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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 22/09/2026

Our first event is on 1 October at 17:00 UK time! Join us for a book talk! Heather Johnson, Cetta Mainwaring and Martina Tazzioli will discuss Vicki Squire’s book Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship! The event will be chaired by Suzan Ilcan. www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @mybisa.bsky.social

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Book talk: Making and unmaking global citizenship- Migration and Borders | BISA

- Migration and Borders Working Group

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 22/09/2026

Are you interested in migration and borders and want to be involved in academic conversations? Then join our @mybisa.bsky.social Working Group on Migration and Borders: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... And join BISA if you’re not a member already!

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Migration and Borders

The Migration and Borders Working Group covers a wide range of topics including critical border studies, migration, governance, asylum and refugee protection, citizenship, mobility, regular and irregu...

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E-International Relations @e-international.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Are you at @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2026? So are we! You can find @kieranomeara.bsky.social and @mariannakarakoulaki.com in front of Meeting Room 1d. Come say hello and tell us what you’re working and what you loved so far at the conference!

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 05/05/2026

The latest episode of Thinking Borders is out now! In this episode we talk about her extensive work on borders and migration, activism, solidarity an so much more! Available at all podcasting platforms: open.spotify.com/episode/3wfz...

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Thinking Borders - Vicki Squire

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 07/03/2026

For the second episode of Thinking Borders, I talked to Philosopher Thomas Nail about the philosophy of movement and his overall work! Have a listen and if you like it, subscribe and leave us a good comment: www.e-ir.info/2026/03/02/t...

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Thinking Global Podcast – Thinking Borders: Thomas Nail

Professor Nail discusses the philosophy of movement, the fluidity of borders, migration, border regimes and more.

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 07/03/2026

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Thinking Global Podcast – Thinking Borders: Thomas Nail

Professor Nail discusses the philosophy of movement, the fluidity of borders, migration, border regimes and more.

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 19/01/2026

Very happy to share the launch of my new podcast 'Thinking Borders' hosted by E-IR's Thinking Global Podcast. For the first episode, Shahram Khosravi discusses autoethnography, personal narratives, the ethics of writing about others, Iran, #border resistance and more. www.e-ir.info/2026/01/19/t...

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Thinking Global Podcast – Thinking Borders: Shahram Khosravi

In the Thinking Borders series Professor Shahram Khosravi discusses autoethnography, personal narratives, the ethics of writing about others, Iran, border resistance and more.

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Good @nieuws.nos.nl , now also replace the X share button with a @bsky.app one over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 14/09/2025

"Many of the facile defenses of Kirk and his legacy are predicated on the idea that it’s acceptable to spread hateful ideas advocating for the persecution of perceived enemies as long you dress them up in a posture of debate." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 30/07/2025

Europe is doubling down on cruelty. In my latest article for @aljazeera.com, I break down how Greece and the UK’s migration plans are racist, dehumanising, and doomed to fail. Deterrence doesn’t stop migration — it just spreads suffering. 👉 aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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Europe’s deadly border theatre is back

The UK and Greece are recycling racist border policies of the past decade and pretending they’ll work this time.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

🌟 July newsletter! 🌟 inc: - BISA 2025 prize winners announced! 🎉 - Early-Career @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social Politics Paper Prize - nominate now! 🌎 - @e-international.bsky.social x BISA: podcast episodes from #BISA2025 in Belfast 🎙️ read now - buff.ly/UY2SEp6 @faloulah.bsky.social @gnobisa.bsky.social

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Anyway I documented and analysed all of this in detail in my @versobooks.bsky.social book. Which is to say I've been thinking and working on the politics and impacts of this for more than a decade and I know what I'm talking about. www.versobooks.com/products/277...

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Humanitarian Borders

*Winner of the International Political Sociology book award for 2023*What does it mean when humanitarianism is the response to death, injury and suffering at the border? This book interrogates the pol...

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The Labour government are desperate to spin the ‘we can do nothing it’s the criminal gangs’ argument because they think it absolves them of their racist inhumanity. It doesn’t. The gangs are a symptom of that racist inhumanity.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The fucking chutzpah of this woman. I watched her get emotional on a beach in Lesvos in 2015 as boats arrived. She knows exactly how it works. So what was it Yvette fake tears back in 2015 or did you sell your soul for power?

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 11/07/2025

#Greece 's decision to suspend asylum claims for asylum seekers arriving from North Africa (central Mediterranean route) violates international law and should not be seen in isolation from the EU's migration policies. I spoke to Inside Story about this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDE... #RefugeesGR

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Is suspending asylum requests right response to curb illegal immigration to Greece? | Inside Story

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

#Newsnight I heard figures who appear capable of reading research claim no #IDcards & 'liberal' UK economy with a grey labour market pulls ppl to claim asylum. As someone who has focused for 20 years on evidencing labour market exploitation of asylum seekers, I must categorically refute these claims

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) and the Capital & Class Midlands Groups is organising an annual workshop in the memory of Paula Schwevers with a brilliant panel. Their call for papers can be found here: csemidlands.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/c...

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

@e-international.bsky.social podcast @ #BISA2025 🎉 All 4 episodes of the E-IR podcasts recorded with us in Belfast have now been uploaded including interviews with @bleiker.bsky.social and @nickcaddick.bsky.social 🌟 🎧 Listen here - buff.ly/JvVrHsD @faloulah.bsky.social

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It has been a pleasure to talk to @faloulah.bsky.social from e-ir at the recent @mybisa.bsky.social conference in Belfast. Thanks, Marianna.

