Radhika Govindrajan

ICE killed a father of three in Franklin Park a few days ago. They are snatching people at gas stations, at bus stops, and from their homes and cars, leaving screaming, panicked children in their wake. It is a nightmare, and when ICE has amassed 10,000 new agents, it could be the new normal.

Collection introduction: Everyday and emergent ecofascisms - Chloe Ahmann, Zeynep Oguz, 2025

Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
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“Far from a rupture, the devastation exemplifies a historical continuum of erasure, from the Nakba to contemporary schemes such as ‘Gaza 2035’, which envision the territory as a depopulated investment frontier for energy, logistics & speculative urbanism.” online-library.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

Sharjeel Imam on why he is contesting elections: in order to work towards a truly democratic political system that protects the rights of minorities and other vulnerable groups. “Democracy is about consultation, it is not about victory and defeat. It is not a war.” scroll.in/article/1085...

Congrats, Vivian! Can’t wait to get my copy.

And you can pre-order with this discount code: E25VCHOI!
#DisasterNationalism #DisasterSTS #SouthAsia #SriLanka

Cover of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic. The cover features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt. The piece is titled Beluga Hunting and depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.

One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography
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For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees.

I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Podcast | Lisa Mitchell, "Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between… Subscribe for free. Lisa Mitchell, "Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections" (Duke UP, 2023)

I learned so much from this conversation between Lisa Mitchell and Sneha Annavarapu on how to think about the state relationally, & what happens when people on the street become active agents in hailing and surveilling the state. newbooksnetwork.com/hailing-the-...

“Postcolonialism is wielded as a weapon against Palestinian tactics for liberation. Transfiguring Zionism into anti-colonialism & Israel into a postcolonial entity, is not only an abuse of history & language, but an attack on Palestinians.” www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast...

Fuck this hustle-culture bullshit. When I’m a skeleton I’m not doing a goddamn thing

Josen Masangkay Diaz, Dolores Inés Casillas, April Petillo, and Cathy Hannabach. Text reads: Feminist Futures of Peer Review, September 25, 2023, 1-2 pm EST, Zoom, with the Ideas on Fire logo

There’s still time to register for FEMINIST FUTURES OF PEER REVIEW! Join April Petillo, @josendiaz.bsky.social, Dolores Inés Casillas, & Cathy Hannabach for a virtual panel discussion of how feminist peer review is remaking the future of scholarly publishing ideasonfire.net/feminist-fut...

Yum!! Why can’t you just move to Seattle?

Animal studies folks, here’s an announcement for an Assistant Professor of Animal Studies position in NYU’s Department of Environmental Studies. Deadline is October 1st, more details here. Please share widely. apply.interfolio.com/128830

The NCERT debate forgets the RSS’s grip over local histories The NCERT debate has paid little attention to local battlegrounds of history, where the RSS is filling the vacuum left by professional historians.

My essay on RSS’ project to remake history at the local level, has lessons for historians outside the Indian context. As ethnonationalists attack our work, focusing solely on debates over national history is missing the trees for the forest. Care about trees 🗃️ caravanmagazine.in/history/ncer...

Meme. Portrait d'Alphonse dEste, Duke of Ferarra, by Titian. The Duke is a big man -- possibly even portly -- with gray hair and a trimmed beard. He is wearing sumptuous, trimmed with fur. His sleeves are gold, and his left hand is resting on a sword at his side. The way his fingers are resting, he seems to be flipping you off. He probably is. With his right arm, the Duke is leaning casually on the end of a large cannon, which also looks a little like a giant top hat. This makes it easy to imagine him not as a warlike duke, but as a circus ringmaster. He would not like that thought. The Duke's nose is somewhat flat, as if he'd run hard into a wall, and though he is faced towards your left his eyes are cutting back to you. His expression says he doesn't hate you; he might even be a little curious. But he's skeptical about your motives, and probably your appearance. You better have a good reason for interrupting Cannon Time. Meme text reads: "Hey, Eel Maries! (full of grace and eels)

Buying redemption w/ eels wasn't just a medieval English thing. Oh, no!

In 1500 the Duke of Ferarra wanted nuns in Florence to pray for him. But that kinda thing ain't free, & to get his prayers the duke had to make regular payments of eels to the sisters.

Soul food, y'all.
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A Bluesky quick primer 🧵 for recent arrivals:
1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.

In memory of the brilliant Megha Sharma Sehdev: “Looping text with a series of photographs, this essay describes women's crochet in Delhi, India as a form that intensively manipulates surfaces… and imparts a disruptive plasticity to surroundings.” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The History Department at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign is looking to hire an Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History. Please share widely. Details below: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

This thread made my day!

This!

Professor of Indian History and Culture at University of Oxford

Historians of India, please see and share this ad for a Chair in Indian History and Culture at Oxford University. “We would particularly welcome applications from scholars in the field of early modern Indian history.” www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DBE869/p...

This. Flagship and regional publics are dying at the hands of legislatures that have deliberately defunded them over the past two decades. When you lose state funding you become tuition-driven. Enrollments then become do or die situations.

It’s great to see you here too. I hope we can all slowly rebuild the forms of community, solidarity, and politics that Twitter enabled alongside the fascism and other violence. Fingers crossed more folks make the jump.

Cat-lovers and Comrades: I'm so excited to share the intro to "Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary" now up on @DukePress site. It was a labor of feline love, and a realization of how much work all cats, big and small, have done for Marxism.
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RETHINKING LYARI AND BALOCH WOMEN "Struggle" is the genre the archive authorises for the Baloch in Pakistan.

Great piece by Aseem Suhail. “Insofar as the geography & temporality of Baloch history has been limited by colonial and statist narratives to “feudal hinterlands”, this highly diverse, cosmopolitan, and urban population is obscured in the contested terrain of the archive” www.dawn.com/news/1770984