Jan Yasin Sunca
@jansun.bsky.social
Political Sociology & IR @ulbruxelles.bsky.social
#TheStateless #DemocraticConfederalism #DecolonialPolitics
#TheStateless #DemocraticConfederalism #DecolonialPolitics
A closed door event that we organise to discuss the latest process between the PKK and the state. Stay tuned for what will come next:
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/a-process...
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/a-process...
May 29, 2026 at 7:25 AM
A closed door event that we organise to discuss the latest process between the PKK and the state. Stay tuned for what will come next:
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/a-process...
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/a-process...
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Call for Papers
Workshop on the coloniality of the modern state
🗓️ 12-13 November 2026
📍Université Libre de Bruxelles
Deadline: 15 May 2026
Limited funding may be available to support travel & accommodation costs for participants sans institutional support.
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
Workshop on the coloniality of the modern state
🗓️ 12-13 November 2026
📍Université Libre de Bruxelles
Deadline: 15 May 2026
Limited funding may be available to support travel & accommodation costs for participants sans institutional support.
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state - REPI - Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale
repi.phisoc.ulb.be
April 19, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Call for Papers
Workshop on the coloniality of the modern state
🗓️ 12-13 November 2026
📍Université Libre de Bruxelles
Deadline: 15 May 2026
Limited funding may be available to support travel & accommodation costs for participants sans institutional support.
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
Workshop on the coloniality of the modern state
🗓️ 12-13 November 2026
📍Université Libre de Bruxelles
Deadline: 15 May 2026
Limited funding may be available to support travel & accommodation costs for participants sans institutional support.
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
CfP is out for our workshop in November. Deadline for submissions is May 15. Hope to see many of you in Brussels!
“Coloniality of the modern state”
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
“Coloniality of the modern state”
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state - REPI - Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale
This call for papers seeks contributions that engage with the following central questions: Can the modern state function as an instrument of decolonization? Or, as Audre Lorde suggested, can the master’s tools ever dismantle the master’s house? What can we learn from decoloniality as plural horizons of liberation, beyonde state-seeking naitonalisms?
repi.phisoc.ulb.be
April 9, 2026 at 9:07 AM
CfP is out for our workshop in November. Deadline for submissions is May 15. Hope to see many of you in Brussels!
“Coloniality of the modern state”
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
“Coloniality of the modern state”
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
Reposted by Jan Yasin Sunca
CfP is out for our workshop in November. Deadline for submissions is in mid May. Hope to see you there!
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
@sciencepoulb.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
@sciencepoulb.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state - REPI - Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale
This call for papers seeks contributions that engage with the following central questions: Can the modern state function as an instrument of decolonization? Or, as Audre Lorde suggested, can the master’s tools ever dismantle the master’s house? What can we learn from decoloniality as plural horizons of liberation, beyonde state-seeking naitonalisms?
repi.phisoc.ulb.be
April 9, 2026 at 8:18 AM
CfP is out for our workshop in November. Deadline for submissions is in mid May. Hope to see you there!
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
@sciencepoulb.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...
@sciencepoulb.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
Reposted by Jan Yasin Sunca
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"The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power"
New article out by Jan Yasin Sunca, chargé de recherche FNRS à SciencePo ULB (REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale), in Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...
"The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power"
New article out by Jan Yasin Sunca, chargé de recherche FNRS à SciencePo ULB (REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale), in Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...
The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power
Emergent Conversation 24 This essay is part of the series Kurdistan(s): Repression, Resistance, and the Fight for Survival, PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 24 By Jan Yasin Sunca This essay is de…
polarjournal.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
[Out]
"The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power"
New article out by Jan Yasin Sunca, chargé de recherche FNRS à SciencePo ULB (REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale), in Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...
"The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power"
New article out by Jan Yasin Sunca, chargé de recherche FNRS à SciencePo ULB (REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale), in Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...
New peiece: "The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power"
I compare the PKK and FARC—the first of its kind.
Part of PoLAR's special issue, edited by @adnancelik.bsky.social and @denizyonucu.bsky.social, patiently. 🙏 thank you!. 1/
polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...
I compare the PKK and FARC—the first of its kind.
Part of PoLAR's special issue, edited by @adnancelik.bsky.social and @denizyonucu.bsky.social, patiently. 🙏 thank you!. 1/
polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...
The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power
Emergent Conversation 24 This essay is part of the series Kurdistan(s): Repression, Resistance, and the Fight for Survival, PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 24 By Jan Yasin Sunca This essay is de…
polarjournal.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New peiece: "The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power"
I compare the PKK and FARC—the first of its kind.
Part of PoLAR's special issue, edited by @adnancelik.bsky.social and @denizyonucu.bsky.social, patiently. 🙏 thank you!. 1/
polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...
I compare the PKK and FARC—the first of its kind.
Part of PoLAR's special issue, edited by @adnancelik.bsky.social and @denizyonucu.bsky.social, patiently. 🙏 thank you!. 1/
polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...
L’État belge a retiré la protection internationale de Mohammed Khatib. Génocide en Palestine, politicide en dehors de la Palestine.
Alors, quelle option reste-t-il pour les Palestinien·nes ?
www.lesoir.be/691887/artic...
Alors, quelle option reste-t-il pour les Palestinien·nes ?
www.lesoir.be/691887/artic...
Le leader de l’organisation pro-palestinienne Samidoun déchu de son statut de réfugié
Mohammed Khatib était sous le coup d’une procédure de révision de sa protection internationale. Ce Palestinien arrivé en Belgique il y a quinze ans est la figure de Samidoun, une association dans le v...
www.lesoir.be
August 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
L’État belge a retiré la protection internationale de Mohammed Khatib. Génocide en Palestine, politicide en dehors de la Palestine.
Alors, quelle option reste-t-il pour les Palestinien·nes ?
www.lesoir.be/691887/artic...
Alors, quelle option reste-t-il pour les Palestinien·nes ?
www.lesoir.be/691887/artic...
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At the InnPeace Roundtable, @jansun.bsky.social used South (Iraqi) Kurdistan and Rojava to show how modern nation-states map the world as a battlefield shaped by colonial violence, urging peace beyond the state through plural, autonomy-based coexistence free from domination.
June 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
At the InnPeace Roundtable, @jansun.bsky.social used South (Iraqi) Kurdistan and Rojava to show how modern nation-states map the world as a battlefield shaped by colonial violence, urging peace beyond the state through plural, autonomy-based coexistence free from domination.
A chapter that I wrote on anti-colonial struggles and the Universtiy of Rojava: Decolonizing university is not merely a discursive rhetoric but a fundamental component of an overall anti-colonial struggle.
If you need a copy, let me know.
Link: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
If you need a copy, let me know.
Link: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
May 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A chapter that I wrote on anti-colonial struggles and the Universtiy of Rojava: Decolonizing university is not merely a discursive rhetoric but a fundamental component of an overall anti-colonial struggle.
If you need a copy, let me know.
Link: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
If you need a copy, let me know.
Link: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
Reposted by Jan Yasin Sunca
El viernes a las 12:00 h (hora mexicana) voy a hablar sobre el auge de la tecno-oligarquía y los debates sobre la soberanía digital. La presentación se podrá ver por Zoom.
agenda.colmex.mx/Actividad/45...
agenda.colmex.mx/Actividad/45...
May 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
El viernes a las 12:00 h (hora mexicana) voy a hablar sobre el auge de la tecno-oligarquía y los debates sobre la soberanía digital. La presentación se podrá ver por Zoom.
agenda.colmex.mx/Actividad/45...
agenda.colmex.mx/Actividad/45...
Je me demande si la Belgique, comme une bonne partie des pays européens, n’est pas contrôlée par un « troisième pays » — en l’occurrence, la Turquie — en matière de droits fondamentaux.
1/3
www.rtbf.be/article/droi...
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www.rtbf.be/article/droi...
Droit de séjour menacé pour l'activiste féministe Marie Gilow : des personnalités, dont les frères Dardenne, se mobilisent
C’est en septembre 2024, lors d’une convocation à la police, que la vie de Marie Gilow bascule. Selon ses...
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March 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Je me demande si la Belgique, comme une bonne partie des pays européens, n’est pas contrôlée par un « troisième pays » — en l’occurrence, la Turquie — en matière de droits fondamentaux.
1/3
www.rtbf.be/article/droi...
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www.rtbf.be/article/droi...
Student mobilisation strongly shakes the political Outlook in turkey, once again. And it has almost nothing to do with the organised “opposition”, apart from Imamoglu’s imprisonment being trigger.
