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Malini Sur
@malinisur.bsky.social
Director Graduate StudiesIIBook Prize @SouthAsiaAU. Bernard Cohn Prize (HM)@AASAsianStudies
JunglePassports (Penn 2021/Yoda 2023). Asso. Prof. Anthropology. Western Sydney University
https://researchers.westernsydney.edu.au/en/persons/malini-sur
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Can see some familiar faces & looking forward to meaningful exchanges here. Have you seen my documentary film on bicycling cultures and air pollution in India? Here you go, screen & share. m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4el...
HDR alert, Parramatta, Sydney and beyond!
September 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Has anyone recovered from T & F swallowing Amsterdam University Press?

So much for the generous labour of editors, peer reviewers, & scholars who believed in O/A.

You probably know where to find Transnational Flows —a volume I co-edited with Barak Kalir during my PhD.
June 11, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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What is a University Press?

On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.

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What is a University Press?
I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate pub...
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June 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Here is the link to Cartographies of Clothing:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
"Cartographies of Clothing" featured in PoLAR’s special issue on Property and the Matter of Belonging!

Thrilled to be in conversation with LaShandra Sullivan, Meghan Morris, Gregory Duff Morton, Lee Cabatingan, @nisrinelamin.bsky.social & more.
May 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
@westernsydneyu.bsky.social has announced doctoral scholarships for domestic candidates. For a list of supervisors at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) see here: lnkd.in/gr6yYW7T. More information: lnkd.in/gG8j9a9b
February 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Ganges
January 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Year end pleasures.
December 18, 2024 at 6:20 AM
Pleasures of academia - in conversation with great colleagues & editors. On conjugal futures, traffic in things, cycling, care and communities & eating with fingers. Thinking across anthropology, history, geography & STS.
December 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Back to the archives!
December 16, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Recordings from the grad. studies symposium "Messing with Methods" Heather Horst, Michael Edwards, Carly Schuster, Randi Irwin, Ute Eickelkamp, Daniel Tranter-Santoso Catherine Smith, Denis Bryne, Sophie Chao & yours truly.
@wombatscholar.bsky.social @profemmakowal.bsky.social

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December 13, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Our first Indigenous-focused edition, offering a compelling collection of essays that explore Indigenous knowledge and scholarship in Australia under the editorial leadership of Prof Corrinne Sullivan MAICD is out!

Issues - a multilingual journal is housed here: issues-journal.org
December 3, 2024 at 7:50 AM
I have been served a notice.
November 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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This classic work in the history of nationalism argues that the rise of widely available print (esp. newspapers) made it possible for geographically dispersed groups of people to imagine themselves as a roughly coherent entity called "a nation" in which there was an ongoing conversation.
November 23, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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Hey friends at #AAA2024Tampa !! The book exhibit closes way earlier than usual. We are only open until Friday at 1pm (not Saturday at 4 as in earlier years). All books are $15 -- even better than our online sale discount.
We're joining you in Tampa this week for #AAA2024! Our blog today has details on how to browse and save on our latest #Anthropology titles. ow.ly/61Cu50U6xBP
November 22, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Can see some familiar faces & looking forward to meaningful exchanges here. Have you seen my documentary film on bicycling cultures and air pollution in India? Here you go, screen & share. m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4el...
November 19, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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It seems Spectacles of Waste as a book is available in the US and UK (but Australia not yet). The electronic version available everywhere. As Anna Tsing kindly says, 'Anderson puts the "anal" back in analysis and the "colon" back in colonialism.' That's good, isn't it?
#STS #anthro #histSTM #histsci
May 21, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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My revised Bernal lecture is now online, open access, in @sthv.bsky.social. I reflect on what historians and STS scholars may learn methodologically from Pacific anthropologies, and the vagaries of the postcolonial...

#STS #histSTM

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Islands and Beaches in Science and Technology Studies - Warwick Anderson, 2024
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annually awards the John Desmond Bernal Prize to one or more individuals who have made distinguished contribution...
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March 19, 2024 at 11:52 PM