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Is there anything new to say about the 1973 oil shock or Indira Gandhi’s India? Here’s hoping so. At long last, my article is out in the AHR: “Late Acceleration: The Indian Emergency and the Early 1970s Energy Crisis.” 1/

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@natterjee

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We're hiring a postdoc in Critical Caste Studies @UChicago , to help think through caste, exclusion, intersectionality & more Open to any discipline in humanities + soc sciences, for scholars whose training was not primarily in US/Europe Please circulate!

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Can't wait to teach INFRASTRUCTURE HISTORIES for the first time today. There's far more student interest than I expected—infrastructure is invisible no more! Here's the syllabus, ft interdisciplinary classics alongside great recent work by the likes of @DJMontao1 + @LalehKhalili

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Excited to see Susanne Wengle's new book Black Earth, White Bread out. She charts the main shifts in the "agro-technopolitics" of Russian food regimes over the last century. Timely context as disrupted 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇦 harvests stoke fears of an imminent world food crisis

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Teaching and learning conditions are eroding fast, but university bosses refuse even to talk to us. Here's a message they might finally hear: I've ⏩ my resignation to the QM principal. My colleagues & students, it's been an honour @qm_ucu @QMSU @QueenMaryPhDs : I stand with you

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British neoliberalism was founded on North Sea oil & gas: - Oil rents supported Thatcher's tax cuts - Crushed leverage of coal unions - Disciplined OPEC - Became model of privatization across UK and Europe A fascinating new(ish) paper from @GaraviniG

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Intriguing new history of the rise of microcredit and its vision of women as the deserving poor. Joanne Meyerowitz traces it to the progressive "women in development" movement + antipoverty/basic needs turn of the 1970s, showing how demands for radical redistribution were crushed

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Ever wondered about the history of solar energy and why it didn’t take off sooner? A few answers from my article "The Poor Woman’s Energy: Low-Modernist Solar Technologies & International Development, 1878–1966," hot off the presses @GlobalHistJnl (🔓!)

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No book has transfixed me more this year than Otherlands, a travel book through deep time that explores ecosystems, not just charismatic megafauna. Strangely moving to realize most dinosaurs preceded flowers + grass, and the wild lifeforms of the Ediacaran predated familiar stars

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Workers during construction of irrigation works in the Damodar Valley (World Bank photo archive, 1955). A reminder of women's (often invisible) importance in India's construction sector, and of how crucial manual labor remained for postcolonial mega-projects

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JOB ALERT 🚨 Duke is looking for a TT environmental historian: period and region open, but ideally relating to "historical questions of environmental justice, broadly defined"

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I recently finished Pranab Bardhan's memoir Charaiveti, and it is surprisingly funny—especially about all the famous economists he's known. Some of the choicer observations: (1/4)

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As we work to establish a new Committee on Environment, Geography + Urbanization (CEGU) @UChicago , we have two amazing launch events lined up - Feb 10: CLIMATE + EMPIRE with @sunilamrith + @radical_carib - Feb 24: ENERGY with @triofrancos + @Prof_Klinger

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Welp, seems as apt a time as any to plug our new collection, Limits of the Numerical (30% off with code PRLIMITS). My chapter is called "Numbers Without Experts: The Populist Politics of Quantification"—basically a form of self-therapy for the Age of Boris

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Why do certain groups so often take to the streets in so-called "fuel riots"? My new @CSSHJournal article uses an unusual comparison of US truckers in the 1970s + North Indian farmers in the 1980s to pilot an energy-centered but inductive approach to class

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The Alexandria-born Greek poet Cavafy on lockdown life ("Monotony", written sometime before 1911)

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Can't wait to chat with these 5 authors about what I'm now excitably dubbing ✨the new energy history✨ tomorrow at noon EST It's an actual energy history fantasy football team: @brdemuth @DJMontao1 @EastAsiaSciTech , Jennifer Eaglin, On Barak Zoom reg at

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A Friday freebie I'm very excited to dig into: Naveeda Khan's In Quest of a Shared Planet (2023), an ethnography of the COP climate negotiations with a focus on the Bangladeshi delegation 🆓 open access ebook here

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The book exists! Out in Jan; dreamed up as 30th anniversary update of Bardhan's classic book from, er, 1984 #academictortoise Great new analyses of Indian political economy by Pranabda himself, @maitreesh , John Harriss, Leela Fernandes, Barbara Harriss-White, Michael Walton+more

