Daniele Conversi

Ikerbasque Research Professor, EHU

Ikerbasque research professor at the PROSOPARLM research group at EHU

Research line:

Political and social history

More than 20 years of research experience in centres in Europe and USA

Doctor in Sociology/European Studies 1994 from the London School of Economics

2025

Note / The Anthropocene and Its Contenders: Cross-Disciplinary Tools for a Nationally Divided Humanity

Earth S Future

Conversi, D.

Note / Introduction: John Stone's Trajectory From Race Relations to Nationalism

Nations and Nationalism

Conversi, D.; Leoussi, A.

Note / Introduction to Climate Change and the Future of Diversity

International Journal of Politics Culture and Society

Posocco, L.; Conversi, D.

2024

Chapter / Climate change and the nation-state curse

Socioecos 2024. Conference Proceedings 'Climate change, sustainability and socio-ecological practices'

Daniele Conversi

Article / From climate change denial to war-mongering nationalism

Culture of Sustainability/ Culture della Sostenibilità

Daniele Conversi, Claudia Hassan, Lorenzo Posocco

Article / ‘The Anthropocene and its contenders: Cross-disciplinary tool for a nationally divided humanity’

Earth's Future

Daniele Conversi

Article / Homogenocene: Defining the age of bio-cultural devastation (1493–present)

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society

Daniele Conversi, Lorenzo Posocco

Article / Climate change and the future of diversity: Threats to cultural and biological diversity in the Anthropocene

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society

Daniele Conversi, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Lorenzo Posocco

Article / Eco-fascism: an oxymoron? Far-right nationalism, history, and the climate emergency

Frontiers in Human Dynamics

Conversi, D.

Article / Homogenocene: Defining the Age of Bio-cultural Devastation (1493–Present)

International Journal of Politics Culture and Society

Conversi, D.; Posocco, L.

Review / Ernest Gellner Debate

Cargo Journal

Daniele Conversi, Chris Hann, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Davis Shankland, Alain Macfarlane, Guido Franzinetti et al.

Review / Conceptualising energy nationalism in the context of climate change: framework and review

Frontiers in Energy Research

Żuk, P.; Conversi, D.; Żuk, P.

2023

Book / Beyond the Frontiers of Political Science: Is Good Governance Possible in Cataclysmic Times?’

Daniele Conversi, Lorenzo Posocco and Iarfhlaith Watson, eds

Chapter / Citizenship and Nationhood: From Antiquity to Gaia Citizenship

The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism

Daniele Conversi

Article / Nationalism and Climate Change

Studies on National Movements

Daniele Conversi

Article / Barcelona, Naples and Salonika: Ethnic and Civic Nationalism in Three Mediterranean Port Cities (1888-1915’)

Histories

Daniele Conversi

Editorial / Editorial: Beyond the frontiers of political science: is good governance possible in cataclysmic times?

Frontiers in Political Science

Posocco, L.; Conversi, D.; Watson, I.

2022

Book / Cambiamenti Climatici, Antropocene e Politica

Mondadori

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / Ernest Gellner in the Anthropocene. Modernity, nationalism and climate change

Ernest Gellner Legacy and Social Theory Today

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / Economic nationalism in the Anthropocene

The Handbook on Economic Nationalism

Daniele Conversi

Article / Capitalism and nationalism

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Daniele Conversi

Article / Which Nationalism for the Anthropocene? A Comparative Study of Exemplary Green Nation-States

Frontiers in Political Science

Conversi, D.; Posocco, L.

Editorial / Introduction: Beyond the Frontiers of Political Science: Is Good Governance Possible in Cataclysmic Times?

Frontiers in Political Science

Lorenzo Posocco, Daniele Conversi and Iarfhlaith Watson

2021

Chapter / Hacia un futuro incierto. Cambio climático, nacionalismo y cosmopolitismo de superviviencia

in Francis Javier Moreno-Fuentes y Eloísa del Pino (eds). Las Transformaciones Territoriales y Sociales del Estado en la Edad Digital

Conversi, D.

Chapter / The Left and Nationalism: From the French Revolution to the Anthropocene

in Liah Greenfeld and Zeying Wu (ed.) Research Handbook on Nationalism. Oxford: Edward Elgar, 2020

Conversi, D.

Chapter / The Future of Nationalism in a Transnational World

in John Stone, Rutledge Dennis, Polly Rizova and Xiaoshuo Hou (eds) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. Oxford /Malden [Mass.]: Wiley-Blackwell

Conversi, D.

