[NEOSTORY] The Past is now – Politics of Denial and Dealing with the Past in the Western Balkans (Perspectives No. 10, May 2023)

Perspectives Southeastern Europe is a publication series of the Southeastern Europe offices of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. The focus is on Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the foundation has established offices. The new volume titeld "The Past is now – Politics of Denial and Dealing with the Past in the Western Balkans" was just published and...

[NEOSTORY] The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500-2000

On Neopopulismus.de, I published five posts on the European history textbook The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500-2000. As a co-author, I have contributed with four chapters to that project. If you are interested in it, here is a very brief overview of the blog posts and the links: In the first...

An unnecessary post? L’incrédulité de Thomas: blocked

Today, I pressed five times the publish-button on the other science blog, which belongs to my current research project Neopopulismus: Revisionismus und Meta-Katastrophe. These were the first blog posts after an extremely bad experience -- brutally seconding a creative, productive upcurrent. So, the bad experience was with -- with what, actually? With narrowmindedness? With Wissenschafterei?...

[Gender] Zum Internationalen Tag gegen Homo-, Bi-, Inter- und Transphobie

Mir passt die Bezeichnung "queer" am besten, weil sie 'Unangepasstheit', 'verquer sein', 'nicht passen', 'den Normen nicht entsprechen' bedeutet. Kein Makel -- aber ein riesiger Hinkelstein. Und darum geht es, wenn wir von Homo-, Bi-, Inter- und Transphobie sprechen: in der Hackordnung steht (oder zumindest stand) ganz unten, wer nicht passt. Die gleiche Logik also...