Reposting my article from the special issue. Link: doi.org/10.1080/0958... It shows how an ordinary, neglected municipal infrastructure becomes a haunted social archive: a place where bodies, rumours, imagination, and memory gather to keep violence alive in everyday life.

Phantoms of the drains: imaginations of conflict in everyday infrastructures

This article traces how the network of ordinary municipal drains (nullahs) in Northeast Delhi became a ‘trauma trove’ in the aftermath of the 2020 Delhi pogrom. Drawing on three years of sensory et...

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This article synthesises interdisciplinary research to argue that protest art, memory, and immersive media together function as a counter-archival empathy machine, preserving and reimagining collective resistance. Read #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1108/USS-... #MuseumWithoutWalls #ShaheenBagh #AntiCAA

Literature review: virtual museum of protest art as empathy machine

Purpose. This study offers an integrative narrative review of interdisciplinary scholarship on protest art, digital circulation, surveillance, memory and immersive media. It aims to examine how memori...

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Suman Ghosh@sumanghosh.bsky.social · 3w ago

When a protest ends, what remains, and who decides how it is remembered? Our new article explores how protest memories endure and introduces virtual museums of protest art as “counter-archival empathy machines.” doi.org/10.1108/USS-... @kaarinan.bsky.social #ConvergenceProject #MuseumWithoutWalls

Thanks @jaffrelot.bsky.social for the introduction to the special section 'New forms of anti-Muslim violence in India' and to the section authors. Article links here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....; tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....; tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....; tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Perseverance mechanisms of minority upper-middle-classes

How do the upper-middle classes persevere when facing marginalisation? This study qualitatively analyses the various reactions of upper-middle-class Muslim professionals in Mumbai in the backdrop o...

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Hindu-Muslim violence is changing: till recently riots were instrumentalised to polarise the voters & help BJP win elections; today BJP is in office: pogroms, lynchings, bulldozers are the order of the day. A great special issue of CSA explains why and how www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Introduction – new forms of anti-Muslim violence in India: Hindu Xenophobia in the post-instrumental Era

Violence between Hindus and Muslims in India has traditionally taken a single form – the riot. The interpretation of this phenomenon has changed over time. First, it was marked by ‘primordialism,’ ...

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In this issue, you’ll find outstanding texts by Soma Basu on the Delhi riots, by Vihang Jumle on the situation of Muslims in Mumbai today, by Nidah Kaiser on the many facets of anti-Muslim persecution in UP & Fahad Zuberi on the Hindu nationalist use of bulldozer. @sciencespo

Christophe Jaffrelot@jaffrelot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hindu-Muslim violence is changing: till recently riots were instrumentalised to polarise the voters & help BJP win elections; today BJP is in office: pogroms, lynchings, bulldozers are the order of the day. A great special issue of CSA explains why and how www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When your own university decides to highlight your work and suddenly it’s a full-on photo-sess and such… 😎 About my research and life in #Finland: www.tuni.fi/en/tau/news-... Thanks, Tampere Research Centre for Communication Sciences and @koneensaatio.fi!

Concerns over press and academic freedom brought researcher Soma Basu to Finland to study online hate | Tampere University

Doctoral researcher Soma Basu was gaining global awards as an investigative journalist. Then, journalistic and academic freedom took a turn towards worse in India.

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Thanks, @jaffrelot.bsky.social, for this brilliant introduction to the #BASAS @csajournal.bsky.social Special Issue: New Forms of Anti-Muslim Violence in India: Hindu Xenophobia in the Post-Instrumental Era. Introduction link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Introduction – new forms of anti-Muslim violence in India: Hindu Xenophobia in the post-instrumental Era

Violence between Hindus and Muslims in India has traditionally taken a single form – the riot. The interpretation of this phenomenon has changed over time. First, it was marked by ‘primordialism,’ ...