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Daniel Immerwahr’s new piece is a romp. C19th US capitalism was pyrophilic: economic insurgents celebrated fire’s creative destruction. But “salamander capitalists” like Rockefeller survived 🔥 only to seek a (literally) fire-proof & more stable capitalism

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The global history of pandemics makes you look at the world a little differently. Frankly Insane Map of the Major Tropical Diseases, Boris Artzybasheff for Life magazine, 1944

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RIP my mentions, as they say. Those of you who research caste and religious nationalism are a lot more courageous than I am. Any new hate-followers, you're going to be disappointed: I actually study trivial and politically neutral topics like energy policy and climate change 🙃

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@natterjee

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We're hiring a postdoc in Critical Caste Studies @UChicago , to help think through caste, exclusion, intersectionality & more Open to any discipline in humanities + soc sciences, for scholars whose training was not primarily in US/Europe Please circulate!

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Anthropocene graffiti, spotted in the wild in Philly

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Are you a PhD student in Delhi working on a topic in environmental history or the energy humanities/social sciences ⚡️ 🏭? If so, shoot me a DM—I’m organizing a get-together and methods discussion on Thursday. Please pass this along to friends and colleagues!

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In the 1950s, Rockefeller-funded engineers wondered why the solar cookers they gave out in Mexico stayed so shiny. Turned out the locals thought they were crap and only got them out when researchers came by. They were all too aware the Americans didn't use solar energy themselves

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I'm thrilled that Queen Mary is hiring a (permanent) South Asian Politics/IR specialist as my replacement. You'll have wonderful colleagues, and there is so much energy among the hugely diverse + brilliant student body for courses on 🇧🇩🇵🇰🇮🇳🇱🇰 Please apply!

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New lockdown hobby: perusing the #envhist of pandemics. In honour of Passover, first up is Rinderpest—likely one of the 10 biblical plagues. This nasty little pathogen killed huge numbers of cattle, buffalo, and other cloven-hoofers across Asia, Africa and Europe #10plagues (1/n)

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Hashtag Personal News: after 7 months separated by covid and the Trump administration's vicious visa rules, I'm overjoyed to be reunited with @HornorMD and these goofers. Belatedly taking up my new post as Assistant Professor of Environmental History at UChicago. Callooh callay!

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w00t! My paper "New Developmentalism & Its Discontents" is now out @DevandChg Ever wondered why Modi's so fond of state activism despite his pro-business rep? Or what Modi, Erdogan & Jokowi have in common? Do they really offer an alternative dev model? 👇

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Map of the US scaled according to electricity-using population, prepared by General Electric, February 1921 - Most electrified: DC (98.2%), RI (98%), MA (97.8%) - Largest electrified population: NY (8,620,700, 78.7%) - Smallest: NV (66,300) - National electrification rate: 57.3%

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Can political science benefit from using ethnographic methods (not THAT method, shudder)? @adam_m_auerbach 's book shows the answer is a resounding yes, and in so doing "restores the political agency of slumdwellers by taking them seriously as active citizens." Highly recommended!

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New #BookReview by @natterjee : 'Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums' #UrbanSlums

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David Graeber was that rare and inspirational figure: a scholar who took activism and solutions just as seriously as critique. Bring on debt jubilees, universal basic income, and a bonfire of corporate bureaucracy & bullshit

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Thanks to the administration's vile strike-breaking tactics, my former employer @QMUL is haemorrhaging world-class scholars and beloved teachers. I salute @LalehKhalili for resigning in style. University managers cannot declare war on faculty: we will call your bluff.

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

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Last week I resigned my post at QMUL. Although the sector as a whole is becoming inhospitable & I loved my students & colleagues, QMUL managerial decisions made staying untenable. For me the last straw was the cruel, craven call by management for students to snitch on us.

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The history of (Western) smells is convinced that modernity is "deodorized": nasty odours are distanced and segregated off. But surely this is predicated on environmental injustice? The "olfactory revolution" coincided with the growth of stinky industries

Keith Thomas · Noisomeness: Smells of Hell

The men and women of the Middle Ages may have had a greater aversion to unpleasant body odours than their descendants do...

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Excited to get my mitts on this at long last. Mircea brilliantly traces Tata's history across three main dimensions: transnationalism and state-business relations, land + labor control, and philanthropy If only other Indian business houses would keep (and open) archives...