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 25/06/2025

Favourite moment from the interview was the advice @bleiker.bsky.social gives to researchers: "Follow your passions. Don't do research because people tell you this topic is sexy and it'll be good, but follow your instincts, follow your passions"

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 25/06/2025

I've had the chance to interview @bleiker.bsky.social for @e-international.bsky.social's podcast during our #BISA2025 coverage. R. Bleiker's work on emotions and visual politics has changed IR in many ways; hearing him talk about it live was a privilege. 📻: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/24/e...

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E-IR x BISA: Roland Bleiker on Emotions, Visuality and International Politics

Roland Bleiker, the Keynote Speaker of the BISA Conference 2025, speaks about emotions and visuality in international politics, the conference, advice to young scholars and more.

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Kieran O’Meara @kieranomeara.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This week, join @faloulah.bsky.social and myself of @e-international.bsky.social‬ recording LIVE from the @mybisa.bsky.social conference in Belfast. If you’re attending, come find us so we can record you and bring your research to our global listenership! #BISA2025

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 13/06/2025

We’ve teamed up with @mybisa.bsky.social to bring #BISA2025 to those who cannot join in Belfast! We’ll be live recording @e-internationa.bsky.social’s Thinking Global podcast directly from Belfast! If you’re there, find us at the exhibition all and come, talk to us about your research!

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Thinking Global, @e-international.bsky.social‬ podcast, is recording at #BISA2025 🎙️ Join @kieranomeara.bsky.social‬ @faloulah.bsky.social‬ & others to share your research, thoughts and impressions directly from #BISA2025! 🎉 Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/mHkyijl @bisasee.bsky.social @ipegbisa.bsky.social

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 11/06/2025

"[U]ndermining fascist rhetoric online can help us reclaim space, thwart discussions that are dominated by hate, and create loopholes in the logic of global capitalism." My later article for a new zine: provocat.org?page_id=195

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 01/06/2025

#Trump's controversial policies, straight out of a far-right initiative, #Project2025 have impacted the global architecture of aid. Mia Hyun, Scarlet Vass, Thomas Bobo and I take dive deep into these changes for our latest article on @e-international.bsky.social 👉 www.e-ir.info/2025/05/31/d...

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Donald Trump’s War on Global Development

Trump’s policies highlight a far-right backwardness that impacts the global development world exponentially; whether those in power can sustain the impacts is to be seen.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Thinking Global, @e-international.bsky.social‬ podcast, is recording and broadcasting at #BISA2025 🎙️ Join @kieranomeara.bsky.social‬ ‪ @faloulah.bsky.social‬ & others to share your research, thoughts and impressions direct from the conference to a global audience! 🎉 Learn more! 👉 buff.ly/2dBfZ4R

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E-International Relations at BISA 2025

E-International Relations will be attending the 2025 British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference in Belfast and recording for our podcast.

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E-International Relations @e-international.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

We’re excited to announce that we will be attending #BISA2025 @mybisa.bsky.social Conference in Belfast from 17–20 June! This will be first time E-IR will be in a face to face event represented by TWO of our Directors! Read more about our plans and get in touch! www.e-ir.info/2025/04/22/e...

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E-International Relations at BISA 2025

E-International Relations will be attending the 2025 British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference in Belfast and recording for our podcast.

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 22/04/2025

Exciting times! I've been an E-IR editor since 2012 and a Director since 2014! This is the first time our team will join an in-person event! If you want to see some of us behind the world's largest open-access IR website, come, meet us at Belfast! #BISA2025

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E-International Relations @e-international.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“Whether to use the feminist label for German foreign and development policy then becomes a question of political will.” Karoline Färber writes: www.e-ir.info/2025/04/21/o...

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Opinion – The Future of German Feminist Foreign and Development Policy

If Germany’s new coalition moves away from a distinctly feminist foreign policy approach, it would mean they will move away from a commitment to social transformation.

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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

When abused domestic workers in Saudi Arabia asked Kenya's embassy for help, officials responded with insults and demands for sex and money. Read the second part of our investigation into how diplomats and foreign ministry officials profit off the misery of stranded women.

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When Kenyan Maids Sought Help Overseas, Diplomats Demanded Sex (Gift Article)

Women say that embassy officials added a new level of indignity to the abuse they suffered while working abroad.

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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

'Black boundaries' Book Review of The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth, by Derron Wallace, Reviewed by Patricia A. Banks From #Identities' latest symposium: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 12/02/2025

Seeking refuge, living in safety and having the same rights as others is a basic human right. Playing with people's lives so that you satisfy a right-wing agenda and rhetoric will only have negative implications for the Government. #refugees

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/01/2025

Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 21/01/2025

The 1% have always been hand in hand with fascism, the only difference now is that they are reclaiming it under freedom of speech and American democracy.

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 11/12/2024

In an hour from now, I’ll be live on Al Jazeera at 18.15 GMT to discuss the decision of several European countries to put asylum applications by Syrians on hold after the fall of Assad’s regime. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/gCNeDWC...

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 05/12/2024

Overall, I think I was very lucky this academic semester.

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 05/12/2024

I also had a great mentor who guided me every step of the way and I learnt a lot about my teaching practice and about academia as a whole. The students I taught were some of the best ones I have taught in general: curious, open-minded, hard-working, willing to learn and most importantly, nice.

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 05/12/2024

Fulfilling because I learnt a lot about designing a module and individual sessions and challenging because I had not done it before and I was concerned about the way students would take the modules. They seemed to like both.

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 05/12/2024

In September I was hired as a Lecturer in Sociology which in itself was unexpected. I (co)convened two modules one on critical theories and one on nationalism. I was given the chance to design parts of the modules which was a very fulfilling and challenging experience.

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Marianna Karakoulaki @mariannakarakoulaki.com · 05/12/2024

Yesterday was my last day of teaching at Anglia Ruskin University for this academic term. I have to say it was a bittersweet end of the term. It was an exhausting term but I loved it. So here are some reflections:

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