amitangshu
@amitangshu.bsky.social
Academic, writer, and researcher of postcolonial nature. Ex @LeverhulmeTrust @KLIAustria @IJURResearch & @tatatrusts scholar. Imprints @ The Economist, The Independent, Places Journal. #water #STS #politicalecology
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· Mar 21
Decolonising Science: Bridging Knowledge Traditions | Amitangshu Acharya | TEDxWageningenUniversity
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"The fact is: #decolonizing #science is not a politics of negativity. There is no place for ethnonationalist supremacy in the debate on plurality in science. What we are asking for is a collective celebration of different #knowledge traditions.”. My #TEDx talk is now online.
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Don't miss this lecture by @cetracey.bsky.social on theology, colonialism and humanitarianism in the Southwestern U.S. — part of our On the Brinck | Places Prize collab with the School of Architecture + Planning @unm.edu.
Albuquerque folks! Details below. Or join by Zoom: unm.zoom.us/j/97216782176
Albuquerque folks! Details below. Or join by Zoom: unm.zoom.us/j/97216782176
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Don't miss this lecture by @cetracey.bsky.social on theology, colonialism and humanitarianism in the Southwestern U.S. — part of our On the Brinck | Places Prize collab with the School of Architecture + Planning @unm.edu.
Albuquerque folks! Details below. Or join by Zoom: unm.zoom.us/j/97216782176
Albuquerque folks! Details below. Or join by Zoom: unm.zoom.us/j/97216782176
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Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
October 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
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Double rainbow for Catherine Connolly 🌈🌈
October 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Double rainbow for Catherine Connolly 🌈🌈
I took this picture in #Kachchh, #Gujarat in 2008, just when the wind turbines started dotting the landscape, some of them overlooking this pond from which women were collecting #water. Couldn't think of a better image than this to begin my talk with today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uLq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uLq...
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I took this picture in #Kachchh, #Gujarat in 2008, just when the wind turbines started dotting the landscape, some of them overlooking this pond from which women were collecting #water. Couldn't think of a better image than this to begin my talk with today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uLq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uLq...
The commodification of scientific publishing has led to an overproduction with 6 million papers being published each year. It has also enabled the publishing of fake "peer reviewed" papers through paper mills. The publish or perish model has to go!
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
theconversation.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The commodification of scientific publishing has led to an overproduction with 6 million papers being published each year. It has also enabled the publishing of fake "peer reviewed" papers through paper mills. The publish or perish model has to go!
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
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The Netherlands has long passed over the threshold of normalisation, the questions are how far it will go or will there be real pushback.
'Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely.' 1/2
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
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October 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The Netherlands has long passed over the threshold of normalisation, the questions are how far it will go or will there be real pushback.
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The October 2025 issue of Water Alternatives is now available",
www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/cu...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The October 2025 issue of Water Alternatives is now available",
www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/cu...
www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/cu...
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The tail wags the dog in energy. Biofuels are not currently a solution demanded by the climate community; they are solution to a crisis of overproduction. open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
Burning the Breadbasket
China’s retreat from U.S. soy is feeding the push for more biofuels
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The tail wags the dog in energy. Biofuels are not currently a solution demanded by the climate community; they are solution to a crisis of overproduction. open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
How are traditional #water harvesting systems in #India entangled with questions of postcolonial modernity & social injustice? I address this in my keynote at the International Congress on #Science, #Technology and #Development at the University of Taubate, 24th October.
youtube.com/tvunitau
youtube.com/tvunitau
October 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
How are traditional #water harvesting systems in #India entangled with questions of postcolonial modernity & social injustice? I address this in my keynote at the International Congress on #Science, #Technology and #Development at the University of Taubate, 24th October.
youtube.com/tvunitau
youtube.com/tvunitau
Super excited that I will be presenting at the first #STS #India network conference! Do tune in to a fascinating panel on #urban #waterscapes where I talk about "the curious case of the polluting purifier" on 17th December.
We are excited to announce that the preliminary program for the first STS India Network Conference has been uploaded on our website! There is also a provision to attend the conference even if you are not presenting. Please register if you are interested!
stsin.org/cp/
stsin.org/cp/
CP
Visit the post for more.
stsin.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Super excited that I will be presenting at the first #STS #India network conference! Do tune in to a fascinating panel on #urban #waterscapes where I talk about "the curious case of the polluting purifier" on 17th December.
I attended my first @SammyObeid live stand up show this evening at #Amsterdam. I wanted his signature and I had only one thing in my bag that could be used for signing. A copy of David Graeber's Pirate Enlightenment. In many ways an ideal tribute to Graeber.
October 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I attended my first @SammyObeid live stand up show this evening at #Amsterdam. I wanted his signature and I had only one thing in my bag that could be used for signing. A copy of David Graeber's Pirate Enlightenment. In many ways an ideal tribute to Graeber.
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On Indigenous Peoples Day, we celebrate the contributions of Indigenous women scientists. Read about some of these amazing women here, and let us know who needs to be added.
https://awis.org/historical-women-scientists/?_ethnicity=cc578791f732475ccfa7fcb1dff59d72
#WomenInSTEM
https://awis.org/historical-women-scientists/?_ethnicity=cc578791f732475ccfa7fcb1dff59d72
#WomenInSTEM
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
On Indigenous Peoples Day, we celebrate the contributions of Indigenous women scientists. Read about some of these amazing women here, and let us know who needs to be added.
https://awis.org/historical-women-scientists/?_ethnicity=cc578791f732475ccfa7fcb1dff59d72
#WomenInSTEM
https://awis.org/historical-women-scientists/?_ethnicity=cc578791f732475ccfa7fcb1dff59d72
#WomenInSTEM
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in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
Only the Palestinian people deserve the #NobelPeacePrize. Enduring decades of brutal occupation, massacres & now a live streamed genocide, and yet holding on to their fortitude & kindness, they are the lodestar for humanity. No one deserves it more this year.
