Lecturer @sheffieldgeog / #anticolonial politics, #postcolonial justice, #decolonial approach to #climate justice https://xitter.cf/t.co/IB43i1J01L
Bihar / Delhi / Sheffield
Joined February 2012
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Solar Isn't Shampoo - We made a small video on #energyaccess #SDGs at the bottom of the pyramid.
Argument - Markets are not the answer, states need to be more responsible
Its available for free for teaching/research or other good use. Watch here:
ankitk.com/p/solar-isnt-sham…
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Jugaad infrastructure - improvisational infrastructures in everyday life
UI Associate @ideatingenergy's research, exploring infrastructure as both a material and social concept, is showcased by the Royal Geographical Society
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit…
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Check out the latest research spotlight looking at recently published @GeoOpenAccess paper by @ideatingenergy (@sheffieldgeog):
Read the piece to learn more about Ankit Kumar's work on solar lamps and the concept of jugaad infrastructure.👇💡
🔦 In our research spotlight this month, we showcase a Geo journal paper by Dr Ankit Kumar, who uses solar lamps in India to explore architecture as both a material and social concept.
➡️ Read more: rgs.org/about-us/our-work/la…
It was so good to read @Stephenlegg11 's new book last year and think about hospitality through it
New Online 1st Book Review “Gol Mez: The circle, the circus and the missing” by Ankit Kumar (@ideatingenergy)
doi.org/10.1177/204382062412…
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Brilliant empirically-grounded insights on how evedyday jugaad practices trouble boundaries of formal/informal and minor/major infrastructures in India. Handy that its out just in time for teaching too! 🙏🏽 @ideatingenergy
This paper was a long time in the making. Thanks to Geo & @nab__ahmed @Andrejcisneros @_stephbutcher you can now read what I make of jugaad, infrastructure & everyday life. Jugaad Infrastructure sees jugaad as an infrastructure making, breaking & remaking practice.
This paper was a long time in the making. Thanks to Geo & @nab__ahmed @Andrejcisneros @_stephbutcher you can now read what I make of jugaad, infrastructure & everyday life. Jugaad Infrastructure sees jugaad as an infrastructure making, breaking & remaking practice.
💡New #OA paper in Geo!💡
'Jugaad Infrastructure: Minor infrastructure and the messy aesthetics of everyday life' by @ideatingenergy
This paper engages 'jugaad' - meaning versatility and improvisation - in everyday infrastructural arrangements in India
doi.org/10.1002/geo2.153
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Speaking to former colleagues & friends frontlines of protest met with violence at BRAC U etc in #Dhaka. Local ongoing efforts for fundraising & blood donations, but they are asking for greater and more expansive international coverage and attention @guardian @guardianworld !
Student protesters demanding an end to quotas for gov't jobs in Bangladesh have called for a complete nationwide shutdown — in pictures aje.io/dkfbg0
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Our webinar series starts next week! Dr Ankit Kumar presents on 'What kind of decolonisation and for whom: a question of justice'. Join us on Friday 31st May, 1-2pm.
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Development beyond 2030: more collaboration, less competition? New OA paper by co-authored by our @ideatingenergy and @miguel_kanai with colleagues out now. In International Development Planning Review. Read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.…
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📣 Call for papers!
@DipDsaa have a new special issue on Responsible Research in International Development, edited by Andrew Ainslie and Atenchong Talleh and building on Panel 25: #ResponsibleResearch
⏰ Deadline: 1 Nov 2023
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Here is a dream postdoc on sociotechnical transitions and Positive Energy Districts @ped_eu! Apply to join the Sustainability Transformation programme area @UniStavanger on our exciting new @DUT_Partnership project with @kommunen @landbruk @SkrettingGroup: jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
Khoob jamega rang jab mil baithenge 3 yaar: Rishi, Narendra aur authoritarian-capitalism politico.eu/article/rishi-su…
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Here’s something that gets me excited today. My book “Race and the Colour-Line” is now out! routledge.com/Race-and-the-C…
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Looking for a Pakistan-based RA to work with me, @polsimpson & @ashley_pople on research evaluating the impacts of the 2022 floods, and post-flood reconstruction projects. details in the attached ad and link below. applications considered on rolling basis
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Scholars on the Himalayan region, especially ECRs, anywhere in the world -- there is still time left before the October 1, 2023 deadline for the @anhs_himalaya ANHS small grants. Go apply! anhs-himalaya.org/awards/sma…
a very important work on India's justice, energy transitions and climate leadership claims
Solar coloniality compounds harms of climate coloniality. Analyzed through colonial racial capitalism, Hindutva drives dispossessionary solar development in Rajasthan against Muslims and Dalits. @BenjaminSovaco1
#racialcapitalism #climatecolonialism
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New book! 'Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife'.
Short blog here on what the book is about (published with Verso & freely available here durham-repository.worktribe.…):
cityfragment.wordpress.com/2…
A big thank you to all who helped make this happen!
2 things I learnt: 1. This country has a Minister for loneliness! 2. The 10 point programme has everything but ask your government questions about degrading public services & infrastructure
theguardian.com/education/20…
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Our 2024 grant cycle is now open for applications and we have a range of grants available for early-career and established #researchers.
Follow the🧵below to find out about some of the #RGSgrants available or visit our website: rgs.org/in-the-field/in-the-…
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