Malini Sur

HDR alert, Parramatta, Sydney and beyond!

at least you were involved in the discussions - but going from an OA model straight into $$$ is challenging.

Thanks Prachi, no, not just authors but even series editors and my colleagues in Amsterdam were unaware.

Has anyone recovered from T & F swallowing Amsterdam University Press?

So much for the generous labour of editors, peer reviewers, & scholars who believed in O/A.

You probably know where to find Transnational Flows —a volume I co-edited with Barak Kalir during my PhD.

What is a University Press? I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate pub...

What is a University Press?

On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.

eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...

Thank you.

What is a University Press? I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate pub...

it's here eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...

Please do - I am very concerned too - as an AUP author & UvA alumni

Here is the link to Cartographies of Clothing:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Here is the link to Cartographies of Clothing:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"Cartographies of Clothing" featured in PoLAR’s special issue on Property and the Matter of Belonging!

Thrilled to be in conversation with LaShandra Sullivan, Meghan Morris, Gregory Duff Morton, Lee Cabatingan, @nisrinelamin.bsky.social & more.

@westernsydneyu.bsky.social has announced doctoral scholarships for domestic candidates. For a list of supervisors at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) see here: lnkd.in/gr6yYW7T. More information: lnkd.in/gG8j9a9b

Ganges

Year end pleasures.

Pleasures of academia - in conversation with great colleagues & editors. On conjugal futures, traffic in things, cycling, care and communities & eating with fingers. Thinking across anthropology, history, geography & STS.

Back to the archives!

Recordings from the grad. studies symposium "Messing with Methods" Heather Horst, Michael Edwards, Carly Schuster, Randi Irwin, Ute Eickelkamp, Daniel Tranter-Santoso Catherine Smith, Denis Bryne, Sophie Chao & yours truly.
@wombatscholar.bsky.social @profemmakowal.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/wr54u3c

Heather Horst and Michael Edwards - Video 1 Messing with Methods YouTube video by Institute for Culture & Society Western Sydney Uni

Amazing presentations on messing with methods in anthropology! Check it out m.youtube.com/watch?v=CULz...

Impressive work organised by @malinisur and @morethanhumanwprlds Sophie chao

Our first Indigenous-focused edition, offering a compelling collection of essays that explore Indigenous knowledge and scholarship in Australia under the editorial leadership of Prof Corrinne Sullivan MAICD is out!

Issues - a multilingual journal is housed here: issues-journal.org

I have been served a notice.

An intellecrual giant' ECONOMIST BENEDICT ANDERSON IMAGINED COMMUNITIES Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

This classic work in the history of nationalism argues that the rise of widely available print (esp. newspapers) made it possible for geographically dispersed groups of people to imagine themselves as a roughly coherent entity called "a nation" in which there was an ongoing conversation.

Hey friends at #AAA2024Tampa !! The book exhibit closes way earlier than usual. We are only open until Friday at 1pm (not Saturday at 4 as in earlier years). All books are $15 -- even better than our online sale discount.

Can see some familiar faces & looking forward to meaningful exchanges here. Have you seen my documentary film on bicycling cultures and air pollution in India? Here you go, screen & share. m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4el...

It seems Spectacles of Waste as a book is available in the US and UK (but Australia not yet). The electronic version available everywhere. As Anna Tsing kindly says, 'Anderson puts the "anal" back in analysis and the "colon" back in colonialism.' That's good, isn't it?
#STS #anthro #histSTM #histsci

My revised Bernal lecture is now online, open access, in @sthv.bsky.social. I reflect on what historians and STS scholars may learn methodologically from Pacific anthropologies, and the vagaries of the postcolonial...

#STS #histSTM

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