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“And in the face of that certainty (death), we can only love as ardently as we can, for as long as we are here.” Reminiscing about love in Kolkata cemeteries in this very cool article by @varishatariq.bsky.social for @vogueindia.bsky.social. www.vogue.in/content/gen-...

Gen Z thinks the most romantic date spot is a graveyard

Haunted and eerie? More like cosy and serene. Gen Z is bringing their love stories to life among the dead

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#MustRead: Nidah Kaiser's new article in Contemporary South Asia examines the transition of ethno-religious violence beyond episodic or spontaneous, toward a broader ethnocratic order. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Anti-Muslim violence in India’s religious ethnocracy

-This article examines the changing nature of anti-Muslim violence in India under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), by building on the concept of a ‘religious ethnocracy’. It argues that, since 201...

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10 years. A love letter to diversity workers. And gratitude for my complaint collective. substack.com/@feministkil...

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Ten years ago this month, I resigned from my post and my profession in protest at the failure of my institution to deal with the problem of sexual harassment. It was a lot to give up. But it was neces...

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In my new article, I examine Delhi’s drains as “haunted infrastructures” of violence. Through sensory ethnography, I explore how everyday spaces come to hold memory, rumor, and anticipation of conflict, shaping how violence is lived, remembered, and imagined over time. #OpenAccess: bit.ly/4NulLaH

Phantoms of the drains: imaginations of conflict in everyday infrastructures

This article traces how the network of ordinary municipal drains (nullahs) in Northeast Delhi became a ‘trauma trove’ in the aftermath of the 2020 Delhi pogrom. Drawing on three years of sensory et...

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@kaarinan.bsky.social’s research explores how emotions shape how we interpret and act through media. Through her work on #MediaSolidarities, she shows how media can also generate new forms of collective connection. More about her work: shorturl.at/ygss8 #MediaStudies #TampereUniversity #Finland

Media and emotions are at the center of Professor Kaarina Nikunen’s research. | Tampere universities

Professor Kaarina Nikunen never runs out of research ideas. She is interested in human encounters and the ways that emotions shape our relationship with the media.

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💡 New Special Issue (Eds: @corneliabrantner.bsky.social, @kaarinan.bsky.social & Georgia Aitaki) explores #DigitalGeographiesOfHope: how action, solidarity, alternative futures emerge in a datafied, platformized world. From feminist & anti-war organizing to AI governance debates tinyurl.com/37rb2v6k

Digital Geographies of Hope: Situated Futures in a Data-Driven World | Editorial | Media and Communication

Cornelia Brantner, Kaarina Nikunen, Georgia Aitaki

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Thought-provoking afternoon at TARU, Tampere University, with a screening of #HumansInTheLoop. Thanks to writer-director Aranya Sahay & audiences in Finland & India (NIT Silchar) for a discussion on hidden invisible labour, language hierarchies and data colonisation. #AIEthics #PluriversalAI

Most comprehensive study yet of Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals — It reveals a legal system in deep crisis: over 165,000 people have already been declared “foreigners,” with 85,000+ cases pending and more than 1 million NRC appeals headed to these opaque tribunals. 
RSVP: forms.gle/Tr9wWaTHaTpF...

Thanks Nidah Kaiser for organising this workshop - Progressive Patriarchs: Manifestations of Patriarchy in Liberal Spaces - and giving me the opportunity to moderate the panel on Patriarchal Scripts in Intimate, Digital and Legal Lives. Such a space for solidarity and affirmative action!

📢 #CFP: Digital Mediation & Urban Spatialities in Contemporary India (Full description attached) 🗓 Abstracts (≤300w) due: July 15, 2025 📘 To be published in a peer-reviewed South Asia journal by Brill 📩 Submit: digitalmediationindia@gmail.com #UrbanStudies #DigitalIndia #SouthAsia

#LatePost: @hindustan-times.bsky.social interviewed me and published a story based on my research on "crying videos". Link to the original research: bit.ly/45UIBkK Story link: www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar... #CryingVideos #SadBait #Selfies #MediaStudies #ScreenCultures

What does backgammon have to do with Playboy? This talk explores how 20th century media encoded masculinity, intimacy, and control through board games, tech, and leisure aesthetics. #GameStudies #MediaHistory #PlayboyArchive

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay! Are you interested in getting published? We are currently accepting academic articles and creative work! Visit www.uwa.edu.au/limina/submissions for more information. #academicsky

Limina@liminajournal.bsky.social · last yr.

Rachel Denham-White’s creative non-fiction piece weaves together research and personal prose, questioning the undoubtedly nihilistic task of keeping nuclear disposal sites secure and undisturbed. #sciencefiction #writing #research #postgrad #creativewriting #creativenonfiction #publishing

@kaarinan.bsky.social+team study 290,000 messages to reveal how confusion, ridicule, and censorship are articulated in a post-truth context. Hate speech is a political struggle entwined with challenges to institutional authority and democratic norms. #HateSpeech journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms - Kaarina Nikunen, Paula Haara, Heidi Kosonen, Aleksi Knuutila, Reeta Pöyhtäri, Tuija Saresma, 2025

In the everyday context, the term “hate speech” has become increasingly politicized and emotionally charged, yet these vernacular constructions of hate speech r...

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The submission deadline for this very relevant and timely call (hybrid) - Manifestations of Patriarchy in Liberal Spaces - has been extended to June 1, 2025. If you are an early-career scholar or independent researcher, send a 300-word abstract to nk.52@soas.ac.uk. #Patriarchy #MeToo #GenderStudies

I warmly invite you to submit a chapt proposal for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods. This volume explores how every phase of the research process: design, methods, tools, analysis, communication – can be Queered. deadline: 6/30/25 deets/submission: tinyurl.com/queeringrese...

Happy to share that my paper "Playful Somaesthetic Technology Practices" is now out in "The Journal of Somaesthetics"! I looked at playful cases of somaesthetically transformative technology practices across Arts, Alternative Game Design, and Prosthetics: journals.aau.dk/index.php/JO...

This article (in Polish) carries my two bits on the (dis)information war between India and Pakistan and how digital informality has become statecraft under the current regime in India (and elsewhere). xyz.pl/bitwa-o-praw...

Bitwa o prawdę. Dezinformacja rozkręca konflikt Indii z Pakistanem szybciej niż rakiety

Odkryj, jak prorządowe media w Indiach kreują wydarzenia w konflikcie z Pakistanem. Poznaj mechanizmy cenzury mediów.

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NordMedia Network & Finnish Literary Copyright Society (Sanasto) list steps you can take if Meta lifted/pirated your work to train its AI Models. @maaritjii.bsky.social @annapacholczyk.bsky.social nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...

Meta Used Books and Research Papers to Train Its AI - Was Yours One of Them? - NordMedia Network

Meta has illegally used millions of books and scientific papers to train its AI models. We explain how to check if your work has been pirated, and what steps you can take if it has.

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In Oslo on the 24th of April, for this timely conference on academia and activism (with the co-founder of the BDS movement) www.saih.no/no/saih-conf...

It is spring 2025 and the book is today officially out ✨💫 I hope it will be useful to those of you who are interested in exploring how our ways of seeing impact on how we relate to each other, our selves, and the various worlds we inhabit. If interested, you can save 20% by using code 25ESA1

Asko Lehmuskallio@verlook.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited about this book, written together with the fantastic Paolo S H Favero. It has been such a joy to live, weave and share ideas together. Cover 📸 by one of my favourite artists, Maija Tammi. Available in spring 2025 🔥🥳 www.routledge.com/Visual-Studi...

I am moderating this round table on social media moderation policies. Register below! We have a great lineup of speakers @muendges.bsky.social @ovinhas.bsky.social @sandervdwaal.bsky.social @waag.bsky.social Sarah Eskens, MacKenzie fomer @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Meta Oversight Board.