Malini Sur
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Book Prize @SouthAsiaAU. Bernard Cohn Prize (HM) JunglePassports (Penn 2021/Yoda 2023). https://t.co/xlpNnP3BnF
Dharug Land, New South Wales
Joined September 2013
You asked & here it is. “Life Cycle” my first documentary film on bicycling, air pollution & urban mobility in India. 42 min English subtitles. Screen & share.
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Surprised & delighted that #JunglePassports @PennPress & (very soon #YodaPress) was awarded an honourable mention for the Bernard S. Cohn Prize @AASAsianStudies . @aus_anth @westsyduic @thirana1 @arpitayodapress
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Delighted & happy that #Yodapress @arpitayodapress . & her fabulous team have published the Indian edition of #JunglePassports. Such a relief to see an affordable edition for universities, scholars & the public. Honoured to be a #Yoda author. Order here:
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The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research @ the University of Amsterdam - is a great place to do a PhD, see call for scholarships - apply!. Apart from strong intellectual foundations, its a place for building community & forever friendships.
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I will be speaking at CHS JNU on March 29 at 3:00 pm(IST). Looking forward!
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I can't wait to turn the pages of "Homeland Insecurities" by the brilliant @BarboraSanjay. Scholarship that critically engages with the everyday politics of organisations and individuals working on the ground.
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It's real. #JunglePassports @PennPress has arrived in Sydney! Dedicated to the house of women. Available for order -
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Honoured & delighted @aus_anth, thank you!.
Our sincerest congratulations to the AAS' new President, Malini Sur! Malini is Associate Professor in Anthropology at @westernsydneyu. We look forward to working with her in this role, and extend our thanks and best wishes to Tanya King. You can follow Malini at: @MaliniSur
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A fully funded workshop for young scholars working on migration & borderlands in #NortheastIndia and beyond #CentreforRegionalStudies, #UniversityofHyderabad @RitapriyaNandy
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Delighted to share the President’s Book Prize @SouthAsiaAU for #JunglePassports with Nistha PR . @westsyduics @westsydusoss @PennPress.
SASAA is pleased to announce the joint winners of the President’s Prize for 2020-21: Nisha PR for ‘Jumbos and jumping devils: A social history of Indian circus’ and Malini Sur for ‘Jungle Passports Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border.
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The Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track position in social hierarchy, inequality, and exclusion at the rank of assistant professor.
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This book is a very timely intervention on Indian nationalism and borderlands, looking forward to reading the brilliant @navinemurshid - out next month!. @srinathraghava3 @umut_ozguc @ConstantinoX @tariqthachil @ahona_panda @amitbaishya2021
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37 days & counting into my new role @westsyduics - an exciting public facing graduate lecture series coming your way (no matter where you are) & river walks for those in Sydney’s west & beyond!.
We are thrilled to welcome @MaliniSur as the new Director of HDR & Teaching at the Institute! Malini is an Assoc. Prof. in Anthropology at the @westsydusoss ; the founding Editor of the multilingual journal Issues & has served as the President of the @aus_anth.
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President @aus_anth Debbi Long's letter to the President - Max Planck Society noting our deep concern & disappointment at the sacking of our colleague.@anthroprofhage. We regard him in high esteem as a colleague, teacher & mentor.
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Luchi is still work in progress but alu-r-dom can handle Reviewer 2.
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Lockdown puchka (with motor). Kolkata style. Made by Bihari migrants. This is not pani puri. Please do not argue.
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For an excellent discussion on the relationship between territory, property & capital, read @Ritajyoti_B #StreetsinMotion. A must read for all scholars interested in the urban form. And yes, I am catching up on my reading this summer!
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On "Cycling as work" in Indian cities with @ManasMurthy . #anthropology & #urban #planning .#cyclingaswork #bicycles #cities . @JSAnjaria @Ritajyoti_B @SnehaAnnavarapu @swatiatrest @divkan1 @westsyduics .
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Like films? Like history?.Please apply for the Northeast India AV archive research fellowships.
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Paper submissions are open until Aug 6, 2023 for @aus_anth 2023 conference! Fantastic panels this year on the theme of Vulnerabilities.28 November to 1 December 2023.Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University, Sydney.
