Manuela Boatcă

Manuela Boatcă

@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

Romanian/German sociologist, Head of School of the Global Studies Program @UniFreiburg, writes about global inequalities, empire, race, citizenship & forgotten Europes https://tinyurl.com/wbt9wyrm

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Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

Our book now has a website! As it was getting hard to keep track of materials around "Creolizing the Modern" @cornellupress.bsky.social, we put them all in one place. Many thanks to Louise Link @uni-freiburg.de! We hope the overview is helpful & a possible teaching resource. creolizingthemodern.com

creolizingthemodern.comCreolizing the Modern Transylvania across Empires by Anca Parvulescu & Manuela BoatcăPresenting the award-winning book
Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

A tunat Octav Eugen Popa la Podcastul de Filosofie si ne-a adunat la o discuție care a început prin a fi despre conceptul de neo-colonialism, dar care a fost despre istorie, relații de putere, exploatare, rasă, capitalism, colonialitate, și nu în ultimul rând (auto)decolonizare. Și ne-am și înțeles!

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

The English-language version of my text "The Hegemon in Decline - Or, the Plot is Thickening", which connects the Monroe and "Donroe" Doctrines to the loss of a hegemon's monopoly of violence - is now out in "Caravanserai", the new format of the Journal of World-System Research! tinyurl.com/yswvbdxd

caravanseraijwsr1.blogspot.comSeptember 1st, 2026 The Hegemon in Decline – Or, the Plot is ThickeningCaravanserai, JWSR’s forum for open discussion of policy, politics, and culture through diverse and thoughtful perspectives.
Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

The English-language version of my text "The Hegemon in Decline - Or, the Plot is Thickening", which connects the Monroe and "Donroe" Doctrines to the loss of a hegemon's monopoly of violence - is now out in "Caravanserai", the new format of the Journal of World-System Research! tinyurl.com/yswvbdxd

caravanseraijwsr1.blogspot.comSeptember 1st, 2026 The Hegemon in Decline – Or, the Plot is ThickeningCaravanserai, JWSR’s forum for open discussion of policy, politics, and culture through diverse and thoughtful perspectives.
Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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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Manuela Boatcă
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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.

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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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Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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.

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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.

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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.

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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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Christoph Kalter
@christophkalter.bsky.social

🚀🚨🚀 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...

jobbnorge.noPost-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of AgderJob title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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!

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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!

infoclio.ch@infoclio.bsky.social

Eastern Europe’s Invisibilities: Epistemics, Politics, Arts #infoclioevent

dlvr.itEastern Europe’s Invisibilities: Epistemics, Politics, ArtsEastern Europe’s Invisibilities: Epistemics, Politics, Arts Inaugural Conference of the Institute of Slavic and Eastern European Studies (ISOS) at the University of Zurich Invisibility is a political condition of public non-presence. It can be both a product of power and a situation of powerlessness. What is visible to one may be invisible to another—and vice versa. Overlooking, just as much as seeing, is a capacity of power and an ethical practice. Noticing abuse and other forms of violence is both a cultural and individual act, shaped by social and political forces. Historically, the humanities have striven to bring to light the techniques of power, thus enabling ethical reconsideration and societal self-reflection. Key questions of the conference on Eastern Europe’s Invisibilities include: How is invisibility produced, overcome, and experienced—and what does it mean for Europe’s East and Eastern European studies? How do Eastern European perspectives help us better understand current political transformations, and how might they offer insights for shaping positionality amid disinformation and increasing authoritarianism? What emancipatory responses do Eastern European studies offer to post- and de-colonial thought and vice versa? The liberation from the dictatorships in 1989 and the related opening of the archives, in particular the partial opening of the secret service archives, and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, have made invisibilities visible within research in a variety of avenues. But what exactly makes the perspectives of the viewers change, how are facts reframed and visions reshaped, and what are the preconditions for these changes? Who have been the producers of invisibilities? What made those invisibilities perceptible for some and invisible for others? What are the active practices of making something or someone invisible? When are invisibilities products of violence, and when are they strategies of power(lessness) or resistance? What role do the arts and humanities play in the undoing and analysis of invisibility? The University of Zurich is establishing the Department of Slavic and Eastern European Studies (ISOS) to strengthen interdisciplinary research on Eastern Europe.  This new interdisciplinary institute specializes in the analysis of contemporary historical, cultural, social, linguistic, and political developments across Eastern, East-Central, and South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The international conference “Eastern Europe's Invisibilities: Politics, Epistemics, Arts” will officially celebrate the opening of the ISOS in spring 2026.   Programm Mai 6, 2026 (Aula, KOL-G-201), University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8001 Zurich 15:00 Welcome Address: Prof. Dr. Katharina Michaelowa (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities) 15:15 Introductory Remarks: Botakoz Kassymbekova, Jeronim Perović, Sylvia Sasse Panel I: Colonial invisibilities in Eastern Europe (15:30-17:30) With Manuela Boatcă (University of Freiburg), Mart Kuldkepp (University College London), Jasmin Mujanović (Pell Center at Salve Regina University), and Botakoz Kassymbekova (chair). Keynote & Evening Reception (from 18:15) 18:15 Welcome address: Prof. Dr. Michael Schaepman (President of the University of Zurich) 18:30 Keynote by Svetlana Alexievich May 7, 2026, KO2-F-152 Panel II: Invisible Languages and Speakers (9:30-11:30) With Tobias Alexander Herrmann (Universität Köln), Katrin Karl (University of Bern), Katharina Tyran (University of Helsinki), and Florian Wandl (chair). Panel III: Invisible Academia: Of Pseudo-Science, Extinguished Research and Invisible Universities (12:00-13:15) With Andrea Pető (CEU, Vienna), Balázs Trencsényi (CEU, Vienna & Invisible University), Katharina Gerund (UZH), and Julia Richers (University of Bern). PANEL IV: Civil Society, Social Movements, and (Invisible) Resistance (15:00- 17:00) With Mariam Bibliashvili (CEES–Fellow; Masaryk University, Brno), Jan Matti Dollbaum (University of Fribourg), Valentina Petrović (University of Vienna), and Jeronim Perović (chair). Evening Program (Strauhof, Lavaterhaus, St. Peterhofstatt 6, 8001 Zürich) 18:30 Tschornobyl – Archiv der unsichtbaren Katastrophe. Swetlana Alexievich im Gespräch mit Sylvia Sasse and Philine Bickhardt (UZH). May 8, 2026, KO2-F-152 PANEL V: Negotiating (In)Visibility (10:00-13:15) With Éva Forgács (University of Pasadena), Rasa Kamarauskaitė (University College London), Emese Kürti (Central European Research Institute for Art History, Budapest), Dorota Sajewska (University of Bochum), Tomáš Glanc & Matthias Meindl (chairs). PANEL VI: Secret services and the production of invisibility (14:45 – 17:15) With Andriy Kohut (Director of the Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine), Evgenija Lezina (Leibniz Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam), Ilija Trojanow (Vienna), Roman Horbyk & Sylvia Sasse (UZH, chairs). Organizers: Prof. Dr. Tomáš Glanc, Prof. Dr. Botakoz Kassymbekova, Dr. Cristiana Lucchetti, Dr. Matthias Meindl, Prof. Dr. Jeronym Perović, Prof. Dr. Sylvia Sasse, Dr. Aleksej Tikhonov   Organisiert von Institute of Slavic and Eastern European Studies, University of Zurich EK 13. April 2026 ISOS@uzh.ch University of Zurich Rämistrasse 71 8001  Zurich Website der Veranstaltung Eastern Europe’s Invisibilities: Epistemics, Politics, Arts Image for Content

