Nikita Sud
@professorsud.bsky.social
Professor, Politics of Development, Oxford Uni.
Leverhulme Fellow.
Study, teach: authoritarianism, postcolonial development, social justice, state, environment politics, India, Asia.
Researching 📗: energy, extraction, assertion. Global South perspective.
Leverhulme Fellow.
Study, teach: authoritarianism, postcolonial development, social justice, state, environment politics, India, Asia.
Researching 📗: energy, extraction, assertion. Global South perspective.
Good to be on @beltandroadpod.bsky.social speaking about justice in the so-called just energy transition.
📣Episode 1 is Live!📣
Environmental Issues along the Belt and Road: "Manufacturing the Clean Energy Transition"
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Environmental Issues along the Belt and Road: "Manufacturing the Clean Energy Transition"
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April 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Good to be on @beltandroadpod.bsky.social speaking about justice in the so-called just energy transition.
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Mass starvation. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide.
That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed.
End all arms sales to Israel now.
That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed.
End all arms sales to Israel now.
April 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Mass starvation. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide.
That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed.
End all arms sales to Israel now.
That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed.
End all arms sales to Israel now.
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This is what fascism looks like, folks
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is what fascism looks like, folks
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“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”
Hossam Shabat’s final message to the world, shared by his team after Israel assassinated him this morning in northern Gaza.
Hossam Shabat’s final message to the world, shared by his team after Israel assassinated him this morning in northern Gaza.
March 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”
Hossam Shabat’s final message to the world, shared by his team after Israel assassinated him this morning in northern Gaza.
Hossam Shabat’s final message to the world, shared by his team after Israel assassinated him this morning in northern Gaza.
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Some spaces still available at this event for teachers & others interested in revealing hidden histories & geographies of empire:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revealing-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revealing-...
Revealing hidden histories and geographies of empire.
We aim to demonstrate more truthful historical and geographical stories and to make demands of our education system. We hope you join us.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Some spaces still available at this event for teachers & others interested in revealing hidden histories & geographies of empire:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revealing-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revealing-...
Fossil interests have funded politics to undermine climate action for decades.
See my @WorldDevJournal paper for fossil lobbies pressuring US politicians into backtracking on international climate commitments well before Trump:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
See my @WorldDevJournal paper for fossil lobbies pressuring US politicians into backtracking on international climate commitments well before Trump:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Fossil interests have funded politics to undermine climate action for decades.
See my @WorldDevJournal paper for fossil lobbies pressuring US politicians into backtracking on international climate commitments well before Trump:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
See my @WorldDevJournal paper for fossil lobbies pressuring US politicians into backtracking on international climate commitments well before Trump:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Returned journal paper without review as author conversing with converted. In refs to lit, acronyms etc., assumption that we know their canon.
'Canon building is empire building': Toni Morrison. In politics, teaching, writing, academics need to question & dismantle empire, not shore it up.
'Canon building is empire building': Toni Morrison. In politics, teaching, writing, academics need to question & dismantle empire, not shore it up.
March 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Returned journal paper without review as author conversing with converted. In refs to lit, acronyms etc., assumption that we know their canon.
'Canon building is empire building': Toni Morrison. In politics, teaching, writing, academics need to question & dismantle empire, not shore it up.
'Canon building is empire building': Toni Morrison. In politics, teaching, writing, academics need to question & dismantle empire, not shore it up.
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Critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) deal the G7 signed with Indonesia. By @professorsud.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) deal the G7 signed with Indonesia. By @professorsud.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot
New, open access.
I trace the shift from 20C env justice struggles to depoliticized just transition agenda. I then study N-S climate finance JETP, showing takeover by capital
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New, open access.
I trace the shift from 20C env justice struggles to depoliticized just transition agenda. I then study N-S climate finance JETP, showing takeover by capital
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot
As we move from dependence on fossil fuels towards zero carbon renewables, ‘just transition’ promises to leave no one behind. This paper has two objec…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot
New, open access.
I trace the shift from 20C env justice struggles to depoliticized just transition agenda. I then study N-S climate finance JETP, showing takeover by capital
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New, open access.
I trace the shift from 20C env justice struggles to depoliticized just transition agenda. I then study N-S climate finance JETP, showing takeover by capital
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Two mainstream headlines. With
@bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social
highlighting 2 day temp injunction as *win* for Cambridge. Whereas judge ruled *against* 5 year protest ban uni lawyers sought.
Win for right to protest and free speech.
Yet more evidence BBC down the tubes. 0 credibility.
@bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social
highlighting 2 day temp injunction as *win* for Cambridge. Whereas judge ruled *against* 5 year protest ban uni lawyers sought.
Win for right to protest and free speech.
Yet more evidence BBC down the tubes. 0 credibility.
