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.
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:
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
.
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.
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!
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
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.
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
!
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.
Celebrating ten years “Border as a Method” with author Brett Neilson, Neil Vallelley, and
@umut_ozguc
at @ Australian Continental Philosophy Conference.
@westsyduics
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.
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
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!
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:
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
Fellowship alert!
@westernsydneyu
is looking for innovative, collaborative, solution-focussed researchers to work with leading academics
@westsyduics
across key research themes.
See here:
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!
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
!
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?
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.
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:
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
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.
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.
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".