Radhika Govindrajan
@radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social
Anthropologist, among a host of other things.
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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.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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.
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
journals.sagepub.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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....
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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...
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...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
“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, ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“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/...
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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.
September 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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.
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.
scroll.in
August 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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...
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And you can pre-order with this discount code: E25VCHOI!
#DisasterNationalism #DisasterSTS #SouthAsia #SriLanka
#DisasterNationalism #DisasterSTS #SouthAsia #SriLanka
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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May 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
And you can pre-order with this discount code: E25VCHOI!
#DisasterNationalism #DisasterSTS #SouthAsia #SriLanka
#DisasterNationalism #DisasterSTS #SouthAsia #SriLanka
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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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May 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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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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...
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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...
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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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September 28, 2023 at 1:40 AM
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-...
“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…
www.radicalhistoryreview.org
September 28, 2023 at 1:39 AM
“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...
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Fuck this hustle-culture bullshit. When I’m a skeleton I’m not doing a goddamn thing
September 22, 2023 at 11:22 PM
Fuck this hustle-culture bullshit. When I’m a skeleton I’m not doing a goddamn thing
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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...
September 22, 2023 at 1:02 PM
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...
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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September 22, 2023 at 12:39 PM
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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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.
caravanmagazine.in
September 1, 2023 at 3:47 AM
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...
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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.
🗃️🧪
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.
🗃️🧪
August 29, 2023 at 12:46 PM
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.
🗃️🧪
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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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.
1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.
August 29, 2023 at 2:23 AM
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.
1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.
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
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August 29, 2023 at 4:12 AM
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...
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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August 29, 2023 at 4:07 AM
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...
This thread made my day!
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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August 24, 2023 at 3:17 PM
This thread made my day!
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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August 24, 2023 at 2:43 PM
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...
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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.
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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August 13, 2023 at 3:02 PM
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.
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Cat-lovers and Comrades: I'm so excited to share the intro to "Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary" now up on @DukePress site. It was a labor of feline love, and a realization of how much work all cats, big and small, have done for Marxism.
www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
August 22, 2023 at 2:05 PM
Cat-lovers and Comrades: I'm so excited to share the intro to "Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary" now up on @DukePress site. It was a labor of feline love, and a realization of how much work all cats, big and small, have done for Marxism.
www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
Great piece by Aseem Suhail. “Insofar as the geography & temporality of Baloch history has been limited by colonial and statist narratives to “feudal hinterlands”, this highly diverse, cosmopolitan, and urban population is obscured in the contested terrain of the archive” www.dawn.com/news/1770984
RETHINKING LYARI AND BALOCH WOMEN
"Struggle" is the genre the archive authorises for the Baloch in Pakistan.
www.dawn.com
August 22, 2023 at 1:28 PM
Great piece by Aseem Suhail. “Insofar as the geography & temporality of Baloch history has been limited by colonial and statist narratives to “feudal hinterlands”, this highly diverse, cosmopolitan, and urban population is obscured in the contested terrain of the archive” www.dawn.com/news/1770984