Pratik Chakrabarti
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Pratik Chakrabarti
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Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
"encouraged": a classic and convenient British understatement. How about their research capabilities being systematically dismantled and them being overburdened with unmanageable teaching load?
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Plural
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ooops, just did!@
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This not the fault of the sector. The government has encouraged this anti intellectual narrative along with de-funding the sector. The upper administration has been their agents in it.
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Proof that even active voice need not have an "actor". Dont let anyone trll you otherwise from now on. I am going back to my comfort place of passive voice writing.
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
what about dad?
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Join in. Its fun.
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Of'rse agree. But the defense mounted by Ms Guyer is full of cliches like "understanding the world", the questioning mind, bringing together people. That kind of holistic, liberal logic of human. is old and can only work in some IL colleges. We need something more radical now.
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Full of jargon
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It is...
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A possible parallel scenario, far right ideologies have infiltrated the social Democratic parties.
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
There's always hope.
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
😅
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
You look suitably adorned by the setting.
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As if people will vote according to what the covid report tells them to.
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Can you repost the repost?
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reposted by Pratik Chakrabarti
articulated, and what purpose it can or should serve in 'healing' a majority non-Indigenous nation. Check out my exploration of this through the cultural representations of 'Mungo Man,' whose 'Aboriginality' and 'humanity' were often depicted in tension. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Mungo Man, Settler Mythology, and the Contest of Australia’s Deep History | Isis: Vol 116, No 4
Abstract Deep history is at the forefront of a contemporary reorientation of Australian history. It is at once an academic methodology, a period of the ancient past, and an embodied, living history of...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Reposted by Pratik Chakrabarti
Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
Isis | Vol 116, No 4
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM