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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you want to read an analysis about the 2026 elections in Sweden and the intricate dynamics between radical right populism and mainstream, you may find my interview at the link herein.

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Institut für Europäische Politik e.V. @iep-berlin.de · 14/09/2026

🇸🇪 Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen in #Schweden: Die rot-grüne Opposition liegt nach vorläufigem Stand knapp vorn. Die Schwedendemokraten verlieren erstmals seit 2010. @norocel.bsky.social analysiert die Wahl im #WahlmonitorIEP Hier die ganze Analyse👇 tinyurl.com/wahlanalyse-schweden-2026

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#val2026 #val26 #Svpol #Sweden little has changed as vote counting progresses. The red-greens have a slight advantage w/h 176 mandates vs. Tidö w/h 173.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#val2026 #val26 #Svpol #Swedenelects w/h votes from 2325/6626 polling stations counted it looks more like a nail biting evening. The difference between the red-greens vs Tidö is just 1 (one) mandate for the former.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#val2026 #val26 #Svpol the voting station have closed and the #valu prognosis is out. 1/x

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I started my #ECPR GC 2026 w/h a presentation & discussion already at the first conference panel at 09.00. Today I plan to take it more easily & try to meet old friends & make new ones. Krakow is lovely & weather is still summerly.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

End of summer & the first signs of autumn. Delighted with what the allotment garden has to offer.

A brown vase with several dahlias of different colour and other computed flowers.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A postdoc position at Maynooth, working closely w/h Raul Cârstocea w/hin his ERC Consolidator Grant project entitled Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project (INTEMPO)

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This picture conveys in its own way (though I find it uncomfortably over-focused on women) what we actually witnessed to in these past weeks. Not my picture, seen it in my feed across several accounts, happy to credit correctly.

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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Job opportunity at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, especially Global Development, at @humangeosthlm.bsky.social. (Applicants must have a documented ability to use a Scandinavian language.) Please circulate – and please apply!! Application deadline: 7 September.

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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, especially Global Development

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

For (yet another) careful documenting of these awful things going on ”over there”. Mind you over there are people, hopes and dreams of a normal life just like in the comfort of ”over here”.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Important to remember the bigger picture in present context. It would be worth keeping in mind both who instigated it (& who gains from it) as well as who tries to spin it (& to what end).

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

After a tortuous itinerary I made it to Newcastle. I’m looking forward to several days of vigorous & generous discussions on issues of gender & politics together w/h 750 other scholars at ECPG 2026.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Truly enjoyed @rossellaciccia.bsky.social talk at GSS series on Conflicts over Care, but appalled by the state of train infrastructure in Copenhagen-Malmö (fire in tunnel, chaotic evacuation on her way in; suddenly cancelled trains & stops, broken doors homebound). Thought we are better, usually.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

As typical academic, I show to people I admire them by inviting to brainstorm together a funding application. We didn’t talk abt. low acceptance rate; rather allowed ourselves to think theoretical interactions btw. inter-imperiality, knowledge regimes & resistances. Hopefully Södertörn is a charm🤞🏼

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The inaugural symposium for KAW-project Conjunctures of struggles brought together researchers interested in gender & sexuality in contemporary context of democracy contestation. Two intense days filled w/h critical analysis & minute observation on these pressing issues.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The sausage party of all sausage parties. It’s so infuriatingly disappointing to see that we are reverting back to this. All I can remember is that old adage: if you are not at the table, then you are on the menu.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

So-called Social Democrats in 🇷🇴 PSD have allied w/h far-right AUR to topple the government they were part of together w/h conservative-right PNL and centre-right USR. EU level PES calls to forming of a ”stable pro-European government”. Bitter irony, as all Overton windows slammed open.

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Europe’s far-right firewall melts as Socialists topple Romania’s PM

Also in this newsletter: How to reuse and recycle more critical raw materials

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The quintessential spring picture in Lund.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The picture best illustrating my own ”one thing led to another” 1/

Picture of a very tempting freshly baked orange cake.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

W/h almost all votes counted (98,9%) the results of 2026 elections in Hungary 🇭🇺 confirm a legislative w/h a limited number of parties (3!), & a seriously rightward over-representstion. Tisza gets lion’s share 138 MPs (of 199 in total), Fidesz + Kdnp 55 MPs while Mi Hazánk hangs onto 6 MPs.

Almost final (98,9%) results of the 2026 parliamentary elections in Hungary

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The official numbers w/h not yet half of the votes counted show only 3 parties in future parliament (Tisza, Fidesz + Kdnp & Mi Hazánk), all on the right of centre & further to the far right in 🇭🇺 #Hungary #elections

Preliminary estimates of election results in Hungary

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So it seems these elections have really mobilized 🇭🇺 electorate. The numbers are much higher than in previous elections w/h urban centers leading.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Citizens in 🇭🇺 are mobilizing to vote in higher numbers than ever before. These elections are momentous to say the least.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A 📖: 3 counties (🇫🇷, 🇫🇮 & 🇷🇴) - 3 platforms (Instagram, Tiktok & X/Twitter) focusing on political content to which 18-24 yr olds are exposed. Ring-wing tilted messaging dominates across all platforms in all countries w/h an average 56%, centre barely visible with 17% and the left w/h 36%. Article in 🇸🇪

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På Instagram, Tiktok och X dominerar högerinnehåll för unga vuxna

En stor finländsk undersökning av algoritmerna på sociala medier gav blandade resultat. Kristo Lehtonen från Sitra säger att ”Instagram flippade helt”.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Idag fick jag äran att vara en av keynotetalarna inför ca. 200 personer samlade på Jämställdhetskonferensen som anordnas av Länsstyrelsen Skåne varje år. Mitt anförande handlade om Antidemokrati som/och antifeminism. Jag tror att det gick bra mitt invandrarfinlandssvenska till trots.