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"ECOCIDE... but not with our coal-fired power stations 🙃" Advert for BHEL, India's state-owned heavy electricals manufacturer, 1973

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And the stunning news keeps on coming!

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Adani group shares lost a cumulative $45 billion today, even more than their biggest single day loss after the Hindenburg report.

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Joseph Stalin has a fascinating afterlife in Tamil Nadu (most obviously, its current chief minister is named after him). Just came across a leather-working community who in the 1970s called themselves "Stalin caste," and claimed to be descended from Stalin as he was a cobbler(!)

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Where did the high-fat, sugary, meat-guzzling Western diet come from? Before the US, Britain pioneered the infrastructures of outsourced industrial food, mining the world's ghost acres. Chris Otter's new book contains more thrilling oddities than an unregulated Victorian meat pie

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So we may have missed one of the most important outcomes of the 1970s energy crisis. It may have birthed Northern neoliberalism, but also propelled a major leap forward for coal-fueled Asian state capitalism - with its v different & much more morally complex political economy. 8/

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This is a compelling analysis of the US state's intensifying obsession with secrecy, using data science to pinpoint overclassification & other pathologies. Ultimately depressing, though—the situation might be bad now, but from Obama onwards archives will be basically hollow husks

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In @nytimes Ruchir Sharma is shocked to realise Modi isn't really a "Reaganesque" minimum government man after all. But this was obvious from the Gujarat model's reliance on govt intervention, e.g. state-owned firms (currently revising a piece on this...)

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Critical was that a single company, Du Pont, controlled a huge share of the market. But (1) CFCs only contributed a small share of its profits and (2) it realised it could very profitably pioneer new chemical options. Totally different political economy to climate change, alas

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Let's talk about the most successful global scale cooperation in history: the Montreal Protocol. What was it? How did it come about? Can its success be duplicated? [THREAD]

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Forgotten effects of the 1973 energy crisis: fresh from their strike against high fuel prices and the new 55 mph interstate speed limit, independent truckers enjoyed a brief moment as US cultural icons. See also C.W. McCall's dreadful #1 hit song (1975)

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Few things have given me as much joy prepping for a lecture than stumbling upon this giant thread, entirely devoted to collecting stamps with big dams on them

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"Decolonization and Fossil Developmentalism: Energy, Climate, Extractivism and Empire/Nation in the Twentieth Century": don't miss the most keyword-optimizing event of the year, coming this Wednesday! Ft. @Megan_A_Black + On Barak. Very excited indeed...

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Happy International Workers' Day, y'all. Here's to our right to rest and leisure, and the brave workers who fought for it. We must not let working from home obliterate our precious "hours for what we will"!

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And my absolute favourite: P.C. Mahalanobis, India's most famous planner, expressed his displeasure with subordinates at the Indian Statistical Institute in a dazzlingly passive-aggressive way: he adjusted partitions overnight to make their office cubicles smaller & smaller (4/4)

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Do you or your students work on labour, agrarian, anti-imperial, religious, (anti)caste, women’s or environmental movements? Here's the CFP for UChicago's annual South Asia grad student conference, with the theme "Global and Local Movements in South Asia"

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Just had a great conference at the UChicago Delhi Center, with colleagues saying thank god my university hadn't viciously overreacted like UCLA + Columbia. Appalled that the admin has now threatened imminent use of force vs protesters. @UChicago , the eyes of the world are on you.

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Really excited to chat with Jonas Kreienbaum, @fabulierend , and any of you who fancy it about "Energy & Imperialism" tomorrow at 11:15 CST/17:15 GMT. We'll get into colonial underdevelopment, North-South relations, oil shocks, and more. Register at

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Great short intro reading list on critical logistics, a hipster subfield suddenly gone mainstream. I heartily endorse my former colleague @LalehKhalili 's dazzlingly prescient book (my copy's a bit battered having taken its own sea voyage west), and her wisdom as TV talking head!

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Everyone is talking about the big ship getting stuck in the #Suez Canal. Here's a critical logistics reading list on the politics of how we got here -why ships are so huge, why there is a manmade canal cutting through a continent, why global supply chains seem so brittle, & more.

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Five leading energy historians Five world regions Five pathbreaking books One extremely memorable date 🥦 "Placing Histories of Energy," 4/20 at noon EST Register here

"Placing Histories of Energy" Virtual Roundtable | Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 12:00–1:30 pm ET

How do the specificities of site shape global histories of energy? How, in particular, might accounts from beyond Western Europe and the United States shift narratives about the place of energy in...

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How do the specificities of site shape global histories of energy? Join us during #envhist Week 2022 ( @ASEH_org ) for the following virtual roundtable in which we chat about this and other issues concerning energy and society Featuring... 1/7

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Another reminder that there is nothing fundamentally progressive about environmentalism as a cluster of ideas. "Greencon" alliances are in power in Austria, Ireland, and several German Länder. I suspect they may become more than "marriages of convenience"

“Greencons” are a new political alliance for an uncertain age

Conservatives and climate activists, once political opposites, are joining forces

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Brilliant hivemind: can you think of scholarly work that *compares* India and the United States? There's obviously a fair bit on caste (and a ton on actual transnational links between the two countries), but what about comparative political economy, ecology etc? Any hot tips?

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India's Central Industrial Security Force was founded in 1968 to protect key public undertakings. Today it is the world's largest industrial security force, with 175,000 personnel. It guards not just state plants but select private facilities like Reliance's Jamnagar oil refinery

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Environmental historians overwhelmingly focus on W Europe/US to explain climate change. But China's cumulative emissions since 1750 are projected to pass all Europe's by 2039 + US by 2050 = we need to study postcolonial Asian societies in their own right!

The U.S. has caused the most global warming. When will China pass it?

China will soon pass the U.S. as history's biggest carbon dioxide emitter. Yet its relatively late start to development has allowed it to avoid helping bear the costs of climate change.

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Historians: please can we all agree to stop pretending to be shocked—SHOCKED!—when we find a past energy transition was slow, uneven, and contested? And that the "old" energy source wasn't instantly replaced but supplemented/grew? I'm officially declaring this a historical truism

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Oil was not only a fuel, but "a critical site thru which the postcolonial Indian state attempted to challenge the monetary + financial order of decolonization" - @mshutzer 's new article @PastPresentSoc has already changed how I think about 🇮🇳 energy history

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Chicago friends, come along later today to be dazzled by the greatest Swedish duo since Icona Pop. @FredrikAlbritt1 & Carl Wennerlind will be discussing their brilliant new history of scarcity—the key concept that mediates between human wants & understandings of (in)finite nature

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Proud to have been among the 181 scholars of British and imperial history to sign this letter, calling on the Home Office to review the shoddy and sanitized official handbook that 125,000+ people are forced to study for the UK citizenship test each year

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Can't wait to discuss "Fossil Capitalism in the Global South" with this fabulous lineup of historians, anthropologists, ecocritics and more tomorrow @UChiCollegium ! Register at

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Thrilled to conclude our @UChiCollegium Project, Fossil Capitalism in the Global South, with a star-studded symposium on May 5! Register here: @natterjee @DJMontao1 @MamyrahProsper @LadeAdunbi @bretgustafson @mshutzer

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Very good to be back in Delhi - with some apt reading material on just how friction-filled globalization really is (especially if you fly Air India)

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This great new paper by @adityaramesh11 complicates cliches about big multipurpose dams reinforcing state power. At Mettur, he shows that hydroelectricity ran up against the irrigation interest of "an older extractive apparatus, that of agrarian property"

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Egypt's Occupation was one of the best books I read last year—a must-read for anyone interested in the history of capitalism, nationalism, or the Middle East. We are delighted to welcome the incomparable Aaron Jakes as a colleague @UChicagoHistory and fellow traveler @Enviro_UofC

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Time for some news: After 7 amazing years at @TNSHistory my family and I are leaving NYC for the Windy City. I’m going to miss my wonderful students and colleagues at @NSSRNews and @EugeneLang terribly, but I’m tremendously excited to start this new adventure at @UChicagoHistory .

