Srila Roy
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Professor @WitsUniversity . Words @DissentMag @thewire_in @timeshighered . Latest book: Changing The Subject @DukePress . Editor @ManchesterUP @FeministTheory . She
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The preface + introduction to my new book is now available to read on the
@DukePress
site, alongside details for pre-order and discount.
Excited to hear what you think 😬🙌🏽
"Changing the Subject", a new book by
@ProfSrilaRoy
, traces the impact of neoliberalism on gender and sexuality rights movements in the Global South through queer and feminist activism in India. Check out the intro now!
#Globalization
#AsianStudies
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So, clearly all men go from PhD to full Prof in 10 years and women go from PhD to: doing emotional labour for students, battling sexual harassment on campus, fighting sexist institutions that don't support/promote them, and thinking they are not worthy of being prof anyway.
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Moved to Johannesburg in 2012, when I was on maternity leave from my job as lecturer in Nottingham university. Started a new job as senior lecturer at Wits in 2014. This week I was promoted to Professor.
Relief and gratitude.
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Inherited wealth in academia is such a thing. Determines whether you can even apply for a PhD, whether you can do it without a scholarship, whether you will be in debt for rest of life or not, and going forward, whether that salary alone will ever be enough. It is what it is.
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Ever since I sent out my manuscript into the world, my child has regularly asked, 'will they publish your book?' It turns out ... they will!
Woke to a contract with
@DukePress
for my book on feminist and queer feminist politics in liberalised India :)
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I’m so jobless that I made this meme because that’s how much diasporic Indians irritate me when they do this.
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The world isn’t ready for the hideousness that is Indian power and prejudice - unfiltered, unscrupulous and unbridled.
‘I would love to be having a front page of The Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda. That’s my dream. That’s my obsession’ Home Secretary Suella Braverman
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Very sad that the flowers I ordered for my mum didn't reach her today, on her 71st birthday. Sharing my absolute favourite photograph of her, which is always by my side 💙
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I am now an editorial board member of the journal, Gender and Society. It still gets the bulk of submissions from authors located in the US. Let's try and change that, shall we?
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PSA: I will not be taking any questions now nor ever about the new 'South African variant' and 'how bad is it there' from dumb asses around the world, especially from UK-Europe. Your questions simply restate the "dark continent" racism of your govts, and you should know better.
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‘The first genocide in history where the victims are broadcasting their own suffering in real time for someone to do something…’
Oh god, it’s unbearable.
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When you're going to colour your hair for the first time ever (at 40, no less), it's gotta be blue. Right?
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My absolute favourite video from this election.
Sanjana Jatav, one of the youngest Dalit women to become an MP is enjoying democracy.
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Just set my out-of-office reply to "I am on sabbatical from 1 January to 31 December 2022".
This is my first year-long sabbatical since I started working in the sector, in 2007. So, no pressure 2022😬
And happy new year, friends!
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From Wits to Jamia to Columbia, we know that the university is a key site of reaffirming state power and squashing dissent, but the scale of militarised, brute force being deployed in the US is of another order: of the heart and darkness of empire.
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Big excite to see that my new book, Changing the Subject is now available for pre-order. You can use E22ROY to get 30% on
@DukePress
's site:
Cover art by Upasana Agarwal. Could not be more special❣️
@UpasanaA1
@jkcovil
@lizault
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Never thought American professional associations were within my reach *or* that American sociology would recognise my work as its own. Glad that
@AsaSexualities
has undone both views.
Gratitude 🙏🏽
Congratulation to
@ProfSrilaRoy
, whose book "Changing the Subject" has won the Distinguished Book Award from the Sociology of Sexualities section of
@ASAnews
.
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In case you haven’t seen the footage yet and need some ammo against those who will claim both-sides nonsense… this is organised hate, with faces covered and coordinated sloganeering.
#Leicester
Some are saying what’s the harm in Hindus protesting and chanting their slogans outside the mosque and on the streets? It wasn’t just provoking but the
#Hindutva
racist mobs were attacking random Muslims in the streets too. The Muslims came out in numbers AFTER this.
#Leicester
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Academics/grad students: please do not give into tired expectations of having to "prove" originality by claiming that *no one* has researched what you are researching. It is *very* unlikely to be true, and you just end up digging yourself into a deeper hole.
#AcademicTwitter
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Srila Roy, Prof. of Sociology at Wits University, has won the Distinguished Book Award in the Sexualities category from the American Sociology Association (ASA) for Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India.
Read:
#WitsForGood
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Such a big day in South Africa today. Even my hair salon trying to watch. Are you?
