Ravinder Kaur

@rkadelhi.bsky.social

2.7K followers 380 following 26 posts

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/

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Philosophy 20%

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · Oct 3

A kind reminder that this weekend is 🚨LAST CHANCE🚨 to register for the conference.

Registration is soooo important due to coffee and pastry related reasons!!

You can register here: marxistiskestudier.nemtilmeld.dk/8/?fbclid=PA...

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Jun 10

Time to revisit the works of #SamirAmin, #ArghiriEmmanuel, #Wallerstein #Frank, and a large body of literature on #drainofwealth #extraction produced during the anticolonial movement across Asia and Africa.

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · May 29

Link: read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

Volume 2025 Issue 151 | Radical History Review | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · May 25

“Why do the dreamworlds of the economic miracle persist even when it fails to deliver? What might account for its resilience, its endless capacity to resurrect in ever-new forms in old and new territories?”
#EconomicMiracle
#RadicalHistoryReview

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · May 25

A long time in the making, our special issue of the #RadicalHistoryReview is finally out now. It delves into the phenomenon of economic miracles and their afterlives unfolding across the world.

#BarbaraWeinstein
#DukeUniversityPress

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · May 16

20th May 13.30 - 14.45
“Theorizing while the world is burning – why new ways of thinking and not just acting are key to advancing action in the ecological crises” by Simon Kjær Hansen Dronning Marys Center – Københavns Universitet

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · May 16

Next week, we kickstart our research workshop “Ethnographies of Energy” with a great lineup of papers and two keynotes. Do join if you are in Copenhagen

19th May 11.15 - 12.30
“The Afterlives of Energy: Tracing Power in the Indian Anthropocene” by Professor Amita Baviskar, @Ashoka University

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Apr 14

A great piece on the end-times politics:

“To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

@naomiklein.bsky.social
@astra.bsky.social

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Mar 10

Wow! Congratulations- look forward to the publication

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Feb 26

#cfp “Ethnographies of Energy” workshop in Copenhagen. Please help circulate the call.

Deadline: 21st March 2025

Link: asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/cale...
@asianstudies.org
#energy #climate

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Jan 2

So sorry to hear this. Had a similar experience this year. Hope you are feeling better. Happy New Year!

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Jan 2

2025 is here

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jan 1

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jan 1

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Dec 12

Six phd stipends available at our department - come and work with wonderful colleagues @ToRS @University ofCopenhagen

Deadline: 16th February 2025

Please do share

employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

PhD scholarships at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

employment.ku.dk

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Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Dec 4

So glad to see @identitiesjournal.bsky.social here. Do follow.

bsky.app/profile/iden...

bsky.app

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Seraina Nett @serainanett.bsky.social · Dec 3

This may interest some of you: Tenure-track position in archaeology (European and/or North European Iron Age and Medieval/Renaissance archaeology, c. 500 BC - 1500 AD) at the University of Copenhagen:

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Tenure-track assistant professor in archaeology at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

jobportal.ku.dk

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Kama Maclean @kamamaclean.bsky.social · Nov 28

The European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS) 2025 is being held at the University of Heidelberg, Oct 1-4. The Call for Papers is now open. Please check the list of accepted panels and consider submitting a paper proposal. Details are at ecsas2025.com/call-for-pan... See you in Heidelberg!

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Nov 27

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Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Nov 27

Sure. Could you add a name/bio - it would be helpful for introductions.

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Nov 27

“Abundance is neoliberalism repackaged for a post-neoliberal world.”

prospect.org/economy/2024...

The Abundance Agenda: Neoliberalism’s Rebrand

The new centrist push to regain control of the Democratic Party, with corporate money

prospect.org

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Nov 24

#PolTheoryOther podcast is here. Follow the starter pack @poltheoryother.bsky.social has made.

go.bsky.app/TFxd9Yh

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Nov 19

Excellent opportunity to work with great colleagues.

Kama Maclean @kamamaclean.bsky.social · Nov 19

The South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg is looking to appoint an anthropologist, and the search is open rank. Please share: www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

Open Position: Professorship of Anthropology of South Asia (f/m/d) - Tenure Track Professorship (W1 to W3) or Full Professor (W3) - South Asia Institute

www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Nov 19

So good to see you here

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Nov 19

You are added already. You can follow all.

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Kama Maclean @kamamaclean.bsky.social · Nov 19

The South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg is looking to appoint an anthropologist, and the search is open rank. Please share: www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

Open Position: Professorship of Anthropology of South Asia (f/m/d) - Tenure Track Professorship (W1 to W3) or Full Professor (W3) - South Asia Institute

www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Nov 19

Was looking for scholars engaged in postcolonial history on @bsky.app Please add others and yourself
go.bsky.app/CXWu64P

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Nov 19

The Leftovers? Sounds great

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Nov 18

Do add me if I qualify 😊

Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · Nov 18

This sure is a #bluesky phenomenon - do check out this starterpack!
go.bsky.app/VLmRdEs

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