Prof. @suryaroy.bsky.social & I will be workshopping "Citizenship Is Anti-Rights" forthcoming in a volume co-exited by Profs Mark Tushnet and Bojan Bugaric at the 🇺🇸🇫🇷The American University of Paris: join if you are in town! The preprint is on @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

@suryaroy.bsky.social & I push back against widespread misreading of Arendt's "Right to have rights", showcasing quite a different meaning of the concept in her work and in real life: Citizenship is a powerful anti-rights instrument papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @globalcit.bsky.social

Lorna Finlayson always writes so clearly and so perceptively. I don’t think I’ve encountered a blogger/essayist I like better. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Lorna Finlayson, Irreversible — Sidecar

On Britain’s universities.

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Hot of the electronic press by me in Verfassungblog: a personal take on the symbolism of the Irish fuel protests in April.

Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · 4mo ago

A rejoinder to Suryapratim Roy’s take on the Irish fuel protests as a marriage of fossil and racial capital. PATRICK O’BRIEN argues that the far-right hijacked a real national archetype – the Men with Tractors. verfassungsblog.de/on-men-and-t...

For @verfassungsblog.de, I argue that the Irish fuel price blockade is not some grassroots protest, but a union of fossil capital and racial capital: verfassungsblog.de/the-fuel-pri...

The strategy of weaponising violence against women and children in propagating white supremacist ideology is a worldwide concern, which has assumed a distinctly Irish flavour. With @clrwlsh.bsky.social and Rahul Sambaraju for The Irish Examiner: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

You're not protecting women and children with violent protests

When it becomes routine to connect migration with sexual crimes, any incident is a potential tinder box

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Excellent papers at the 60th anniversary of the Centre for South Asian Studies at Cambridge University. Rahul Sambaraju and I looked at the reterritorialisation of India via citizenship.

In this article for the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Rahul Sambaraju and I show India is being discursively reterritorialised into a Hindu state via citizenship. Thanks to the Princeton Secularism workshop convened by @farrahahmed.bsky.social: www.psycharchives.org/en/item/779c...

With Rahul Sambaraju, I argue denial of racism and its coding in nationalism abets acts of racist violence. Thank you to @deirdre for running this piece. And thanks to Philomena Mullen for discussions on this, and @swethaa.bsky.social Ballakrishnen for injecting the word blasé into my head:

Ireland’s history of humiliating the powerless has a new chapter

Downplaying the lived experience of minorities is not a new thing in Ireland - and it is allowing racism to gain traction

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A beginner’s guide to the odorous Indian. I argue it’s about gastropolitics, disunity among diasporic South Asians, and transnational hate: www.dublininquirer.com/surya-a-begi.... Thanks to @dublininquirer.com for running this piece that’s a bit on the nose (as it were).

Great to see this great piece in @jcms-eu.bsky.social that builds on the article by @sarahganty.bsky.social, @profkochenov.bsky.social and yours truly on the unlawfulness of visa bans.

Dimitry Kochenov Yaroslavsky@profkochenov.bsky.social · 2y ago

Splendid analysis by NScicluna in @jcms-eu.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Illegal Schengen visa bans for🇷🇺Russian citizens have to stop❗️🇵🇱🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹assault on Schengen is a test for🇪🇺EU Rule of Law @sarahganty.bsky.social , @suryaroy.bsky.social YaleJIL: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

On Ambedkar’s death anniversary, I argue that his disillusionment are as indicative of his radical ethics as his achievements: frontline.thehindu.com/books/ambedk...

Neutralising Ambedkar: A Book Review of The Foresighted Ambedkar by Anurag Bhaskar

Even as he questioned democracy and the state, Dr B.R. Ambedkar sought to make a Constitution to protect individuals and minorities from the legislature—people need to be protected from the People.

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If you (like me) are ambivalent about/disappointed with COP-talk, corporate climate litigation might be of interest: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Law and the Interloper is a project (in all its subversiveness) that @swethaa.bsky.social and I have been planning for a while. We’re doing a workshop around the time of the Law and the Society Association conference 2025. Have a look at the call for papers and join us!

Following the next LSA meeting in Chicago'25, @suryaroy.bsky.social and I are hosting a "Law and Interloper" workshop. If you think/write about the queer / periphery / outsider / outlier and their connection to law, please consider applying! CFP below 👇