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Apparently, my child was one of two in her class who said she didn't want to get married, and the teacher who asked the question - for what reason I do not know - responded, 'is it because your parents are divorced?'
Who will save us from schools.
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A powerful unpacking of "how theories emanating from the American academy risk becoming the only legible frame of reference for understanding race and racism in the Global South"
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#sociotwitter
and beyond announcement: I am now associate editor of the gender & sexuality section for the journal, Sociology Compass. In my role, I commission 10 unique articles that survey/reflect on the field. Please get in touch and spread the word, esp amongst ECRs!
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Goodbye my old funny fearless friend, who came all the way from Nottingham to Johannesburg with me and reigned over Melville; the bridge btw my old life and a new one. I hope you felt at least a fraction of the comfort and love that I felt in your company, for over a decade 💔
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So many students/scholars claim something as new when it isn't. This is not about the search for novelty, but about acknowledgement, that the arguments are in fact part of a tradition or debate. This amounts to erasure, and in my context, is simply because folks don't read.
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Call for Papers: Writing Workshop for Early Career Scholars from the Global South
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The singular skill that our postgraduate students most lack is writing. In spite of all the ideas, arguments, readings, writing lets them down. Not surprising as it is also the skill in which they are least trained; as if one intuitively knows how to master academic writing 1.
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Just brilliant. And fuck the BBC.
BBC doing what they do best: push Israel's narrative. However,
@hzomlot
did a brilliant job of challenging the hypocrisy of the BBC👍👍. One of the best interviews I’ve seen.
Please watch the video below 👇
Some key points made my Husam.
▪️Do not under-estimate people's
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Notwithstanding no water or electricity in Joburg, my books found their way home 😱🎉
@DukePress
@lizault
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Starting my last week and still not over these views (sunny again yay)
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With the news of the world shutting out South Africa hitting, the day is completely disrupted for some of us, while others are going abt theirs in relative oblivion, and I have never felt more envious of a life that is not marked by the cruelty of borders and the whims of govts.
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Everything in India is dynasty. Parents with PhDs produce kids who do PhDs but it's all pride, achievement and merit. Obviously.
I always felt proud that my PhD adviser was a Nobel laureate. Now my son has reason to feel the same since he did his PhD with Abhijit Banerjee.
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It is actually astounding how men - lefty, political, progressive - treat women in the academy. Even after all these years, I am still left speechless. NB: wokeboyz grow up to be these men. Our indulgence of lefty male cool contributes directly to enduring shitty male behaviour.
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It certainly helps to turn 42 in beautiful Bellagio.
Thank you for all the lovely wishes 🙏🏽💕
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@BenjaminFogel
I don’t think it’s just anti ANC. Based on anecdotal evidence, I think many white South Africans are pro Israel because racism/white supremacy.
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This brown woman can vouch for
@alfgunvald
‘s language skills and scholarship (maybe read a book first before deciding to review or not. Oh wait, facts don’t matter when you slander someone 🤷🏽♂️)
On a serious note, this is why south Asian studies is such a toxic cesspit.
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The realisation that academics are basically cowards.
What experience in the workplace radicalized you?
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So I'm back. From India. Still processing many things: being home after two years, leaving under these conditions, the rising panic alongside eery normalcy in Kolkata. Through it all, my parents and my children laughed a lot, ate a lot and loved much. Will hold onto that for now.
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The utterly incredible new public library in Oslo. Forget the books and look at the space, light, design, furniture, chessboards, teenagers (many of colour), kids, parents.
Every city should have a horizon-expanding library like this 🥲
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So many women I know, myself included, are held hostage to the whims of unreasonable, aggressive, downright abusive and dangerous men (brothers, husbands, exes, baby daddies). We thought education, financial independence and wilfulness would protect us. It didn’t. Whatever can?
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He was in a bin. A BIN. And now he's ours, thanks to our fairy godmother
@BreakeyJessica
💙💙💙💙
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Diasporic bongs are only celebrating Durga pujo next week, so had to wear a sari in protest (with a belt because my mum’s chiffon was so hard to tie 🙈)
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Like many, I too feel sad about what’s happening and will hugely feel twitter’s loss. It’s been core to combating political and epistemic loneliness+linking with multiple academic communities, esp since I moved from the UK to South Africa. But also the pleasures of friendships…
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I am reading two edited volumes on decolonising the university, one located in Europe and the other in Africa. Greatest difference? The former assumes that decolonisation is the answer to all problems in HE, which the latter does not (also traces longer histories of decolonising)
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Carework as central to resistance
Staple food of India at
#Singhu
border today. Cooking 300 packets at one time!
