Joldon Kutmanaliev is a PhD researcher at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, the European University Institute. His preliminary dissertation topic is “Ethnic violence and peace in southern Kyrgyzstan”. His current research seeks to explain spatial variations in violence during the ethnic conflict in 2010 in Kyrgyzstan. Joldon received his BA diploma in history from […]

Currently working on her thesis “From Contentious Politics in to Social Movements: Conscientious Objection in Turkey and Israel.”

Leonidas Oikonomakis is a writer, political activist, a late PhD Candidate & a member of the Greek hip hop formation “Social Waste”. When he is not in Greece crafting socio-political rap songs with his group, and unless he has enough money to go on fieldwork, he transforms himself into a library rat spending his time […]

currently working on his thesis on “A Complexity Approach to the Emergence of Social Movements in the Middle East and North Africa Region: The Case of Egypt.”

I am a doctoral researcher in Sociology at the European University Institute(EUI) in Florence. My work is focused on university mobilizations emerged in France and Italy after the reforms on higher education of the so-called Bologna Process. I aim to investigate the impact university movements have had on the processes of reorganization of the academic […]