This was a fantastic way to start the week. This was a brilliant thesis, a pleasure to read and I learned a great deal from it.

Here are some of the other attacks on aid workers in Gaza which have not had the same investigative treatment by the IDF. They did not draw the same international outrage either.

A lot to digest here, but there’s no doubt it’s a powerfully argued piece about the historical relationship between fossil capital, western political interests in the Middle East, and the current war on Gaza.

Jinal Parekh (Jinal Parekh) and Anara Datta (Antara Datta) use India’s 1979 complaint to the UN Human Rights Commission about the ‘virginity test’ at Heathrow to re-examine the changing role of discourses about race in postcolonial institutions of global governance. doi.org/10.1017/S17400…

Mohammed Salem, World Press Photo of the Year.

"Will there be singing in the dark times? Yes there will also be singing About the dark times" Students singing at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia university yesterday.

These are horrendous scenes. Let no one ever ever say our pandemic era students are ‘snowflakes.’ They are the very best of us.

I woke up at 4 am to follow the election news and the coverage these guys provided was absolutely sensational. As someone who teaches South Asian history and politics it is always humbling to learn from those with genuine on the ground granular knowledge.

With everyone muttering about the importance of the Constitution in this election I urge you to read two things: Sandipto Dasgupta’s new book and Rohit’s wonderful new article in Past and Present: academic.oup.com/past/article/2…

Postdoc job in London! The Production of Climate Justice. A big new project with the wonderful @PaulineSophieH. Details here: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/090348-po… #climatejustice

With articles by Arsalan Khan Arsalan Khan, Farhana Ibrahim, Antara Datta Antara Datta Uttara Shahani, Mehr Farooqi @waheed_sarah Shahla Hussain Ather Zia (shadowbanned/banned in india) in the wake of CAA and renewed debates on citizenship and belonging. #1971 #CAA #SouthAsia #Partition

Really looking forward to this next week!

.BBC insisting on reporting racist rioters as 'protestors' and 'demonstrators' is a gross misrepresentation of the violence impacting communities of colour across the UK. Language matters.

📢REPLUG: A short primer on the recent protests in #Bangladesh and the longer history behind #SheikhHasina's fall from power. by nafis (cannafis.bsky.social) jamhoor.org/read/the-spect…

This is what academic solidarity and courage looks like.