A short recap of our recent #workshop on information capacity of states co-organised with The Quality of Government Institute at Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg Follow the link👉bit.ly/3VZxFxc Excited for future exchanges! 👋

Meet Chun-Ying, our postdoctoral fellow and the language policy expert on our team, supervising the East and Southeast Asia parts of our upcoming global Nation-building Policies (NBP) dataset. Read our interview with Chun-Ying here: 🫴bit.ly/3XEWShp

Today one of our pioneer RAs Guillem defends his doctoral thesis exploring the political dynamics of technological change. Congratulations Guillem! 🎓 Felicitats ! 👏👏👏

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#Puestos y #vacantes: El Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals - Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals oferta la plaza de #Head of the #Research #Office. Solicitudes hasta el 16 de julio. is.gd/4Kihmj

Last week our former RA Guillem successfully defended his PhD on The Political Dynamics of Technological Change. 🖥️ Read more about Guillem's thesis following the link 👉bit.ly/4dn85YT European Research Council (ERC) Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals UPF Barcelona Euraxess Catalonia @BCNResearch

Congratulations to our former RA, Gülce Şafak ÖZDEMİR, on her new publication exploring multiple intersecting identities of irregular migrants in Barcelona. Bravo Gulce!😌

🤔#Didyouknow that Socotra Island, officially part of Yemen, is located 400 km from the Arabian Peninsula? Its inhabitants speak Soqotri, a unique unwritten South Semitic language. Currently, Socotra is under de facto control of UAE. Discoveries while coding a global #dataset

🤔#DidYouKnow that in 1934 Soviet leadership created a Jewish homeland in the far eastern part of USSR, called Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Jewish population peaked in 1940s at 25% of the region. Yiddish was one of the official languages. The fascinating history of #NationBuilding

🤔#DidYouKnow Tosk and Gheg are two dialects of the Albanian language. The former variety is taught in Albania's public schools. Kosovar Albanians also learn Tosk despite speaking the Gheg variant.✍️ An effort at transnational nation-building captured by our upcoming NBP #dataset

🪂Ethnicgoods is going to #ASA2024! On Sunday, August 11 Emre Amasyali will present two papers related to the NBP dataset as part of Session 30635 on Political Sociology at Table 2: Comparative-Historical and Table 7: Inequality. See you there! 👋 European Research Council (ERC) Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals ASA Sociology

#ASA2024 session 30635 Table 2: Emre Amasyali talks us through the four major nation-building strategies tested by the NBP #dataset, which offers the first empirical analysis of the typology’s insights and limitations. Thank you for your feedback! 👉Next: Table 7 on Inequality

#ASA2024 Session 30635 Table 7:  Emre Amasyali  presents our work on NBP's coding of government policies to test the theoretical link between discrimination and group conflict behaviour. Thank you for your insightful comments! Off to enjoy the rest of the conference 😊

Ethnicgoods is off to a well-deserved vacation!⛵️ See you in Philadelphia for #APSA 2024 in September! 👋 APSA European Research Council (ERC) Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals

🤔#DidYouKnow that Mauritania was the last country to abolish slavery, in 1981. Despite this, group-based slavery persists, though the government is actively working to end it. Slavery has been criminalized since 2007.  👩‍💻Things you learn while creating a global #dataset

🤔#DidYouKnow Toubou (Tebu), a nomadic ethnic group converted to Islam by Sanussi missionaries in the 19th century, was granted Libyan citizenship by Gaddafi in 1996, only to have it revoked in 2007, claiming they were Chadians. ❗️Example of Eradication Nation-Building strategy

🤔#DidYouKnow that in 1847 #Liberia was declared an independent state ran by a small Americo-Liberian settler elite formed by recently freed and expatriated American slaves. Until 1945 only the settlers were considered Liberian citizens at the expense of #indigenous groups

We are back from the holidays and getting ready for #APSA2024 Wishing everyone a fruitful academic year ahead!🍎 Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals European Research Council (ERC) Euraxess Catalonia

Excited to be at #APSA2024! 🌎 PI Matthias vom Hau will present a forthcoming co-authored publication with Emre Amasyali on Cultural Status Inequalities and Civil Wars at Panel 21: Conflict Processes (Ethnic Inequality and Exclusion Session) at 12 p.m. Cant wait!👋Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals European Research Council (ERC)