Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeWomenWarriors @womenwarriors.com · 13/04/2026A little good news... greekreporter.com/2026/04/13/h... #hungary #budapest #hungaryelectiongreekreporter.comHungary Elections 2026: Opposition Victory Ends Orbán Era - GreekReporter.comHungary’s 2026 elections end Viktor Orbán’s long rule as the opposition secures a decisive victory, signaling a major political shift. 0103
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Can Canada ever be far behind? Historically, Canada has always followed the U.S. in instituting racist immigration policies. Here we go AGAIN! And no, it did not take the conservatives to pass the law - it was the (right) centrists - the effing Liberals. ccla.org/press-releas...ccla.orgPassing of Bill C-12 is an Attack on Refugee and Migrant Rights in Canada - CCLAA broad coalition of human rights, civil liberties, refugee and migrant rights, gender justice, and data privacy organizations have denounced the adoption of Bill C-12, which became law yesterday. Thi... 000
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeLiam Swiss @liamswiss.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Was pleased to accept an invitation from the Editors of @contexts.org (@sethabrutyn.bsky.social @aminghaziani.bsky.social) to contribute to a special section on the Canada-USA relationship along with @dbtindall.bsky.social & @pallavib.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....journals.sagepub.comCanada and the United States—a Friendship Strained 1116
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Thanks, Editors sethabrutyn.bsky.social & aminghaziani.bsky.social for the invite to contribute. Truly honored.sethabrutyn.bsky.socialSeth Abrutyn (@sethabrutyn.bsky.social)Sociology, UBC. Theorist of Emotions, Suicide, Institutions, Evolution. Unrepentant DeadHead and Mets Fan. www.sethabrutyn.com Check out our new book on youth suicide: https://global.oup.com/academic... 110
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Cool new issue of contexts.org is out. Excited to have contributed to the "special section" on Canada-U.S. relationships, along with @liamswiss.bsky.social & others here up north. Important conversations here - check it out. journals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/doi/epdf/10....contexts.org Contexts Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers. 163
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeAriel Ducey @aducey.bsky.social · 15/09/2025My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106... 195
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Resisting these is important. We must stay and resist. 100
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 10/09/2025JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...careers.ucalgary.caAssistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ... 310587
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeePratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 24/08/2025The most beautiful way to star my Mondays, reading Sulagana Biswas' column "Beat The Monday Blues" in The Telegraph - T2. Here's a poignant homage to the music that sustained my 90s, and at least for me, kept my dreams alive in a world that was mostly full of bad humans.t2online.inBeat the Monday blues with Ab tere bin jee lenge hum by Kumar SanuBeat the Monday blues with Ab tere bin jee lenge hum by Kumar Sanu 032
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 11/08/2025m.thewire.in/article/righ...m.thewire.in‘Ask the ECI to Answer Opp’s Vote Theft Charge’: An Open Letter to the CJI - The WireThe ECI should voluntarily submit itself to scrutiny. But if it does not, sir, I request you to summon the powers the Constitution vests in you and order it to do so without delay. 000
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 11/08/2025t2online.in/music/wester...t2online.inNot Monday Blues with Bruce Springsteen's NightshiftNot Monday Blues with Bruce Springsteen's Nightshift 000
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Here’s a piece led by Fateme Ejaredar (my doctoral student) and co-authored by me on the impact of Israel’s war on iran on the diaspora. theconversation.com/iranian-cana...theconversation.comIranian Canadians watch the Israel-U.S. war in Iran from afarInterviews with 30 Iranian Canadians help to untangle the roots of political tensions and evolving solidarities in the Iranian diaspora in Canada. 020
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 23/07/2025South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water chuffed.org/project/1132...chuffed.orgSouth Gaza: Tents, Food & Water**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks** 020
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Tagging experts and key figures in the field, I know, in case you can connect Chetna to anyone, she can interview: @jgilligan.org @farhanasultana.com @kelseabest.bsky.social @helenkopnina.bsky.social @earth-andrew.bsky.social 021
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 21/07/2025NEW DOCTORAL RESEARCH ALERT: Please consider participating and spreading the word about this research on climate justice and migration being conducted by my doctoral student, Chetna Khandelwal @chetkay.bsky.social. 32821
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Another great column by Sulgana Biswas - this time about the iconic disco number, I Feel Love. t2online.in/music/wester...t2online.inOvercome Monday blues with Donna Summer's I Feel LoveOvercome Monday blues with Donna Summer's I Feel Love 000
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 15/07/2025By my bestie, Sulagana Biswas about a timeless protest song. More relevant than ever. www.telegraphindia.com/t2/not-monda...telegraphindia.comNot Monday blues, but...Back in 1959, folk singer Pete Seeger drew on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 — one of the wisdom books of the Old Testament, the other two being Proverbs and Job — to write what he felt was a song of protest. In... 010
Reposted by Pallavi Banerjeecarolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Shameful 419247976955
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 09/06/2025This necro-State needs to be held accountable for uncountable war crimes. But attacking and abducting peaceful volunteers for bringing aid to people that are being starved to death…how? www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...aljazeera.comIsraeli commados taking Gaza-bound aid ship, Madleen, to IsraelThe Madleen crew are now being detained by Israeli forces after their ship was stopped close to 100 miles from Gaza. 010