February 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Two mainstream headlines. With
@bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social
highlighting 2 day temp injunction as *win* for Cambridge. Whereas judge ruled *against* 5 year protest ban uni lawyers sought.
Win for right to protest and free speech.
Yet more evidence BBC down the tubes. 0 credibility.
@bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social
highlighting 2 day temp injunction as *win* for Cambridge. Whereas judge ruled *against* 5 year protest ban uni lawyers sought.
Win for right to protest and free speech.
Yet more evidence BBC down the tubes. 0 credibility.
Back to school after more than a year of horror, many lost classmates, and most schools bombed to rubble.
Meanwhile girls in Afghanistan are still not in school.
Meanwhile girls in Afghanistan are still not in school.
Children in Gaza go back to school
Students in Gaza have gone back to school. Many are learning in classrooms scarred by damage inflicted by the war.
www.aljazeera.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Back to school after more than a year of horror, many lost classmates, and most schools bombed to rubble.
Meanwhile girls in Afghanistan are still not in school.
Meanwhile girls in Afghanistan are still not in school.
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Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students
These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza
www.sussex.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
Received pages of constructive comments from 3 journal reviewers. Academia is being squeezed by narrowing public budgets, right wing suspicion of education, and degrees as credentialisation. But mad respect for so many people I'm honoured to call colleagues, even the anonymous ones.
February 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Received pages of constructive comments from 3 journal reviewers. Academia is being squeezed by narrowing public budgets, right wing suspicion of education, and degrees as credentialisation. But mad respect for so many people I'm honoured to call colleagues, even the anonymous ones.
So this is how empires fall. One bad leader after the next, takeover by oligarchic cliques, backing war and genocide, antagonising allies, losing in the trade and production stakes to rising powers and losing their s*** in the process.
February 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
So this is how empires fall. One bad leader after the next, takeover by oligarchic cliques, backing war and genocide, antagonising allies, losing in the trade and production stakes to rising powers and losing their s*** in the process.
Looking forward to presenting from new @leverhulme.bsky.social funded research on the politics of energy transition in the big coal economies.
@slcc-lse.bsky.social next Thursday, and at ISS, The Hague day after tomorrow.
@slcc-lse.bsky.social next Thursday, and at ISS, The Hague day after tomorrow.
First up is @professorsud.bsky.social on January 30th
January 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Looking forward to presenting from new @leverhulme.bsky.social funded research on the politics of energy transition in the big coal economies.
@slcc-lse.bsky.social next Thursday, and at ISS, The Hague day after tomorrow.
@slcc-lse.bsky.social next Thursday, and at ISS, The Hague day after tomorrow.
Some hostages have names, family lives, feelings, health updates. Others are a nameless mass, easily overlooked.
January 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Some hostages have names, family lives, feelings, health updates. Others are a nameless mass, easily overlooked.
Disappointing editorial from
@indianexpress.com
Calling Opp leader "petulant" fits Pappu propaganda.
As a scholar, I'd go into layeredness of the state in hour long lecture.
RG equating compromised institutions with "the state" in party speech is unremarkable.
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
@indianexpress.com
Calling Opp leader "petulant" fits Pappu propaganda.
As a scholar, I'd go into layeredness of the state in hour long lecture.
RG equating compromised institutions with "the state" in party speech is unremarkable.
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
Express View: From Rahul Gandhi, a disquieting petulance
By equating BJP government with state, opposing latter, he does a disservice to Leader of Opposition office
indianexpress.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Disappointing editorial from
@indianexpress.com
Calling Opp leader "petulant" fits Pappu propaganda.
As a scholar, I'd go into layeredness of the state in hour long lecture.
RG equating compromised institutions with "the state" in party speech is unremarkable.
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
@indianexpress.com
Calling Opp leader "petulant" fits Pappu propaganda.
As a scholar, I'd go into layeredness of the state in hour long lecture.
RG equating compromised institutions with "the state" in party speech is unremarkable.
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
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A ceasefire imminent. Israel bombing Gaza, attacking the West Bank, colonizing more land, torturing more Palestinians, collectively punishing an occupied people.
We celebrate, we cry, we hold our breath to see what the next day brings.
We celebrate, we cry, we hold our breath to see what the next day brings.
January 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A ceasefire imminent. Israel bombing Gaza, attacking the West Bank, colonizing more land, torturing more Palestinians, collectively punishing an occupied people.
We celebrate, we cry, we hold our breath to see what the next day brings.
We celebrate, we cry, we hold our breath to see what the next day brings.
Ugly pushback against the small gains made with movements such as Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, which began in the global cores of slavery and apartheid.
Even the rallying call 'anti-woke' is telling. It demeans African American lingo around the revolutionary ideas of awakening, uprising
Even the rallying call 'anti-woke' is telling. It demeans African American lingo around the revolutionary ideas of awakening, uprising
‘It is not just Elon – Dom is in constant contact with major Silicon Valley figures, who are becoming increasingly anti-woke’.
