Publications
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2023 • Journal Article • The Historical Journal
Armenians, Jews, and Humanitarianism in the ‘Age of Questions’, 1830–1900
AbstractThe historical parallels between Jews and Armenians have long been widespread in both popular and academic spheres: two diasporic, ‘middlemen minorities’ with distinctive religious, cultural, and socio-economic traits whose repeated marginalization and oppression during the nineteenth century culminated in genocide during the twentieth.Footnote2 Throughout history, both
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Nov 2022 • Book • Studies in Central European History, Culture and Literature
Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity
AbstractThe personal and professional life of Bruno Kreisky (1911–1990), Austria's long-serving Socialist chancellor from August 1970 to May 1983, has been the focus of many books and articles. However, his ambiguous and complex relationship to his Jewishness, the State of Israel, and Zionism, as well as his connections to his overall political project and global aspirations
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3 Oct 2022 • Journal Article • Harvard Civil Rights- Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL), Vol. 57, No. 1
(Un)Official Cityscapes: The Battle over Urban Narratives
AbstractEvery city has large public spaces that are accessible to everyone. City life is what happens in these spaces, this is where its spirit emerges and evolves. Being freely accessible to everyone, these spaces offer opportunities for spontaneous encounters between inhabitants. This communication, albeit mostly indirect, determines the very character of the city. Urban
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5 Sep 2022 • Preprint • MediArXiv
Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds?
AbstractIn less than a year, the trending short-video platform TikTok transformed from a primarily entertaining environment for lip-syncing, dancing, and other self-performances into an interest-based platform for sharing information about politics, sexuality, identity, history, and other topics. This development was accompanied by the rise of a format that we describe as
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2 Aug 2022 • Journal Article • Comparative Political Theory
Populism and Transnational Projection: The Legitimation Strategies of Pink Tide Neo-Populist Leaderships in Latin America
AbstractThis article attempts to engage the burgeoning research on the transnational dimensions of populism with recent theorization on legitimation strategies in international politics. Focusing on the performative practices of the wave of Pink Tide neo-populist leaders in Latin America (also called “Chavista” or “Bolivarian”), this work identifies three main strategies of
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29 Jul 2022 • Journal Article • Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Urban Semantics through Law and Photography
AbstractThe visual design of urban public spaces (hereinafter “cityscape”) has an important impact on city life – it can channel interpersonal communication into certain directions while excluding others; it can powerfully communicate notions of what is socially acceptable or important. Yet, while everyone may access urban public spaces, cityscapes are designed by a very limited
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8 Jul 2022 • Journal Article • Global Intellectual History
Lost in Time: Periodization and Temporality in Abnormal Times
AbstractIn this article, we locate a tendency to revert to ‘Western,’ ‘national,’ and/or ‘racial’ times during periods of intense uncertainty or ‘crisis’ when individuals and societies seek to make sense of the present through the past, drawing upon the concept of a ‘time-border.’ We suggest this tendency is a ‘conventional’ pull in temporal thinking that has recurred in modern
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6 Jul 2022 • Journal Article • Higher Education
Ivory Tower or Tower of Babel? The challenge of multilingualism for the globally embedded university
AbstractHigher education organizations in countries where English is not the native tongue must function in a multilingual mode, using English as their primary language for scientific exchange and academic publication and relying on the native language for instruction and administration. When operating in a multilingual mode of communication and identity expression, a
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17 May 2022 • Book Chapter • Handbook of Culture and Glocalization
World society theory and glocalization: culture between transnationality, structuration, rationalization and actorhood
AbstractWhile the sociological theories of world sociey and glocalisation have different intellectual emphases, both conceptual and empirical, they are highly compatible and mutually supportive. The aim of this chapter is to explore this link between world society theory and the study of cultural glocalisation. To this aim, we review the principal concepts, core claims and
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1 Apr 2022 • Journal Article • Book 2.0
Hebrew letterforms on café signs in Berlin
AbstractIsraeli immigration to Berlin has increased significantly over the past decade, giving rise to a nascent Hebrew culture. Consequently, Hebrew letterforms, once seldom found outside the traditional context of synagogues, cemeteries or memorials, are nowadays also found in public spaces and restaurants across the city. While research on Israeli immigration to Germany has
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