Laura Luciani

Presented my paper on the reconfiguration of authoritarianism in post-war Azerbaijan at #IPSA2025 in Seoul. Great wrap of conference season!

In mezzo a tanti ottimi contributi, ci sono anch'io con un pezzo dal titolo "La trappola geopolitica" sui limiti del binarismo Occidente-Russia in Georgia.

Geopolitics, (In)security and Resilience. A Feminist Critique of the EU's Engagement in Armenia After the Second Nagorno‐Karabakh War This article interrogates the EU's ‘geopolitical turn’ by examining its external engagement in Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drawing o...

Whose security does a 'geopolitical' European Union serve in Armenia, and how is this received by people on the ground? Happy and proud to see my contribution to the SI "Critical perspectives on the EU's global role" finally published in @jcms-eu.bsky.social 👇
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Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2nd Karabakh war (2020–2023) This article examines the role that infrastructure and logistics have played as a method of authoritarian conflict management implemented by Azerbaijan after it regained control of most of the disp...

🛫 I've got a new research article out in Mobilities, as part of a special issue on the Caucasus (check it out!!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Title : "Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)"

6/ The article is based on 30+ interviews I conducted in 2021-22 with Armenian women's rights defenders, feminist activists and scholars. It is the 4th and final output from my PhD thesis, which studied the politics of the EU's human rights promotion in the South Caucasus.

5/ Third, by connecting the fight against domestic violence with campaigns against mining, I argue that women's insecurities are sustained by neoliberal and neocolonial agendas that cut across the EU-Russia binary.

4/ Second, I pay attention to how feminist activists expose and challenge gendered power structures in the EU's agenda through complaint, subversion and resistance.

3/ First, I examine the problematic logics behind EU interventions (conditionality and civil society funding) and the tensions they create for activists on the ground amid Russia-inspired anti-gender campaigns, Soviet legacies, and neoliberal hegemony.

2/ Over the past decade, the issue of domestic violence in Armenia became a geopolitical battleground between so-called "European values" and a "Eurasian family" model. This article deconstructs the geopolitical framing of gender struggles in three ways.

European values, Eurasian family, or neither? A contrapuntal reading of the European Union’s agenda to combat domestic violence in Armenia This article studies how feminist activists in Armenia negotiate the agenda of the European Union (EU) to combat domestic violence in a contested geopolitical environment. Drawing on post-socialist...

1/ My recently published article @ifjpglobal.bsky.social studies how feminist activists in #Armenia negotiate the European Union's interventions to combat domestic violence amidst competing pressures. A thread👇
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Global Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the European Union in Times of Dissensus Over LGBT Equality In times of heightened dissensus over the liberal democratic order, normative theories of the EU need to adapt to be able to capture how the promotion and enforcement of values go hand in hand with t...

Happy to see my contribution to the @jcms-eu.bsky.social Special Issue “Towards Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union's Global Role” published.

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Had a packed week at #EUIA25: presented my work on EU (in)security in post-2020 Armenia (coming soon @jcms-eu.bsky.social -stay tuned!) & discussed brilliant papers by @dfuturevub.bsky.social colleagues. We also stood in solidarity with Gaza & against academic complicity in the ongoing genocide.

Don’t miss our 2 panels in #EUIA25! We’ll be sharing early findings from the forthcoming SI we've guest edited in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with @norafisheronar.bsky.social and @dhuber.bsky.social "Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the #EU’s role as a Global Actor". @aissr.bsky.social

It was great to be part of the panel "Outsourced Empire? Questioning Norms and Values of EU External Relations" at #EUIA2025 with DFUTURE colleagues.

In times of genocide, we refused to carry on with “conference as usual", a small but necessary act of refusal against complicity.

Announcing “Between Peripheries”: CEEShub’s Inaugural Conference - CEEShub - Central and Eastern European Security Hub Submit your abstract to “Between Peripheries,” a conference on CEE–Global South security, postcolonial IR, and critical peace studies.

❗Our Call for Papers (Abstracts) is officially out! 1/2

👉Please follow the link below and click on the 'Call for Papers Open until 1 July 2025' hyperlink to fill out the information and upload your abstracts.

✨Call for Papers link: securityhub.ee/news/announc...

Free Bahruz Samadov International Academic Community Calls for the Release of Young Azerbaijani Scholar Bahruz Samadov

Today, researcher & @charlesuni.cuni.cz PhD candidate Bahruz Samadov is spending 30th birthday behind bars in Azerbaijan, where critical scholarly work is criminalized, labeled as treason. There shld be more academic voices demanding Bahruz's freedom. #FreeBahruz

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🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨

Karolina Kluczewska & @drlauluciani.bsky.social‬ unpack the framing of feminism in Eurasia

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We are proud to share the CFP for ASIAC 2025📕: After last year's success, yet again at Università Ca'​ Foscari Venezia. Theme: "Knowledge Production about Central Asia and the Caucasus". Please send papers, panels and from this year posters and visual contributions. www.asiac.net/eventi/xix-a...

Really enjoyed presenting our research w/Elisabed Gedevanishvili at the @europeamerica.bsky.social @leibniz-ios.de conference. We discussed how decoloniality is translated through cultural projects, the possibilities for queer solidarity & (weak) resistance in the Caucasus @giesugent.bsky.social

Poster for the 2025 Leibniz ScienceCampus Conference titled "Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations: Processes, Hierarchies, Spaces." Includes conference title, date, and location, along with logos of organizing institutions and a visual design element related to translation or interconnected systems.

The conference "Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations" kicks off tomorrow! @europeamerica.bsky.social @leibniz-ios.de @uniregensburg.bsky.social

thank you Hermine!

and the Engendering @lseblogs.bsky.social blog post: blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2023/...

Five ‘hidden’ feminist initiatives in Europe and Eurasia Five grassroots feminist initiatives in five different countries transcend mainstream narratives about women’s rights

The original @opendemocracy.net story: www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/femi...

also available in FR and NL:
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- www.doorbraak.eu/vijf-feminis...

Inaugurating my bsky account to share our new article with Karolina Kluczewska, just published in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social🎉

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@giesugent.bsky.social

We shared some of our first findings on @opendemocracy.net & @lseblogs.bsky.social 👇