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Agrarian change, Global value chains, Political economy, Political ecology | Academic @sbmqmul | Co-director @clasp_qmul | Editor @AgrarianChange

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Sharing my new paper, which asks: how does falling cotton farming in Punjab (India) & shift to paddy impact rural Dalit women who picked cotton? What kind of labour regime is emerging? & what is the place of ecology in labour’s agrarian crisis? #OpenAccess
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Abstract . Building on the differentiated analysis of India’s agrarian crisis, this article argues for centring ecology in understanding the crisis faced b
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Excellent and timely in @TheIndiaForum on the hegemony of the publication matrix & how it is fundamentally antithetical to scholarly knowledge informed by deep, critical thinking. Against Publication: The Case for Academics to Write Less @TheIndiaForum.
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The 'publish or perish' model fosters a culture of superficial scholarship, stifling genuine academic innovation and the teaching-learning process.
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RT @cosku_clk: 📢 Our joint paper with Elif Karaçimen and Ekin Değirmenci is now out! . Gendered Dynamics of Rural Livelihood Diversificatio….
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RT @sarayupani: The story is that 1000s of Bengali speaking migrant workers are fleeing cities fearing arbitrary detention, torture and dep….
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RT @AnasAlSharif0: 85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which i….
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RT @Article14live: “There is no salary on idle days. In the monsoon, there is no work. If we get injured on a working day & return home, we….
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RT @qm_ucu: Funny how many managers 'have no choice but' to cut staff while simultaneously staring multi-million building projects. Ours b….
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Pleased to have @PoMoGandhi write as part of our blog series celebrating 25 years of @AgrarianChange . Read on for some food for thought on 'Postcolonial Marxism, Capitalist Development and the ‘Political’ Agrarian Question'.
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RT @arvindgunasekar: Nothing but disenfranchisement…
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Was a pleasure to discuss my paper on shifting agr labour regimes & Dalit women's work in India for the SPERI podcast on pol economy - we talked abt how ecology shapes the experience of the agr crisis for some of the most vulnerable workers. Listen in:
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RT @QM_UNISON: Over-resourcing top structures to transform @QMUL by under-resourcing front-line services and teaching ?.It won't work. The….
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RT @PoMoGandhi: Very pleased to host Shamsher Singh on July 1, 1-3 pm for a discussion of his new book, A People's History of the Farmers'….
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RT @Shray_Mehta1: I am glad to share that in a happy turn of events I have received the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship @LeverhulmeTrust….
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RT @banojyotsna: Sixth article from jail. As he approaches five years behind bars, Umar Khalid writes on hope, waiting, despair and on a….
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RT @Outlookindia: In the border villages of Punjab, life unfolds under constant watch—beneath CCTV cameras, near floodlit fields that never….
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Great Day 1 of our @clasp_qmul end of year event yesterday on 'The Materialities of AI'. Grateful to @james_muldoon_ , @katecrawford and Ana Valdivia for their rich presentations and everyone attending for their thoughtful interventions!
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RT @alfgunvald: This beast now has a publication date - 24 June, from the good people over at @ManchesterUP!. Read more about it here https….
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RT @qm_ucu: This motion is coming up today! H13. Go and talk about the need to put the sector of secured financial footing and the positi….
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RT @DrRay_tweets: What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age?. Thrilled abou….
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During and after the months of pandemic control measures, newly formed unions of platform and gig workers in India started leveraging electoral contests, campai...
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. @Shray_Mehta1 on how the 'anti-national' emerged in Indian politics and what this has to do with decolonial theory.
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Why does Decolonial Theory appeal to the far-right? .Using the case of India, my latest article explores the challenges that Authoritarian Populism poses to Decolonial Theory and what sociologists can do about it @sociologyjnl .
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