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Ph.D. scholarship alert! . Keen to study place-making, cultures & communities, food, heritage, transport, festivals & more in #Parramatta?. @westsyduics' scholarship in Anthropology, Heritage Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies.
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This postdoc fellowship at KITLV, Netherlands will be of interest to scholars of Indian politics - 'Costs of Democracy: the Political Economy of Campaign Finance'. Funded by the Dutch Research Council. And you get to work with @ward_berenschot!.
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Twitter do your thing!. Friends I am seeking contemporary writings on caste & cities/critical caste studies . In addition @sumeetmhaskar Gajendran Ayyathurai Suryakant Waghmore @thirana1 @ajanthasub & others who else should I read asap? . @r_gov11 @Ritajyoti_B @SnehaAnnavarapu.
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Aveek Sen "As if I am there and not there, in this photograph because I'm floating away from this congenial scene. ". My brilliant friend & confidant, thank you for your words, wicked laughter, Ballygunge fish fries & everything else.
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If you are looking to catch up on your reading may I suggest . @SnehaAnnavarapu potholes .@bhoomikajoshi taxis .Annemarie Mol waste .@GhPreste barter .@VanickaA reconstruction .@markturin pandemic .& others in many languages . for #Issues @westsyduics .
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The best thing about being an academic @westsyduics @westsydusoss is that I get to meet students from all over the world.
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Join us @westsydusoss @KazOpenshaw @crocha2 @SocSciWeek Monday Sep 5 on anthropology & film making. We will screen "Life Cycle" my collaborative documentary on #bicycles #repair #city #mobility in India @Kate_Huppat
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Celebrating ten years “Border as a Method” with author Brett Neilson, Neil Vallelley, and @umut_ozguc at @ Australian Continental Philosophy Conference. @westsyduics
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Looking forward to @MIRIBerkeley panel on India-Bangladesh borderlands with @navinemurshid & @sahanagee March 14, 2024. Midnight ish for South Asia/4 am 15 March for Sydneysiders.
We're co-sponsoring a panel discussion on recent scholarship on Bangladesh-India border-related studies. Speakers are @MaliniSur @sahanagee @navinemurshid !. 📅 Thurs March 14 at 9 AM.🔗 Hosted by @ISASatBerkeley
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Cycling as work is now open access!. Co-authored with @ManasMurthy we locate cycling at crossroads of anthropology and urban planning to show the interdependence of urban economies, regulation of space, and constraints to everyday mobility @westsyduics .
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Just exchanged greetings. I have never seen such a spectacular web, seems to be work in progress, will update.
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What are your favourite documentary films on rivers? Seeking inspiration @amitbaishya2021 @Ranjana_rahul @ritodhi_c @swatiatrest @r_gov11 @tanmoysharma01 @DallasRogers101?.
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And guess who landed in Sydney for @aus_anth conference 2023 & delivered a brilliant paper to a packed audience!@SnehaAnnavarapu!
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Looking forward to @BrownAnthro Seminar Series, I will be speaking on #Borders #Nationalisms #Societies @BrownUniversity @radhikamoral24 @ievaju . Friday April 22, 4:00 pm. Eastern Time. Register:
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Whoever invented chai latte can have a special place in hell.
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Can’t wait to turn the pages of “Migrants & Machine Politics” (@PrincetonUPress ) by @adam_m_auerbach & @tariqthachil! But will listen first to @SnehaAnnavarapu in conversation with @adam_m_auerbach for @NewBooksNetwork
My latest @NewBooksNetwork ep is an incredibly energising conversation with @adam_m_auerbach about his & @tariqthachil’s fab new book “Migrants and Machine Politics” (@PrincetonUPress 2023). We talked brokers, political parties, informal archives & more:.
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Beautiful Boston - rich in the company of old friends & new. Thank you awards committee @nosheenali @KarSohini et al for your consideration of #JunglePassports for Bernard Cohn prize (HM) @AASAsianStudies. & no points for guessing which Boston scholar rode a bicycle to meet me!
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So looking forward to speaking about cattle tales along the India-Bangladesh borderlands @AshokaUniv! . Oct 7, 6:30 pm IST . #anthrotwitter #anthropology #borderlands #JunglePassports
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Folks, I promise this is my final book talk for the year. 😅 . Looking forward to meeting students & friends in the US. @thirana1 @sepoy @durbakatha @eyatesd @itihaashtag @itihaasnaama. Thank you @tariqthachil @UPennAnth @SouthAsiaCenter @Busnihoh.
