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Sohini Kar

@karsohini.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of International Development | LSE | Economic Anthropologist

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Job Alert! My department LSE International Development is hiring two Assistant Professors - one in Quantitative Social Science and one in Humanitarianism. Closing Date is 1 December. Quantitative Social Science lnkd.in/dXfjmaVK Humanitarianism lnkd.in/dPm5iGzp
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Why do poor borrowers reject the authority of central bank regulation to make claims on debt waivers from the state? This paper highlights the tension between what I highlight as the political state and the regulatory state come shape the regulatory politics of microfinance.
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I've spent 15 years thinking about regulation of microfinance in India. With increased financial inclusion by a broad range of financial actors, this open-access paper is an attempt to think about the central bank at the margins. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Waivers and frauds: The politics of regulation and claims-making in Indian microfinance
As microfinance has expanded in India, so have efforts to regulate the sector. The competing regulatory authority of the state governments and the central bank have produced unexpected refusals by ...
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Back to school. ❤️
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A little bit of good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Signed. goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“We kind of knew it was coming, but always thought it was a problem our children would probably have to deal with,” he said. “It’s happened much, much faster.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... „Europe’s farmers move to the night shift to beat the heat“
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Europe’s farmers move to the night shift to beat the heat
Floodlights, headlamps, cooling sheds and later feeding times for animals are helping the sector cope with extreme weather
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
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Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune
Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/07/2026
That escalated quickly.
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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Ethics and Planetary Boundaries is now out in the world! Our Open-Access(!!), interdisciplinary book with Cambridge University Press has two chapters on each of the planetary boundaries. Read it here now: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... #PlanetaryBoundaries #Ethics
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Ethics and Planetary Boundaries
Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ironies all the way down: cutting space in a migration museum to make room for student housing while systematically decimating the university sector by counting students as migrants, and using it to score political points. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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London Museum of Migration space may be cut for student rooms
Under amended plans, the museum would have two floors instead of three at its new site.
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Love seeing the international media try to explain Count Binface.
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It’s incomprehensible to me that universities imagine their decimation of humanities follows “market forces” when they are so manifestly behind the curve of even the most corporate decisions. Universities are stuck in spent logic of “we must embrace AI” when frontier labs are hiring philosophers 1/
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nice to see digital technology used for good rather than pointless AI slop. www.wired.me/story/how-pa...
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How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased
Distributed backups, cyber resilience and half a million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
As we head into the 4th day of extreme heat warning here in London, Mahvish Shami and I have some thoughts on what lessons can be learned in Europe from the experiences of extreme heat in South Asia. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How to live and work in extreme heat - LSE Business Review
With Europe in the grip of an unusually intense heatwave, what can be learned from regions more used to extreme heat?
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Can't even start with how poorly prepared the UK is in dealing with extreme heat. Not looking forward to the next few days...
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The thing about living in East London is that no matter which team wins, there will be fireworks going off at 10pm. #WorldCup
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Not going to click on the link, because its the NYPost, but what in the actual world is this??? When did basic makeshift infrastructure become luxury?
Screenshot of post from New York Post showing a makeshift cafe in Gaza with basic tables and chairs and poeple working on laptops, with the incredibly strage title "Luxurious Gaza cafes poke quite the hole in the 'genocide' narrative."
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LSE Department of International Development @lseid.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
LSE’s @gsos-lse.bsky.social has awarded funding for Living with Heat, a new research initiative led by Dr Sohini Kar and Dr Mahvish Shami exploring the impacts of extreme heat in South Asia. Read more: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I was saddened to hear of the passing of my PhD committee member Kay Warren. My favorite memory of Kay was being in a seminar where she said she had an invisible buzzer & she would ding anyone (mostly women) who apologized before speaking or sharing an opinion. I still carry that buzzer with me.
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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 07/04/2026
I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Google Scholar is now suggesting I add something that is clearly an AI hallucination to my profile.
Screenshot of suggestion to add a 2018 piece titled Microfinance in India to my profile.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 20/02/2026
Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...
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LSE Department of International Development @lseid.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Remembering Professor Tim Allen The Department of International Development is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Tim Allen, former Head of our Department. One of his long‑standing colleagues, Professor David Keen, shares the following tribute on behalf of the Department.
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Remembering Professor Tim Allen - LSE International Development
The Department of International Development is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Tim Allen. Tim joined the Department in 1997, later served as Head of Department, and went on to become the D...
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
From here: www.ft.com/content/c39f...
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Do smart people eat better?
Economists can have a little marginal gain, as a treat
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Aren't these the people who just drink Soylent?
Screenshot of article in FT with interview with Tyler Cowen claining that somehow people working at Google DeepMind have the ability to discern good food.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
today is the 2 year anniversary of Hind Rajab being shot 335 times by Israeli forces. she was 6. I cannot look at her pictures of her face without crying. I genuinely, in a soul deep way, cannot understand people who can look upon this and think "good."
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
As a parent of a similarly aged child, but more importantly, as a human being, this picture really breaks me.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 22/01/2026
The centre-left's determination to thwart anyone with charisma is a real superpower. bsky.app/profile/jess...
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
All empires fall. You just don’t think you’ll observe it in real time.
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Searching for "Traitors" on here when I just want to see chatter about Harriet's meltdown on television, but ending up with depressing political discourse...
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
When was the last time you could honestly say "Happy New Year!" without silently adding "despite everything..."?
Meme of dog in a room on fire sitting and drinking coffee. Text says Happy New Year!
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
while simultaneously working to undo or lessen some of the harms caused by extractive industries. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Based on fieldwork in London, interviews with global activists, and analysis of corporate materials, Sohini Kar’s essay, “The Financial Activist,” draws on Lauren Berlant’s theory of inconvenience to show how activists learn to live with and inconvenience financial systems,
Header image from @Culanth showing the label ‘Vol. 40 No. 4 (2025) – Articles’ and the article title in large text: ‘The Financial Activist: Shareholding and the Inconvenience of Collective Ownership.’
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Have *you* checked out our latest journal issue? Full table of contents here, articles available open access at journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
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Heads in the Stars, Feet on the Ground: Scale and Astronomy Initiatives in Southern Africa by Hanna Nieber and Davide Chinigò 

