


Ankit Kumar
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@ideatingenergy
Lecturer @sheffieldgeog / #anticolonial politics, #postcolonial justice, #decolonial approach to #climate justice https://t.co/IB43i1J01L





🔦 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-w…

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/geo2.1…

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











📣 Exciting news! Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is coming to the UK for the International Symposium. Check out his special message: youtube.com/shorts/8c1vgfh… 📍Join us on Oct 4th at the University of Leeds to welcome him. Save the dates: racialjusticenetwork.co.uk/international-… #InternationalSymposium2023









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 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
