by Adrian Guelke | May 9, 2022 | blog
In elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly in May 2022, Sinn Féin won the largest share of the vote of any party by a wide margin. In terms of seats it was just ahead of the second placed Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). This was the first time a nationalist...
by David Landon Cole, ASEN coordinator | May 3, 2022 | blog
Welcome to ASEN’s new blog, the Ruritanian! The fictional country of Ruritania, breaking away from the empire of Megalomania, is often used for a placeholder name of a country in which nationalism developed, not least by Ernest Gellner. “Ruritanians had...
by David Landon Cole | Mar 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
ASEN is marking this year’s International Women’s Day and its theme, #BreakTheBias, with a special event and a special collection. On IWD itself, we have a discussion on ‘#BreakTheBias in Social Science’, with Daphne Halikiopoulou, Anna...
by Jonathan Hearn and Siniša Malešević | Oct 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Richard Lachmann, who died suddenly on 19th September 2021, was a leading historical sociologist. Born on 17th May 1956 in New York City as the oldest son of two Jewish refugees, Karl and Lotte Lachmann who fled Nazi Germany, he completed his secondary school...
by David Landon Cole | Mar 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Iconographically, the idea and image of the Motherland seems to have been more successful than that of the Fatherland. Most modern nations have symbolised themselves in the image of a woman. Female personifications of nations have a long genealogy going back to...
