Saurav Roy

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Meet the 12 volunteers from around the world who are sailing on #Madleen in the #FreedomFlotillaCoalition's steadfast mission to break Israel's illegal siege of Gaza and establish a people's sea corridor #AllEyesOnDeck #BreakTheSiege #endoccupation #Gaza

"Members of the comfort class are not necessarily wealthy. Perhaps one day they will earn or inherit sums that will put them in that category. But wealth is not the marker of the comfort class. Security is" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Here is our commentary on how the 2024 Economics Nobel integrates colonialism into economics, while leaving a colonial worldview intact (with @SurbhiKesar & @devikadutt). To explain how & why they do this, we go back to the colonial origins of economics. epw.in/journal/2024/4…

Wtf!!

Sunny skies in Goa Heavy breaths Heavier heart What should I look for?

The economists who managed to incorporate colonialism into mainstream economic theory *without* challenging the underlying (Eurocentric) understanding of capitalism... Ofc will be rewarded by the Economics discipline.

लिखना मुझे पसंद है लिखने दो

During his Manchester concert, @diljitdosanjh invited a Pakistani fan on stage, gifting her shoes and an autograph, saying, "Politicians draw borders, Punjabis don’t care, Punjabis love everyone." He emphasized that his music transcends India 🇮🇳 Pakistan 🇵🇰 divides, with love ❤ beyond borders. #DiljitDosanjh #Unity #IndoPak #PakistanIndia

No place a home

My book review of “Social Infrastructure in Left Behind Places” out now in @regstud Regions eZine. The book is rife with transferable policy lessons &, in my read, beckons questions re: the changing role of the state in relation to marginalized places regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/article/…

step after step with heavy heart breathe

@Rrrrnessa I 100% agree with this, Arnesa, especially the work context you laid out. People tend to look down on ambition & passion and then complain about why productivity has stagnated in the country since 2005. No wonder! Let's be friends please! This book helped amzn.eu/d/f1wH00b

I’ve been in the UK for a while now and honestly, I am still adjusting and learning. In many ways, the things I was lauded for in the USA: my directness, my friendliness, my commitment, and even just being a passionate person are things I am disliked for & punished for here.

My friends who are working for @McKinsey, claiming they are changing the world for the better, should shut the fuck up youtu.be/AiOUojVd6xQ?si…

This hit piece has already come under heavy criticism and for good reason. The methodology really is extremely flawed. The authors look only at studies with "post-growth" or "degrowth" in the title, but this ignores much of the key empirical work that has shaped and advanced the field recently. The strange thing is that the authors are fully aware of this broader literature, and yet they exclude it. Not all degrowth research has "degrowth" in the title! Just as not all research on political economy has "political economy" in the title. Basics. Huge swathes of research are ignored... all the work on demand-side mitigation, sufficiency-oriented approaches, energy convergence, ecosocialism, decoupling, doughnut economics, etc — including work reviewed by the IPCC — all of it is ignored. As Julia Steinberger pointed out, of the 33 papers published under her last major grant on degrowth, only two of them would qualify under this criteria. Also, if you design your review to include opinion, guess what, you’re going to get a lot of opinion! This is true of any field. This tells us nothing about whether the empirical basis of current degrowth arguments is sound. For that, you need to assess the empirical studies that people actually use for this purpose. And again, most of those are not covered in this review.

Ensuring resilient & diverse critical mineral supplies is essential for secure energy transitions Announced projects are sufficient to meet only 70% of copper & 50% of lithium levels needed in 2035 for countries to meet their national climate goals 👉 iea.li/471bP09

how often we fall in love so still, so rare time passes, then tears

Thrilled to share our latest work with @AdrienBilal! Check out our new working paper: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝘀. 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 Read here: bit.ly/4bsxvU0 Thread below👇

I think the only way someone can support what Israel is doing is if they don’t think of Palestinians as human beings. Guess Israel agrees…