If you are an Alumni of TISS, sign this statement of concern and urge the TISS admin to immediately revoke the suspension of PhD Scholar Ramadas Prini Sivanandan. I just did.

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Ten years into his rule, he still has nothing to offer but hate.

Writing once more with the wonderful Green Goblin Harini Nagendra after a long (ish) time on our fav topic - the lakes of Bangalore from a historical perspective - indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

My book, The New Experts, is now available for pre-order in paperback and hardcover from all the big booksellers. In it, I analyse the power of intellectuals and experts in depoliticising policy discourse while serving a deeply ideological political project. (1/5)

cant wait until my granddaughter writes an undergraduate ethnic studies term paper essay on this clip after finding it saved in my tweet bookmarks which she inherited in my data estate❣️

Had a good conversation discussing the linguistic-nationalist projects in Hyderabad, Deccan in early 20th century and their import upon the literary and cultural projects in Post-Partition Pakistan. Thanks, Khidki Collective for the invite and Afsar Mohammad for interlocuting!

Happening tonight at 8:30 pm IST. Please spread the words!

What a terrible notice this is. I know every institution in India is going through democratic backsliding but this is just petty. I never thought I would ever say it, but at this moment I feel ashamed of being an alumni of TISS.

Happy to share my first ever OP-ED for an American newspaper..

inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

It's happening!! #AAG2024
Join us for a series of panels on Global Development, Speculative Urbanism and Infrastructure. Wonderful presenters with research from all over the world! Engaging with queer geographies, caste+infra+capital and more, exciting conversations ahead :D

Please check out this Spring issue of MERIP on Sudan featuring Khalid Mustafa Medani (whose essay serves as a primer to be used by educators) Nada Mustafa Ali, PhD ندي Eddie Thomas Rabab Elnaiem ☭ Azza Ahmad and Reduan Ali.

Shubhra Gururani introduces Tom Cowan’s Subaltern Frontiers (@CambridgeUP) which juxtaposes the geographies of land, caste, property, rent & labour, & discusses how agrarian land & property relations continue to configure geographies of unevenness & difference
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Check out this review forum on my book 'Subaltern frontiers' out now in Society & Space, edited by Shubhra Gururani with contributions from Asher Ghertner, Vinay Gidwani & Tim Bunnell, and a response from me! societyandspace.org/book-review-fo…

Thrilled to share the news that my chapter published in honouring our beloved teacher Prof. Rekha Pande titled 'Gender Narrative (s): Voicing New Discourses, Essays in Honour of Prof. Rekha Pande'

Special Thanks to Dr. S. Jeevanandam, Padma Akella, Archana S, and Rizwan Ahmad.

I'm very happy to share that my book 'Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad,' (Cambridge University, 2023) is now available in Cambridge core series and it's open access. Please feel free to download and share your feedback!
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I'm so excited to share my new OA paper 'Colonial laws, postcolonial infrastructures: Land acquisition, urban informality, and politics of infrastructural development in Pakistan' in EPD Society & Space. 1/n

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

I could not be more thrilled to be joining ASU this fall as an Assistant Professor in Sociology!

(Piglet is equally excited)

Arizona State University ASU School of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Thrilled that #YodaPress has published 'Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics & Publics of the Late Capitalist City.' Our book explores corruption's role in urban space, power, & storytelling in India & beyond--and is timely in this moment of political scandal
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Our paper(Sreeja Jaiswal & Akhil Mythri) on IPCC modelled pathways and outcomes out now
1/TLDR: recent calls for energy crops, reduced pasture land & shift to plant diets based on these models project a food insecure world. They're inequitable and cannot be a basis for mitigation