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Adarsh Badri
@adarshbadri.bsky.social
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🧑🏽‍🎓phding politics: @uqpolitics
📚notes on emotions + belonging + South Asia
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📍brisbane, australia
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Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social · Feb 5
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I’m thrilled to announce that my “Feeling for the Anthropocene” paper has been published as an advanced article with IAJournal_CH.

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Polisky, political science, politics, environmental politics, global south
Feeling for the Anthropocene: affective relations and ecological activism in the global South
How do emotions shape ecological activism? By drawing insights from the Chipko movement in India, this article moves beyond a state-centric lens to discuss how
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In Human Acts, Kang illustrates just how cruel and gruesome these days were, and how easy it was to reduce human beings into a ‘lump of meat’.

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#bookreview #hankang #humanacts
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Review of Han Kang’s Human Acts – Adarsh Badri
In one of the chapters of Han Kang’s Human Acts, one of the characters, who had been jailed and tortured, asks: ‘Is it true that human beings are
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January 24, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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“What matters is today’s headline, today’s crowd, today’s assertion of dominance.” Trump, narcissism, and the American Psycho of it all.
American Psycho: How Donald Trump Brought the “Bateman Doctrine” to the World
There is a moment in American Psycho when Patrick Bateman realizes that the rules do not apply to him. Not because he has outsmarted the system, and not because the system has collapsed, but becaus…
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January 23, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Fair question
January 23, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...
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January 17, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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Delighted to join the podcast of the @risjnl.bsky.social - one of my favorite journals - to discuss the topic of my @mybisa.bsky.social keynote in Belfast last June - Seeing and Sensing World Politics - with my colleague @sebkaempf.bsky.social.
cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 14d
In this @risjnl.bsky.social podcast, @bleiker.bsky.social talk to @sebkaempf.bsky.social about ‘seeing and sensing world politics’, the title of his keynote address delivered at #BISA2025.

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Logo for the Review of International Studies Podcast, featuring a microphone encircled by headphones, with sound wave icons on either side. The color scheme includes shades of blue and green.
January 16, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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Paul Graham on writing well
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Paul Graham on writing well
Notes on Paul Graham’s essays on writing
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January 16, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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books I read in 2025
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books I read in 2025
a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD
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January 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Witnessing such socio-political upheavals and transformations, and pursuing a PhD simultaneously, is a considerable amount of work. In such circumstances, even as the world begins to fall apart, one brick at a time, I take refuge in books.

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books I read in 2025
a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD
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January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
adarshbadri.bsky.social
Witnessing such socio-political upheavals and transformations, and pursuing a PhD simultaneously, is a considerable amount of work. In such circumstances, even as the world begins to fall apart, one brick at a time, I take refuge in books.

fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me/p/books-i-re...
books I read in 2025
a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD
fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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“Those who advocate for international law may now find themselves appealing to a vanishing world order in which Venezuela is the latest burial in an already crowded graveyard.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
European leaders appear torn in face of new world order after Venezuela attack
Leaders try to focus on what comes next, as backing for ejection of Maduro mingles uncomfortably with voicing of support for international law
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January 4, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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The Impossible Patient www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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In #MotherMaryComestoMe, Arundhati Roy opens her complicated, but honest, relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, who had admirably fought the world for women’s inheritance rights, but at home, with her two children, unleashed the ‘gangster-like hell.

#bookreview

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Review of Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me – Adarsh Badri
In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy opens her complicated, but honest, relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, or Mrs Roy.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
adarshbadri.bsky.social
In #MotherMaryComestoMe, Arundhati Roy opens her complicated, but honest, relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, who had admirably fought the world for women’s inheritance rights, but at home, with her two children, unleashed the ‘gangster-like hell.

#bookreview

adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
Review of Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me – Adarsh Badri
In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy opens her complicated, but honest, relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, or Mrs Roy.
adarshbadri.me
December 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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The Impossible Patient www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Thanks to all in-person and online participants in our Visualising Humanitarianism ARC Linkage workshop & esp to co-organisers Anita Schenk, @adarshbadri.bsky.social, Subodha Dilhari and Haneol Mun. Photo-credit and thus absent from the picture: Michael Aird. rolandbleiker.com/visualising-hu…
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Reminder: please join us in-person next Thursday for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with

Prof Michael Barnett (George Washington University) on Mobilising Compassion

4 Dec 4.30-5.45 followed by reception. All welcome but RSVP here: polsis.uq.edu.au/event/8251/a...
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Deborah Levy’s "Hot Milk" is about Sofia Papastergiadis, a 25-or-so-year-old anthropologist-cum-barista, and her mother Rose, who travel to Almeria in Spain to attend a clinic in search of a diagnosis and treatment for Rose’s mysterious paralysis of her legs.

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Review of Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk – Adarsh Badri
Deborah Levy’s 2016 Booker shortlisted novel Hot Milk is about Sofia Papastergiadis, a 25-or-so-year-old anthropologist-cum-barista, and her mother Rose, who
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November 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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bleiker.bsky.social
Please join us for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture:

Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).

4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.

All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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A Pale View of Hills was Ishiguro’s first book. It is a story narrated by Etsuko, a Japanese woman who had moved to rural England with her second husband. The story begins with an unexpected visit from her daughter, Niki.

#Booksky #books #Literature

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Review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills – Adarsh Badri
A Pale View of Hills a story narrated by Etsuko, a Japanese woman who had moved to rural England with her second husband.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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How to read a book like Virginia Woolf?

#booksky #books #reading #writing
how to read a book like Virginia Woolf?
on subtleties of reading a text
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October 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian begins as follows: “Before my wife turned vegetarian, I had always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way”.

This sentence was enough to hook me on this book.

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Review of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian – Adarsh Badri
The Vegetarian by Han Kang defies all forms of social taboos and tackles social realities, expectations and choices, opening us up to a new future.
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September 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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In an exceptional debut book published in 2021, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century, Amia Srinivasan argues that sexual entitlement is a symptom of patriarchal ideology.

#IRsky #booksky #Polisky Polisky IRsky #feminism

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Review of Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex – Adarsh Badri
In this exceptional debut book, The Right to Sex, Amia Srinivasan argues that sexual entitlement is a symptom of patriarchal ideology.
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October 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged.

@musaalgharbi.bsky.social's We Have Never Been Woke arrives in #paperback on Oct. 7. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#Sociology
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi. Now in paperback with a new preface. How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged.
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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In an exceptional debut book published in 2021, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century, Amia Srinivasan argues that sexual entitlement is a symptom of patriarchal ideology.

#IRsky #booksky #Polisky Polisky IRsky #feminism

adarshbadri.me/book-review/...
Review of Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex – Adarsh Badri
In this exceptional debut book, The Right to Sex, Amia Srinivasan argues that sexual entitlement is a symptom of patriarchal ideology.
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October 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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But, this last week, before leaving for Brisbane, Australia, I wanted to do something extraordinary and go see Pradhanmatri Sangrahalaya. And see for myself what I was missing out on for all these days. And feel what it was like to be inside Nehru’s house.

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#India
A Day in the Life of Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya (Museum on Indian Prime Ministers) – Adarsh Badri
The Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya is a triangular-like structure newly constructed in recent years, just behind Nehru’s Prime Ministerial house.
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September 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM