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Ram Zamanov

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AvH postdoc @freeuniberlin PhD in social anthropology #gender #queer #homonationalism #queermigration 🏳️‍🌈 drramzamanov.my.canva.site

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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Dear all, 1 am happy to share my new roundtable contribution to the DiGeSt, titled "When #AcademicFreedom Becomes Conditional: #Authoritarianism, #Neoliberalism, and the Politics of #Knowledge Production." #Palestine Here is the open access version: sl1nk.com/svkpqwc
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Dear all, I am happy to share my recent #openaccess article, "Colonial and Gendered Peace: Decolonial Perspectives on Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh," published in the Journal of #FeministAnthropology Link: shorturl.at/GAQhX #gender #peace #WPS #Armenia #Azerbaijan #NagornoKarabakh #decolonial
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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We’re inviting journalists to attend and report on RUTA Conference 2026 (12–15 July, Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine). Theme: “Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change.” Applications open until 31 March: alexis.scott@ruta-association.org
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Here is my #book #review of 'Mobilizing in Uncertainty:Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia' written for #ConflictandSociety. I greatly enjoyed reading this book,learning about the resistance of the #Abkhaz people through Abkhaz perspectives,and writing this review. #SouthCaucasus
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Dear all, As the #ATGENDER Board, we have decided to issue statements on the ongoing protests in both #Iran and #Venezuela, standing in solidarity with the people of Iran and Venezuela against #imperialism, #violence, and the #killing of innocent protesters.
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
✨ Exciting News! ✨ Our panel P025: The Geopolitics of Ideologies: Post-Soviet Polarities & the Collapse of the Liberal (Dis)Order in the South Caucasus has been accepted for #EASA2026 in Poznań! Thrilled to co-organise this with Sevinj Samadzade and Lala Darchinova. CFP details coming soon.
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
My new #article is out in #CentralAsianSurvey! Based on my 2019 fieldwork and MA thesis;huge thanks to the amazing women who shared their stories💜 If you don’t have access,message me and I’ll send you a free link. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Gender #Displacement #NagornoKarabakh
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Intersecting legacies: gender, ethnicity and displacement in the aftermath of the first Nagorno-Karabakh War for internally displaced and refugee women
This article explores the long-suffering gendered challenges that shape the lives of internally displaced and refugee women after the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. By applying the ‘matrix of dominati...
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
This is an open access article but if you have technical problems downloading it, please reach out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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State violence and queer identities: experiences from the Azerbaijani military
This study investigates the state-perpetuated violence and oppression experienced by LGBTQI+ subjects within the Azerbaijani military. Utilizing a transnational queer-feminist framework, the study ...
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
How is this different from Nazi Germany?
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🚨 Quick request: It concerns the family of two dear friends of my friend’s, who, after three years of struggle, finally received a German residence permit.Yet today, they remain stuck in Pakistan, blocked by German bureaucracy, and face imminent deportation back to Afghanistan. 👉 shorturl.at/MQMA7
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Petition unterschreiben
Stoppt die Abschiebung von Abu und Ahmad Torans Familie
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Sahar Delijani on brand
The pic features the Iranian author Sahar Delijani who is looking at the camera. Her words appear next to her on the picture and they read:


I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Dear all, I am happy to share my newly published op-ed in Caucasus Edition: Journal of Conflict Transformation. This piece offers a modest critique that seeks to shed light on the current dynamics of knowledge production in the South Caucasus.
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Decolonising the Caucasus: On Epistemic Resistance and the Violence of Global North Knowledge Production
This paper interrogates the colonial dynamics of academic knowledge production in and about the South Caucasus, exposing how Global North scholars exploit local researchers and contexts while silencin...
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The crew of the Madleen, a ship carrying humanitarian aid, are now hostages of Israel.
