Antara Datta

I once got asked for it by an officious bus driver when my younger one wasn’t even six. She kept saying: how do I know he isn’t 11? Because he’s half the size of his brother who is 10????! But to be fair that was the only time…

I think when they get closer to 11 it’s a way of showing that they can still travel for free/proof of age. My younger one who takes the Tube to school uses his everyday because it means we can go through the barriers separately and not wait for the wide gate to go through with me.

Many congratulations!

This is the kind of thing that’s harder after the first book/big project slump. Also learning what to say no to is discipline specific but again a steep learning curve (I am especially bad at this…).

True. And I would find it hard to mentor someone who only worked in a lab/group. But within social sciences/humanities I think you can mentor more generally- eg how to block out writing time in the week. I got some top notch advice from @thomstubbs.bsky.social on this btw!

Which leads to the more helpful question I think which is how do we support junior faculty through that tricky post first book/big tranche of publications phase?

Also: maternity leave and a gap for those with caring responsibilities (esp women)? Also it’s not just monographs, typically in the humanities we do big projects that take time to mature so once you have the material for tenure published it’s going to take time to build up to the next one?

Amjad Iraqi | Walking Corpses Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to...

‘Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to allow in, as though food were a legitimate bargaining chip. Gazans cannot afford to wait for either.’

Amjad Iraqi on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Re-stating the obvious for any one still in doubt.

I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is saima.nasar@bristol.ac.uk

📣 If you’re in London on 7 July, join us at our mini workshop on Global South Politics! The programme is below. If interested, please email me!

For historians this was true pre pandemic but with access to many archives shut for several years, those with fingers in more than one pie benefitted. Also, my one ‘big’ project actually splintered in 2/3 one of which is a book, but the others are articles.

Read @uttara.bsky.social’s excellent new paper on exit control!

Wait, Why Is Israel Allowed To Have Nukes? According to our elected leaders, we should be very scared of the possibility that Iran could get a nuclear bomb. But Israel already has them, and its government is increasingly unstable and belligere...

[And since we're finally asking questions, why is Israel allowed to commit genocide?]

"diverted" is when the 75 bus goes through an alternative route due to roadworks, not when a boat is seized in international waters

Congratulations @sandipto.bsky.social and if you haven’t read his book, you absolutely should!

Poster advertising the event. Across the top is the text "Visual/Writing Exhibition of student work. Chris Rumford Library, Royal Holloway (Egham) 29 May 2025, 17:00" Taking up most of the page is a collage piece by Phoebe Solomon. Most of the image is a black and white shot of a white family. The child in the centre is watching a TV which has a colour union jack on it. The child's face has been collaged over with black features. Out of the window behind the family is a colour photo of Grenfell tower burning and in the top right hand corner is an England flag. The right hand side of the poster is a quote from Stuart hall about racialised forms of looking.

Our students on the final-year visual writing module will be exhibiting a selection of their work Thursday 29th May at 5pm in the Chris Rumford Library in the McCrea Building
Come along to meet the markers and enjoy their excellent work 🖼️🎨

Please see this @radhistreview.bsky.social call for proposals on Mobility Regimes | Edited by Amy Chazkel, Jecca Namakkal, Evan Taparata, and myself | Deadline June 15, 2025.

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Political Theory Full-Time, Fixed-Term (12 months)The Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Political Theory (teaching focused). The successful...

Come and work with us for a year teaching political theory. We are an exceptionally friendly department and we have a pet cat on campus. What more could you want? jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

And I reminded myself every day that we were lucky. Our incomes were unaffected and my kids were mostly fine. We didn’t get seriously sick. My dad and close family survived the April 2021 wave in India. We were lucky and I was still pretty broken by it all.

Same. I had two small kids, teaching online was exhausting. I could only record lectures when they were in bed. Seminars with a bunch of letters on screen instead of actual people broke me. And the archives were shut and no international travel meant I couldn’t see my sick dad or do any research.

Palestine before the Nakba, in 100 photos A glimpse into the places, people and daily life of Palestine before the 1948 Nakba.

Today marks Nakba Day (Palestinian Catastrophe) commemorating the destruction of Palestinian society & homeland in 1948 when Zionist militias expelled 750k Palestinians & captured 78% of historic Palestine.
A glimpse into Palestine before the Nakba, in 100 photos.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

If you're a US student looking to do a masters in the UK from September, do join our department information event online, info below, link here: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...

Jinal is not on BlueSky but I supervised her undergrad dissertation and we have worked closely together since. As someone who is not a full time academic she juggles other responsibilities while researching and writing. Co-authoring is not common in history, but it is such a rewarding thing to do!

Thanks to my former HoD Dr Laura Sjoberg for her suggestions and to the @womenshistnet.bsky.social where I presented an early version of this as a keynote. And most of all thanks to my @rhulpir.bsky.social colleagues who have heard me talk about this endlessly.

Stop the blockade of aid and reject Trump’s land grab Email your MP today and ask them to stand in solidarity with Palestinians against Trump’s threats and Israel’s military attacks.

Medical Aid for Palestinians are asking people to e-mail their MPs to highlight the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. You can find their template letter here. Please do think about sending a copy to your MP.

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’ This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘vir...

My latest article with Jinal Parekh: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... In this we look at how the British state shifted its focus from worrying about young South Asian men as a source of immigration fraud to South Asian women, and the consequences of this.

St Andrews rector stripped of powers over Gaza row wins appeal Stella Maris will resume her role as head of the university’s governing body after a successful appeal against the institution.

Congratulations to Stella Maris, Rector of St Andrews, who has won her appeal against dismissal from the governing body: a vindication of her, and anyone's, right to condemn genocide and apartheid.

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

The Racial Visual Imaginary of International Relations Abstract. Visual politics is a thriving subfield of international relations (IR) that traces its origin to the “visual turn” at the turn of the century. Ho

My new open-access article in International Political Sociology is about “visual politics”, a growing subfield of International Relations. It considers how visual politics is structured to ignore race and racism and why it shouldn’t. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...