#FarmersProtest
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International
#AcademicTwitter
: this is what it means to be an academic in a public university in Modi's India. No Zoom events without prior governmental approval!
Big Brother is out of control.
* Universities now need govt permission to hold 'international' seminars, conferences etc
* Participant list needs govt approval
* MEA political clearance needed if topic is India's 'internal matter' 1/n
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@thewire_in
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Meant to be getting back to work this week, even writing a new book, but finding it very hard to crack on. What even is the point of writing anything anymore, given the state of things? Surely, many of us in the humanities and social sciences are feeling similarly.
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@sarayupani
Also a highly repressed society and racialised stereotypes of foreign especially white women.
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Does everyone know how good Sylvia Plath's sketches were? This is one of you know who.
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I still can’t get my head around how seriously US-based academics take themselves. Like bro, it’s only a paper or a book or an association or an award. No one cares. Certainly not now.
(glad to have been schooled in the UK where it was cool to be self-deprecating)
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Oh Delhi, you’ve been such a treat that I might just stop trolling those private universities and try to get a job in one 😆
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At least this baby now exists in some form, though long way to go before it is born.
#relief
#AcademicTwitter
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In happier news, my child has got an award named after Speedy, the tortoise at school! 😅🤗
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Periodic reminder to academics in the north that the Southern Hemisphere has different, you know, seasons and even, gasp, academic calendars. So, no it’s not fall here and no I didn’t just begin a new academic year and I know you’re trying to be polite but ffs.
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Dear student writing a MA/PhD dissertation, there is no shortcut. You just have to do the reading. And this might well be the only time in your life where part of your job is to read. Embrace, don't resent.
@AcademicChatter
@AcademicsSay
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It's a good day when you wake to a *full* manuscript ready to go out to the publisher. Years of collective labour, thanks to contributors and co-editors,
@BarbraStrident
and
@whyloiter
. Still a while to go but watch out for this vol of essays on
#MeToo
in India and South Africa🔥
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Sitting with that sinking feeling, too early in the semester, that our students simply cannot write. Whether UG, PG or PHD :(
How to shift? To not focus on content alone, rather than the development of reading and writing skills? Pedagogically?
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The skies of Cape Town were in fine form. And we didn't look too shabby either 😎
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Such a terrific piece and remarkable PHD project, by Nithila Kanagasabai, on studying Indian students at elite US unis, who research home, a 'forever field'. Thanks
@Dr_Lata_N
for this SI on decolonising:
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But first normalise not getting married only.
Normalise getting married in your banyaan and shorts 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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I try and follow all academics who follow me (very strange how some who are peers don't reciprocate but whatevers), BUT not going to follow those who just come on to say: published the book, buy the book, book now half price, and happy to announce.
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No idea why an invite to the 2021 Infosys prize landed in my inbox.
9-year-old happened to look, and simply said: "Indian uncles".
Never been prouder.
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Not sharing much here but couldn’t resist this very old, very cool sari of my mother’s that I wore this Diwali. She said she bought it from a shop in New Market, Kolkata who would get fabric from Singapore and Hong Kong.
#saritwitter
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Wow.
And to think I once interviewed this woman, as major Indian feminist.
(incidentally, most of the interview was spent with me sitting in her office, listening to her trying to convince someone on the phone that she had not plagiarised their work)
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It's fair to say that this book was field defining and inspired many of us to study social movements in India (besides her contributions to dalit and women's studies).
#GailOmvedt
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My boyfriend gave me not one but two pressies for Xmas... And I gave him Covid 😭
#2020lovestory
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
If you harass your students
We're gonna come for you.
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A little terrified to watch… but please do!
A recording of my recently delivered lecture, for those who had asked.
“The ‘South-South’ cannot constitute remedy without a material redistribution of the global knowledge economy. Recognising this isn’t hard; charting what’s to be done is harder. Nobody said it would be easy.”
📺
@ProfSrilaRoy
delivers our Annual Lecture.
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Siri Husvedt on being the wife, not writer.
(Only ever knew Paul Auster as her partner)
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To every young woman: be very very very careful who you choose to have children with.
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Wait, who is this apology directed to? Not to any of the parties abused and victimised? None have received a personal apology(and are still blocked). I suppose true to form, this is playing to the Twitter galleries. The real question is: are you going to play along?
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England on Twitter: everyone has Covid
England on Insta: everyone in restaurants, maskless, packed London streets and Xmas lights.
This level of cognitive dissonance must itself be exhausting.
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