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the Czech Republic were Roma (see Donert, 2018 ). These are citizens who are understood as socially problematic because they do not want to work and are uneducated. (There was no basis for Zeman's claims, and his statement was not historically contextualised within the Romani holocaust or the negative policies that targeted Roma in the Czech Republic after World War II (Donert, 2017 ; see also Chapters 3 and 4 .) However, what was interesting was the response of ‘ordinary’ Romani citizens of the Czech Republic, who started posting photos on social media of
grow up in the Islamic State. Awaiting them instead was a system of sexualised coercion where they were reportedly forced into sex with arriving male jihadis – treatment to which VRS guards in eastern Bosnia had subjected captured Bosniak women in 1992–5 – while ISIS manipulated their images on social media to inspire other Muslim teenagers to follow them (Perešin and Cervone 2015 : 502). Selimović was missing by the end of 2014, and Kesinović is thought to have been beaten to death in 2015 while escaping from a house in Raqqa
us intends, on her own and without any knowledge of what others are doing, to go to the first planning meeting, announced in an uncoordinated way on social media, but we are blocked before we even start. Did we act in solidarity? The answer will be mixed. Yes, because we all intended to go to the meeting, identified with one another, were disposed to share one another's fates, and so on. No, because while we intended to begin our joint activities on the way to overcoming some significant adversity, we were stopped before we ever got started. Our solidarity, we
is a model of statehood characterised in notable cases by the erosion of the very notion of the state of law by the de facto legalisation of ad hoc measures through extra-parliamentary channels. It is true that inter-systemic communication may be characterised as somewhat inchoate as yet. By contrast, there are well organised informal networks of communication linking government ministries, CEOs, specific think tanks, rating agencies, high profile social media personalities, key figures at central banks and big commercial news services and so on, which take part