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Thrilled to announce the publication of my article,’State Violence and Queer Identities: Experiences from the Azerbaijani Military’, in Journal of Critical Military Studies! #QueerStudies #Azerbaijan #StateViolence
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23337486.2025.2516883
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Disappointed but not surprised by the International Studies Association’s decision to host its 2026 Convention in Columbus, Ohio. Despite growing concerns, #ISA continues its Americentric approach, prioritizing convenience over genuine inclusion and safety.
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European Network of Queer Anthropology @enqa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Meet-up! 25th of april, 12-13.30 CEST, DM for Zoom-Link This time we want to offer a space to share experiences and think about the current situation of the world in turmoil and its impact on different queer people. The developments in various parts of the world affect us in many different ways,
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Women are “ordinary people.” Migrants are “ordinary people.” LGBT folks are “ordinary people.” Stop using “ordinary people” as a reference only for people who are straight, white and male. It’s simple.
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Pic from BBC -- white women celebrating outside the UK SC. We may deprivilege the colonial-racial frame, but the hate campaign led by white cis women speaks to a nation that criminalised same-sex relations in its empire, invented 'woman' in its colonies (cf. Oyewumi) & knows how to coerce white +
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Quotidian realities of the Trump era! #freerumeysa
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Why do we always share the #success? As #Halberstam said’Failing is something #queers do and have always done exceptionally well.’ Just received a rejection from a postdoc funding of #FWO in #Belgium. Disheartening that #queerethnography still struggles to find appreciation at the heart of #Europe!
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Lisa Maier @lisamaier.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"The threat of #German citizens being stripped of their citizenship for political opinions – for example, for expressing views about the war in #Gaza – risks creating a chilling effect to quash views unpopular with the government." NEW comment @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
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German Proposal to Strip Citizenship Endangers Human Rights
A leaked paper reveals that Germany’s conservative political parties want to add a clause to Germany’s Nationality Law to allow the country to revoke German nationality from dual nationals if they are...
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@echr.coe.int is hopefully getting ready to deal with such serious human rights violations in #renazifying #germany.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Berlin's city parliament just agreed a city partnership with Tel Aviv. All parties voted in favour. Die Linke‘s representative in fact complained that it has taken so... long, given the plan dates to 2023. So that you know...
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Race is a human invention. Race is not a biological reality. #Anthropologist I have literally taught this to undergrads. americananthro.org/about/polici...
Screenshot of Trump’s executive order reading:

Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come
under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive. For example, the
Smithsonian American Art Museum today features
"The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture," an exhibit representing that "[societies including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement." The exhibit further claims that "sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism" and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating
"Race is a human invention."
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.” It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship. 🌈🎓
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Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you’re in London this Friday, this event on ‘Global Anti-Gender Politics’ is one not to be missed. Great lineup of speakers and a truly transnational focus, which is often overlooked in these discussions 🤩 www.qmul.ac.uk/events/upcom...
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Global Anti Gender Politics
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Hakan Sandal-Wilson @hsw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"The ministry announced that it will launch family education seminars for citizens living abroad ... will include a session titled 'De-gendering.'" The Ministry of Family’s new move: Anti-LGBTI+ training seminars to begin abroad #Turkey 👇🏽 kaosgl.org/en/single-ne...
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The Ministry of Family’s new move: Anti-LGBTI+ training seminars to begin abroad
In the first "Family Education Seminars" organized by the ministry for citizens living in Germany, a session titled "De-gendering" will also be included.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
What is happening to Columbia is the beginning of what happened to the Central European University in Budapest, which ultimately led to them forced to leave Hungary, so no one in Hungary can teach critically on Gender Studies, Jewish History, Romani History in Hungary. We are going the Orbán route.
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In February, the European Commission withdrew their anti-discrimination legislation proposal. For @citystgeorgesucu.bsky.social, @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social discusses the veneer of progress in human rights issues and his award-winning book on sexual politics in Serbia/the EU: tinyurl.com/3pjs3yxv
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“LGBT laws alone are not a measure of equality”: Dr Koen Slootmaeckers wins European Union Studies Association Best Book Prize 2025 | City St George's, University of London
The European Union Studies Association (EUSA) awarded Dr Koen Slootmaeckers the EUSA Best Book Prize 2025 for his book Coming in: Sexual Politics and EU Accession in Serbia.
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I was extremely delighted to be part of this amazing #EASA workshop — LGBTIQ+ Feminist Resistance and Empowerment Against Conservative Ideologies — organised by SoledadCutuli, Rafael Cazarin and Christine Hammerling at the Complutense University of Madrid!
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Yesterday, together with Sanam Roohi we organised the roundtable on ‘Voices; Countervoices—Competing Narratives for Diasporic Mobilizations via the Digital Medium’ with the support of Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Dear all, We are organising a #roundtable with Sanam Roohi on 'Voices;countervoices:Competing narratives for #diasporic #mobilizations via the #digital medium'(participants:Mitra Shamsi,Maryna Shevtsova,and Hosna Shewly). Please consider joining us on March 4 (online or in person)!
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Dear all, We are organising a #roundtable with Sanam Roohi on 'Voices;countervoices:Competing narratives for #diasporic #mobilizations via the #digital medium'(participants:Mitra Shamsi,Maryna Shevtsova,and Hosna Shewly). Please consider joining us on March 4 (online or in person)!
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
More of #nazi salute
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I have experienced the weirdest #racism of my entire academic journey by a random political scientist. He basically wanted to exclude my research-on queer experiences in Azerbaijani military-from the presentation because of the current relations between #Azerbaijan and #France.
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R. S. DIENG @drlandislife.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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How German Imperialism Rebranded Itself as Feminist
Last year, Germany’s Foreign Office spelled out guidelines for a “feminist” foreign policy, focused on defending marginalized women. Today in Gaza, this same ministry is arming the deadliest war on wo...
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Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I've put together this starter on Global Muslim Studies, based on my work at the Middle East Department, Edinburgh University. Lots of brilliant academics and activists who have often provided both inspiration and hope. If you want to be added (or removed), please message me! go.bsky.app/CG71aga
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
It breaks my heart to share this, but 15 people are dead after a shooting at the #FacultyofArts, #CharlesUniversity. #prague #ff www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/w...
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At Least 15 Dead in Czech Republic After Shooting at Prague University
The police said the suspect, who also died, first shot his father in a town outside Prague and then continued his rampage at the university.
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Dr Leandra Bias 💙💛 @openlybiased.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Today Russia's Supreme Court ruled that the "international LGBT movement" is "extremist". Under the extremism law even the display of the extremist group's symbols can be punished with 15d detention up to 4ys prison. What we see is a hyperpatriarchal development 1/n
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Janine Dahinden @janinedahinden.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Also my blog ⬇️ on ‚care at the intersections of mobiliy and gender/sexuality regimes‘ is part of our new nccr blog series on ‚legacies of the covid-19 pandemic on the governance of human movement‘ Bonne lecture ! Migcitsky gendersky #migrationresearch #sociology nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/categor...
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Come and support the #lovebouleward of #BerlinerEnsemble . This performance is about the lives of #sexworkers. www.berliner-ensemble.de/en/productio...
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
10 fellowships at Käte Hamburger Center 4 Advanced Study in the Cultures of Research in Aachen (khk.rwth-aachen.de). In 2024.2025, we will focus on methods and perspectives of STS and also continue to work on the topic of Life-Likeness. Application deadline is December 31, 2023. #Academicsky #STS
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Sign and spread!
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
#belfast protested in front of #bbc for #Palestine today!
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Ram Zamanov @ramup.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Statement by UK-based scholars, students and activists to express solidarity with Palestinians, to call for an end to genocide and British complicity in it, and to protect academic freedom and the right to protest. Please read, sign and share widely.
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Scholars, students and activists in the UK stand in solidarity with Palestinians and call for an end...
18 October 2023 We, concerned scholars, students, and activists in the UK, affirm our unequivocal support with the Palestinian people. We heed the calls from Palestinian universities, trade unions an...
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