Sources said Mr Cummings and Mr Musk were exchanging ideas via a WhatsApp group shared with an unidentified American businessman
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Sources said Mr Cummings and Mr Musk were exchanging ideas via a WhatsApp group shared with an unidentified American businessman
mol.im/a/14274419
Elon Musk and Dominic Cummings 'in plot to sabotage UK politics'
Boris Johnson's former No 10 adviser is planning a new 'StartUp Party' which he hopes will smash the traditional Westminster system and is understood to be communicating with Mr Musk on WhatsApp.
mol.im
January 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Ugly pushback against the small gains made with movements such as Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, which began in the global cores of slavery and apartheid.
Even the rallying call 'anti-woke' is telling. It demeans African American lingo around the revolutionary ideas of awakening, uprising
Even the rallying call 'anti-woke' is telling. It demeans African American lingo around the revolutionary ideas of awakening, uprising
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My 19 yo son wrote for @labourlist.bsky.social on why young men are attracted to Reform. The commentariat talk a lot about this phenomenon, but we rarely hear from the young men themselves. What struck me was that although "anti-woke" is part of it, so is economics. labourlist.org/2025/01/news...
‘Why Reform poses a threat to Labour among young men’ – LabourList
With Reform rising in the polls, we asked a 19-year-old first-time voter, who backed Labour at the election, for his perspective on the threat Reform…
labourlist.org
January 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My 19 yo son wrote for @labourlist.bsky.social on why young men are attracted to Reform. The commentariat talk a lot about this phenomenon, but we rarely hear from the young men themselves. What struck me was that although "anti-woke" is part of it, so is economics. labourlist.org/2025/01/news...
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Another baby in Gaza has died of hypothermia – the eighth such death as temperatures plummet amid the Israeli genocide in the besieged enclave.
🔴 LIVE Updates ⤵️
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Eighth Gaza baby freezes to death as Israel kills 88 Palestinians in a day
Israeli forces launch over 100 attacks in three days as US proposes $8bn weapons sales amid ongoing ceasefire talks.
aje.io
January 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Another baby in Gaza has died of hypothermia – the eighth such death as temperatures plummet amid the Israeli genocide in the besieged enclave.
🔴 LIVE Updates ⤵️
🔴 LIVE Updates ⤵️
Looking at proofs for an article accepted for publication in a top journal in my field.
Publisher: @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Elsevier charges 1000s of £s for article processing, but my article has had no copyediting. Cursory 'edit' has introduced errors.
Are journals just 💰 for publishers now?
Publisher: @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Elsevier charges 1000s of £s for article processing, but my article has had no copyediting. Cursory 'edit' has introduced errors.
Are journals just 💰 for publishers now?
January 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Looking at proofs for an article accepted for publication in a top journal in my field.
Publisher: @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Elsevier charges 1000s of £s for article processing, but my article has had no copyediting. Cursory 'edit' has introduced errors.
Are journals just 💰 for publishers now?
Publisher: @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Elsevier charges 1000s of £s for article processing, but my article has had no copyediting. Cursory 'edit' has introduced errors.
Are journals just 💰 for publishers now?
The centre can't out-Right the Right. The Centre leans Rightward, and its constituency is poached.
Liberals across institutional spaces attempting to 'meet other side halfway'. Result is validation of Right's performative agendas of being 'marginalised/minoritised', Hindu-phobia, Christian-bans, etc
Liberals across institutional spaces attempting to 'meet other side halfway'. Result is validation of Right's performative agendas of being 'marginalised/minoritised', Hindu-phobia, Christian-bans, etc
The so-called "centre-right" has collapsed.
The cordon sanitaire which existed to separate the "centre-right" and radical or far right has collapsed.
My column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The cordon sanitaire which existed to separate the "centre-right" and radical or far right has collapsed.
My column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Across the west, the centre right is collapsing – and with it, any notion of what is ‘too extreme’ | Owen Jones
So-called moderates are mimicking populist demagogues, with potentially disastrous consequences, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The centre can't out-Right the Right. The Centre leans Rightward, and its constituency is poached.
Liberals across institutional spaces attempting to 'meet other side halfway'. Result is validation of Right's performative agendas of being 'marginalised/minoritised', Hindu-phobia, Christian-bans, etc
Liberals across institutional spaces attempting to 'meet other side halfway'. Result is validation of Right's performative agendas of being 'marginalised/minoritised', Hindu-phobia, Christian-bans, etc
New year, continued horrors
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Children among 22 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza on New Year’s Day
Early hours of 2025 witness intensive Israeli bombardment targeting homes and streets in northern Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
January 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
New year, continued horrors
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...