Chapter / Geoethics vs. Geopolitics. Shoring up the nation in the Anthropocene cul-de-sac

Geo-societal Narratives Contextualising Geosciences

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / Showing us the way: Re-imagining communities on the path to self-sufficiency

The Edge of Equilibrium. The eco-radical forms of community

Daniele Conversi

Article / Mantenir l’antropos al panorama: nacionalisme, canvi climàtic i antropocè

Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya

Daniele Conversi

Article / Americanization and the planetary spread of ethnic conflict: the globalization trap

Mural Internacional

Daniele Conversi

Article / Exemplary ethical communities. A new concept for a livable anthropocene

Sustainability Switzerland

Conversi, D.

Article / Green nationalism. Climate action and environmentalism in left nationalist parties

Environmental Politics

Conversi, D.; Friis Hau, M.

2020

Chapter / Autonomous Communities and the Environmental Law: The Basque Case

Minority Self-government in Europe and the Middle East: From Theory to Practice

Daniele Conversi, Xabier Ezeizabarrena

Article / Después de la pandemia: Claves para una transición

Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives

Conversi, D.

Article / Dalla pandemia alla transizione. Scenari per un cambiamento sociopolitico

MicroMega

Conversi, D.

Article / The music of encounter. Andalusian interculturalism and its enemies

Reset Dialogues on Civilizations

Conversi, Daniele

Article / ¿Una victoria para la izquierda en Emilia Romagna?

Agenda Pública - El País

Conversi, Daniele

Article / The Musical Bridge—Intercultural Regionalism and the Immigration Challenge in Contemporary Andalusia

Genealogy

Conversi, D., and Machin-Autenrieth, Matthew

Article / The Ultimate Challenge: Nationalism and Climate Change

Nationalities Papers

Conversi, D.

2019

Chapter / Minority Self-government in Europe and the Middle East: From Theory to Practice

Brill

Daniele Conversi and Xabier Ezeizaba

Article / Mediterráneo, mal nuestro

Agenda Pública - El País

Conversi, Daniele & Luis Moreno Fernández

Article / El futuro de la Unión Europea pasa por Roma

Agenda Pública (El País)

Daniele Conversi

Article / Caída de la derecha y nuevo gobierno en Italia

Agenda Pública - El País

Conversi, Daniele

Article / Un nuevo acuerdo verde para el nuevo Gobierno

Agenda Pública - El País

Conversi, Daniele & Luis Moreno Fernández

Article / Salvini, un Berlusconi bis?

El País

Conversi, Daniele

Article / Reconfiguring the French nation: Public debates on the Left and national identity

Nations and Nationalism

Conversi, D.

2018

Chapter / Bienestar Social y Politicas Publicas. Retos para Pactar el Futuro.

Germán Jaraíz Arroyo

Daniele Conversi, Luis Moreno

Article / Cataluña y el camino esloveno a la secesión

Agenda Pública - El País

Conversi, Daniele

Article / Introduction: why a state is not a nation – and whether economics really matters. Walker Connor 50 years on

Nations and Nationalism

Conversi, D.

Article / The nation in the region: flamenco and canzone napoletana as national icons in modern Spain and Italy (1880–1922)

Nations and Nationalism

Conversi, D.

Review / In the Shadow of the Belle Époque: Progress, Decadence, and the Rush to War

European Legacy

Conversi, D.

Review / Instant history. The new French historiography and world history in the times of twitter

Historia Contemporanea

Conversi, D.

2017

Chapter / Himnos y Canciones. Imaginarios colectivos, símbolos e identidades fragmentadas en la España del siglo XX

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / Sovereignty Revisited: The Basque case.

Åshild Kolås and Pedro Ibarra Güell

Daniele Conversi

Article / Modelo social y límites al crecimiento en el antropoceno

Eunomía. Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad

Daniele Conversi and Luis Moreno

Article / Antropoceno, cambio climático y modelo social

Documentación Social

Daniele Conversi and Luis Moreno

Article / Suicidio climático

Diario Público

Luis Moreno and Daniele Conversi

Article / The Left and Nationalism: Introducing the Debate

H-Nationalism

Daniele Conversi

Article / A modernist beyond modernization theory: Walker Connor and his time

Nationalities Papers

Conversi, D.

Article / Despite the crisis: The resilience of intercultural nationalism in Catalonia

International Migration

Conversi, D.; Jeram, S.

Note / Walker Connor (1926–2017), pioneer in the study of nationalism

Nations and Nationalism

Conversi, D.

2016

Chapter / Gobernanza y Religión

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / The Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict

Daniele Conversi

Article / In Memoriam: Anthony D. Smith (1939–2016)

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

Daniele Conversi

Article / Anarchism, modernism, and nationalism: Futurism’s French connections, 1876-1915

European Legacy

Conversi, D.

Article / Sovereignty in a Changing World: From Westphalia to Food Sovereignty

Globalizations

Conversi, D.

2015

Chapter / Climate Change and Genocide, Environmental Violence in the 21st Century

Jürgen Zimmerer

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

George Ritzer

Daniele Conversi

2014

Book / Estatu-Nazioen Baitako Nazioak: Naziogintza Kulturala eta Politikoa, Gaur Egungo Europan/ Naciones en el Estado-Nación: La Formación Cultural y Política de Naciones en la Europa Contemporánea

Joseba Agirreazkuenaga Zigorraga and Eduardo J. Alonso Olea

Daniele Conversi and Maximiliano Fuentes Codera

Chapter / Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries: Conceptualising and Understanding National and Ethnic Identity Through Boundary Approaches

Jennifer Jackson and Lina Molokotos-Liederman

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / Democratic Deliberation in Deeply Divided Societies: From Conflict to Common Ground

Juan Esteban Ugarriza and Didier Caluwaerts

Daniele Conversi and Sanjay Jeram

Chapter / The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism

John Stone

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

George Ritzer

Daniele Conversi

Article / Review of Moreno, Luis (2014), Europa sin Estados. Unión política en el (des)orden global. Madrid: Catarata

Revista Internacional de Sociología (RIS)

Daniele Conversi

Article / Between the hammer of globalization and the anvil of nationalism: Is Europe's complex diversity under threat?

Ethnicities

Conversi, D.

Article / Subsistence societies, globalisation, climate change and genocide: Discourses of vulnerability and resilience

International Journal of Human Rights

Levene, M.; Conversi, D.

2013

Chapter / Post-identity? Culture and European integration

Richard McMahon

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / La historia a través del cine

Ugarte Telleria, Javier

Daniele Conversi

Article / The new secessionist wave – Reflections on the crisis of the neo-liberal state

SEN Journal (Online Exclusives).

Daniele Conversi

Article / Review of J. Agirreazkuenaga, The Making of the Basque Question: Experiencing Self-Government, 1793-1877.

Nations and Nationalism

Daniele Conversi

2012

Chapter / The Democratic Predicament: Problematising Cultural Diversity in Europe and India

Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / The Study of Ethnicity and Politics: Recent Analytical Developments

Adrian Guelke and Jean Tournon

Eric Kaufmann and Daniele Conversi

Chapter / Globalization and Culture (vol. 1)

Manfred B. Steger

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / Populist versus Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Implications for a Liberal Europe’

Daniele Conversi

Article / Comparing European and American nationalisms: A response to Alberto Martinelli‘s Nationalism in the 21st Century

Quaderni di Scienza Politica

Daniele Conversi

Article / Nation, state and culture: For a political and social history of cultural homogenization

Historia Contemporanea

Conversi, D.

Article / Majoritarian democracy and globalization versus ethnic diversity?

Democratization

Conversia, D.

Article / Cultural autonomy, core values and Europe's legacy: A response to Joshua A. Fishman

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Conversi, D.

2011

Chapter / Religion and Violence: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict from Antiquity to the Present.: M.E. Sharpe, 2011, vol. 1 (of 3 vols), pp..

Jeffrey Ross

Daniele Conversi

2010

Book / Movimenti e conflitti etnoterritoriali/ Ethno-territorial movements and conflicts (co-edited with Adriano Cirulli)

Daniele Conversi and Adriano Cirulli

Chapter / International Studies Encyclopedia

Robert A. Denemark

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / Handbook of Ethnic Conflict

Karl Cordell, Stefan Wolff

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace

Nigel Young

Daniele Conversi

Article / Law and Nation: The rise of the juristes class and legal nationalism in Catalonia

H-Urban

Daniele Conversi

Article / Movimenti e conflitti etnoterritoriali: una introduzione

Partecipazione e Conflitto

Adriano Cirulli and Daniele Conversi

Article / Building bridges on the road to peace. Centralism, resistance and the Basque revival

