South Asian Scholars
Broadly defined starter kit of scholars and writers, based in or working on South Asian regions 🌸✍🏽
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@qmanivannan.bsky.social
@rubencampos.bsky.social
South Asia, Democracy & Nonviolent Movements Scholar. @clubdemadrid.bsky.social Programs Director @rielcano.bsky.social Senior Fellow. Proud father-28 years in love with my wife. https://clubmadrid.org/who/secretariat/campos-ruben/
@angshuman.bsky.social
PhD-ing in Comparative Asian Studies at National University of Singapore & King’s College London (joint candidate) | formerly with CPR & IPCS, New Delhi | Northeast India, Myanmar, borders & identity | from Assam
@somabasu.com
Journalist turned researcher, teacher, fact-checker. 📚 Affect, digital politics, violence, imaginations, & pervasive game cultures. 🛠️ (Sensory) Ethnography, CDA-DHA, PAR PhDing: Tampere Uni 🇫🇮 Project: Muslims in India (Columbia, Princeton, Science Po)
@themrise.bsky.social
Ex development aid practitioner now convinced aid skeptic. Migration policy/governance person. Researcher/writer. Pro-peace/anti-war. Independent in all ways. Co editor; White Saviorism in International Development, Daraja Press 2023.🐱lover 🇨🇦🇵🇰
@theasianfeminist.bsky.social
Covering women's issues and empowerment from more than 50 countries. 🐦: theasianfmnst 🐘: theasianfeminist@mas.to 🐳: theasianfmnst
@asianstudies.org
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
@dalitdiva.bsky.social
I am a Dalit artist, author, technologist, and organizer, dedicated to advancing social justice and amplifying marginalized voices. I am futurist and a lover of speculative fiction. I am also a buddhist and a dhamma practioner. www.dalitdiva.com
@tajali1.bsky.social
Journalist and historian specialising in coverage of trade unions. Writing a book on British South Asian history.
@kamack.bsky.social
Writer and PhD researcher documenting refugee histories of contemporary Scotland. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com https://redsundayschool.org/ she/her
@kavitaurbanist.bsky.social
Unruly geographer at the University of East Anglia. Eviction, resettlement, informality and migration. Currently thinking about embodied experiences of extreme heat.
@rakeshsengupta.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. Film and media studies. He/him.
@sazanajayadeva.bsky.social
Researcher @ University of Surrey| Higher education, student mobilities & social media | Associate Editor of the Sociology journal| Co-convenor of SRHE International Research and Researchers Network
@sonalidhanpal.bsky.social
@kamrank.bsky.social
Director of MOSAIC research at the University of Birmingham | Borders, CVE, surveillance and multilingualism | Security, Citizenship Testing, Race and Language
@itihaasnaama.bsky.social
Between Clio and Themis| Lawyer, Historian @Yale | Author of 'A People's Constitution (Princeton, 2018) | Politics. Pop Culture. South Asia
@rkdasgupta.bsky.social
Associate Professor, London School of Economics| Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow| Labour & Coop Party Councillor| Deputy Cabinet Member for Social Justice & Culture, London Borough of Newham| He/They| https://linktr.ee/rohitkdasgupta
@senthorun.bsky.social
A/Prof in Human Rights Law ✨ Professional Gay🦩 Books: 📕 The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms 📕 Queer Judgments 📕 The Queer Outside in Law 📕 Feeling Queer Jurisprudence Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun (He/Him)
@pkashwan.bsky.social
Env & Climate Justice Prof | Just Energy Transition CA NY ME | Commons | Editor @environmentalpol.bsky.social | Ex-Chair @isaess.bsky.social | Author: https://tinyurl.com/3v2fysfr | GoogleScholar https://tinyurl.com/PKGSChlr | Dad, Husband
@sindujaraja.bsky.social
PhD candidate in International Studies @josefkorbel- social movements, gender, violence, and state. Project manager @wrawproject. She/her/hers. கற்றவை பற்றவை. www.sindujaraja.org
@sohinipillai.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion & Director of Film and Media Studies at Kalamazoo College. Mahabharata & Star Wars Fan. Dog Mom. she/her/hers
@jasminekgani.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE. History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine Repost/Like usually = bookmark or endorsement jasminekgani.wordpress.com
@analoguefutures.bsky.social
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Concordia University. Director, Raah Lab. Author: Video Culture in India : The Analog Era, OUP Press. past; 80's media history; present; SVOD platforms, migration. Good scrambled eggs maker
@vatsalecon.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Exeter | Econ PhD at Oxford | Interested in development, behavioural econ, social & economic networks. https://sites.google.com/view/vatsalkhandelwal/home
@alankaarsharma.bsky.social
Social work educator and researcher. Masculinities, child sexual abuse, sexual violence, sexuality and sexual rights. He/him.
