with an evolutionist agenda.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Unbelievably sickening and utterly dangerous.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Friends and colleagues in Vienna - a warm invitation to my talk next Wednesday at the Department of Development Studies: ie.univie.ac.at/aktuelles-un...

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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Book review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars. By Rita Maricocchi, PhD candidate at the University of Münster and Brian Quinn, PhD candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington. newfascismsyllabus.com/contribution...

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Review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars - The New Fascism Syllabus

Zimmerer, Jürgen. Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025. On November 12, 2025, the German parliament accepted a new [...]

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Join us on March 17 for the screening of the documentary and a subsequent discussion on memory and decoloniality.

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noltelin.bsky.social @noltelin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

see you there!

ie.talks
Public Lecture Series at the Department of Development Studies
Summer term 2026
Wednesdays 16:15-17:45
Department of Development Studies, Room SG2, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna

March 25, 2026
Creolizing the Modern. European Entanglements of Coloniality and Inter-Imperiality
Manuela Boatcă, University of Freiburg, Germany

April 29, 2026
Changing Rural Lives: An Ethnographic Exploration of Transformation in Bangladesh
Ranjan Saha Partha, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

May 27, 2026
Territoriale Macht: Wie Unternehmen sozial-ökologische Konflikte unterbinden. Am Beispiel des Extraktivismus in Chile
Anna Landherr and Jakob Graf, University of Augsburg, Germany

June 10, 2026

Between Social-Ecological Conflicts and Structural Transformation in Colombia: Possibilities and Challenges for Social Movements under a Progressive Government

Jakob Rammer

University of Vienna, Austria

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Looking forward to the conversation with like-minded colleagues and students of critical development in Vienna!

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Franziska Müller - DECT 6097 @squirrelista.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social

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Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Not to be missed if you're in Berlin and work on anti-racism!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Look, @madelinepotter.bsky.social, your beautiful book is gaining more traction - as it should! 🤗

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

That is lovely to hear - I read it in the meantime, too, and feel so well understood and in great company!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Oh, you MUST be kidding me, BBC!!! You first get all of Ukraine's neighbors wrong for four years and in the next war you start mislabeling former British colonies?

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IWM Vienna @iwm.at · 01/03/2026

"I propose the concept of 'Romani Europeans' not so much as a scholarly concept (yet), but more as a way to signal a political necessity." 📺️Missed @manuelaboatca.bsky.social's lecture last Tuesday? Watch the recording and her full lecture on unthinkable European history here:

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MANUELA BOATCĂ: Unthinkable Europeans in Unequal Europes

Monthly Lecture Unthinkable Europeans in Unequal Europes Manuela Boatcă, Ayşe Çağlar 24 February 2026, 18:00 CET IWM Library The reigning notion of “Europe” and its corresponding claims to…

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Yes, recorded and uploaded to YouTube 🤗

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

What a lineup!!! 🤩 Will it be recorded? I am traveling at that exact time 🥴.

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Join us for our next RUTA webinar with @magdamatache.bsky.social and @madelinepotter.bsky.social. We will discuss their paradigm shifting new books that revisit Romani histories, rethink how they’re theorised with and envision pathways toward racial justice Register here: forms.gle/tn6go6ZJ2pNi...

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Horrora C @theaurorac.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🧵 On February 20, 1856, slavery was formally abolished in the Romanian Principalities, ending five centuries of chattel slavery. The first official record of the enslavement of Roma people dates to 1385.

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