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Writing grief, care, protests • PhDing @StAndrewsIR • @KavyaPrize Winner • Associate Fellow, UK HEA • @esrc Fellow • they/them • qmanivannan @gmail .com 🪻🪷🌺

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‘With Love and Rage’ is a short composition by @ScottMusician of @RCStweets , inspired by my research & work on care and grief in protests. It draws from Natasha, Devangana, GN Saibaba, Amir Aziz, Rohith Vemula, with hints of Farida Khanum’s ‘Aaj jaane ki zid na karo’.
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Ranajit Guha's death is an intimate loss to so many around the world. As the daddy of Subaltern Studies, & a lover of words, his writings were constamt companions over the past decades. A thread of works, by and about him, to revisit & capture some of their immense beauty. 🧵
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Another day, another request for gender inclusive language in forms.
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I’m hiring a new Program Manager for an organisation I manage that provides research mentorship opportunities to students. We run a winter school in gender studies, work with institutions & over 100 students & academics. Virtual work. Salary: 60k INR/month, Indian citizens. DM!
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There's absolute joy in not writing some things.
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Minor woot? 💜
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CfP: Stoked to invite applications to 2 hybrid workshops on 28th June which I'm organising with the Center for Peace & Conflict Studies @StAndrewsIR for collaborative storytelling on (de)colonial care. Bursaries + awards available. Apps due: 20th May
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In our open access @IFJPglobal Conversations article, we individually and collectively reflect on what it means to be scholars of care and caring scholars 🪻🌺. @SindujaRaja18 @dipali17 @drljshepherd @ChichoriKtputli @EmmaLouiseBacke DiptiTamang
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Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2023)

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Excited to not submit to ISA for the next few years. I can’t afford it as a fully funded PhD student in UK, how are under- and unfunded PhDs and those living further away/ in the Global South supposed to? Would the discipline perish if we met in Thailand or Indonesia instead?
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I wrote a short article for @epw_in on the ethics of studying protests (esp from the Global North): on the insufficiency of positionality confessions, & the need to move beyond 'do no harm', for better scholarship, better resistances.
Doing Good, beyond ‘Do No Harm’

Scholars of protests must think of how they can give back to the communities they are studying and drawing knowledge from.

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If you’re looking to apply for graduate study, now is the time to get going - approaching supervisors & department research leads, w. researching funding, & most importantly, developing relationships. Would it help if I did a Spaces meet on PhD apps in the US, UK, & Australia?
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Somewhere between the timid quiets I'd grown used to over the years and the loud friendships I've found in Scotland, I turned 26. If younger me knew I'd made it this far, they'd have been so happy. Here's to these little glimpses of the sun.
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Hi all! I'm looking for academic literature broadly on memory, place, and home by non-white scholars to supplement my ongoing reading which is very Western/Eurocentric. Would be grateful for recommendations!
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Join me in celebrating my supervisor (and dearest person in all of the UK), Dr Roxani Krystalli whose book ‘Good Victims’ is now published! She examines victimhood beyond its conventional lens, as a means of relocating agency, narrative, care.
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The Political as a (Feminist) Question

AbstractWhat does it mean to be a ‘good victim’? The growing fascination with victimhood in Colombia, and the ethical and methodological concerns stemming

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@meredithdclark @olivermb This is untrue and deeply unkind.
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I've moved! This is more I've moved than I can remember, more homes I've left knowing you never really feel better each time - it's world ending, stomach eating, throat swallowing. But this time, I'm hopeful, fully knowing that this could just mean more harm, or perhaps rest.
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The BISA team has now resolved this and added 'Mx' as an option. Small joys in folks/organisers who are responsive and quick in making a fix.
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Deeply enjoyed reading dearest @ssballakrishnen 's "Anti/Aunty as Critical Method" - from au(n)to-ethnography to soft grace, a tender suggestion for the 'aunty' in India to be its own scholarly vision 💜 Would love to see this expanded to non-Indian South Asian cultures tooo!
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Overwhelming support for Palestine solidarity and action at EWIS 2024 @europeanisa in Istanbul with continuing talks and discussions on material support for Palestinian scholars(hip), institutional reform, and more.
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There's something perfect about Sunday afternoon in December in Chennai, a special kind of restful. It's 30°C and I'm beneath a blanket, cool, it's bright but also perfect in the shade inside. I've eaten biryani, sponge cake, and tea. I've already had a nap. Life is good.
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A moment of pride to be surrounded by friends and loved ones, and to be read my nomination from a dear student 💜. I'm not sure if the research will allow my teaching next term, but ze heart is full to know it meant something (in the intimate ways that meaning arrives).
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Congratulations to the winners of this year's Teaching Excellence Awards. 🙌 Read more ⬇️ #EverToExcel
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In response to the @univofstandrews dismissing its Rector for solidarity with Palestine, I’ve submitted a complaint seeking the dismissal of all of the University Court (uni’s supreme governing body) who were involved in the decision. Copy of the text:
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Official Complaint in Response to Rector Maris’ Discharge