March 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Student mobilisation strongly shakes the political Outlook in turkey, once again. And it has almost nothing to do with the organised “opposition”, apart from Imamoglu’s imprisonment being trigger.
Reposted by Jan Yasin Sunca
Excited to host @hochstet.bsky.social in Bogotá on Fri 21 March as part of our ECO-DEM project on energy transitions and democracy in the Global South.
@globalforum.bsky.social Prof Hochstetler (LSE) will discuss energy transitions in Amazonian countries 🌴🔋
Hybrid format. Message for details!
@globalforum.bsky.social Prof Hochstetler (LSE) will discuss energy transitions in Amazonian countries 🌴🔋
Hybrid format. Message for details!
March 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Excited to host @hochstet.bsky.social in Bogotá on Fri 21 March as part of our ECO-DEM project on energy transitions and democracy in the Global South.
@globalforum.bsky.social Prof Hochstetler (LSE) will discuss energy transitions in Amazonian countries 🌴🔋
Hybrid format. Message for details!
@globalforum.bsky.social Prof Hochstetler (LSE) will discuss energy transitions in Amazonian countries 🌴🔋
Hybrid format. Message for details!
Cevap aradığım sorular:
- Ne oldu da “kardeşlik” şimdi pratiğe döküldü?
- Bunun Kürt sorununun tarihsel bölgesel dinamikleriyle ne alakası var?
- PKK nasıl ikna oldu?
- Devlet (ve Bahçeli) neden söylemsel makasını değiştirdi?
Buyrun…
- Ne oldu da “kardeşlik” şimdi pratiğe döküldü?
- Bunun Kürt sorununun tarihsel bölgesel dinamikleriyle ne alakası var?
- PKK nasıl ikna oldu?
- Devlet (ve Bahçeli) neden söylemsel makasını değiştirdi?
Buyrun…
March 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Cevap aradığım sorular:
- Ne oldu da “kardeşlik” şimdi pratiğe döküldü?
- Bunun Kürt sorununun tarihsel bölgesel dinamikleriyle ne alakası var?
- PKK nasıl ikna oldu?
- Devlet (ve Bahçeli) neden söylemsel makasını değiştirdi?
Buyrun…
- Ne oldu da “kardeşlik” şimdi pratiğe döküldü?
- Bunun Kürt sorununun tarihsel bölgesel dinamikleriyle ne alakası var?
- PKK nasıl ikna oldu?
- Devlet (ve Bahçeli) neden söylemsel makasını değiştirdi?
Buyrun…
Many make similar points, without considering the process how we've come here. There was a year long process during which letters have been exchanged, meetings held and positions clarified among actors, resulting in this call. It should've beeen public, but it doesn't mean there is no pre-set agenda
He says the Turkish parliament should now take steps, but what steps? Nothing specific has been publicly promised
KONGRA-GEL Eş Başkanı Remzi Kartal, PKK lideri Abdullah Öcalan'ın açıklamasını bianet'e değerlendirdi:
"Önümüzdeki günlerde Önder Apo’nun umut hakkı süreci tartışılmaya başlanmalı, parlamentoda gereken adımlar atılmalıdır."
"Önümüzdeki günlerde Önder Apo’nun umut hakkı süreci tartışılmaya başlanmalı, parlamentoda gereken adımlar atılmalıdır."
February 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Many make similar points, without considering the process how we've come here. There was a year long process during which letters have been exchanged, meetings held and positions clarified among actors, resulting in this call. It should've beeen public, but it doesn't mean there is no pre-set agenda
A Historic Declaration and Call by Abdullah Öcalan
Here are some contextual and extra-textual details:
Here are some contextual and extra-textual details:
February 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A Historic Declaration and Call by Abdullah Öcalan
Here are some contextual and extra-textual details:
Here are some contextual and extra-textual details:
well, better avoid this kind of hyperbols, and ignore their authors, particularly the "Guardianised" versions of it that obscures the historical responsabilities and silences the victims...
That is, there is potential but basically it is a continuation of what was put off 10 years ago by Turkey.
That is, there is potential but basically it is a continuation of what was put off 10 years ago by Turkey.
February 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
well, better avoid this kind of hyperbols, and ignore their authors, particularly the "Guardianised" versions of it that obscures the historical responsabilities and silences the victims...
That is, there is potential but basically it is a continuation of what was put off 10 years ago by Turkey.
That is, there is potential but basically it is a continuation of what was put off 10 years ago by Turkey.
First thing is first: This call is not the first of its kind and what comes afterwards will be decisive of its implications as well as implementation.
Öcalan calls for laying down the arms, calls on the PKK to orgainse its congress and to dissolve itself.
February 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
First thing is first: This call is not the first of its kind and what comes afterwards will be decisive of its implications as well as implementation.
Öcalan calls for laying down the arms, calls on the PKK to orgainse its congress and to dissolve itself.
February 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Öcalan calls for laying down the arms, calls on the PKK to orgainse its congress and to dissolve itself.
the image of a historic moment....
February 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
the image of a historic moment....
Reminder: happening in a couple of hours.
Kobane, a Decade Later: Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria and the Global War Regime.
Tuesday February 25th
8:00am Bogota time
2 pm CET
6:30 in Colombo
zoom link :
ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...
Kobane, a Decade Later: Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria and the Global War Regime.
Tuesday February 25th
8:00am Bogota time
2 pm CET
6:30 in Colombo
zoom link :
ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...
February 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Reminder: happening in a couple of hours.
Kobane, a Decade Later: Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria and the Global War Regime.
Tuesday February 25th
8:00am Bogota time
2 pm CET
6:30 in Colombo
zoom link :
ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...
Kobane, a Decade Later: Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria and the Global War Regime.
Tuesday February 25th
8:00am Bogota time
2 pm CET
6:30 in Colombo
zoom link :
ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...
LECTURE:
@aysezarakol.bsky.social is visiting us in Brussels, to give a lecture on a topic that is probably the most widely debated yet less successfully explained issue of contemporary international relations: the crisis of liberal international order.
@aysezarakol.bsky.social is visiting us in Brussels, to give a lecture on a topic that is probably the most widely debated yet less successfully explained issue of contemporary international relations: the crisis of liberal international order.
[Event]
The REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale welcomes you to the seminar:
'Is the disorder of our times unprecedented?'.
With Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
Friday, March the 14th at 12:00
Spaak Room
Av. Fr. Roosevelt, 39
1050 Brussels
The REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale welcomes you to the seminar:
'Is the disorder of our times unprecedented?'.
With Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
Friday, March the 14th at 12:00
Spaak Room
Av. Fr. Roosevelt, 39
1050 Brussels
February 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
LECTURE:
@aysezarakol.bsky.social is visiting us in Brussels, to give a lecture on a topic that is probably the most widely debated yet less successfully explained issue of contemporary international relations: the crisis of liberal international order.
@aysezarakol.bsky.social is visiting us in Brussels, to give a lecture on a topic that is probably the most widely debated yet less successfully explained issue of contemporary international relations: the crisis of liberal international order.
Kobane, a Decade Later: Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria and the Global War Regime.
Speakers:
Nazan Üstündağ & Jan Yasin Sunca
Tuesday February 25th
8:00am Bogota time
2 pm CET
6:30 in Colombo
@globalforum.bsky.social
link:
ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...
Speakers:
Nazan Üstündağ & Jan Yasin Sunca
Tuesday February 25th
8:00am Bogota time
2 pm CET
6:30 in Colombo
@globalforum.bsky.social
link:
ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...
February 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Kobane, a Decade Later: Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria and the Global War Regime.
Speakers:
Nazan Üstündağ & Jan Yasin Sunca
Tuesday February 25th
8:00am Bogota time
2 pm CET
6:30 in Colombo
@globalforum.bsky.social
link:
ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...
Speakers:
Nazan Üstündağ & Jan Yasin Sunca
Tuesday February 25th
8:00am Bogota time
2 pm CET
6:30 in Colombo
@globalforum.bsky.social
link:
ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...
Reposted by Jan Yasin Sunca
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.” — Audre Lorde
February 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.” — Audre Lorde
Reposted by Jan Yasin Sunca
The University of Sheffield was so proud of its role in creating F-35s that it chose to cite the project as a case study in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). This is what 'impact' looks like in our morally bankrupt academy.
source: sheffield-coalition.co.uk
source: sheffield-coalition.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The University of Sheffield was so proud of its role in creating F-35s that it chose to cite the project as a case study in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). This is what 'impact' looks like in our morally bankrupt academy.
source: sheffield-coalition.co.uk
source: sheffield-coalition.co.uk