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Seebrücke
@seebruecke.bsky.social

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

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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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Louis Berger
@ajournomento.bsky.social

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‘.“

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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

Ulrich Brand@ulrichbrand.bsky.social

Lateinamerika-Vorlesung in diesem Semester Dekoloniale Perspektiven auf die Moderne Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă, Universität Freiburg, Fellow Institut für die Wissenschaft vom Menschen 📅 Freitag, 20. März, 11:15–12:15 Uhr 📍 Gerda-Lerner-Saal HS 41, Hauptgebäude der @univie.ac.at, 1. Stock, Stiege 8

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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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Jen Evans
@jennifervevans.bsky.social

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...

newfascismsyllabus.comReview: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars - The New Fascism SyllabusZimmerer, 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 [...]
Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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

Franziska Müller - DECT 6097@squirrelista.bsky.social

Come join us for the ie talks this summer term, as always Sensengasse 3, Vienna! @oefse.at @economicethics.bsky.social @degrowthvienna.bsky.social @vienna-van.bsky.social @etienneschneider.bsky.social @manuelaboatca.bsky.social @alinabrad.bsky.social @felixdorn.bsky.social

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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

Madeline Potter@madelinepotter.bsky.social

If you’re in Berlin on 20 March, come along to the launch of the German edition of my book, ‘The Roma’ eriac.org/book-present...

eriac.orgBook Presentation at ERIAC-Madeline Potter The Roma: A Travelling HistoryERIAC is pleased to host the book launch and German language presentation of The Roma: A Travelling History. The author, Madeline Potter, will be present and in conversation with Dr. Anna Mirga Krusze...
Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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

Etrigan (unrelated, but also spooky) ✌️🏈@etrigan.bsky.social

Boom 17 of 2026: “Roma: A Travelling History” by Madeline Potter. An interesting dip into the history of the Romani people across Europe and the U.S., presented in conjunction with Potter’s own experiences in her travels. Made me wish my family hadn’t assimilated so well. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

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?

Terrible Maps@terriblemapshq.bsky.social

First week in the BBC graphics department and already thriving

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IWM Vienna
@iwm.at

"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:

youtube.comMANUELA BOATCĂ: Unthinkable Europeans in Unequal EuropesMonthly 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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Tereza Hendl
@terezahendl.bsky.social

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...

The RUTA Association@associationruta.bsky.social

Join us Feb 27 at 18:00 (Kyiv time) for a webinar on Romani histories and racial justice. With Madeline Potter (The Roma: A Traveling History) and Margareta Matache (The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism), exploring new ways of understanding and challenging anti-Roma racism.

Manuela Boatcă
@manuelaboatca.bsky.social

Join us next Tuesday, February 24, 6pm @iwm.at in Vienna to discuss the theoretical and political implications of unequal European subjects and to ask, drawing on the notion of "unthinkable history" by Michel-Rolph Trouillot: What is it that makes Romani Europeans unthinkable in a European project?

IWM Vienna@iwm.at

What is it that makes Romani Europeans unthinkable in a European project? Join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social next Tuesday, as she examines how notions of "Europe" have been linked to claims of whiteness and civilization, rendering Black Europeans invisible and slavery unmentionable. 👉 buff.ly/WzuMYan