Hope to see you (virtually) this Thursday, 11/11 at 12 noon EST | 10:30pm IST for this exciting book talk with @MaliniSur! (in partnership with @SouthAsiaCenter & @UPennAnth) Register:
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Go apply, this is a fantastic program in ethnographic writing @UTSCAnthroDept - I was immensely enriched by my conversations with @girishdaswani @francispcody1 @aslizeng & many others.
Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing is now open for applications for the 2024 cycle. Find out more about the fellowship and how to apply through the link in our bio!! . #utscanthro #utscanthropology #centreforethnography #uoft #utsc #anthropology
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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta (2018) .@CambridgeUP by @itihaashtag is a fantastic book, a must read for all scholars engaged with the urban condition.
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Just a little reminder that slow cycling isn’t just for fun – it’s essential for many city workers via @ConversationEDU
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Happy to be in great company in a challenging post-Covid mode @SouthAsiaAU book award shortlists #JunglePassports @PennPress.
The shortlist for the South Asian Studies Association of Australia’s Presidents Book Prize is now in! Congratulations to the authors: 🧵.
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Conviviality & gentle condescension in academia cannot mask racism. Racism will continue to make the academy an unsophisticated place, despite all the fancy degrees and big words.
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Please join me in conversation with Itty Abraham, Sidharthan Maunaguru & @HinchyJessica @nus_ari . July 22, 4:00 pm SGT.India 1:30 pm:: Bangladesh 2:00 pm:: Sydney 6:00 pm. Register here:
Book Discussion: 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴: 𝘍𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢-𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 w/ @MaliniSur, Itty Abraham, Sidharthan Maunaguru & @HinchyJessica
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Sophie Chao & I are excited to convene "Messing with Methods" - post graduate workshop that encourages debate on the diversity of ways in which social scientists understand, use, and write about research methods @westsyduics . Register:
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Durga Puja & food go together, reporting from Sydney. Excellent organization BANSW!
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Looking forward to listening to brilliant graduate students from across the world & opening #Borders & #boundaries at @Columbia, March 24-25. What a fantastic line up @MESAAS_GSA!
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A book alert in these difficult times… posting because this is going to be a brilliant read @aslizeng is a fantastic ethnographer & writer.
Violent Intimacies has a cover now! . It will be out in February from @DukePress, right on time for Spring courses. Available for pre-order at: . 30% off with code E24ZENG.
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Fellowship alert! . @westernsydneyu is looking for innovative, collaborative, solution-focussed researchers to work with leading academics @westsyduics across key research themes. See here: .
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On July 1 @ 5:00 pm (Sydney) I will be presenting #JunglePassports @PennPress at a book forum organised by @BorderCritical. Excited to be in conversation with the brilliant @binadcosta @AriJerrems @umut_ozguc. Register here:.
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An exhausting week ends with terrific news in my world of anthro & history!. @r_gov11 gets an hon. mention for Diana Forsythe Prize & @aziakashmir for Rosaldo Prize! .@MythriJega receives the Rosaldo Prize! .@kalramnath wins the Burbank + Surrency Prizes #Debt & Decolonization!.
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Bengal gram (chola/chole) harvest. Nothing like eating sweet green grams.
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Folks in Europe, I will be speaking on human-animal relations at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Borderlands @Stockholm_Uni at your time. @Ranjana_rahul @ward_berenschot @NMaRion_G @CastignollesP . 27 Sep Monday, 1:00 PM.
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Honoured & excited by the latest reader of #Junglepassports @GhoshAmitav. I have been a fan of his writing forever.
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Go apply for the @aus_anth Postdoctoral Fellowships, deadline May 10, 2024!. The portal is open for submissions, see here: .. @TimPilbrow @ANSA_web
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Can't wait to tell my students about this pumpkin (earthworms, compost & a Chinese farmer in regional NSW) & cultures of eating, sleeping, dying, fashion & our relationships with animals, spirits & mobile phones & more @westsydusoss @HUMN2069. Spring semester @westernsydneyu!
