Postcolonial History
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@rkadelhi.bsky.social
@lnuccon.bsky.social
Leading European Centre for #Concurrences in Colonial & #Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University 🇸🇪. Archaeology, Literature, History, Sociology & more. DMs open! https://lnu.se/en/research/research-groups/linnaeus-university-centre-for-concurrences
@ppr-smb.bsky.social
Official bluesky account of the postcolonial provenance research team at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin @kulturspk https://www.smb.museum/forschung/provenienzforschung/
@niladri4u.bsky.social
Historian । Researcher, Linnaeus University, Sweden. Affiliated Researcher, University of Oslo, Norway. Interested in Global Health, Nordic-Polycolonialism, Disaster Politics and South Asian History, Politics, Culture, and Development. PhD in History @SOAS
@daraghjgrant.bsky.social
UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
@adiray.bsky.social
Academic (Dr.), Geographer, Tinkerer, Blabberer, Writer. Testing this space. Interests: Tech | Work | Political Economies | Cities | Global Dev | Dissident Cultures | Friends and Community | Neurodivergence | Will block faceless bioless follows
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
@marinegueguin.bsky.social
Lecturer in Security Studies and IR at Leeds Beckett Uni | PhD in Security Studies at Uni of Leeds | Research Interests: Terrorism, Counterterrorism & Decolonial CT, France, Sahel | Co-host and co-creator of Insecure: A Security Podcast
@yappayali.bsky.social
historian w/ interest in politics, political economy and foreign relations of 🇮🇳🇨🇳🇷🇺🇺🇸 king's college london alumni: history (ba)/global affairs (msc) ⚽️ aston villa, phoenix rising 📍 phoenix, az 🌵
@ahvonenonni.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher | Working on Caribbean Black radicalism, temporality, political imagination, and Third World Marxism
@jricole.bsky.social
Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics; Signal: Juan Cole
@uttara.bsky.social
Historian of borders and refugees in Modern South Asia and the British Empire. Sindhis.
@vanessahistory.bsky.social
History prof @ Yale, writing book on history of offshore capitalism and tax havens. Also feminism, climate emergency, LGBTQ+. Obsessed road and gravel cyclist 🏳️🌈
@davidharvey.org
Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Latest book: A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
@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
@historianmkalb.bsky.social
Historian, writing about intersections of colonial, environmental, and African history; author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (2022, open access); worried about our planet; www.martinkalb.com
@ilotem.bsky.social
Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
@privatechand.bsky.social
Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
@kuncheria.bsky.social
@theindiaforum.bsky.social | JNU history alum | Tobacco, Agriculture, Commodities, Environment, Economic History | Hoomin to Bourbon and Baddy | Views personal.
@malinisur.bsky.social
Director Graduate StudiesIIBook Prize @SouthAsiaAU. Bernard Cohn Prize (HM)@AASAsianStudies JunglePassports (Penn 2021/Yoda 2023). Asso. Prof. Anthropology. Western Sydney University https://researchers.westernsydney.edu.au/en/persons/malini-sur
@farinamir.bsky.social
@kamamaclean.bsky.social
Historian of social and political communication in South Asia, currently working on a multisensory history of interwar anticolonial movements, with an emphasis on sound. South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg. She/Her.
@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.
@ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social
CUNY Graduate Center Prof interested in class/caste/racial/spatial politics.
@karsohini.bsky.social
Associate Professor of International Development | LSE | Economic Anthropologist
@meerakat.bsky.social
South-South relations; Mobilities; Afro-Asia; India in Africa; Africans in India; West Africa; Voodoo/Vodun. Third Worlder. Cat person.
@aniketalam.bsky.social
Historian dabbling in Anthropology & Pol Sc. Worked earlier as a journalist, editor, in social sector. Areas of interest/ competence: Mountain Societies, State, Family, Colonialism, Marxism. More here: https://hsrc.iiit.ac.in/people/faculty/aniket.html
@aycacu.bsky.social
Author / Associate Professor at LSE Human Rights & LSE Sociology / Co-Editor, Humanity Journal & LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press / Own Views / Rep: DGA Literary Agents https://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/academic-staff/ay
@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
@prarochana.bsky.social
Historian @CSSSC. Author, Creative Pasts(2007); Scripts of Power(2023). Infosys Prize for Humanities 2020. Current obsessions spinning, weaving, growing food.
