Working at the intersection of International Relations and Comparative Politics, my research primarily deals with identity politics across borders, specifically ethnic, national, and religious identities. I am interested in three inter-related topics:
Theoretically, I am inspired by pragmatism and practice theory. While sharing affinities with constructivism and relational sociology, a practice-based approach offers distinct analytical and normative contributions. I discuss some of these contributions in a co-authored article published in the European Journal of International Relations. Methodologically, I employ qualitative and interpretive methods, focusing on systematic discourse analysis. My article in Political Geography examines the physical, discursive, and technical mechanisms involved in the construction of a diasporic transnational identity. Another article, conditionally accepted for publication in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, draws on the concept of Ontological Security to theorize the strategic attempts made by diasporic elites to sustain and reproduce a diasporic identity across generations.
You are welcome to read more on each of my projects following these links:
- The role of identity in shaping security and foreign policies of states
- What determines the ways political elites govern identities inside and outside the state
- The tensions between territorial and non-territorial geographical imaginations
Theoretically, I am inspired by pragmatism and practice theory. While sharing affinities with constructivism and relational sociology, a practice-based approach offers distinct analytical and normative contributions. I discuss some of these contributions in a co-authored article published in the European Journal of International Relations. Methodologically, I employ qualitative and interpretive methods, focusing on systematic discourse analysis. My article in Political Geography examines the physical, discursive, and technical mechanisms involved in the construction of a diasporic transnational identity. Another article, conditionally accepted for publication in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, draws on the concept of Ontological Security to theorize the strategic attempts made by diasporic elites to sustain and reproduce a diasporic identity across generations.
You are welcome to read more on each of my projects following these links: