ICE killed a father of three in Franklin Park a few days ago. They are snatching people at gas stations, at bus stops, and from their homes and cars, leaving screaming, panicked children in their wake. It is a nightmare, and when ICE has amassed 10,000 new agents, it could be the new normal.

Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

“Far from a rupture, the devastation exemplifies a historical continuum of erasure, from the Nakba to contemporary schemes such as ‘Gaza 2035’, which envision the territory as a depopulated investment frontier for energy, logistics & speculative urbanism.” online-library.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

Sharjeel Imam on why he is contesting elections: in order to work towards a truly democratic political system that protects the rights of minorities and other vulnerable groups. “Democracy is about consultation, it is not about victory and defeat. It is not a war.” scroll.in/article/1085...

And you can pre-order with this discount code: E25VCHOI! #DisasterNationalism #DisasterSTS #SouthAsia #SriLanka

One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography buff.ly/BWX6cDK

For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees. I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I learned so much from this conversation between Lisa Mitchell and Sneha Annavarapu on how to think about the state relationally, & what happens when people on the street become active agents in hailing and surveilling the state. newbooksnetwork.com/hailing-the-...

“Postcolonialism is wielded as a weapon against Palestinian tactics for liberation. Transfiguring Zionism into anti-colonialism & Israel into a postcolonial entity, is not only an abuse of history & language, but an attack on Palestinians.” www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast...

Fuck this hustle-culture bullshit. When I’m a skeleton I’m not doing a goddamn thing

There’s still time to register for FEMINIST FUTURES OF PEER REVIEW! Join April Petillo, @josendiaz.bsky.social, Dolores Inés Casillas, & Cathy Hannabach for a virtual panel discussion of how feminist peer review is remaking the future of scholarly publishing ideasonfire.net/feminist-fut...

Animal studies folks, here’s an announcement for an Assistant Professor of Animal Studies position in NYU’s Department of Environmental Studies. Deadline is October 1st, more details here. Please share widely. apply.interfolio.com/128830

My essay on RSS’ project to remake history at the local level, has lessons for historians outside the Indian context. As ethnonationalists attack our work, focusing solely on debates over national history is missing the trees for the forest. Care about trees 🗃️ caravanmagazine.in/history/ncer...

Buying redemption w/ eels wasn't just a medieval English thing. Oh, no! In 1500 the Duke of Ferarra wanted nuns in Florence to pray for him. But that kinda thing ain't free, & to get his prayers the duke had to make regular payments of eels to the sisters. Soul food, y'all. 🗃️🧪

A Bluesky quick primer 🧵 for recent arrivals: 1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.

In memory of the brilliant Megha Sharma Sehdev: “Looping text with a series of photographs, this essay describes women's crochet in Delhi, India as a form that intensively manipulates surfaces… and imparts a disruptive plasticity to surroundings.” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The History Department at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign is looking to hire an Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History. Please share widely. Details below: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

This thread made my day!

Historians of India, please see and share this ad for a Chair in Indian History and Culture at Oxford University. “We would particularly welcome applications from scholars in the field of early modern Indian history.” www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DBE869/p...

This. Flagship and regional publics are dying at the hands of legislatures that have deliberately defunded them over the past two decades. When you lose state funding you become tuition-driven. Enrollments then become do or die situations.

Cat-lovers and Comrades: I'm so excited to share the intro to "Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary" now up on @DukePress site. It was a labor of feline love, and a realization of how much work all cats, big and small, have done for Marxism. www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...

Great piece by Aseem Suhail. “Insofar as the geography & temporality of Baloch history has been limited by colonial and statist narratives to “feudal hinterlands”, this highly diverse, cosmopolitan, and urban population is obscured in the contested terrain of the archive” www.dawn.com/news/1770984

So happy to find some of the academics I’ve learn from on here. But really missing the activists, journalists, and others who helped me keep up with what’s going on in South Asia. Feeling the (impending loss) of Twitter acutely.