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Mina Baginova

@minabagin.bsky.social

Social anthropologist specializing in the intersection of social movements, protests, feminist mobilisations, gender, culture and politics.

263 Followers  |  602 Following  |  15 Posts  |  Joined: 20.11.2024  |  1.9493

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The Anatomy of Right-Wing Populism Over the past two decades, populist politicians and parties have enjoyed remarkable success across the globe. The rise of right-wing populism is perhaps most noticeable in post-communist Europe, espec...

Really happy to see that our volume is finally out with @uclpress.bsky.social. The result of MSCA-ITN FATIGUE project under the umbrella of @uclssees.bsky.social, edited by Richard Mole and Jan Kubik, the book is available in open access 👉🏻

uclpress.co.uk/book/the-ana...

24.10.2025 12:36 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies

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With 4 million girls in the Nazi youth movement, 8 million women in Nazi associations, 1.9 million subscribers to her magazine, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink promoted reproductive duties as essential to national strength. It would be the equivalent of social media today.

24.09.2025 07:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"The EPP is making a shameful alliance with the far right for their witch-hunt on NGOs".

19.06.2025 16:59 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gendered Disinformation as Infrastructure: How Tech Billionaires Shape Political Power | TechPolicy.Press Tech billionaires not only shape public debate, but also define the very boundaries of who can occupy that space, writes Carine Roos.

My first contribution to @techpolicypress.bsky.social is out!
Platforms profit from silencing women, especially those in power.
I write about gendered disinformation as infrastructure:

www.techpolicy.press/gendered-dis...

#GenderedDisformation #Democracy #HumanRights #TechPolicy #AIEthics

26.05.2025 14:47 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Artificially Enabled Social Change? Artificially Enabled Social Change?

✍️ Submit your manuscript to the Social Movement Studies journal for a Special Issue on Artificially Enabled Social Change!

⏰ Abstract deadline: 15 June 2025

Find out more: http://spr.ly/63325NtvBt

22.05.2025 15:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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On our 8th Palestine in Focus gathering, we will show the documentary Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019), directed by Abby Martin.

the event will take place on 6 May, 16:00. There will be opportunity to talk about the film afterwards, with drinks. More info and signup: iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/pa...

29.04.2025 07:37 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months

Russian occupation is not peace, but torture, murder, and oppression. « However, the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx. » www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

29.04.2025 19:08 — 👍 185    🔁 73    💬 9    📌 11
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‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months

A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

29.04.2025 16:33 — 👍 202    🔁 117    💬 5    📌 18
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What draws young people to far-right movements?
🎙️ In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast episode, host @armanc.bsky.social speaks with @agadarancia.bsky.social about her new book "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe 📚
🎧 Listen: newbooksnetwork.com/living-right-2

29.04.2025 11:28 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Odpůrci interrupcí Prahou neprošli. Protestující zablokovali Pochod pro život Prahou měl v sobotu odpoledne projít pochod za omezení dostupnosti interrupcí, který organizovalo Hnutí pro život. Zastánci práva žen na svobodnou volbu ho zablokovali.

The vibe is feminist mobilisation shutting down the annual ultra-conservative 'pro-life' march in Prague 🫶

denikalarm.cz/2025/04/odpu...

28.04.2025 09:29 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Czesław Miłosz: what the Polish poet tells us about the ‘westsplaining’ of eastern and central Europe The perceived “otherness” of eastern and central Europe is a complex phenomenon, which a new book on the Polish Nobel laureate’s oeuvre brings to light.

Older but still relevant article by Joanna Rzepa for @theconversation.com : Czesław Miłosz - what the Polish poet tells us about the ‘westsplaining’ of eastern and central Europe.

tinyurl.com/45h927yx

28.04.2025 07:20 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Many thanks to Baltic Worlds and Elisa Satjukow for inviting me into a conversation about the shifts we have been putting in motion with the @associationruta.bsky.social for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation 1/n

18.04.2025 13:05 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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Don’t believe the doubters: protest still has power | Jan-Werner Müller Demonstrations rarely lead to immediate policy change. But they are essential to building community and long-term resistance

Don’t believe the doubters: protest still has power | Jan-Werner Müller

22.04.2025 14:17 — 👍 316    🔁 85    💬 6    📌 6
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Türkiye: Students, Journalists on Trial for Protest Türkiye is set to prosecute hundreds of people, mainly students, who protested the detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoglu in hasty, mass trials, scheduled to begin on April 18, 2015, Human Rights ...

Hundreds of people in Türkiye, mainly students, are going on trial for protesting the detention of Istanbul’s mayor.

The rushed trials show Türkiye’s restrictions on the right to assembly are arbitrary and incompatible with a democratic society based on the rule of law.

18.04.2025 15:37 — 👍 101    🔁 49    💬 3    📌 2

Další zo série skvelých a dôležitých @voxpot.bsky.social podcastov od @jolanah.bsky.social 🫶

03.04.2025 09:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again? Global News Podcast · Episode

Great insight into the US pronatalist movement and its connections to the Trumpist administrative and the Big Tech.

open.spotify.com/episode/0P3s...

31.03.2025 08:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Forget Habermas, read Victoria Amelina The German “debate” on Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine feels like Ground Hog Day.

Here we go again. The well-respected German daily "Süddeutsche Zeitung" has published yet another intellectually unsound and mean-spirited essay by Jürgen Habermas on Ukraine. I understand why some experts feel the impulse to write a point-by-point rebuttal—but I think it's a bad idea. Here's why:

23.03.2025 18:31 — 👍 118    🔁 29    💬 8    📌 4
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A new anti-LGBTQ+ bill in Hungary would ban Pride event and allow use of facial recognition software Hungary’s ruling coalition is continuing its crackdown on the country’s LBGTQ+ community. Members on Monday submitted a bill to parliament that would ban the popular Budapest Pride event and allow aut...

💥Orbán's regime intensifies Hungary’s crackdown on LGBTQ rights, submitting a bill to ban Budapest Pride & allow authorities to use facial recognition technology to identify participants, fining them up to $546 under the pretense of "child protection." Why? Orbán seeks support from far-right voters.

18.03.2025 07:40 — 👍 79    🔁 46    💬 8    📌 5
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Czechs appeal for EU help with Radio Free Europe after Trump cuts The US president signed an executive order on Friday to stop funding the American global broadcaster, following criticism from Elon Musk.

When my parents caught me listening to RadioFreeEurope, they rushed to shut the windows, so no one will hear it & report us. Now Trump/Musk are shutting down RFE, a source of truthful info for Belarus, Russia, Iran etc. Who really are the "crazy people"?
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17.03.2025 13:38 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Very heartening to see masses of youth engaged in pro-democracy protests, in Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Tbilisi, USA and so many other places. Authoritarianism works through trying to instill isolation and fear. Solidarity and critical resistance are powerful antidotes, and they are contagious.

16.03.2025 11:45 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The @ecpr.bsky.social Gender Study 2024 just came in. I am shocked by the numbers. Especially dramatic is the percentage of women authors published in ECPR-journals: 26% in 2024, compared to 35% in 2023. Please, don't try to fix the women, fix the @##$! system.

14.03.2025 15:01 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Sněmovní stopa protipotratového hnutí. Jsou schopní lobbisté, říká expertka - Seznam Zprávy Přílepek zákona týkající se informací na krabičkách těhotenských testů se vrací do hry. Poslankyně Romana Bělohlávková z KDU-ČSL přišla s novou verzí. Co o vzniku návrhu, na němž má otisk i protipotra...

Přílepek zákona týkající se „poradenství“ na těhotenských testech se vrátil do hry. Na návrhu má podíl i protipotratové Hnutí pro život. O co mu jde❓ Rozebíráme s Jaroslavem Hrochem ze Seznam Zpráv a socioložkou Evou Svatoňovou👇

13.03.2025 08:59 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Must-listen so skvelou @sva-eva.bsky.social o Hnutí pro život a anti-genderových stratégiách v Čechách.

13.03.2025 09:21 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

THIS.

12.03.2025 09:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Students block access to Serbian state TV station amid nationwide protests Anti-government rally in Belgrade this weekend billed as climax to months of unrest since Novi Sad tragedy last year Several hundred student protesters have blocked Serbia’s public television station building in Belgrade as tensions soar days before a…

Students block access to Serbian state TV station amid nationwide protests

11.03.2025 14:16 — 👍 203    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 7
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Renaming the EU, Dismantling the Commission: For What Polish and Hungarian Illiberals Seek U.S. Backing - VSquare.org The Trump administration's most influential think tank, The Heritage Foundation, is receiving proposals from illiberal forces in Poland and Hungary on how to shape the future of the European Union. Th...

The Trump administration’s most influential think tank, The Heritage Foundation, is receiving proposals from Polish & Hungarian illiberal groups on how to shape the future of the European Union. The proposals, obtained by VSquare, include dismantling key EU institutions and renaming the entire bloc.

09.03.2025 23:16 — 👍 52    🔁 36    💬 5    📌 16
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Americký think tank napojený na Trumpa promýšlí s maďarskými a polskými konzervativci, jak rozložit EU Heritage Foundation, stojící za Projektem 2025, na uzavřeném workshopu diskutuje o plánu na demontáž Evropské unie.

Máme tady další doklad spolupráce ultrakonzervativních organizací z Maďarska a Polska s lidmi přímo napojenými na Trumpa. A nejde o ledajakou spolupráci. Hlavním tématem dnešního uzavřeného workshopu v sídle think tanku Heritage Foundation, je demontáž institucí EU

denikalarm.cz/2025/03/amer...

11.03.2025 06:53 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The lack of expertise on East-Central Europe - or perhaps more precisely the lack of recognition that expertise is actually needed - across sectors, from the media to arts to academia, is often breathtaking… including the too often terrible pronunciation of people’s names once it gets to spoken word

10.03.2025 21:20 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Jestli Trumpovi vadí Zelenskyj, ať počká na Zalužného, říká Ilja Ponomarenko - Seznam Zprávy Po třech letech války Ukrajina čelí nejen ruské armádě, ale nově také nátlaku Donalda Trumpa. Americký prezident koná nevybíravé kroky včetně pozastavení vojenské pomoci. Pohled z Ukrajiny líčíme s no...

Dnes máme v @zaminutusest.bsky.social po Volodymyru Zelenském druhého nejznámějšího Ukrajince, válečného reportéra Ilju Ponomarenka. Mluví mj. o tom, že by si Trump měl dát pozor, co si přeje. Mohlo by se mu to totiž splnit - a přijde Zalužnyj. Dejte si rozhovor!
www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/audio...

11.03.2025 07:12 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2

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