Monika Barthwal-Datta

@monikabd.bsky.social

Security/IR scholar at UNSW Sydney| Critical Security Studies, South Asia, Decolonial Feminist Approaches, Critical Pedagogies.

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide

“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

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Mutual aid, sanctuary spaces, sharing pantries, freedom schools, reading collectives, childcare collectives, shared gardens. Just a few ideas of how we keep us safe. We don’t have to give up. But we need to commune. Peace in the struggle. Joy in the fight.

Sharing 3 of my most recent works as a way of saying hello on this platform! First, an article on 'Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya' co-authored with the brilliant Shweta Singh (SouthAsianUniversity) in International Affairs: academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...

Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya

How has India's refugee policy been shaped by the populist project of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party? Drawing on the Laclauian idea of populism as a pol

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“Noticing and practicing care alongside suffering and documenting violence alongside vitality, helps the students and us remain attentive to the workings of power and the persistence of harms.” valuable work – resonating strongly with care ethos of Equity Unbound & #HE4Good

Monika Barthwal-Datta@monikabd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Third, a piece on 'Pedagogy as care: Love, loss, and learning in the world politics classroom' co-authored with the amazing @rkrystalli.bsky.social and @drljshepherd.bsky.social in the Journal of International Political Theory in Sep this year (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

'Between colonialism and decolonisation, comes the anticolonial. If colonialism might be broadly understood [...] as a project of expansionist racialised capitalism [...] then anticolonialism emerges as the different kinds of resistance to this project.' Gopal 2021, On Decolonisation &the University

I'm following the lead of the wonderful @monikabd.bsky.social and creating a thread to introduce myself. I'm a professor of International Relations at the University of Sydney, living on unceded Cammeraygal country, researching gender, security and global governance and the dynamics of the academy.

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Alt: Joy, a cartoon character from the animated movie "Inside Out", is saying hi while smiling and waving.

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Hard to overstate the importance of this incredibly work by @laprofelgp.bsky.social for (those working with/alongside) women of colour scholars in the white western academy! Life-affirming in so many ways, and invaluable for our community-building efforts and strategizing. #communityasrebellion

Dr. Lorgia García Peña@laprofelgp.bsky.social · 2y ago

👋🏽💙🦋 Hello new followers. I’m a writer, scholar, activist and mama. One of my books is #communityasrebellion

Cover of my 2022 book Community as Rebellion.

Sharing 3 of my most recent works as a way of saying hello on this platform! First, an article on 'Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya' co-authored with the brilliant Shweta Singh (SouthAsianUniversity) in International Affairs: academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...

Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya

How has India's refugee policy been shaped by the populist project of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party? Drawing on the Laclauian idea of populism as a pol

academic.oup.com

1) The day the UN reports people in North Gaza fave “diminishing conditions doe survival”, the ABC runs an interview with architect of the siege, Giora Eiland, about his “controversial plan” to starve Gaza into submission www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Former general who plans to starve 'combatants' out of northern Gaza slams critics

The IDF's siege of northern Gaza is now into its second month, leading many to question whether Israel has adopted a controversial plan to conquer the area.

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Today’s task: start reviewing book proofs! Love this stage of production. Worked with an incredible group of First Nations and majority world scholars to make this dream a reality. Will be released to the world in April 2025 🔥🔥🔥

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Please circulate through your networks. Call for expressions of interest for a fully funded short term research fellowship in Australia for a Myanmar academic or researcher Members of minority groups are encouraged to apply.

Myanmar-Australia Visiting Fellowship Program 2025 | ANU Myanmar Research Centre

Call for expressions of interest for a fully funded short term research fellowship in Australia for a Myanmar academic or researcher, closing on Friday, 22 November 2024.

myanmar.anu.edu.au