October 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Only the Palestinian people deserve the #NobelPeacePrize. Enduring decades of brutal occupation, massacres & now a live streamed genocide, and yet holding on to their fortitude & kindness, they are the lodestar for humanity. No one deserves it more this year.
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"Under the Assad regime ... we lived together [in Homs] but did not see the city through one another’s eyes. Even planners don't recognize fractures in the pluralist city.
A just and inclusive reconstruction must confront the sectarian and class-based ruptures that old urban forms helped conceal."
A just and inclusive reconstruction must confront the sectarian and class-based ruptures that old urban forms helped conceal."
Memory Maps of Homs, Syria
A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of
rebuilding after war.
placesjournal.org
October 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Under the Assad regime ... we lived together [in Homs] but did not see the city through one another’s eyes. Even planners don't recognize fractures in the pluralist city.
A just and inclusive reconstruction must confront the sectarian and class-based ruptures that old urban forms helped conceal."
A just and inclusive reconstruction must confront the sectarian and class-based ruptures that old urban forms helped conceal."
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The call for abstracts for POLLEN 2026 is open 🌟 Leigh-Rutt, Assa Doron & I have a panel on *Political Ecologies of Animal Agriculture* - details are here along with instructions for submitting abstracts. If this is in your zone, consider submitting an abstract!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
P025: Political ecologies of animal agriculture: methods, storytelling, and convergences
We expect 3-5 presentations of apprx 12 mins each plus time for discussion.
nomadit.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The call for abstracts for POLLEN 2026 is open 🌟 Leigh-Rutt, Assa Doron & I have a panel on *Political Ecologies of Animal Agriculture* - details are here along with instructions for submitting abstracts. If this is in your zone, consider submitting an abstract!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
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"The City and the City and the City"
by Ayham Dalal
A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.
Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/
by Ayham Dalal
A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.
Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/
October 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"The City and the City and the City"
by Ayham Dalal
A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.
Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/
by Ayham Dalal
A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.
Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/
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I had a moving, heartbreaking, powerful discussion with 2 Israelis who lost family members to Hamas on Oct. 7th, 2 years ago today, on the power of 'radical forgiveness' & on standing up to the Israeli government that abandoned their family members.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...
October 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I had a moving, heartbreaking, powerful discussion with 2 Israelis who lost family members to Hamas on Oct. 7th, 2 years ago today, on the power of 'radical forgiveness' & on standing up to the Israeli government that abandoned their family members.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...
Requesting academics and scholars to amplify this. Please sign the petition.
Every signature matters. We’re at 2,775 — let’s reach 3,000 together!
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#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity
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🌍 1,555 voices for IOB — but we need more! Every day counts: sign the petition and share it widely so our message to policymakers grows stronger. 💙
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#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity
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#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity
October 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Requesting academics and scholars to amplify this. Please sign the petition.
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Every signature matters. We’re at 2,775 — let’s reach 3,000 together!
✍️Sign and share now!
#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity
✍️Sign and share now!
#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity
🌍 1,555 voices for IOB — but we need more! Every day counts: sign the petition and share it widely so our message to policymakers grows stronger. 💙
👉 https://chng.it/8DhtrFSBpm
#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity
👉 https://chng.it/8DhtrFSBpm
#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity
October 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Every signature matters. We’re at 2,775 — let’s reach 3,000 together!
✍️Sign and share now!
#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity
✍️Sign and share now!
#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity
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This extremely alarming assertion needs verification.
Alt text: "They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others." Statement: Ersin Celik @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social
Alt text: "They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others." Statement: Ersin Celik @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This extremely alarming assertion needs verification.
Alt text: "They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others." Statement: Ersin Celik @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social
Alt text: "They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others." Statement: Ersin Celik @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social
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Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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Such a striking cover (Lana gave me an advance copy last night 💚) — and such glowing reviews!
dorothyproject.com/book/the-aut...
dorothyproject.com/book/the-aut...
September 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Such a striking cover (Lana gave me an advance copy last night 💚) — and such glowing reviews!
dorothyproject.com/book/the-aut...
dorothyproject.com/book/the-aut...
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@delugecast.bsky.social @johnamcmahon.bsky.social @emilykcrandall.bsky.social
There is an established migration flow from Bangladesh to Venice. I read that passage as a nod from Stephen Markley to @amitav.bsky.social's climate novel 'Gun island', where it features a good deal in the plot.
There is an established migration flow from Bangladesh to Venice. I read that passage as a nod from Stephen Markley to @amitav.bsky.social's climate novel 'Gun island', where it features a good deal in the plot.
Gun Island
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.
A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but a...
www.hachette.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
@delugecast.bsky.social @johnamcmahon.bsky.social @emilykcrandall.bsky.social
There is an established migration flow from Bangladesh to Venice. I read that passage as a nod from Stephen Markley to @amitav.bsky.social's climate novel 'Gun island', where it features a good deal in the plot.
There is an established migration flow from Bangladesh to Venice. I read that passage as a nod from Stephen Markley to @amitav.bsky.social's climate novel 'Gun island', where it features a good deal in the plot.