Official Complaint Seeking the Dismissal of the Court of the University of St Andrews Following Rector Maris’ Discharge Sent on: 9th August 2024 To the Principal, the Senior Lay Member, and the...

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Of all the #ISA2023 days chairing and discussing, today is special! I present my own work on care-infused and grief-attentive protest documentation, memory, and home-making in the Third World, on this spectacular panel of scholars. 1.45pm at the Marriott! 💜
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@timeshighered Simply plastering the “opinion” sign on a post does not take away your platforming of horribly misinformed voices. I’d be happy to lecture Martin on a brief epistemological history of colonisation, but I believe he’s too busy prepping to oppose it.
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The funniest thing abt cis people is that they (including me before I knew better) spent their life telling me I'm not a man whilst I was growing up. Then I said yes, y'all have a point. Then they continuously shout 'no, you're a man' at every turn. Very confused messaging.
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Tonight, this is the poem we sleep with.
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@rachelwinchers Can someone tell me where teaching assistants and fellows are paid £31k in this country? What even!!
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New home with many warm lil corners, like this one!
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GN Saibaba has been acquitted in the case re Maoist links, and we should all be angry. He was in jail for nearly a decade, convicted in an unsanctioned trial. What justice for the years, people lost, for the media that slandered him? Will there be apologies? Money? Shame?
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Forever reminded in the UK of what it takes to be 'noticed' as a brown scholar, to need to constantly prove oneself: always a practiced apathy until you begin speaking. It's one thing to be judged by appearance, it's another for it to render you rather invisible.
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The Prose of Counterinsurgency, one of Guha's classic 'canon' texts, a crucial contribution to the language of coloniality & transformative for all those who rely on discourse analysis.
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Do all migrant academics go back 'home' in the break only to feel completely blank, like they know nothing at all and all knowledge is absent?
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We're striking! We're angry! (We're also very joyous) @ucustandrews @UCUScotland @ucu #UCUstrike #ucuRISING
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Today I'm managing the queer lower caste struggle of your worth being equated to your labor, even in the sweetest friendships. A friendly reminder that if respect is contingent upon your work, it's extractive, short lived, & must go. Meanwhile: footage from Mount Keen!
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any humanities/social science academics who still go by the 'original contribution to the discipline' framing of research are just not reading enough of what's been written (especially from non White authors).
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Something about tender books of this form that make for stellar transit reads.
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Looking to put together a panel on 'Finding space for grief, political action, and repair' for #BISA 2023 at Glasgow, building upon ongoing work, as a space to speculate. Please do reach out and share/retweet with anyone who'd be interested! @MYBISA @BISAGIRWG #AcademicTwitter
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I'm teaching around 45 students this term for a Dissertation module as a GTA, whilst also crediting a methods course by for ESRC mandates. Meaning: after 7 yrs, I am both learning about a Literature Review, and also teaching students to write one. Some notes on our learnings🧵
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#ucuRISING at King's Cross!
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Our doubt ridden scholarship so often finds room for honest, holistic celebration. Guha's work deserves this and more. It's a time for all of us to revisit the life's work of him and others in his circles of solidarity and care, and move it forward with action and words, both.
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This post (and act of protest) is not just critical, kind, & beautiful, but also carefully considered. Every tweet here is written knowing the kind of nonsensical retorts TERF trolls enjoy making. These are students whose accomplishments far outweigh Stock. Respect them.
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This evening I glued my hand to the floor of the Oxford Union debating chamber, wearing a t-shirt which said “NO MORE DEAD TRANS KIDS”, in front of Kathleen Stock during her talk at the Union. Here’s why I felt I had to take this action:
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We're all very tired today, but #ISA2023 ended for us with stories of vulnerability, trust, care &, as @A_Parasram put it, "articulations of hope in unexpected places", with these two panels ft Jonneke Koomen @rkrystalli @seenfromafar @Professor_Naeem Paulo Ravecca @anjalikdayal
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The first day at #ISA2023 starts with this roundtable on 'The Poetics and Pedagogies of Crisis and Transformation' on reflecting, writing, & teaching w poetry-infused voice, bringing introverts into the fold with writing & guided exercises w. @rkrystalli , @odriwilliams @StrubleHR
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In my winter return to India, I dived into my paternal grandparents' love marriage in Periyar's presence, a suyamariyadhai kalyanam (caste-free, Self Respect wedding) & my great grandfather's anti-caste work with Periyar - the ways my work now is descended, warm legacies left.
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10 days to the deadline! Apply to our dual interdisciplinary workshops on care, (de)coloniality. We have participants both in Scotland and elsewhere, both virtual and in person, for projects ranging from rule of law to ecological justice and psychology!
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Annual Twitter wrap of academic and personal highlights! 1. Survived 9 bouts of severe illness, the recovery for each lasting over a month, got surgery for a long overdue (and painful) condition, moved & made a wonderful new home, & learned to play the piano (w. I Giorni) 💜
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ISA 2023 notifications are in, and what I'm most excited for is this roundtable of friends and colleagues, where we'll collectively reflect upon how essential walks, rest, and the sun are for the study and practice of IR, and... for living. 🚶‍♀️🌻⛅
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Disappointing to see feminist conferences be fully in-person, especially after having proven in past years that they can be hybrid. There's really no excuse anymore; not finance, not logistics.
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The Migrant's Time, speaking to the temporal dissonance that migrants live in, their spaces of distance, scattering, and (un)belonging.
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Planning meeting for future Palestine solidarity actions - discussing ways of drawing deeper cross institutional support, between staff and students, and better BDS practices @europeanisa .
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Today I reserve my unfiltered and unabashed petty spite for all who got to see the Northern Lights in Scotland yesterday. Happy for you, but🖕🖕🖕
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I wrote on gentle kisses, Jenga, and the soft moment of watching a loved one cook for @critlegthinking 's Joy of Methodology series, put together by @ruawall @leader_kate and @dsheikh726 .
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We do this for each other

It’s a tip, a trickle. I’ve read international law and international relations in three institutions and three countries. In each, I’ve twisted and

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Final day in Montréal comes with my first time in proper snow, my first experience of cold weather below -3° C (apps say it felt like -12° C) & a trudge through a v snowy Mount Royal. (This is lovely, but I can't wait to get back to Scotland & home, closest to my loved ones.)
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Calling for an ed board & contributors for Encounters, a journal I'm establishing under SAJE Publications (ze Strangest Academic Journals Ever). Sections include: 1. #AcademicTwitter spotlights 2. Rejection stories, 3. Incomplete manuscripts 4. Puns in paper titles 5. Playlists
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A few suggestions for @UKRI_News re my own struggle with PhD funding. 1. Monthly stipends are difficult for intl students, who face significant cost to establish anew. Suggest a larger first "startup" fund for visa, IHS surcharge, rent deposits, stationery, study material (1/6)
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Another day house hunting in Edinburgh, another day of tenancy agents asking me why I'm still a "student".
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I'm on a digital picket this week because I'm unwell again. The magnitude of academic staff currently (and perpetually) in varying levels of illness (and precarity) is mind boggling. Our health is directly affected by precarity. Things can and must be better. #ucuRISING
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Conference divas united at EWIS 💜🤷‍♀️❤️ @europeanisa @SarahhhhKline @SladjaLazic @EBStavrevska @CataWinnie
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The Founding Statement of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group led by Ranajit Guha, on the history of subalternity and resistance, of the limits of intellectualising it, and the need to find new ways to relate to that which we study.
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Did the lawyer for Israel prepare his case by going through this bingo card the night before?
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For @thewire_in , I write of the potential for corruption in the Committees and processes of the CAA. I contextualise ongoing resistances including recent commemorative events for the Northeast Delhi violence, legal battles, documentaries.
Understanding CAA Rules, the Process, and What It Means to Resist

The notification of Rules for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act is a predictable turn in electoral politics.

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Set up a fancy new email account, I am now reachable on q.manivannan @st -andrews.ac.uk ! 💜
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Moving to Edinburgh later this month after a more casual partnership with it for the past 2 yrs. Can't wait to meet new folks, make the commitments I've cancelled, & attend the reading groups I've occasionally visited. If you're nearby, and/or have reccs, I'd love to know 💜
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