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niharika pandit

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research/write/teach on gender, militarism, coloniality, everyday politics & anti-imperial feminisms. co-plotting insurgent knowledges. lecturer in sociology QMUL. she/they part-time poet, talib-e-ilm//talib-e-qalb

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For the morning crowd - please do sign and share. Every single one of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope is at risk of redundancy. This isn't just about individuals; it's a threat to the field itself.

22.05.2025 07:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

The latest racist spasm in UK politics would not have been complete without middlebrow white male pundits rushing to tell us all to calm down about it. The rise of fascism has been enabled at every turn by these people's pathetic incompetence and inability to name what is staring them in the face

14.05.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 288    ๐Ÿ” 88    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Trans people also did it WITHOUT the Labour Party.

Unison spearheaded it. Longstanding trans rights groups like TransActual, TransLucent, FGEN, and Trans Safety Network spread the word. Thousands of trans individuals and allies took it from there.

Labour made this rally necessary, not possible.

22.04.2025 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 240    ๐Ÿ” 65    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

again and again and yet again the privilegedโ€™s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalisedโ€™s real, daily, violent oppression

16.04.2025 09:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 670    ๐Ÿ” 227    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

solidarity with all the trans, genderqueer and non-binary comrades; this is truly horrific. in times of deep loss, these verses from an anticolonial song often give me strength:

'tu zinda to zindagi ki jeet par yaqeen kar'
if you are alive, believe that life will be victorious, no matter what! โœŠ

16.04.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

we'll be teaching a course on postcolonial feminisms that we developed with love and care last year. come, think with us in Vienna this summer. discussion topics include reflexivity, politics of location, anti-imperial feminisms among a packed five-day experiential, anticolonial feminist learning.

15.04.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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May your soul rise in power Hossam Shabbat.

24.03.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 159    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Leicester was a leader in the field ... the Massacre of the Disciplines, also known as 'Shaping for Excellence', took place in 2021. The university did not win a single case which came before the Employment Tribunal ...

19.03.2025 11:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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read this book in the midst of an unexpected illness. enjoyed parts but i often wonder how so much of writing by white middle-class authors is devoid of structural analysis. who is even allowed to winter when showing up at work becomes an absolute necessity; who can rest when the world is burning?

21.03.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is essential reading for scholars of militarism, militarisation and feminist security studies

21.02.2025 10:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thank you Jasmine! ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฝ

24.02.2025 11:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A feminist analysis of the coloniality of militarization: thinking with Kashmir at the margins of the Global South This article was named the winner of the 2023 Enloe Award. The committee commented: This highly original piece advances underexplored sites for decolonial theorization while embedding evocative met...

my new article that analyses the colonial logics and underpinnings of militarisation, and builds a critique of liberal feminist IR analyses and research agendas is now out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

the article also lays the conceptual framework of my forthcoming book.

21.02.2025 10:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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With my dear friend, comrade & co-plotter of Insurgent Knowledges Akanksha Mehta, I am speaking at an interactive seminar on โ€˜What is Knowledge for? Insurgent Knowledges and Pedagogical Practices of Freedomโ€™ hosted by SOAS Centre for Gender Studies.

10 December 5-7 PM! Join us!

06.12.2024 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Full scholarships for Black UK-domiciled PhD students, for research in any field, at Univ of Glasgow. Deadline 31 Jan. Details at this link: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

03.12.2024 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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very happy to be co-organising this conversation on 'Anti-imperial Feminist Architectures of Resistance' with Dr Afaf Jabiri and Dr Dilar Dirik. londoners, join us!

5 December 2024
5.30 PM - 7 PM
University of Westminster, London, UK
Register here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

02.12.2024 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hello!!

09.10.2023 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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