Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen

The ABF Welcomes John M. Eason as the 2024-25 Neukom Research Chair - ABF Eason’s research interests challenge existing models and develop new theories of community, health, race, punishment, and rural/urban processes.

Excited to head back to the @abfresearch.bsky.social for a year www.americanbarfoundation.org/the-abf-welc...

Ireland’s history of humiliating the powerless has a new chapter Downplaying the lived experience of minorities is not a new thing in Ireland - and it is allowing racism to gain traction

With Rahul Sambaraju, I argue denial of racism and its coding in nationalism abets acts of racist violence.

Thank you to @deirdre for running this piece. And thanks to Philomena Mullen for discussions on this, and @swethaa.bsky.social Ballakrishnen for injecting the word blasé into my head:

We might not be the people Sundaram and Kapur expected, but we are here, and the specter is upon us: what is the art history to come?

Meghaa's latest on history, contradiction, postcolony, and the re(al)births of global modernism that await us.

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American Bar Foundation - Research Advancing Justice The American Bar Foundation is a leading research institute. Our faculty produces interdisciplinary research to advance justice and the understanding of law.

Hello, Bluesky! 👋 We’re new here. At the American Bar Foundation (ABF), we conduct research at the intersection of law and society. Let’s connect and dive into today’s most pressing issues.

Learn more about our work here: www.americanbarfoundation.org

With their new “Law and the Interloper” workshop series, longtime friends @swethaa.bsky.social and @suryaroy.bsky.social will “queer” law and society research by centering a multitude of marginalized perspectives.

Read more here! bit.ly/3Bpn5Io

#QueerTheory #LawAndSociety #LSAGrants

In this chat w/ @lawandsociety.bsky.social , @suryaroy.bsky.social and I talk about the plans we have for our post-LSA'25 workshop, long-term friendships as method, and the space of the interloper to consider law and society research. (Thanks, Crissonna for the engagement!)

New article. Mobilizing queer joy: establishing queer joy studies. JJ wright and Casey burkhoder. editorial introduction to a special issue of the journal sexualities. two pieces of illustrated dried flowers are on either side of the text.

I'm delighted to share this new publication which is the editorial introduction to a special issue: "Mobilising Queer Joy: Establishing Queer Joy Studies." Please share (the joy) and help us spread word of this new area of study. @queerjoylab.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Law and Sexuality Bi-monthly Updates on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Cases in India

Sometimes, but only sometimes, two wrongs can make a right. Based on an erroneous definition of transgender in a prior case, which was then codified, the Kerala High Court has found that intersex children cannot be subjected to surgeries based on parental consent alone.
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On behalf of dozens of students, faculty, staff, community leaders, and partner organizations who comprise the Environmental Law Program @ucirvine.bsky.social School of Law, we are pleased to share our 2024 Annual Report. Here's to a momentous year ahead!
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Patterns of Power in Constitutional Design: East-West Symbiosis in United Pakistan Using an analytical framework of a ‘symbiosis’ between East Bengal and West Pakistan, this article centres the two-wing configuration of united Pakistan as a key element in shaping political contes...

Maryam Khan's latest on postcolonial state-making in South Asia and the unstable middles and alternative political possibilities that subsist in these contexts. Masterful complication of the "East-West symbiosis" in the Pakistani constitutional case. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6EHC4...

learn more about this Cynthia Farid (+ Sergio + Yugank) led group and their @lawandsociety.bsky.social home: www.lawandsociety.org/lsairc39/

Path dependencies of scholar activist / activist scholars, intergenerational cleavages in conversation and movements, and the grace to sit with inconvenient facts when working with causes close to our heart. Brilliant start to Day 2 of this HKU + @lawandsociety.bsky.social conference.

Grateful to Cynthia Farid, Yugank Goyal and Sergio Latorre for bringing together this community @ HKU to discuss scholar-activism and the nuanced majority world logics of knowledge production and collaboration.

Big thanks to TSR for supporting @snehaannavarapu.bsky.social and me in organising the symposium — 'Movement in (Ethnographic) Method: Space, Time and Theory'. Call for participants will be out soon! Also, do not miss the promising keynote lectures by Nayanika Mathur and @asiyaislam.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who came to this today. The questions helped me reassess my own prefigurative priors re: methods and vulnerability.

For those who missed it, the conversation drew from this (open source!) chapter in the Massoud+Chua book re: sociolegal methods - www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...

What does #LawAndSociety scholarship look like when approached from marginalized perspectives on the “periphery”? Join the conversation—apply for Law and the Interloper: #QueerTheory in Global Law and Society Scholarship by 12/15! adobe.ly/3Uqi1cN

@swethaa.bsky.social @suryaroy.bsky.social

don't want you to miss your trip - but so bummed i'll be so close for a second and not able to collect on that hug. iA soon! xxx

Had a truly generative time at the ABF thinking in community about my next project on queerness and everyday macro-(non)aggressions. Thank you to all who came and engaged with such generosity. 🥲

Next stop: NYC to talk about how this relates to law, humor and identity w/these awesome humans:

"Taking Kurdish queer struggles seriously can similarly “unflatten” our analyses of social and political dynamics at a local level"

Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...

After 50 successful years, Feminist Studies faculty vote to disestablish the formal department, making way for more wide-ranging feminist scholarship across campus Feminist Studies faculty and staff are committed to helping current students enrolled in the department's programs earn their degrees

For those of us who think about the institutional life of women's/gender/sexuality studies, this is interesting (and, I think, sad) news: news.ucsc.edu/2024/11/femi...

Advanced doctoral students, early career faculty, and recent J.D.s: Doing work in legal history, broadly defined? Apply for the 2025 Hurst Institute in Legal History, a two week workshop and seminar in June. Deadline 1/15/25. More info: www.law.wisc.edu/hurst-instit...

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How have issue linkages featured in the framing of a transnational labour mobility regime?

TWAIL-ing the Global Compact for Migration, I attempt to answer this question.

Read the full article on @TWAILReview here bit.ly/4htIboW

Why lawyers were as culpable as any slaver The focus on individual traders like Colston means lawyers are out of sight—but they facilitated the trade

In the Zong case the court heard how people had been thrown overboard to drown for an insurance claim. "The judges took their decisions on a technical point of evidence...nobody concerned in the case made any objection to slavery as a matter of principle."

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/403...

Workshop applications are still open for “Law and the Interloper: Queer Theory in Critical Global Law and Society Scholarship”!

Apply before December 15th: adobe.ly/3Uqi1cN

@swethaa.bsky.social @suryaroy.bsky.social

#QueerTheory #LawAndSociety #AccessToJustice

Hello, legal ed scholars! Here's my starter pack of folks studying legal education (broadly defined). Happy to add to it.
go.bsky.app/JdGzRAP

also, Hi Cyrus!!

One last stop by Casey McQuiston is an unusual suspect - but it does YA + queer culture across time with a very New York as character story (their time travel meet cute is of course in the perfect NYC liminal space - the subway).