People of IR! We at Ashoka University are hosting a little workshop from Feb 27-28 titled "Beyond the National: Cartographies of Identity, Insecurity, and Epistemic Marginalisation": Spread the word & consider applying (Also, bonus: perfect time to visit Delhi) : www.ashoka.edu.in/call-for-pap...

My uni seems to be poasting passive aggressive reminders.

New article alert 📜 & summary thread! A paper written by Mir Nazir and I is out (DM if you cant access). We use Raymond Williams and Gramsci to explain why even at the height of the Congress' dominance, their ideas failed to achieve hegemony (cont): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

BREAKING: In a landslide vote, Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote. Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu’s regime. This is historic.

Unacceptable @isanet.bsky.social

The industry spouse visiting the academic spouse at work

Have written a Gramscian perspective on Trump’s victory and the global politics of common-sense: indianexpress.com/article/opin...

🚨 Excited to share my new article published at Social Problems that rethinks the field’s engagement w/ Liberation Sociology! When interviewing Black Millennials about their racial, religious, & political lives during Black Lives Matter, liberation came up a lot. This study examines those narratives.

Are you an early career scholar/practitioner interested in researching and having impact in nuclear arms control and disarmament? If so, apply now for the Atomic Anxiety in the New Nuclear Age 2025 Fellows Scheme. #NukeSky atomicanxiety.com/2024/11/14/2...

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

My student wrote this insightful article about 'Pyaar Kiya to Darna Kya' and the juxtaposition of the raags and the lyrics. Great read for all Mughal-e Azam buffs: ritamansarkar.medium.com/if-not-love-...

“orchestrated an elaborate scheme to bribe Indian government officials to secure contracts worth billions of dollars & Gautam S. Adani, Sagar R. Adani & Vneet S. Jaain lied about the bribery scheme as they sought to raise capital from U.S. & international investors.” www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...

“My research interests in anti colonial movements aligns well with the center’s aims of promoting interdisciplinary theory”

I created a South Asian languages and literatures starter pack! I’m sure I missed many people. If you are a translator, linguist, scholar, or even a dabbler or dilettante, please let me let me know in the comments and I will add you. go.bsky.app/AFjHSX6

The age old line of the Zionists, always parroted by the liberal media in the West - Arab existence is branded an existential threat to Israel. Always used to manufacture consent for genocide. If their existence is an existential threat, then genocide becomes “self defence”

Situation in #Manipur continues to spiral as another body is found floating in a river. Tensions escalated in #Jiribam after a photo of the body was widely circulated. Arson attempts reported. #India indianexpress.com/article/indi...

A new paper: Duncan Bell, "What is Utopia? History, Theory, Tradition" This is the draft of a chapter that will be published in Duncan Bell and Douglas Mao, Utopia (Oxford UP, 2025) www.academia.edu/124815017/Wh...

The one being shared around: go.bsky.app/SNvMPk3

"Foucault's Technologies: Another Way of Cutting Reality" Kaspar Villadsen global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Mulla No Pyaza

A challenging read for all teachers and researchers (and beyond) "What does academic freedom mean when knowledge production continues on its usual apologetic path of justifying colonial domination and dispossession?" -

Shivshankar Menon and Ashok Kantha on the Border Agreement and the Future of the India-China Relationship - Ananth Krishnan transcribes the most important bits of a discussion the two held with Kapil Sibal indiachina.substack.com/p/shivshanka...

Very important position paper by Mona Simion which calls for a European funding scheme that guarantees TT positions. The document includes an invaluable list of existing postdoctoral grants at the end! initiative-se.eu/wp-content/u...

On this day, in 1922, Shapurji Saklatvala was elected as the MP for Battersea North. He was Labour's first MP of colour. A communist and anti-colonialist, he was a founder member of the Workers' Welfare League and attempted to unionise Indian seafarers in Britain's port cities.

Bluesky, can you connect me with the #LGBTQ side of this app, please?

This sky follower bridge app is great for discovering all your twitter peeps on bluesky

To launch my blue sky: یہ گمبد مینائ یہ عالم تنہائ …بھٹکا ہوا راہی تو ، بھٹکا ہوا راہی میں منزل ہے کہاں تیری اے لالہ صحرائ This blue sky-dome, this lonely world you are a lost wayfarer, and so am I, Where is your destination, oh poppy of the desert? -Iqbal Listen here: youtu.be/078tV5yxBjM?...