Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.
They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.
The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
Here comes a short overview of my dissertation, with links to the comprehensive summary and the published articles. Possibly the first work on power-sharing citing Stengers!
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
“The purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”
Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.
The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it
How to Prevent Civil War Recurrence: Learning from Failure is finally available for pre-order at academic.oup.com/book/62306?s...
Cream coloured text on a rust red background. A crack cuts through the image halfway down. Text reads: END TIMES FASCISM AND THE FIGHT FOR THE LIVING WORLD NAOMI KLEIN & ASTRA TAYLOR Farrar, Straus and Giroux | U.S.A. Allen Lane | U.K. Knopf Canada
I've been a bit quieter than usual these past months because @astra.bsky.social and I have been going deep into what we are calling End Times Fascism. The research has been bleak, I won't lie, but it's also been inspiring.
My article on regenerative research was included in this Frontiers ebook on Activating Academia for an Era of Colliding Crises. It's all open access:
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
122 experts in the peace and security sector: Sweden does not live up to its international obligation to prevent genocide in Gaza. www.dagensarena.se/opinion/sver...
In his recent article, just attributed to the latest issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, PhD candidate Alexandre Raffoul explores conceptual issues in the typology of ethnic power-sharing – and proposes ways to "reassemble" the framework more productively: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Since the lough is back in the (national) news, here's the blog version of my co-authored @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article from earlier in the year. #LoughNeagh
My article "Unstable Concepts, Unresolved Controversies" was attributed to an issue. It explores how conceptual issues emerged as consociationalism and centripetalism were brought together under the label power-sharing – and proposes ways to address these issues.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Akademisk frihet försvinner bara om forskare slutar försvara och utöva den. När den är hotad har vi ett individuellt ansvar att försvara den tillsammans."
In Syre, we write about the recent motion by the Swedish Association and Anthropologists (SANT) supporting an academic boycott of Israel. We urge colleagues to use professional associations and unions to ask for ethical universities during a genocide. tidningensyre.se/2025/11-juni...
Academics for Palestine Uppsala: "Thinking, Hanna Arendt contended, requires making oneself receptive to others' existence and suffering. Our main concern with Ylva Söderfeldt's opinion piece is that it erases the most affected: the Palestinians"
www.tidningencurie.se/debatt/vi-ma...
My study of conceptual issues in the literature on power-sharing, consociationalism, and centripetalism (with recommandations on how to enhance conceptual clarity) was published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
To understand how power-sharing performs, we have to understand how it is performed - or at least that's what I argue here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Uppsala University promoted research stays in Israel at the exact moment Israel was intensifying its genocide in Gaza. Scandalous, but not surprising - write 90 staff members and students: www.unt.se/debatt/artik...
To understand how power-sharing performs, we have to understand how it is performed - or at least that's what I argue here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Great, thank you!
Side question: is it is correct to simply multiply the risk reduction per year by the number of year to obtain the predicted risk reduction for a longer period? I have been wondering about this for a paper and was quite unsure. Thanks in advance if someone has an answer!
UNICEF “deeply alarmed” about the rising number of killed and injured Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, says Edouard Beigbeder, the NGO's Middle East and North Africa regional director.
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