So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
We have heard about the emperor's clothes, but what about the sovereign's appetite? I write about the hungry sovereign: my take on the new data state emerging in India. A tiny peek into the magical year at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton. @alondra.bsky.social limn.press/article/the-...
The Hungry Sovereign - Limn
The paper trails and traps of India’s bureaucracy are legendary. The Indian state is not so much an iron cage as a vast, papyraceous web of documents—certifying a recipient of welfare, a legible citiz...
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Exeter University confuses Higher Education Academy and British Academy. It's just too telling in the context of the redundancy announcements.
Historians awarded Fellowships of the Higher Education Academy
A pair of world-renowned history scholars have been recognised for their work after being elected Fellows of the Higher Education Academy. Professor Jane Whittle and Professor Mark Jackson were among ...
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The death of a newlywed woman in Delhi earlier this month is among a string of cases this year rekindling public discussion in India about dowry deaths. @theworld.org’s @carolynbeeler.bsky.social learned more from Kriti Kapila of @kingsindiainst.bsky.social. theworld.org/stories/2026...
Despite policy change, dowry deaths persist in India - The World from PRX
The death of a newlywed woman in Delhi last weekend is among a string of cases this year rekindling public discussion in India about dowry deaths. Thousands of women are reportedly killed in India eve...
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ScholarPeer@scholarpeer.bsky.social · 4w agoDowry deaths have risen since the protest years — more than 6,500 in 2022 — even as the public mourning faded. In Public Culture, Kriti Kapila traces the silence to… https://scholarpeer.com/a-law-made-divorce-legal-in-india-an-anthropologist-argues-it-also-helped-bury-the-grief-for-its-dowry-dead/
📢 @kings-sga.bsky.social are recruiting! Lecturer in Economic Anthropology & Development @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Join an interdisciplinary department working on inequality, political economy & social justice. ⏰ Deadline: 19 July — very soon! Find out more: buff.ly/L2yCTXq
The Weekly Read is “Infrastructures of Inattention and Necropolitical Kinship: Ritual, Capital, and the Time of the Law in India” by @kritikapila.bsky.social. The article appears in issue 109 of Public Culture. Read if for free: buff.ly/vLohwrT
Dowry murders in India no longer spark public anger or debate, study finds
Dowry murders in India no longer spark public anger or debate, study finds
Thousands of women are killed in dowry disputes each year, despite the practice being banned in 1961
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An article and research by @kritikapila.bsky.social, published in the newest issue of Public Culture, was featured in an article in @theguardian.com this week: buff.ly/SK43mjL The Public Culture article has been made freely available through 10/7. Read it here: buff.ly/vLohwrT
**Free to download for 30 days•• My paper on the cultivation of inattention towards killing at scale, or why we stopped protesting against dowry deaths and why female foeticide never became a political concern. read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...
Infrastructures of Inattention and Necropolitical Kinship: Ritual, Capital, and the Time of the Law in India
Abstract. This article investigates the relationship between attention and large‐scale killing that takes place away from warzones and battlefields. Structural femicide in India in the form of dowry d...
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The word "Sabzi" (lit. vegetables) is trademarked by a deli on the #DuchyofCornwall estate and defended by the Duchy. How about South Asia trademark "Roast" as fair play? www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
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Higher ed's rush to adopt AI is about so much more than AI: defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into…
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In which Palantir recruits high school students for fellowships by telling them to skip college because its holds little value and then puts them through a cherry-picked curriculum that oddly resembles… college
The secret life of university data? In this article, I argue that universities must work together to demand transparency and openness in how their data are transformed and used, and ensure university data serve the public mission, not private interests. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Together, universities can take back control of their data
A single university can do little to demand accountability from rankings companies, but together institutions can demand reciprocal transparency, nego...
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This is a very excellent read - how the accelerated adoption by universities is once again a case of public funds subsidising private industry and assisting the further vocationalising of higher ed.
Justin Raden@jraden.bsky.social · 10mo agoWrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
Some excellent stuff and beautiful writing here: thewire.in/politics/twi...
Twilight of the Patriarchs: How Old Men Wage Wars on Futures That Are Not Theirs to Live
At the helm of nation-states sit men on the brink of their biological expiry, curled around launch codes and bunker-buster fantasies. It is not the young who want the world to end – it is the dying, d...
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There are worse ways to give into the (relatively) slow month between teaching terms than dipping into @sturdyalex.bsky.social's truly excellent, deeply moving, and hugely enjoyable @alexpodyssey.bsky.social #Podyssey. And that's just the music! Pure gold. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Alex Andreou's Podyssey
Arts Podcast · Updated weekly · Alex Andreou revisits the classic Greek myths, and uncovers universal themes they share with us across the millennia
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Fully funded PhD studentship (for UK or international candidates): AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship Imperial Intimacies: Portraiture and the East India Company, c.1757–1857, with Tate and the Courtauld courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/
We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth
A powerful and pernicious global myth that prevails well beyond Silicon Valley.
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · last yr."The mythology of founders and Silicon Valley too often obscures the indispensable role of American taxpayers in the innovation economy"—my recent remarks to @bloomberg.com about the critical importance of federally funded research. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Happening tomorrow: Join us for a seminar with @kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference' Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Join us on March 5 for a seminar with @kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference' Dr Kapila will speak on the accidental discovery of a rare blood group. Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference
Dr Kriti Kapila will deliver a talk on the discovery of the rare blood group.
kcl.ac.uk
One more week to apply for our permanent Lectureship in the Anthropology of Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Please share.
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺@katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨 JOBS KLAXON Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept: Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas. Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25. Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...