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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · 25d

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....

Collection introduction: Everyday and emergent ecofascisms - Chloe Ahmann, Zeynep Oguz, 2025

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · Sep 6

“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/...

Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’

This article examines the destruction of Gaza since October 2023 as part of a longer settler-colonial project in which war, reconstruction and development are inseparably linked. Far from a rupture, ....

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

Sharjeel Imam interview: ‘As an educated Muslim, it is my duty to enter the political domain’

In an interview conducted via written notes, the jailed anti-CAA activist explained why he plans to contest the upcoming elections in Bihar.

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · May 2

Congrats, Vivian! Can’t wait to get my copy.

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VY Choi @vivvychoi.bsky.social · May 2

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

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · May 1

We have many exciting new titles coming out this May, including "Disaster Nationalism" by Vivian Y. Choi @vivvychoi.bsky.social . #AsianStudies #Anthropology
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Cover of Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka by Vivian Y. Choi. The cover is an abstract image of swirling black lines that resemble an oncoming storm, with a background that has a gradient of a brown yellow at the top and burnt orange at the bottom.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · May 1

One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography
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Cover of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic. The cover features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt. The piece is titled Beluga Hunting and depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · Apr 28

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...

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · Sep 28

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-...

Podcast | Lisa Mitchell, "Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between…

Subscribe for free. Lisa Mitchell, "Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections" (Duke UP, 2023)

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · Sep 28

“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...

A Dying Postcolonialism

By Esmat Elhalaby Perhaps it’s apt that a dying political ideology seeks redemption in a dead discipline. As the Israeli government and public become ever more vocal and defensive about their…

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · Sep 22

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

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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · Sep 22

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...

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · Sep 22

Yum!! Why can’t you just move to Seattle?

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · Sep 22

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

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · Sep 1

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...

The NCERT debate forgets the RSS’s grip over local histories

The NCERT debate has paid little attention to local battlegrounds of history, where the RSS is filling the vacuum left by professional historians.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.
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Meme. Portrait d'Alphonse dEste, Duke of Ferarra, by Titian. The Duke is a big man -- possibly even portly -- with gray hair and a trimmed beard. He is wearing sumptuous, trimmed with fur. His sleeves are gold, and his left hand is resting on a sword at his side. The way his fingers are resting, he seems to be flipping you off. He probably is. With his right arm, the Duke is leaning casually on the end of a large cannon, which also looks a little like a giant top hat. This makes it easy to imagine him not as a warlike duke, but as a circus ringmaster. He would not like that thought.

The Duke's nose is somewhat flat, as if he'd run hard into a wall, and though he is faced towards your left his eyes are cutting back to you. His expression says he doesn't hate you; he might even be a little curious. But he's skeptical about your motives, and probably your appearance. You better have a good reason for interrupting Cannon Time.

Meme text reads:
"Hey, Eel Maries!
(full of grace and eels)

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · Aug 29

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...

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/fea2.12026

Wiley Online Library requires cookies for authentication and use of other site features; therefore, cookies must be enabled to browse the site. Detailed information on how Wiley uses cookies can be fo...

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · Aug 29

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...

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · Aug 24

This thread made my day!

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 20

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

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Beautiful crow against a black background

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · Aug 24

This!

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · Aug 24

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...

Professor of Indian History and Culture at University of Oxford

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 13

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.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Aug 11

The news out of WVU (dissolution of the Department of World Languages) is awful. I just want to remind people that state universities are a public good and West Virginia legislators' funding cuts — not a declining enrollment base — are the primary culprit for the current budget shortfall.

Erosion of State Funding for Higher Education Explains Most of WVU's Budget Crisis - West Virginia C...

West Virginia University is currently facing a $45 million budget shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year, expected to balloon to $75 million annually by 2028. During this year’s State of the Univers...

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