Debjani

Special issue on Materializing #Land edited by Rachel Sturman is #CSSAME @DukePress is soon forthcoming and here is my epilogue: the authors are pushing the land question in new directions shorturl.at/lQy9Y read on: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/advanc…

The making of Muslim ghettos in Calcutta, 1946–64 - Jonayed Rousan Mandal, Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay @Ritajyoti_B 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

We are looking for an IT specialist for our Digital History Lab @digihistlab at @UZH_en. Please spread the word.

Come work with @dh_grundig and @digihistlab @UZH_en!

We are hiring for our pilot project on #automatictextrecognition @UZH_ch @digihistlab: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/… #OCR #HTR #digitalhumanities Please spread the word!

I would have preferred a slightly different title but here is the excerpt of my book, which raises questions on the plurality of time framework in Humanities and Social Sciences while thinking through social history. thewire.in/culture/books/…

Decades after equal pay laws, #Dalit women in #TamilNadu’s Thoothukudi salt pans earn Rs 10 less daily or Rs 300 less monthly than men. They carry 25-kg baskets in scorching heat, tradition justifying a gap meant to signal that men are still superior, writes @ManideepGudela…

I am pleased to share my article 'The Visibility and Invisiblity of Caste(d) Waste Management Infrastructures in Delhi epw.in/journal/specia…

A report by XDI predicts that by 2050, 20-64% of data centres in major hubs like Tokyo and Shanghai will face a higher risk of climate damage. This surge in risk will affect 1 in 8 data centres across the APAC region. #ClimateRisk #DataCentres carboncopy.info/global-data-ce…

in the meantime you can read the first excerpt in the new @DissentMag, now unpaywalled: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-va…

Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History by @OrnitShani and @itihaasnaama is out later this year with @CambridgeUP (cover below) and @PenguinIndia cambridge.org/core/books/ass…

Sharing some ideas and pointers here for those who have read or will be reading Nievas & Piketty's paper on Unequal Exchange. Summary: Paper is mainly about colonialism but doesn't actually talk about colonialism. kikumbhar.medium.com/unequal-exchan…

'She asked a boss [at Boeing Charleston] if he would let his children fly on a Dreamliner with the litany of flaws and non-conformances...“Cindy, none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas,” he retorted, much to her horror.' prospect.org/economy/2025-0…

"Debt-for-nature swaps and carbon credit trading represent the expansion of the offshore phenomenon as a logic of global South statecraft." NEW, Connor O'Brien on jurisdictional control over biodiversity and climate finance phenomenalworld.org/analysis/offsh…

This great piece from @BJMbraun and @cedric_durand on the factions competing over the White House has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. Among other things, BlackRock moving right to bring 401(k)s into private markets. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ameri…

Capital's factions clashes in the Trump2 era. "The ambitions of the new Silicon Valley elite is not only to incapacitate the federal bureaucracy, but also to dethrone Wall Street." with @BJMbraun in @phenomenalworld phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ameri…

🎉 Time to celebrate! 🎉 My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@GlobalHistJnl). Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S17400…

A long time in the making, our @RadHistReview special issue is finally out now. It delves into the phenomenon of economic miracles and their afterlives unfolding across the world. Do check out!

Comment: Oil, gas and coal cause three-quarters of global emissions. Why are they nowhere to be seen on the Belém climate summit’s agenda? buff.ly/oq5DNqP

Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture. For @phenomenalworld I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unban…