Debt and the American Dream: The Specter of Debt and Its Slow Violence among Irregular Migrants from Nepal by Ina Zharkevich 

Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship by Fiona McCormack

Fugitive Kinships: Imperial Legacies, Wayward Acts, and Queer Bonds among Filipino Migrants in Japan by Suma Ikeuchi 

The Financial Activist: Shareholding and the Inconvenience of Collective Ownership by Sohini Kar 

The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities? Activism, Failure, and Uneventing by Elliott Prasse-Freeman 

My Neighbor the Gringo: Commercialized Intimacies and Newcomer Hospitality in a Rio de Janeiro Favela by Alessandro M. Angelini and Gareth A. Jones 

Soil Forensics: Property and the Buried Truth in Medellín by Meghan L. Morris
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Don't tell me it's about legal pathways. Unbelievably cruel. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Parents appeal to Home Office after daughter left homeless in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents, who have been saving to pay for UK visa application, say situation is now an emergency
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The article looks at forms of shareholder activism as a way in which finance is politicised by both financial and non-financial actors and activists.
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It's been a few years in the making, but a global pandemic, pregnancy, and a baby (now 4...) later, my work on financial activism is now out in the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology (open access)!
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Well played, London Underground.
Photo of a Poem on the Underground piece on the tube in London titled Epitaph on a Tyrant by W.H. Auden. Poem: "Pefection, of a kind, was what he was after. And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand. And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter; And when he cried the little children died in the streets." January 1939
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Have always loved Tagore's Kabuliwala. A lovely piece on its meaning now.
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I had debilitating nausea in pregnancy that required anti-nausea tablets. Perfectly safe, but even as a well-informed, pro-biomedicine person, I was anxious to take it b/c of the discourse around medicines in pregnancy. Putting this kind of anxiety on women for taking a Tylenol is unconscionable.
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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...
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