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Camelia Dewan PhD

@cameliadewan.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof (docent) @UU_University. Author of #MisreadingTheBengalDelta @uwapress. PhD SOAS/Bbk. MSc @LSE. MA@EdinburghUni. Development, climate change, toxicity.

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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
**NEW PUBLICATION* Contesting inevitable salinity: Brackish aquaculture, cyclonic vulnerabilities and the politics of Delta planning in coastal Bangladesh in @envplane @sagepub.com Thanks to all my colleagues and friends in and outside of Bangladesh!
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Den här insamlingen startades av deras arbetsgivare, Södersjukhuset. Snälla skriv på den med : www.mittskifte.org/petitions/za...
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Zahra Kazemipour. Högutbildad vårdpersonal utvisas på grund av lagförändring om spårbyte.
Sjukvården i Sverige brottas med brist på sjukvårdpersonal, speciellt sjuksköterskor och läkare. I Socialstyrelsens rapport från 2022 uppgav samtliga regioner att de hade brist på både läkare med spec...
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Den här frågan är viktig för mig. Vi har känt dem i flera år. Snälla hjälp oss stoppa utvisningen av denna barnfamilj– skriv gärna under: www.mittskifte.org/petitions/st...
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Stoppa utvisningen av Zahra
Zahra jobbar på Södersjukhuset i Stockholm och beskrivs av sina kollegor som en av de mest erfarna operationssjuksköterskorna på hela sjukhuset. Under pandemin hyllades hon som en hjälte. Nu ska hon u...
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Floriane Clement @florianeclement.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
📝 Five important recommendations to root '(unin)habitability' research and policy-making in climate justice - including the recognition of people's rights to stay and to adapt in places abruptly labelled as '(soon-to-be-)uninhabitable'. @cameliadewan.bsky.social
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I am deeply honoured and humbled to receive this prize in environmental humanities from @acls1919.bsky.social. Let us collectively bring critical social science examinations—rooted in history, politics, and context, and problematizing normative discourses—to the global public.
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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The environmental humanities finalists include books by @benspky.bsky.social, Joanna Page, @cameliadewan.bsky.social, @pederanker.bsky.social, & Mauro José Caraccioli @ucpress.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @uwapress.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social
2025 Environmental Humanities Finalists:

The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life by Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa (University of California Press, 2023) 

Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art by Joanna Page (Open Book Publishers, 2023) 

Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by Camelia Dewan (University of Washington Press, 2022) 

The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World by Peder Anker (Cambridge University Press, 2020) 

Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire by Mauro José Caraccioli (University Press of Florida, 2021)
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Ava Hu @avahu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal
At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Amazing papers and panels at the Health, Environment and Anthropology conference @durhamuniversity.bsky.social
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Eid Mubarak from Sweden ❤️ in solidarity and hoping for strength in these challenging times. May the tides change for the better of those oppressed and subjected to countless violence and withdrawal of rights
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“We’re failing to appreciate the people and institutions who’ve propelled these remarkable advances, undermining them without offering credible alternatives, and risking the loss of future breakthroughs that many patients are counting on,” said @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social
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RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
In his resignation letter, Marks rebuked Kennedy for seeking “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies” about vaccines.
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Columbia. Harvard. A lot of pressure on a bunch of less prominent programs with all the programmatic cuts to language and area studies funding These fuckers are trying to tear Middle East Studies up by the floorboard because they don't want people knowing the truth about Palestine
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/03/2025
UPDATE: Hours after filing our amended petition, a federal judge ordered Rümeysa Öztürk can't be removed from the U.S. until further court order. The government must respond to the amended petition by Tuesday at 5pm. This is a critical next step. We won’t stop until Rümeysa is free.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
People disappeared off the streets Trans people fighting to keep basic civil rights Disabled people facing mask bans, healthcare & social security cuts Tourists from Germany, UK & Canada imprisoned This is a powerful moment for intersectionality. There’s more of us than there are of them.
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
UNRWA reports that hundreds have been killed since Israel resumed its bombing [genocide] of the Gaza Strip, including 180 children in a single day.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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'Nothing Short of Genocide': Israel Kills 200 Children | Common Dreams
"This is a war on children," said one child advocate working to end the carnage and suffering in Gaza.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 28/02/2025
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control detected 620,000 Chikungunya virus cases and 213 deaths last year. Today, we approved a vaccine against the virus for individuals over 12 years old. → europa.eu/!XvkvCk
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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 22/02/2025
“many faculty members voiced concerns about …a ‘lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.’” Congratulations to admin. Give them lemons, by god they’ll make lemonade and then try to drown the humanities in it
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Help please! I used to take the most amazing picture with a tiny little Canon PowerShot. I want a powerful camera with an amazing Auto function that is tiny and discrete and fits into a really small lady's handbag without needing separate lenses or its own camera bag. Any recommendations? Thank you!
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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Thread
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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
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Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Appalling. What happened to Truth and Reconciliation? www.thedailystar.net/news/banglad...
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Vandalism, arson spread
Houses of Awami League leaders were attacked and torched, and murals and busts of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were demolished and defaced in nearly two dozen districts yesterday.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Prof Ian Cousins explains levels of PFAS deemed "safe" in tap water vary wildly from country to country, with Denmark leading the pack, the US & Sweden taking second place & the UK & EU limping in way behind - with levels of PFAS permissable in our tap water 50x higher than allowed in Denmark. 2/3
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Ashok Swain @ashoswai.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The 35-year old man, who committed the deadliest mass murder in Sweden's history, was a native and his name was Rickard Andersson and had licenses to keep 4 guns. The Far Right has gone silent because he was not an immigrant or a Muslim!
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Magnus Vinqvist @magnus-vinqvist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Den här historien blir bara mer och mer bisarr. I samband med ansökan om blockaden begärde Arbetsdomstolen in information om vilka företag som skulle påverkas. Facket gjorde en kartläggning och skickade in informationen. Detta är alltså skälet till uppsägningen😵‍💫 www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fack...
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Fackledare sägs upp – polisanmäls för brott mot rikets säkerhet - Nyheter (Ekot)
Hamnarbetarförbundet vann striden i Arbetsdomstolen och fick rätt till blockad av israeliskt krigsmateriel i sex dygn framåt.Samtidigt sägs deras vice ...
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Reading this makes me even more proud I did a joint degree with Birkbeck as a main college ❤️
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
An honour to be interviewed by two extremely senior and knowledgeable Bangladeshi engineers on my book misreading the Bengal delta youtu.be/LlBdvN4k5gA?...
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Development Talks Edition 11: Author Talk with Dr. Camelia Dewan - "Misreading the Bengal Delta"
YouTube video by Sayeed Ahmed
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
3 year postdoc @dept of Social Anthropology UniOslo Norway to do ethnographic fieldwork in rural Europe. German language required. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology (273606) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology (273606), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Unsolicited writing advice, #17171617: Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel. Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
And it’s only the morning of January 9, 2025
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Co-organising 2 panels at Health, Environment, and AnThropology (HEAT) 2025 (23-24 April) (Durham and Edinburgh universities w RAI) on planetary health & environment. Please submit your abstract to participate! Deadline: 13 Jan 2025. Panel abstracts d72qb09is4it8.cloudfront.net/event-ckedit...
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Seems Zuck is going to team up with Musk to fight EU and UK content moderation rules. Worrying. Big trouble ahead www.ft.com/content/7693...
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Meta ends third-party fact-checking scheme as it prepares for Trump return
Facebook owner to copy community notes scheme pioneered by Elon Musk’s X
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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DL JD’88 @devonl88.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Livestock mass confinement provides a perfect environment for the spread of disease. Consider your food sources.
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Fio @fiothenerd.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Current Covid varieties in Sweden.
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Djamé 🟥 @zehavoc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Fucking hell... Seriously, there's no going back from this. If it were not from Haaretz, nobody would believe it. Worse part? Nobody fucking cares. archive.ph/NVG4p#select...
A recently discharged Division 252 officer describes the arbitrary nature of this boundary: "For the division, the kill zone extends as far as a sniper can see." But the issue goes beyond geography. "We're killing civilians there who are then counted as terrorists," he says. "The IDF spokesperson's announcements about casualty numbers have turned this into a competition between units. If Division 99 kills 150 [people], the next unit aims for 200."