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeDead McCoy 💀🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025students and AI can both write shitty papers, but only students can write great papers. That's like the only lesson that they need to know when they decide to use it 0267
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeJean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comStatement re Michael Burawoy obitStatement from Ruth Milkman re commissioned obituary of Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes: Dear All, As many of you know, I published a tribute to Michael Burawoy in Jacobin shortly after ... 717287
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Unconscionable! I just requested ASA to allow international scholars to present online, given the risks of traveling to the U.S., and got a stern, corporatish no! What are these organizations we are part of? 090
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Thanks for posting. I know these students very well and they have taken on a herculean task of supporting this newcomer young man who became unhoused and has no social support in Calgary. 051
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The level of anxiety and sadness I am feeling about the escalation of India's war with Pakistan is unsettling. What is this madness? No one wins in a war! 050
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Some grad students I work with have been trying to house a young newcomer from Cameroon who got kicked out of his home. He has no support in Calgary and has faced extreme anti-black racism in the Calgary shelter systems. PLEASE consider donating. gofund.me/4721bd16gofund.meDonate to Help Francis - a 22 year old Cameroonian newcomer in Calgary, organized by Megha SanyalWe are a group of PhD students at UCalgary who are trying to … Megha Sanyal needs your support for Help Francis - a 22 year old Cameroonian newcomer in Calgary 121
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 14/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...nytimes.comInside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on UniversitiesThe opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education. 000
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The third year release anniversary of #theopportunitytrap! I had painstakingly made all references to Trump in the past tense in my final edits. These pages feel sureal. But here we are! Humbling realities. 022
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeEman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This was a perfect interview by Muhammad Shehada. If you want a quick update on what’s been happening in Gaza, this is it. 02314
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeEman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 10/03/2025If you do not act to protest Columbia admin collaborating with ICE & Trump to illegally detain Mahmoud Khalil, you are consenting to your campus being next. You are giving a green light to your admin to hand over your students and colleagues. Enough is enough. ACT NOW. 1278100
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeRDB @reshmi777.bsky.social · 11/03/2025A federal judge in New York has blocked any efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil.amp.cnn.comMahmoud Khalil, who helped lead Columbia student protests demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, arrested by ICE, attorney says | CNNA federal judge in New York has blocked any efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia university graduate and Palestinian activist who was arrested Saturd... 2134
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeePratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 08/03/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...nytimes.comHow Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious (Gift Article)President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements. 102
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Dystopia alert: Seems like we are living in what looks like the Man in the High Castle world! Did not think I would witness this in my lifetime. The post-World War II progressive blip will be over so soon is incredulous but that is where we are. We humans and our humanity truly sucks. 020
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025She will never give us Greenland. 1023021
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeRDB @reshmi777.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The “Golden Age” can begin with this. 0144
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The man is pissed and I have not seen pissed in the last 7 years. Good for him. www.youtube.com/live/eT_ePmJ...youtube.comLIVE: Trudeau holds press conference as Canada hits back at Trump's tariffsYouTube video by Associated Press 010
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeNPR @npr.org · 03/03/2025The Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.npr.orgAt Oscars, 'No Other Land' co-directors call for national rights for PalestiniansThe Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. 454950700
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 03/03/2025For once Oscars did the right thing!!! No Other Land!! #FreePalestine!! 080
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 20/02/2025We can’t let this happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...nytimes.comMigrants Deported to Panama by Trump Administration Taken to Jungle CampThe group of unauthorized migrants, which includes children, were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “It looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees. 000
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 20/02/2025This is unthinkable!! Racial facism on gross display! www.nytimes.com/article/trum...nytimes.comCan Trump Legally Transfer Migrants to Guantánamo Bay? Here’s What to KnowLawsuits are challenging President Trump’s abrupt decision to send men awaiting deportation to the American military base in Cuba. 122
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Michael Buroway passing adds to the tragedy of these times so viscerally. Rest in Power, Michael! The world in general and the world of sociology is less because you are no longer in it! 010
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This is unconscionable. We must resist this. And now! Otherwise we are equally complicity in xenophobia and exploitation. If we do not stand up for them then we are engaging in a practice, where we are happy to use them for revenue and benefit from their talents but only as indentured labor. 130