@preetiraghunath.bsky.social
I take a long view of Communication Technologies, Policies and Lived Experiences. Academic, Book Author and Research Consultant. More here: preetiraghunath.com
@meerashar.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Australian National University ll South Asia, History, Postcolonialism, Empire ll Mum to two boys: one canine & one human, knitter, storyteller ll
@chetanr.bsky.social
PhDing, Diplomacy and Disarmament, JNU | Associate Editor, 9DashLine| Indian Foreign Policy, Populism, Indo-Pacific, Myanmar| MUFC 🚩
@ishitapatil.bsky.social
ESRC NWSSDTP Funded PhD Researcher @University of Manchester | Caste, Urban studies, Real Estate | Previously - IIT-B and NIAS, Bangalore
@historylad.bsky.social
Kashmiri, researcher, JNU. Focus on history and culture. Anti-capitalist plotter, anti-colonial saboteur. Let's talk about liberation.
@amitjulka.bsky.social
International Relations/Gramsci/Punjabi and Urdu-Hindi lit Chai and Andaz Apna Apna supremacy
@southsouthmvmt.bsky.social
We're an autonomous transnational student-led collective claiming space for academics & activists from & for the global souths in social & political studies. https://www.southsouthmovement.org/
@snehaannavarapu.bsky.social
I’m a sociologist and ethnographer interested in transport, urban infrastructure, and gender in South Asia. I host authors of cool new books on the New Books Network, and the co-founder of Ethnographic Marginalia. Visit www.snehanna.com for more info.
@snehakrishnan.bsky.social
Historical / Cultural Geographer; Here to gripe about academia and talk about my cat; She/Her
@narayanibasu.bsky.social
Historian of modern India | Research nerd | Author & biographer | Archive hound | Full-time chai lover V.P.Menon: The Unsung Architect Of Modern India: https://amzn.eu/d/3Busqcz Allegiance: Azaadi and the End of Empire: https://amzn.eu/d/41iQH4E
@dansheikh.bsky.social
Law, theatre, queerness, repair | Lecturer at La Trobe, Melbourne https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/dsheikh
@dsheikh.bsky.social
Lecturer at La Trobe Law, Melbourne | Law & Humanities, Theatre, Queerness, Repair I Author: Love & Reparation (http://tinyurl.com/frtuzcvx)
@sidtrip.bsky.social
@sulagnabasu.bsky.social
PhD candidate at University of Sydney cyber/tech, settler colonial studies, geography, gender and a few other things she/her 🔗 sulagnabasu.com
@dipali17.bsky.social
Book nerd. Intersectional feminist. PhD-ing. Cares about tea, feminist activism, care, poetry, Arsenal. She/her
@nehavermani.bsky.social
Historian of Mughal material culture,food practices,senses,emotions & objects. Former @Britishacademy_ Fellow @unishefhistory. I frequently share snippets from my research on the Instagram handle consuming_history.
@sandeepbak.bsky.social
Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He/They. https://larca.u-paris.fr/en/membre/bakshi-sandeep-en/ http://decolonizingsexualities.org
@vindi-b.bsky.social
Anthropologist of War and Pictures. Conflict. Politics. Resistance. Visual Culture. International Development. Sri Lanka. http://citizensofphotography.org
@monikabd.bsky.social
Security/IR scholar at UNSW Sydney| Critical Security Studies, South Asia, Decolonial Feminist Approaches, Critical Pedagogies.
@sumimadhok.bsky.social
LSE Professor| Feminist Political Theorist| She/her| Own Views| Thinking and writing on imperialism; anti-imperial epistemic justice; rights politics in most of the world. New📕 bit.ly/3C3Tb7V
@ronita.bsky.social
Gave myself permission to be a poet; Love books, mountains and tea; working at the intersection of process documentation and qualitative research in India
@chichoriktputli.bsky.social
Witch & potential Firefly|PhD @CIPOD JNU| Associate Editor @The Hague Journal of Diplomacy | IR | Gender,Diplomacy & History|Women Diplomats|Indian Foreign Policy|Cold War|Feminist|
@chitgrrl.bsky.social
Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
@rishie.bsky.social
feminist #abortion & reproductive (in)justice researcher, tennis fan, likes tea. Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social. she/her/dr/killjoy 📸@rishiereads_ 🌐rnandagiri.com
@vidyakumar.bsky.social
Critic, Lawyer, Senior Lecturer in Law, DPhil (Oxon) @SOASLaw School, London UK, ✍🏾 on Revolution, Int'l & Consti' Law, Space Law, Legal Theory & History, Human/Labour Rights, Law+Lit , Feminist, Founder: Race & the UK Constitution Ass'n (RUKCA) (She/Her)
@anjalikdayal.bsky.social
UN, peacekeeping, peace processes, joy, screwball comedy, international relations, custodian of world’s sweetest dog. opinions mine! 🧿🦒
@qmanivannan.bsky.social
Writing care, grief, and protests ✍🏽 Winner, ‘23 Kavya Prize for Scottish Writers 📖 PhDing/ teaching IR at the University of St Andrews 🌸 (they/them) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️