@kateimy.bsky.social
Writer/cat lover. Author of FAITHFUL FIGHTERS and LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS. Outfest Lab 2022. WGF Veterans Writing Project 2023-2024. AFF Josephson fellow. TWU Prof.
@arunabhghosh.bsky.social
Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
@debssutton.bsky.social
Teaches South Asian History at Lancaster University, UK. Currently working on deserts in India, especially soils, water and salination. Delhiphile and runner.
@abalasub.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU School of History Working on Roads Book: Toward a Free Economy @princetonupress.bsky.social Order: http://tinyurl.com/5andt77x (USA/UK) http://tinyurl.com/2p88pvmv (India)
@liquidperson2.bsky.social
anthropologist researching water, cities, climate justice and infrastructure. www.nikhilanand.info
@nasarmeer.bsky.social
Professor in SPS, Glasgow University. PI @GLIMER_Research. co-Editor @IDjnl. Academic Committee Chair @StuartHallFdn. FBA FRSE FAcSS. Writing in personal capacity.
@mitrasharafi.bsky.social
Legal historian at the University of Wisconsin Law School & President-elect, American Society for Legal History. History of forensic science, law books & legal education. Parsi legal culture. South Asia & British empire. Also dogs! Views my own.
@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
@rajpatel.org
Research Prof at U Texas,, author of "Stuffed and Starved", co-director of "The Ants & The Grasshopper" http://antsandgrasshopper.org, co-author "Inflamed", out now!
@jecca.bsky.social
Editor at the Abusable Past, Radical History Review collective, professionally a historian, teaching at Duke. Film school dropout. Wrote *Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India* (Columbia UP, 2021) she/her
@priyaatwal.bsky.social
Historian of empire, monarchy & cultural politics in UK/S Asia. Community History Fellow @ Oxford Uni. Views are my own. Book & contact info here: https://linktr.ee/drpriyaatwal
@itihaasnaama.bsky.social
Between Clio and Themis| Lawyer, Historian @Yale | Author of 'A People's Constitution (Princeton, 2018) | Politics. Pop Culture. South Asia
@shrutikapila.bsky.social
Politics/ India/ History/Ideas Working at the University of Cambridge Words in Financial Times, BBC, AL Jazeera, New Statesman. Columnist: ThePrint India https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-shruti-kapila
@shreedaisy.bsky.social
Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉
@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
@sandipto.bsky.social
Political theorist, @thenewschool.bsky.social Currently, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Author: Legalizing the Revolution, @cambridgeup.bsky.social sandiptodasgupta.com
@arunikashyap.bsky.social
Assoc Professor of Creative Writing, University of Georgia. l Harvard Radcliffe Fellow 2024I How to Date a Fanatic (Harper Via 2026) www.arunikashyap.com l linktr.ee/arunikashyap l 🏳️🌈 He/Him l https://www.instagram.com/aruni https://experts.uga.edu/703
@iliasalami.bsky.social
Assistant prof political economy University of Cambridge Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020); The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!) Editor Economy and Society Member Second Cold War Observatory
@quinnslobodian.com
Historian of bad ideas. Out now: HAYEK'S BASTARDS: https://bookshop.org/p/books/hayek-s-bastards-race-gold-iq-and-the-capitalism-of-the-far-right-quinn-slobodian/21814849?ean=9781890951917 quinnslobodian.com
@aaronwinter.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@70sbachchan.bsky.social
Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development. I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
@rkadelhi.bsky.social
Author | Professor Global and Postcolonial History Brand New Nation: Nationalist Dreams and Capitalist Designs in New India (Stanford & Harpers Collins) Delhi - Copenhagen https://ravinderkaur.net/