Monika Barthwal-Datta
monikabd.bsky.social
Monika Barthwal-Datta
@monikabd.bsky.social
Security/IR scholar at UNSW Sydney| Critical Security Studies, South Asia, Decolonial Feminist Approaches, Critical Pedagogies.
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Anyone in Adelaide tomorrow? I am giving a talk on my book! Come if you can!
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Fay Gale Centre seminar
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March 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A joy to engage w/ @drljshepherd.bsky.social's book 'The Self, and Other Stories: Being, Knowing, Writing' through this forum in Int. Politics. In my piece, I weave with/about the book's threads on the embodied, entangled self & complicity in the neoliberal academy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The embodied, entangled self and complicity in the neoliberal academy - International Politics
In The Self, and Other Stories: Being, Knowing, Writing, Laura Shepherd illuminates the embodied and entangled nature of knowing the self, and the self as a ‘knowing subject’ in the neoliberal, violen...
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February 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
A ground-breaking, much-needed contribution to IR scholarship! Many congratulations @shwetssingh.bsky.social and all involved. ❤️
MARK YOUR CALENDARS

Book Launch @SouthAsianUniversity
Here is a link to the book:
www.routledge.com/Mapping-Femi...
February 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The collection is nearly complete! @monikabd.bsky.social's essay 'The embodied, entangled self and complicity in the neoliberal academy' is beautiful, brilliant, and insightful link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The embodied, entangled self and complicity in the neoliberal academy - International Politics
In The Self, and Other Stories: Being, Knowing, Writing, Laura Shepherd illuminates the embodied and entangled nature of knowing the self, and the self as a ‘knowing subject’ in the neoliberal, violen...
link.springer.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Redeveloping a Master's course on #Gender & Global Politics to teach later this year. Would love to receive suggestions from #feminist (IR) scholars here on readings (esp from #decolonial perspectives/ Global South scholars), & any reading lists/course outlines you're happy to share!🙏
January 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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🚨 Last chance to submit your abstracts for #OCIS2025🚨
January 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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How some academics of colour are able to perform whiteness to perpetuate white supremacy in higher education
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Complicity and Conformity: perpetuating race and class hierarchies in UK higher education
Drawing on tenets of Critical Race Theory such as Whiteness, interest convergence, intersectionality and White supremacy this paper examines how some academics of colour are able to accelerate thei...
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January 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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🚨#OCIS2025 CfP extended to 13 January 2025!🚨

More time to submit those exciting abstracts! :-D
🚨 #OCIS2025 abstracts due in 4 weeks time 🚨

Still plenty of time left to submit your Panel, Paper, and Roundtable abstracts. For the full list of conference themes, please visit the CfP: ocis.org.au/call-for-pap...

If you have workshop ideas, please email the conference Co-Chairs.
December 10, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Relevant to some of the orientalist discourse reacting to the fall of Assad 👇

"From discourse to practice: Orientalism, western policy and the Arab uprisings": academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...
December 9, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...
Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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Mutual aid, sanctuary spaces, sharing pantries, freedom schools, reading collectives, childcare collectives, shared gardens. Just a few ideas of how we keep us safe. We don’t have to give up. But we need to commune. Peace in the struggle. Joy in the fight.
December 4, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Don't know about others but personally, as an Associate Editor of a scholarly journal, I LOVE getting a different recommendation from each of the three manuscript reviewers.
a close up of a sheep with big eyes .
Alt: A close up of Shaun the Sheep giving two thumbs-up.
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December 4, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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Sharing 3 of my most recent works as a way of saying hello on this platform! First, an article on 'Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya' co-authored with the brilliant Shweta Singh (SouthAsianUniversity) in International Affairs: academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...
Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya
How has India's refugee policy been shaped by the populist project of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party? Drawing on the Laclauian idea of populism as a pol
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November 21, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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“Noticing and practicing care alongside suffering and documenting violence alongside vitality, helps the students and us remain attentive to the workings of power and the persistence of harms.”

valuable work – resonating strongly with care ethos of Equity Unbound & #HE4Good
Third, a piece on 'Pedagogy as care: Love, loss, and learning in the world politics classroom' co-authored with the amazing @rkrystalli.bsky.social and @drljshepherd.bsky.social in the Journal of International Political Theory in Sep this year (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 30, 2024 at 5:32 PM
'Between colonialism and decolonisation, comes the anticolonial. If colonialism might be broadly understood [...] as a project of expansionist racialised capitalism [...] then anticolonialism emerges as the different kinds of resistance to this project.' Gopal 2021, On Decolonisation &the University
November 27, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Going to #OCIS2025? My colleague Federica Caso (not on Bsky)& I are looking for papers for our panel: “Settler Colonial Formations in International Studies: Interrogating Security, Gender, and Knowledge Production”. All info and submission of abstracts here. forms.gle/cphiDUHgQ1Lj...
Call for papers OCIS 2025 panel Settler Colonial Formations in International Studies: Interrogating Security, Gender, and Knowledge Production
This panel brings together scholars interested in exploring the different ways in which settler colonial forms and logics permeate contemporary international studies with particular attention to secur...
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November 25, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Hello everyone. This is mosab abu toha. I had this account months ago and i will start posting here soon. Please spread the word.
November 24, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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I'm following the lead of the wonderful @monikabd.bsky.social and creating a thread to introduce myself. I'm a professor of International Relations at the University of Sydney, living on unceded Cammeraygal country, researching gender, security and global governance and the dynamics of the academy.
a cartoon character from inside out is saying hi while stretching her arms .
Alt: Joy, a cartoon character from the animated movie "Inside Out", is saying hi while smiling and waving.
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November 22, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Hard to overstate the importance of this incredibly work by @laprofelgp.bsky.social for (those working with/alongside) women of colour scholars in the white western academy! Life-affirming in so many ways, and invaluable for our community-building efforts and strategizing. #communityasrebellion
👋🏽💙🦋 Hello new followers. I’m a writer, scholar, activist and mama. One of my books is #communityasrebellion
November 22, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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👋🏽💙🦋 Hello new followers. I’m a writer, scholar, activist and mama. One of my books is #communityasrebellion
November 21, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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And speaking of our extraordinary academic board members, this is by one of them! ⬇️
Sharing 3 of my most recent works as a way of saying hello on this platform! First, an article on 'Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya' co-authored with the brilliant Shweta Singh (SouthAsianUniversity) in International Affairs: academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...
Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya
How has India's refugee policy been shaped by the populist project of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party? Drawing on the Laclauian idea of populism as a pol
academic.oup.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Sharing 3 of my most recent works as a way of saying hello on this platform! First, an article on 'Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya' co-authored with the brilliant Shweta Singh (SouthAsianUniversity) in International Affairs: academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...
Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya
How has India's refugee policy been shaped by the populist project of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party? Drawing on the Laclauian idea of populism as a pol
academic.oup.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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1) The day the UN reports people in North Gaza fave “diminishing conditions doe survival”, the ABC runs an interview with architect of the siege, Giora Eiland, about his “controversial plan” to starve Gaza into submission www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Former general who plans to starve 'combatants' out of northern Gaza slams critics
The IDF's siege of northern Gaza is now into its second month, leading many to question whether Israel has adopted a controversial plan to conquer the area.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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Today’s task: start reviewing book proofs! Love this stage of production.
Worked with an incredible group of First Nations and majority world scholars to make this dream a reality.
Will be released to the world in April 2025 🔥🔥🔥
November 18, 2024 at 7:51 PM