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We are set! Our 2024 lectures series (open to all) @westsyduics . Commons - Katherine Gibson . Community - @georgemorgan54 . Epistemology, ontology & contradiction - Paul James. & . Waste - Gay Hawkins. Watch this space.
How important is an extensive table of contents for dissertation scholars? When does it become a critical document &a map? . We @westsyduics discussed this& more!. Not that I liked my TOC when I penned it at UvA. But I dashed it across! .Who wants to read it?
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My latest on Statelessness at the India -Bangladesh border in the Oxford University Border Criminologies, Indian citizenship theme. @BorderCrim @UniofOxford @westsydunews @westsyduics #NRC #CAA.
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Honored to be in conversation with Prof. Madumita Mazumdar @mmvp2005 & Dr. Anandaroop Sen at Presidency University, Kolkata. September 6, Monday at 5.30 pm (IST). #JunglePassports @PennPress . Link in the poster.
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Found in Sydney - Masala Maggi. The mother of all cures - homesickness, home schooling and zoom teaching in lockdown.
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We asked a 100 people in western Sydney about their everyday practices & struggles & climate change. Read why climate matters to communities who are experiencing increasing heat & have lived with bushfire smoke. @sukhmani_sees, @agentdeclan. Link:
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Happening now @westsydusoss the brilliant @ProfSrilaRoy speaking on feminist and queer politics in India @drloocy @sexgenderwsu
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A conversation on borders in these heartbreaking times… a fabulous public seminar series @Merisa_Anthro led entirely by graduate scholars. Looking forward to being in conversation with this brilliant group & @sahanagee congratulations on her #new book #athousandtinycuts!.
Please join us for our public seminar later today with the brilliant @MaliniSur and @sahanagee discussing Borders, Mobility and the media of contemporary citizenship in South Asia. Register for the talk at
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Kali and her daughters - a visual essay on borders & betrayals. #Partition curated @sher_arts .Thank you @Latika Gupta & team . Link: . @PartitionMuseum @1947Partition @swatiatrest.@sepoy
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To new beginnings in Australia with a fabulous crew ! The day started well & if we may say so it’s going pretty well! @Dom_Perrottet @ClrDonnaDavis @nimiana_techi @westsyduics
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In response brilliant Aparajita Majumdar, I suggest how anthropological sensibilities reset the terms upon which historians have written about capital & borders. A @ChapatiMystery conversation at the cross-roads of anthropology & history.
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This stole is about eighty years old, please help me identity the weave/region? To the extent I know it maybe from Benaras… @durbakatha @sepoy @swatiatrest @ProfSrilaRoy
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An essay on the un-making of India (replug) @thewire_in.
Malini Sur writes—The CAA Will Un-Make India By Poisoning Relationships of Trust, Affinity Across Religions via @thewire_in.
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#AAS2022 @cultureaqua introducing the brilliant Debbi Long - keynote speaker “Can #anthropology unf### the world? Notes on “Fierce Anthropology” happening now! @aus_anth & terrific organisers @profemmakowal @DHBoarderGiles & Tim Neale
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The day before, I slept on this bench. My first afternoon nap in a century. I believe the good folks who passed by smiled at me. If you need to cope with post-homeschooling, homesickness etc, just take a nap here.
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Afternoon nap Canberra style. Occasional disturbance - ducks loudly debating Australian elections.
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An illustrative essay on the terrors of war dust & it’s hauntings in cities @SocietyandSpace. With Ute Eickelkamp, illustrations in ink & charcoal @BabyWombat26. And thank you @CharmaineSChua! .
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Do not miss the fabulous visual anthropology panels @aus_anth #AAS2O21 curated by Ute Eickelkamp & @Sophie_MH_Chao starting tomorrow!. Looking forward to our roundtable @juanbatfran @westsyduics #BambooBridge Jennifer Deger, .Stephanie Spray, & Jane Mills. Dec 1, 10 am AEST
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Happening Sat 23 Oct, 10:30 am CTZ @ACSAMadison! Wish I was there in person! . Looking forward to being in conversation @Sid Maunaguru @thirana1 @r_gov11 @radhikamoral24, Dina Siddiqi, Jason Cons & Swargajyoti Gohain. "Violence, Mobility & Belonging in South Asia's Borderlands".
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