Aishwarya Verma
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Aishwarya Verma
@averma.bsky.social
👩🏻‍🎓IR @LSE. Jazz dancer. Cat mama. Researching (counter)terrorism. Decolonising IR, one day at a time.
Couldn’t agree more!
December 5, 2023 at 9:27 AM
Feedback is so useful! I think it really helps give direction to students who often (will not admit it but) feel like they’re floating.
December 5, 2023 at 4:43 AM
Thanks for responding. Appreciate it!
November 30, 2023 at 2:15 PM
I’m thinking about next year but I was looking at the UK. Although, I’m not closed off to the idea of doing one in the US. This is an idea that doesn’t seem to go away (of taking on the PhD) but I do want to understand more about how it would work
November 30, 2023 at 2:14 PM
Afghan Taliban Takeover*
November 29, 2023 at 4:39 AM
Overarching labels and generalisations are dangerous and ignorant. As is misinformation. Misinformation and manipulation of knowledge isn’t just coming out of the Tik Toks of the world. A lot of it is state funded.
November 22, 2023 at 8:17 AM
Being the “bearer and sole protector of democracy” when it suits oneself and using R2P when convenient for one’s own ulterior motives isn’t “humanitarian” by any means. 4/4
November 22, 2023 at 8:17 AM
First it was the USSR, then Islam and now China. The latter two continue to change places. But the otherness helps condition people on what the US is not. Thereby, writing security into existence. 3/4
November 22, 2023 at 8:16 AM
“Accordingly, an array of individuals, groups, beliefs, or behaviours have occupied the position of the Antichrist, and been inscribed w/ one or more terms from the panoply of tropes of otherness to be found in the American experience.” - David Campbell 2/4
November 22, 2023 at 8:15 AM