2 things I learnt: 1. This country has a Minister for loneliness! 2. The 10 point programme has everything but ask your government questions about degrading public services & infrastructure theguardian.com/education/2023…

New book! 'Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife'. Short blog here on what the book is about (published with Verso & freely available here durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1728967): cityfragment.wordpress.com/2023/09/18/was… A big thank you to all who helped make this happen!

Storytelling is part of engaging and healing the land. It also allows us to care for communities. From Jharia to Baghjan, from Gelekey to Barsu, we will learn about places, trees, animals, & people.

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Scholars on the Himalayan region, especially ECRs, anywhere in the world -- there is still time left before the October 1, 2023 deadline for the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) ANHS small grants. Go apply! anhs-himalaya.org/awards/small-g…

a very important work on India's justice, energy transitions and climate leadership claims

Looking for a Pakistan-based RA to work with me, Pol Simpson & Ashley Pople on research evaluating the impacts of the 2022 floods, and post-flood reconstruction projects. details in the attached ad and link below. applications considered on rolling basis dropbox.com/scl/fi/osjvbis…

Here’s something that gets me excited today. My book “Race and the Colour-Line” is now out! routledge.com/Race-and-the-C…

Khoob jamega rang jab mil baithenge 3 yaar: Rishi, Narendra aur authoritarian-capitalism politico.eu/article/rishi-…

Here is a dream postdoc on sociotechnical transitions and Positive Energy Districts PED-EU-NET! Apply to join the Sustainability Transformation programme area Universitetet i Stavanger on our exciting new @DUT_Partnership project with Stavanger kommune Felleskjøpet Skretting Group: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

📣 Call for papers! Development in Practice have a new special issue on Responsible Research in International Development, edited by Andrew Ainslie and Atenchong Talleh and building on Panel 25: #ResponsibleResearch ⏰ Deadline: 1 Nov 2023 buff.ly/3smYP4E

Development beyond 2030: more collaboration, less competition? New OA paper by co-authored by our Ankit Kumar and Dr Miguel Kanai with colleagues out now. In International Development Planning Review. Read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10.38…

Our webinar series starts next week! Dr Ankit Kumar presents on 'What kind of decolonisation and for whom: a question of justice'. Join us on Friday 31st May, 1-2pm. wix.to/2m266S2 Ankit Kumar

Speaking to former colleagues & friends frontlines of protest met with violence at BRAC U etc in #Dhaka. Local ongoing efforts for fundraising & blood donations, but they are asking for greater and more expansive international coverage and attention The Guardian Guardian World !

This paper was a long time in the making. Thanks to Geo & Nabeela Ahmed Andrea Jimenez C. Stephanie Butcher you can now read what I make of jugaad, infrastructure & everyday life. Jugaad Infrastructure sees jugaad as an infrastructure making, breaking & remaking practice.

Brilliant empirically-grounded insights on how evedyday jugaad practices trouble boundaries of formal/informal and minor/major infrastructures in India. Handy that its out just in time for teaching too! 🙏🏽 Ankit Kumar

It was so good to read Stephenlegg 's new book last year and think about hospitality through it

Check out the latest research spotlight looking at recently published Geo paper by Ankit Kumar (Sheffield Geography): Read the piece to learn more about Ankit Kumar's work on solar lamps and the concept of jugaad infrastructure.👇💡

Jugaad infrastructure - improvisational infrastructures in everyday life UI Associate Ankit Kumar's research, exploring infrastructure as both a material and social concept, is showcased by the Royal Geographical Society sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…