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Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

📢 [Conference] How to facilitate recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine? The role of European development banks 📅 24 Feb, 14:45-16:45 (Paris time) 📍 Sciences Po & Zoom In partnership with @ceudeminst.bsky.social, @eui-eu.bsky.social @civica.bsky.social Learn more & Register ⤵️

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[Conference] How to facilitate recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine? The role of European development banks

Co-organised by CEE, Sciences Po, CEU, EUI & CIVICA

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This is a lucid analysis of the present context, though I for one disagree with the concept of “toxic masculinity” since it’s focusing individuals rather than the system. “The suppression of gender studies is not only an attempt to suppress a critical analytical tool, but also knowledge itself.“

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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott

Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

📣 This is a timely collection of chapters that each in their own way address pressing issues: epistemic conflict, digital violence, and how we scholars attempt to navigate these.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

📢 New OA publication in Women Studies International Forum (WSIF). Together with my brilliant colleague Oana Băluță (SNSPA Bucharest 🇷🇴) I turn a critical eye on 2025 presidential #elections in #Romania #Polisky #gendersky 1/4

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Mid-January weather in southern Sweden is a mix of cold, humid & miserable. To escape it I’m heading to Gothenburg for much awaited FUDEM workshop on ”Envisioning (Un)democratic futures”. Not sure abt. better weather but I count on warm & enlightening intellectual conversations

Winter landscape of southern Sweden pictured from train in motion. Small patches of snow but otherwise grey

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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

In the Nordics, we're quite worried about what's next, in particular for Greenland. Some of that is directed as a concern for the prime minister of Denmark - however, with Denmark having elections this year, I am also concerned for electoral integrity, Danish democracy and the risks of interference.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

And yet it moves! Delighted to be in Bruxelles/ Brussels / Brussel to celebrate 20 yrs of l’atelier genre(s) et sexualité(s) in @ulbruxelles.bsky.social enjoying the generous premises of u.square.brussels

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Delighted to find my very own copy upon my return to Lund of this important scholarly contribution to the study of digital politics, memetic alliances, anti-gender politics & the manosphere, & most importantly transnational feminist resistance by @samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Interesting research about populist radical right in municipalities across 🇸🇪

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A final push before enjoying le weekend in Paris. No snow in sight but pretty crisp.

View over central Paris, with corner of a church over a courtyard in foreground, and typical Hausmannian building in the background

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Midway in my research stay at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social I have the privilege to present my ongoing attempt to bring an intersectional perspective to canonic approaches of radical right populism.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A super short visit over the bridge to Roskilde university. It was actually the second time ever to visit the campus. I had a generative discussion abt. right-wing populism, retrogressive conservatism as alternative Europeanization process & how a gendered perspective provides a new research agenda.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Really thankful for having the opportunity to be part of the IAB of this fantastic project which brings together dedicated scholars, practitioners and artists co-creating knowledge. Also for being invited to share my thoughts on these pressing issues.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Paris has been extremely generous with its sights this past month. The surprisingly good weather has allowed me to take long walks discovering both the touristy and less touristy corners of the city.

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

📣 2 yrs postdoc w/in project Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture - investigates a selection of anti-gender networks & feminist LGBTQI+ networks in 5 European regions. Experience w/h ethnography/ digital network analysis & deep knowledge of language & sociopolitical contexts in Southern Europe.

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Postdoctoral researcher in Gender Studies

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The excellent work of editors @albertagiorgi.bsky.social & Hande Eslen-Ziya is bearing fruit, & this edited volume is soon available at a most needed time. In chapter w/h colleagues from Norway Iris B Segers & Charles M Ess we put in perspective institutional ethical challenges in online research

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

W/h 99,9% of votes counted (2272 of 2274 voting stations) it seems it seems that Moldova 🇲🇩 will continue its careful balancing act away from Kremlin. W/h a 52,19% voting presence the elections mark the victory of pro-European PAS (50,16%) ahead of pro-Kremlin Blocul patriotic (24,19%). 1/

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Lucrecia Rubio Grundell @lrubiogrundell.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

💫📣 #ECPG2026 Call for Papers and Panels is open!! Join our LGBTIQ+, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies, Policies and Politics Section 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸: mobilizations, trans/intersex politics, anti-gender movements, links to racism/colonialism, migration, geopolitics & affect/resistance. ecpr.eu/Events/Event....

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LGBTIQ+, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies, Policies and Politics

European Consortium for Political Research

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Parliamentary elections in 🇳🇴 are another example of collapse of right-wing conservatives: H performed badly & is replaced by radical right populist FrP as largest party on the right. Center-left Ap is largest party though difference between latter two not so big #Norge #Stortingsvalget 2025

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The most recent e-Extreme Newsletter is now available thanks to the excellent work of @audreygagnon.bsky.social , @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social & @sabinedvolk.bsky.social

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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Maybe it was the best of times (see around) to try (& finish) reading Le Guin’s beautiful book. The pace is slow (reason I gave up last time) but perseverance is rewarded w/h seeing though the eyes of a (male) human from Terra the complexity of societies from Gethen whose people are ambisexual 1/

Picture of the book by Ursula K Le Guin resting against a dark wooden surface.

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