These accounts of indiscriminate killing and the routine classification of civilian casualties as terrorists emerged repeatedly in Haaretz's conversations with recent Gaza veterans.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A little short notice, but there is an Environmental Reading Group event today. You can find all the important information here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... Happy Reading! #rccevents #readinggroup #rcc #ecocriticism #poetry
Text in the graphic: RCC Reading Group, special guest: Sayantan Chakraborty, paper: "Traditional Land, Postcolonial Development, and Indigenous Ecocriticism in Ester Syiem's Poems", next meeting: 16 December 2024, 15:00-16:00 CET, location: online on Zoom
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/s...
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A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn
Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
CFP: Uneven Toxic Worlds: Rethinking Medical-Environmental Anthropology and Environmental Justice @ Health, Environment, and Anthropology (HEAT) Conference @durham_uni April 23-24, 2025. Submit abstract shorturl.at/c22sy Deadline: 13 Jan -25
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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Anthropologists! There's a new call for special issues out with Social Analysis. Deadline is 15 Jan 2025 - please get in touch if any questions www.berghahnjournals.com/fileasset/sa...
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
After seven years of rejections and revisions, my article "Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers’ labour migration from a ‘climate hotspot’" is now published with the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... OA: Please check it out!
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
5 paid PhD positions at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (IKOS), University of Oslo Start date: August 2025 Deadline for application: 24th February 2025 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Five Doctoral Research Fellowships (271145) | University of Oslo
Job title: Five Doctoral Research Fellowships (271145), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 24, 2025
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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
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Heather Horst and Michael Edwards - Video 1 Messing with Methods
YouTube video by Institute for Culture & Society Western Sydney Uni
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Let’s vaccinate against COVID. It reduces the risk of long COVID. This should be a no-brainer.
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Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
“Last year, 8,489 tonnes of chemicals banned on British farms due to health/environmental concerns were sent abroad, according to export data shared with the Observer. Of those, 98% were made by the Chinese-owned, Swiss-headquartered chemical company Syngenta” amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘My right side was paralysed, I was so sick’: the pesticide poisonings in Brazil that lead back to the UK | Pesticides | The Guardian
Investigation uncovers how chemicals like diquat, banned in the UK but legal to export, are causing health problems in the global south
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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
PhD Position at Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Stockholm www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...
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KTH | Doctoral student in History of Science, Technology and Environment
KTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Infections are bad. Sometimes right away. Sometimes later. It's a myth that children need to be infected with pathogenic viruses and bacteria for their own good.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/11/2024
Israel has killed three World Central Kitchen aid workers and at least two others in an air attack on Gaza's Khan Younis, in the third deadly attack on the aid group this year.
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Israel kills three World Central Kitchen aid workers as it pounds Gaza
US-based food charity says it is pausing operations in Gaza after Israeli air attack hits vehicle carrying its workers.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
On 29th November 1781, the crew of the Zong threw 130 kidnapped Africans into the sea to drown. The crew said there was not enough drinking water to go round and they had no choice, which meant they could claim for the deaths on insurance. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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In Our Time - The Zong Massacre - BBC Sounds
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.
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