Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Half-truths in Hillbilly Elegy

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I´ve heard about Hillbilly Elegy by the current US VP J.D.Vance few years back, as a reference for understanding roots of local elites in t...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Movie Recommendation: The Zone of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer

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A long classical music introduction, animating a completely dark image that lasts few long minutes. Then, we are introduced into the everyda...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulić

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I don´t know about other academics, but every time I am connecting intellectually with books on topics I experienced myself, although indire...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

What´s in a Dish

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I personally find food history a fascinating area of study and reflection. As any other identity-related story, it reveals very important na...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Political Events through Films: The Death of Stalin

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  For the political scientist and historian of mentalities, films are a very useful - and sometimes, entertaining - tool to read past and cu...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

´When They Call You a Terrorist´. A #BLM Memoir

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I will probably write a little bit later about the current wave of protests that took over the US and some European universities as well. Th...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

A Dynamic History of the Cold War

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Cold War is far from being a completely known story and as we are advancing into our multi-polar, close to chaos world, available informatio...