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Come join @UChicagoHistory ! Looking for: 1️⃣Assistant prof, modern Middle Eastern history 2️⃣Assistant prof, modern Japanese history 3️⃣TBC: provost's postdoc, history of race + capitalism Happy to answer Qs

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Pachirat's chilling Every 12 Seconds shows that concealment + surveillance together distance us from industrialized killing. As Trump demands meat plants stay open, it's clear that the politics of sight also makes invisible the painful labour behind this "critical infrastructure"

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AIIMS: pinnacle of 🇮🇳 medicine, publicly invaluable & complicit in reproducing inequalities. Anthropologists, read to the very end for the sting in the tail from ex-roomie extraordinaire @annalouruddock Bonus: her chat with the delightful @SnehaAnnavarapu

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This looks like a really exciting opportunity to rethink the history of the 1970s energy crisis together (paging @JuliaKMead @Stephen83802580 @trishkahle @mauffant @JafariPeyman @DudleyMarianna @GaraviniG @emilybbrownell and all interested others)

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CfP: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: The Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Transformation of the Postwar World, 3 day conference in Calgary & Banff, 14-17 March, organized by Petra Dolata ( @ucalgaryhist @HumanitiesYYC ) & David S. Painter (Georgetown) submission deadline 13 Oct

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Eagerly awaiting @RyanCecilJobson 's book on the oil "masquerade of permanence": a century+ of commercial oil production in T&T "instructs us to regard the petro-state less as a permanent form than a fragile relation between fossil fuels and sovereign authority" And WHAT a cover

Ryan Cecil Jobson

@RyanCecilJobson

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The Petro-State Masquerade has a cover thanks to my friend and legendary artist, Christopher Cozier, and the design team at @UChicagoPress . ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹

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The new covid university h/t @ReneaFrey

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What is the "Late Acceleration"? I argue for disaggregating the Great Acceleration in human impacts on the planet. From 1980, the main regional drivers shifted to Asia, esp. China & India. But the socioeconomic dynamics behind this looked v different to oil-fed US consumerism. 2/

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How on Earth should we write history in the face of climate change? What is the "planetary age" anyway? Join @FredrikAlbritt1 , Emily Osborn + me for the launch of Dipesh Chakrabarty's must-read new book on Friday at 10 am Central, 4p 🇬🇧, 8.30p 🇮🇳 Register

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Most insane conspiracy theory I've heard in a while: FINLAND DOES NOT EXIST. Japanese & Russians allegedly made it up to disguise whaling/overfishing. It started with a kid's parents telling him for fun, then spread because internetz. Parents, be careful with your tall tales...

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For such countries, the 1973 oil shock was only the coup de grâce. After a series of climate shocks hit the world in 1972, harvests failed and hydroelectric dams ran dry. At the same moment, the Soviet Union + China began massive grain imports, propelling a world food crisis. 4/

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National oil companies, not private majors, will dictate the pace of the energy transition - produce 60% crude - control ⅔ reserves - <5% of spending allotted to transition, v 15% for US/Euro firms ➡️ state capitalism is central to modern energy history

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Today brings a long-awaited energy ethnography as free of charge as the sun's rays: download the award-winning @sidsareen 's brand new book "The Sun Also Rises in Portugal: Ambitions of Just Solar Energy Transitions" right here

The Sun Also Rises in Portugal: Ambitions of Just Solar Energy Transitions by Siddharth Sareen -...

The Sun Also Rises in Portugal: Ambitions of Just Solar Energy Transitions - Ebook written by Siddharth Sareen. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download...

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[Eagerly preorders] This will be a hugely important book for anyone interested in environmental studies or South Asia. @KasiaPaprocki leads the field in bringing the lens of justice and political economy to climate adaptation, in its most canonical but least-understood setting

Kasia Paprocki

@KasiaPaprocki

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Forthcoming in December from @CornellPress ! Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

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Life too short for a monstrous 38-page article? There’s also a podcast version, miraculously edited into shape by Matt Hermane from my jetlagged ramblings

History in Focus - AHA

About the History in Focus Podcast History in Focus is a podcast by the American Historical Review. Go behind the scenes with the world's leading history journal as we explore the who, what, how, and...

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The left has spent years urging the right to take the environment seriously. Unfortunately now ethno-nationalists in France, India & white settler colonies are doing just that—by exploiting the language of indigenous rights My (first!) piece for @LRB blog

Elizabeth Chatterjee | Green and White Nationalism

A few minutes before 22 people were murdered in a Walmart in El Paso on 3 August, in a now-familiar ritual of American...