Political Geography

Daniele Conversi

2009

Chapter / Multiplicity of Nationalism in Contemporary Europe

Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski and Andrzej Marcin Suszycki

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / Handbook of Globalization Studies

Bryan Turner

Daniele Conversi

Chapter / Dominant Nationalism, Dominant Ethnicity. Identity, Federalism, and Democracy

Peter I. Lang

Daniele Conversi

2021

Frontiers in Political Science -Chief Editor (Comparative Governance) and Associated Editor (2021-today)

Nations and Nationalism -Editor (and Editorial Board)

2014

I currently serve on the Editorial Board or International Advisory Board of the following journals: 'Ethnicities', University of Bristol (ISI/WoK), 2014-present 'Nations and Nationalism', LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science (ISI/WoK), 1995-present 'Nationalism and Ethnic Politics' , Queen's University Belfast (Scopus), 2012-present 'Ethnopolitics', Universities of Birmingham and Plymouth (Scopus), 2013-present 'SEN –Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism', LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science (Scopus), 2010- present 'Historia Contemporánea', UPV-EHU, Leioa campus (Scopus), 2010- present 'SAGE Open' (Scopus), 2013- present

Journal Referee/ Peer Reviewer (ISI and/or Scopus). I have written detailed referee reports and contributed in various ways to the following journals: Ethnicities, Nations & Nationalism, National Identities, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Democratization, Ethnopolitics, Public Administration, Political Studies, Security Dialogue (International Peace Research Institute- PRIO, Oslo), Mobilization, Journal of Southern Europe & the Balkans, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Journal of European Integration, Ethics & International Affairs, International Studies Perspectives, International Political Sociology, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Review of Politics, Political Geography, Publius, Regional & Federal Studies, Civil Wars, Historia Contemporánea Social Problems (for a complete list, contact the author)

2013

Participation in national and international evaluation committees. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada/ Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada European Commission CORDIS Expert Management Module (EMM): ERC (IDEAS programme) and FP7 The British Council The British Academy Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR)/ Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema (AQU) The World Bank

2012

Commissioned works: Editor, Historia Contemporanea (Scopus): Special issue on 'Nacionalismo y Homogenización'

2010

Advisory Editor: 'The International Studies Association Compendium Project' (ISA/ Blackwell)

2022

Conference paper | Comments to Andre Gingrich’s “The Importance of Reading Ernest: Historical Methodologies as Hidden Resources for Anthropology”

Daniele Conversi

2020

Conference paper | Enemies of the Planet? Studying the Intersection Between Nationalism and Climate Change

Conversi, D.

Conference Paper | Rule of the unwise: Emotions and rationality in ethnonationalism

Nations and Nationalism - Conference Paper

Conversi, D.

2018

Invited talk | Failed promise: Egalitarian principles and inegalitarian practices in the era of mass nationalism

The Political consequences of inequality - Inequalities, territorial politics, nationalism - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

2017

Invited talk | Cultural diversity under strain: Is neoliberal globalisation more destructive than the nation state?

http://www.bari.rs/bari-2017-workshop/third-keynote-lecture/ - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Globalisation and nationalism . From Westphalia to food sovereignty

Seminario del Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (IPP-CSIC). - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Globalización y Nacionalismo

Ciclo de Conferencias - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

2016

Oral presentation | Italianità imperfetta: The canzone napoletana as an Italian National Icon (1880-1915)

Music,italianità and the nineteenth-century global imagination', 16-17 September 2016, University of Cambridge. - Oral presentation

Daniele Conversi

2015

Invited talk | Cultural diversity and globalization

ExpoFrance 2025, Rencontres de préparation du forum 'Partage des savoirs' - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Thirty years of study of nationalism and ethnicity

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 15th Anniversary Conference - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Beacons of liberation: international influences and the turn to armed struggle in European sub-state nationalist movements, 1960s-1970s

Journée d’étude organisée par le CMH et l’EHESS, 'Radicalisation politique et lutte armée' - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Oral presentation | Incongruence, counter-entropy and homogenisation: Re-reading Ernest Gellner in the light of securitisation studies

ASEN 2015 Conference: Diversity and Security - Oral presentation

Daniele Conversi

Oral presentation | Food sovereignty: Between cosmopolitanism and nationalism

Workshop Multidisciplinary Approaches to Processes of Sovereignty Construction: The Basque Case - Oral presentation

Daniele Conversi

Poster presentation | The secular roots of ethno-religious conflicts

Congreso Sobre 'Gobernanza y Religión' - Poster presentation

Daniele Conversi

2014

Invited talk | Minorities and the Great War

The Great War conference - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Closing speech (Plenary): History, nationalism and the Great War

The Great War conference - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Discussant

“Hellenes" and "Barbarians": Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse: Workshop at the University of the Basque Country - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Music for all seasons: Flamenco and canzone napoletana as vehicles of multiple identities

Jornadas Sobre Música y Nacionalismo - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Oral presentation | Barcelona, Naples and Salonika Reviewing the ethnic/civic nationalism hypothesis in three Mediterranean port cities (1888-1915 -- and today)

World History Association (WHA) Symposium 2014 on 'Port Cities in World History', - Oral presentation

Daniele Conversi

Oral presentation | Virtual belonging: State-less and state-led diasporas in the digital age

ASEN 2014 Conference: Nationalism and Belonging - Oral presentation

Daniele Conversi

Oral presentation | Prelude to obliteration: Minorities, cultural homogenization and the modern state’s eliminationist drive

Minorities and the First World War Conference - Oral presentation

Daniele Conversi

Oral presentation | Sovereignty in a changing world: Constructing the national self in the Basque country from violence to peace (1959-2011)

Imagined Sovereignties: Frontiers of Statehood and Globalization - Oral presentation

Daniele Conversi

Oral presentation | From regionalism to unitarism, from national identity to internationalization: Flamenco and Canzone NapoIetana

Himnos y canciones: símbolos de identidad colectiva en perspectiva comparada - Oral presentation

Daniele Conversi

Poster presentation | Diasporas, Political Participation and Radicalization

Human Rights, Minorities and Diversity Management Summer School - Poster presentation

Daniele Conversi

Poster presentation | Sovereignty: Evolution of a concept

Soberanías imaginadas en construcción: comparaciones y análisis entre Euskadi y Catalunya - Poster presentation

Daniele Conversi

2013

Invited talk | Secessionism and the crisis of the neo-liberal state

European & International Studies and Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Depts - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Nationalism and Westernization

Asen - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Invited talk: Es el nacionalismo necesariamente uniformador?

UNED - Invited talk

daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Nationalism, Westernization and Empire

Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Modernismo y nacionalismo

Departmental seminars - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Oral presentation | At the vanguard of sustainability transitions? Climate change, bio-cultural diversity and traditional indigenous knowledge

Klimagune Workshop 2013: Opportunities, Challenges and Barriers for Transitions Towards Sustainability in the Context of Climate Change - Oral presentation

Daniele Conversi and Joseba Arregi

Poster presentation | Double Paradigm: War and Ideology since the French Revolutionary Wars

Nationalism and Revolution - Poster presentation

Daniele Conversi

Poster presentation | Religion, democratization and peace making: Universalism vs Ethnic conflict?

20th Summer School On Religions - Poster presentation

Daniele Conversi

Poster presentation | Majoritarian democracy in a neo-liberal world: A critique of the 'failed democratization' approach

XXVII SISP Annual Conference - Poster presentation

Daniele Conversi

2012

Conference organization | Nationalism, Majoritarianism and Democracy: Facing the Challenge of Neo-liberal Globalization and its Coming Crises

World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) /(Research Committee 14: Politics and Ethnicity) - Conference organization

Daniele Conversi

Invited talk | Can nationalism be cosmopolitan? Unification vs. stateless nationalisms. Brussels/ Cologne: European Liberal Forum

Populist Versus Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Implications For A Liberal Europe - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi

Poster presentation | Modernity, globalization and nationalism: The age of frenzied boundary building (Paper Selected for publication in the conference proceedings: Routledge/LSE)

22nd Annual ASEN Conference, 27-29 March 2012 - Poster presentation

Daniele Conversi

Poster presentation | A medieval road to modernity? Competing discourses of Basque and Catalan nationalism in the broader Europe. Leioa: Servicio Editorial, Universidad del País Vasco = Argitarapen Zerbitzua, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.

Second International Galeusca conference. - Poster presentation

Daniele Conversi

Poster presentation | Panel Chair

Demokrazia+ Kongresua - Poster presentation

Daniele Conversi

2010

Invited talk | Els nous nacionalismes radicals a l'Espanya dels anys 60 i la confrontració entre democràcia i dictadura

Seminari del Gehci 'Els intel·lectuals davant dels reptes dels anys seixanta' - Invited talk

Daniele Conversi