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umutozkirimli.bsky.social
IBEI (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals); Blanquerna University; CIDOB | Academic Director, Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East | Last book Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke | Back to writing on nationalism
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My take on UK Elections 2025 @drjennings.bsky.social tells us Reform did best “in areas with fewer university graduates, higher levels of employment in manufacturing industries”—places politicians only remember exist when they need to cosplay authenticity umutozkirimli.substack.com/p/endlessly-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

My take on UK Elections 2025. What if we stopped treating voters as a homogeneous blob of culture-war avatars and asked what kind of world could make a racist demagogue look like the most relatable person on the ballot? Subscribe to my PARTISAN for free umutozkirimli.substack.com/p/endlessly-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

I hope this works as a wake-up call to some colleagues, but I know it won't. They'll continue blaming politicians, the media, and other academics for mainstreaming and normalizing the far right. Rob himself was accused of collaborating with Matt Goodwin in the past, before he was a far right grifter

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My questions on the basis of Will's snappy summary are: 1. Is any of this unexpected? 2. Can this be (mainly) explained by the so-called populist hype, or the tendency of the mainstream to normalize the far right? 3. Should we or should we not try to reach out to those who voted for Reform? 1/2

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My new Substack - Partisan post on Spain's Blackout. 🔎 What we felt pales into nothingness compared to the daily lives of Ukrainians sheltering under missile strikes, or Gazan children whose existence is reduced to grim numbers in news tickers. We got a taste. They live it. bit.ly/Partisan_Spa...

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The clock is ticking! ⌛️A month left to benefit from the 10% early bird discount 🔜 June 2, 2025. ⌛️ Three weeks to apply for a scholarship 🔜 May 23, 2025. Join the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and help shape the change. bit.ly/BarcelonaSummerSchool

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The clock is ticking! ⌛️A month left to benefit from the 10% early bird discount 🔜 June 2, 2025. ⌛️ Three weeks to apply for a scholarship 🔜 May 23, 2025. Join the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and help shape the change. bit.ly/BarcelonaSummerSchool

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✍️ I wrote a personal, admittedly bitter, account on how the "anti-woke" won, marking 2 years since CANCELLED was published. 1⃣ CANCELLED was a warning, a call to action. Progressives thought they could beat the right at its own culture war game — a doomed strategy. thecritic.co.uk/how-the-anti...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

✍️ I wrote a personal, admittedly bitter, account on how the "anti-woke" won, marking 2 years since CANCELLED was published. 1⃣ CANCELLED was a warning, a call to action. Progressives thought they could beat the right at its own culture war game — a doomed strategy. thecritic.co.uk/how-the-anti...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"La izq ha eliminado sistemáticamente la crítica, alienado a potenciales aliados, y ha hecho imposible construir las coaliciones necesarias para ganar, que es el objetivo en política, no el de hacer ostentación de indignación y virtud" dice @umutozkirimli.bsky.social thecritic.co.uk/how-the-anti...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Because intellectual integrity (not saying political integrity) is all we have. You cannot in good faith, and by staying true to the fundamental principles of our profession, make such sweeping generalizations. This is a betrayal of our scholarly integrity and I am ashamed.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I’m a small fish here, but those with big platforms need to speak up. A “far-right expert” with 11.8k followers likens the UK to Weimar Germany and calls anyone who defines womanhood on the basis of biological sex a "transphobe". This isn’t analysis—it’s unhinged.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I'm afraid you're wrong, @carmunist.bsky.social is right. The quote is from Rousseau’s “Reveries of the Solitary Walker” (Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire). In the original, it reads: "Le monde réel a ses limites; le monde imaginaire est infini."

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

This is a fair criticism of my tweet. Unintended rhetorical flourish. I should have said right-wing or reactionary hegemony. Then Labour would have fit into the picture.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

This is why you’ll never beat fascist hegemony—Farage’s far-right circus or Labour’s soft-touch version. You bury real struggles under middle-class delusions, miles from how people actually live. bsky.app/profile/umut...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

The impeccable logic of the identitarian activist: a brief guide to how “rule of law” becomes a matter of vibes and tribal allegiance. Marine Le Pen is sentenced to four years in prison and fined €100,000 for embezzlement. ➡️ Rule of law. Victory for democracy. -1

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