Ov Cristian NOROCEL

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.

🇸🇪 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

#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.

#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.

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.

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

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)

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.

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.

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”.

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).

About 10000 people participated in Budapest Pride this year, the first after Orbán’s ousting www.reuters.com/business/med...

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.

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.

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🤞🏼

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.

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.

The quintessential spring picture in Lund.

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.

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

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

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 🇸🇪

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.

📢 [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 ⤵️

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.“

📣 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.