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New open access article on crooked beasts, comparison, ethnography, and how uncertainty can act as a productive form of knowledge-making to capture the climate crisis is now out in @Critical_Times_ read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…
Nayanika Mathur
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Nayanika Mathur
@NayanikaM
Professor of Anthropology & South Asian Studies @UniofOxford | Author 'Paper Tiger' & 'Crooked Cats' | Director @CSASPOxford
- This morning in Dehradun at a protest against the cutting of trees. 🔥🔥🔥 in so many ways.
- If you are finding Indian Twitter scary right now then let me tell you the reality on the ground is far worse
- Instead of wasting time on an overwritten whataboutism on words, language, rhetoric by a once-admired novelist read this short and sharp essay by Arundhati Roy. Grateful for her moral clarity in these times.
- Last time I felt so hopeful for India was during the CAA-NRC protests over the winter of 2019-20
- Things are so bad that even Hauz Khas is out on the streets marching to cries of Inquilab Zindabad. Never seen such diverse parts of Delhi - from #ShaheenBagh to #HauzKhas - participate in opposing the very same thing. #IndiaAgainstCAA_NPR_NRC #CAAWapasLo
00:00 - Less exit polls, more ethnography
- Now that I have managed to explain what this means to my family, sharing some professional, personal - and political - news here. Way too many people to thank: teachers, referees, little sis, friends, colleagues, students. Promise to try to pay it forward
- With deep regret I have resigned as External Examiner for the excellent MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology @ucl in solidarity with @ucu and in protest against the decimation of our pensions, casualisation of academic labour, pay gaps & unsustainable workloads. #FourFights
- "I feel we are entering a long and dark tunnel" @_YogendraYadav on the fear of "electoral authoritarianism" in India or "a regime where elections take place at the appointed hour but everything other than elections that a democracy needs does not exist" 💔
- Does a book really exist till the cover is finalised? This beastly tale of 'Crooked Cats' and the Anthropocene is out in early 2021 @UChicagoPress
- My edited book with @rkadelhi that studies #NewIndia through an exploration of the many types of people that constitute it is out soon with @PenguinIndia. Long in the making, this is a collective effort to situate the defining politics of #IndiaAt75 penguin.co.in/book/the-peopl…
