Wished some women in headscarves Ramzan Mubarak on the Delhi Metro. They looked shocked, then curious, then flashed tentative smiles. There may be much bigotry around, but do these little things count?
Nikita Sud
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Nikita Sud
@professor_sud
Professor of the Politics of Development @ODID_QEH @UniofOxford
Researching energy, extraction, assertion | Global South perspective
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- German research council approached me to review large grant application on development and decolonisation (!) My response, and theirs.
- 'We are writing as women professors at universities across the United Kingdom, to voice our deep concern about the harmful impacts on women of the planned pension cuts. In a sector increasingly characterised by precarity, it is our responsibility as senior academics to oppose...
- Very sorry to inform you that in light of ongoing @ucu actions against @UniversitiesUK's continued assault on our pensions, pay and working conditions, I have made the difficult decision to resign as External Examiner from LSE Geography's MSc in Environment and Development. 1/n
- Message about @ucu strike action sent to my students this morning You may have heard that like many workers in the UK: nurses, dock and rail workers, postal workers, school teachers, and others, university lecturers are also striking to demand better pay and working conditions🧵
- As an Indian, I have come across small pockets of nostalgia for empire as well. Typically from elites who were ingrained in infrastructure of empire. I suspect old white Oxbridge dons who spout railways tropes don't research widely-- if they speak to the 'other' at all.
- My book’s been out for a yr, and recently got shortlisted for an award. Here’s a 🧵on what its about. Read if interested in land, human-nature interactions, natural ‘resources’ in transition, nature & institutions in a climate critical world, and land grab—in India & well beyond.
- This paper is finally out in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2022, Vol 52(1). The Actual Gujarat Model: Authoritarianism, Capitalism, Hindu Nationalism and Populism in the Time of Modi
- India's combined Opposition putting up robust fight, despite skewed electoral landscape. Corporate money power, state machinery, media largely with govt, with Opp politicians bought, threatened, jailed routinely. To be standing, pushing back, win for democracy. Lets build on this
- Replying to @Lowkey0nlineThis is insane. Civil rights to occupy *public* space being trampled for parades and rituals being paid for by that very public.
- Academics whose universities supported Ukrainian scholars with funding and posts under refuge schemes: any moves to do the same for displaced Palestinians whose homes and places of study/work have been destroyed? Please give examples of initiatives, or ongoing advocacy. Thank you
- Instead of wishing us 'happy women's day', pay us, employ us, cite us, read our work, listen to our voices, ban manels, don't put barriers in our education, don't kill girls in the womb, treat women around you with respect, and definitely don't display your misogyny on the net.
- Someone asked if March for Palestine in London was mostly people of colour? Yes. I was surrounded by Algerians, Pakistanis, Indians, Malaysians, Ugandans, S Africans, Brazilians, besides Palestinians, Egyptians, etc. What brings us together is an anti-colonial stance. 1/3
- Watching #Pathaan in a cinema in Oxford. Electric. People screaming and hooting! Well done @iamsrk, @deepikapadukone and team👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👊🏽