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Ever wondered why female politicians wear white pantsuits for their big moments? @annadella beguilingly traces the tradition back to Annie Besant, social reformer turned Theosophist and Indian National Congress president

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Tomorrow in Chicago: this exciting symposium on American Empire, Extraction and Environment, with a keynote from Porkopolis’s own Alex Blanchette! It’s the brainchild of whip-smart PhD researchers @Aseberr @ProfBlackbird and @Nahomi_LindaE . Register at

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@natterjee

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Modestly good news: examining recent projections, @NavrozDubash et al. find that India is on track to meet its Paris pledge. Its emissions will at most double from 2012 to 2030—likely less, thanks to slow demand growth + cheap renewables

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This is the new, privatized face of wildlife conservation. Not content with collecting Rihanna, a certain family is building up a secretive mega-zoo by the world's largest oil refinery complex. Amazing reporting from the intrepid @mrajshekhar

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Why I am not yet morally ready to abandon anthropocentrism

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Today's must-read: @mshutzer 's new "Subterranean Properties: India’s Pol Ecology of Coal, 1870–1975." Come for the sheer destructive chaos of mining under the Raj, stay for the subtle analysis of ambiguous property relations + law under colonial capitalism

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I cannot stress this enough and still face pushback from senior colleagues about it. Also, you’re not doing your PhD students any favours encouraging them to write a 900-page dissertation (intra-institutional subtweet)

Professor Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺

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Supervisors: don’t let your PhD students graduate without at least one publication on the way and without any teaching. It’s not 1980 any more.

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Georgia O’Keeffe paints the fossil fuel city (1927-8). Current exhibition “My New Yorks” is well worth visiting at @artinstitutechi

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@natterjee

5 years

As part of my course, @QMPoliticsIR students write an op-ed on a South Asian political development of their choice. Over the next weeks, some will be published at Popular topics: Kashmir, blasphemy laws, dem backsliding in Bangladesh. Do give them a read!

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Excited to chair this session on “The Economist’s Planet” at #ASEH next week. Come along too for our roundtable on “Business, Government & Environment” Thur 1.30p +to discuss Sverker Sörlin & Eric Paglia’s new book on Stockholm & Rise of Global Environmental Governance, Sat 1.30p

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

@FredrikAlbritt1

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What role has #economics played in triggering the #ClimateCrisis ? How have economists contributed to elite apathy and resistance to carbon mitigation? Catch our roundtable "The Economist's Planet" at the @ASEH_org in Denver April 6 8:30am @VBivar @EnergyHistorian @natterjee

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Cheekily poking you to spread the word @surajyengde @DhandaMeena @IndrajitRoyYork @ProfSrilaRoy @Suryakant_Waghm @ChandraUday @BahujanEcon @jaffrelotc @GopalGuru10 Happy to answer any questions about the role, the university, the city, and relocating to the US

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Pretty sure I could work full-time writing Routledge handbook chapters. The ratio of wildly overpriced handbooks to academics must be about 10:1 by now

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The early 1970s was the moment when New Delhi policymakers explicitly committed to coal, for political as much as practical reasons. Encouraged by aid donors, they built the major institutions that would lock India into carbon dependence for the next half-century. 7/

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"Why are you on strike?" a student asked me on the picket lines yesterday, "don't you all earn £100,000 or so a year?" 😂 Where to start? #UCUStrikesBack #FourFightsOneVoice

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I focus on the 1970s energy crisis as a pivotal moment. We know lots about US and Europe at this moment, and increasingly too about Arab and Latin American petrostates. But there’s been little research on the experiences of the so-called NOPECs (both oil-importing and poor). 3/

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So glad to finally get some time with @joguldi 's new opus. It's a model of argument-driven and socially relevant scholarship. She unearths a radical alternative global history of land redistribution, covering everything from London squats and Vinoba Bhave to participatory mapping

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Why is female labor participation in North India so low? Why is Italy less gender-equal than Spain? On everything from care work to torn jeans, this chat with @_alice_evans ("My methodology—read literally everything") is the best podcast I've heard in ages

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This is pretty cool. Back in Feb two brilliant scholars of climate change + empire, @radical_carib and @sunilamrith , kicked off UChicago’s proposed new environmental social sciences initiative. Now you can get all the reading suggestions from our conversation in one handy list

UChicago CEGU

@UChicagoCEGU

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Want to dig deeper after the first CEGU event? If you kept reaching for a pen to jot down panelists’ favorite books during "Climate and the Legacies of Empire," these must-reads are for you! Find the full list (complete with timestamps!) here:

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This provides new context for Indira Gandhi’s suspension of democracy between 1975 and 1977. The Emergency was not only a product of Indian dynamics or her personality. Other NOPECS (e.g. Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka) saw authoritarianism and coups during these years. 6/

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