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Camelia Dewan PhD

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Assoc Prof (docent) @UU_University. Author of #MisreadingTheBengalDelta @uwapress. PhD SOAS/Bbk. MSc @LSE. MA@EdinburghUni. Development, climate change, toxicity.

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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · Sep 10

I am deeply honoured and humbled to receive this prize in environmental humanities from @acls1919.bsky.social.

Let us collectively bring critical social science examinations—rooted in history, politics, and context, and problematizing normative discourses—to the global public.

American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · Sep 9

The 2025 winner in Environmental Humanities is Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by @cameliadewan.bsky.social (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2021)

Cover of Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by Camelia Dewan

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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · Sep 10

thank you Sohini!

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Floriane Clement @florianeclement.bsky.social · Sep 4

📝 Five important recommendations to root '(unin)habitability' research and policy-making in climate justice - including the recognition of people's rights to stay and to adapt in places abruptly labelled as '(soon-to-be-)uninhabitable'.
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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · Sep 9

The 2025 winner in Environmental Humanities is Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by @cameliadewan.bsky.social (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2021)

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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · Sep 10

Unbelievable

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · May 22

The environmental humanities finalists include books by @benspky.bsky.social, Joanna Page, @cameliadewan.bsky.social, @pederanker.bsky.social, & Mauro José Caraccioli

@ucpress.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @uwapress.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social

2025 Environmental Humanities Finalists:

The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life by Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa (University of California Press, 2023)

Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art by Joanna Page (Open Book Publishers, 2023)

Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by Camelia Dewan (University of Washington Press, 2022)

The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World by Peder Anker (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire by Mauro José Caraccioli (University Press of Florida, 2021)

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Ava Hu @avahu.bsky.social · Apr 25

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.

www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal

At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.

www.dailycal.org

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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · Apr 23

Amazing papers and panels at the Health, Environment and Anthropology conference @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · Mar 30

Eid Mubarak from Sweden ❤️ in solidarity and hoping for strength in these challenging times. May the tides change for the better of those oppressed and subjected to countless violence and withdrawal of rights

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Mar 29

“We’re failing to appreciate the people and institutions who’ve propelled these remarkable advances, undermining them without offering credible alternatives, and risking the loss of future breakthroughs that many patients are counting on,” said @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist

In his resignation letter, Marks rebuked Kennedy for seeking “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies” about vaccines.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · Mar 29

Columbia. Harvard. A lot of pressure on a bunch of less prominent programs with all the programmatic cuts to language and area studies funding

These fuckers are trying to tear Middle East Studies up by the floorboard because they don't want people knowing the truth about Palestine

Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · Mar 28

Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson

Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...

www.thecrimson.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · Mar 28

UPDATE: Hours after filing our amended petition, a federal judge ordered Rümeysa Öztürk can't be removed from the U.S. until further court order. The government must respond to the amended petition by Tuesday at 5pm.

This is a critical next step. We won’t stop until Rümeysa is free.

ACLU @aclu.org · Mar 28

BREAKING: We and @aclum.bsky.social are joining Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team after plain-clothes ICE agents unlawfully detained her because of an op-ed she wrote.

This is an appalling violation of the First Amendment.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Mar 27

People disappeared off the streets

Trans people fighting to keep basic civil rights

Disabled people facing mask bans, healthcare & social security cuts

Tourists from Germany, UK & Canada imprisoned

This is a powerful moment for intersectionality. There’s more of us than there are of them.

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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · Mar 26

UNRWA reports that hundreds have been killed since Israel resumed its bombing [genocide] of the Gaza Strip, including 180 children in a single day.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · Mar 21

www.commondreams.org/news/childre...

'Nothing Short of Genocide': Israel Kills 200 Children | Common Dreams

"This is a war on children," said one child advocate working to end the carnage and suffering in Gaza.

www.commondreams.org

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Feb 28

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control detected 620,000 Chikungunya virus cases and 213 deaths last year.

Today, we approved a vaccine against the virus for individuals over 12 years old.

→ europa.eu/!XvkvCk

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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · Feb 22

thank you!

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · Feb 22

“many faculty members voiced concerns about …a ‘lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.’”

Congratulations to admin. Give them lemons, by god they’ll make lemonade and then try to drown the humanities in it

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Feb 22

Re-sharing – now without the editorializing! “On Friday, Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs, a decision faculty members say was made after programs had already accepted students.”

Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid federal research funding cuts

Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs — a decision faculty members say will force them to rescind offers from newly-accepted students.

www.thedp.com

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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · Feb 13

Thank you!

Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · Feb 13

Help please! I used to take the most amazing picture with a tiny little Canon PowerShot. I want a powerful camera with an amazing Auto function that is tiny and discrete and fits into a really small lady's handbag without needing separate lenses or its own camera bag. Any recommendations? Thank you!

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · Feb 8

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.

It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.

The goal is destroy US universities.

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · Feb 8

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.

But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

Direct Economic Contributions

NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.

www.nih.gov

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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · Feb 7

Appalling. What happened to Truth and Reconciliation? www.thedailystar.net/news/banglad...

Vandalism, arson spread

Houses of Awami League leaders were attacked and torched, and murals and busts of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were demolished and defaced in nearly two dozen districts yesterday.

www.thedailystar.net

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · Feb 6

Prof Ian Cousins explains levels of PFAS deemed "safe" in tap water vary wildly from country to country, with Denmark leading the pack, the US & Sweden taking second place & the UK & EU limping in way behind - with levels of PFAS permissable in our tap water 50x higher than allowed in Denmark. 2/3

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Ashok Swain @ashoswai.bsky.social · Feb 5

The 35-year old man, who committed the deadliest mass murder in Sweden's history, was a native and his name was Rickard Andersson and had licenses to keep 4 guns. The Far Right has gone silent because he was not an immigrant or a Muslim!

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Magnus Vinqvist @magnus-vinqvist.bsky.social · Feb 4

Den här historien blir bara mer och mer bisarr.
I samband med ansökan om blockaden begärde Arbetsdomstolen in information om vilka företag som skulle påverkas. Facket gjorde en kartläggning och skickade in informationen. Detta är alltså skälet till uppsägningen😵‍💫 www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fack...

Fackledare sägs upp – polisanmäls för brott mot rikets säkerhet - Nyheter (Ekot)

Hamnarbetarförbundet vann striden i Arbetsdomstolen och fick rätt till blockad av israeliskt krigsmateriel i sex dygn framåt.Samtidigt sägs deras vice ...

www.sverigesradio.se

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