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Nikita Sud

@professorsud.bsky.social
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Professor, Politics of Development, Oxford Uni. Leverhulme Fellow. Study, teach: authoritarianism, postcolonial development, social justice, state, environment politics, India, Asia. Researching 📗: energy, extraction, assertion. Global South perspective.

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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Good to be on @beltandroadpod.bsky.social speaking about justice in the so-called just energy transition.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Mass starvation. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide. That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed. End all arms sales to Israel now.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is what fascism looks like, folks
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24/03/2025
“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.” Hossam Shabat’s final message to the world, shared by his team after Israel assassinated him this morning in northern Gaza.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Some spaces still available at this event for teachers & others interested in revealing hidden histories & geographies of empire: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revealing-...
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Revealing hidden histories and geographies of empire.
We aim to demonstrate more truthful historical and geographical stories and to make demands of our education system. We hope you join us.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Fossil interests have funded politics to undermine climate action for decades. See my @WorldDevJournal paper for fossil lobbies pressuring US politicians into backtracking on international climate commitments well before Trump: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot
As we move from dependence on fossil fuels towards zero carbon renewables, ‘just transition’ promises to leave no one behind. This paper has two objec…
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Returned journal paper without review as author conversing with converted. In refs to lit, acronyms etc., assumption that we know their canon. 'Canon building is empire building': Toni Morrison. In politics, teaching, writing, academics need to question & dismantle empire, not shore it up.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) deal the G7 signed with Indonesia. By @professorsud.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot New, open access. I trace the shift from 20C env justice struggles to depoliticized just transition agenda. I then study N-S climate finance JETP, showing takeover by capital www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot
As we move from dependence on fossil fuels towards zero carbon renewables, ‘just transition’ promises to leave no one behind. This paper has two objec…
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Two mainstream headlines. With @bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social highlighting 2 day temp injunction as *win* for Cambridge. Whereas judge ruled *against* 5 year protest ban uni lawyers sought. Win for right to protest and free speech. Yet more evidence BBC down the tubes. 0 credibility.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Back to school after more than a year of horror, many lost classmates, and most schools bombed to rubble. Meanwhile girls in Afghanistan are still not in school.
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Children in Gaza go back to school
Students in Gaza have gone back to school. Many are learning in classrooms scarred by damage inflicted by the war.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
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University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students
These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Received pages of constructive comments from 3 journal reviewers. Academia is being squeezed by narrowing public budgets, right wing suspicion of education, and degrees as credentialisation. But mad respect for so many people I'm honoured to call colleagues, even the anonymous ones.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
So this is how empires fall. One bad leader after the next, takeover by oligarchic cliques, backing war and genocide, antagonising allies, losing in the trade and production stakes to rising powers and losing their s*** in the process.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Looking forward to presenting from new @leverhulme.bsky.social funded research on the politics of energy transition in the big coal economies. @slcc-lse.bsky.social next Thursday, and at ISS, The Hague day after tomorrow.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Some hostages have names, family lives, feelings, health updates. Others are a nameless mass, easily overlooked.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Disappointing editorial from @indianexpress.com Calling Opp leader "petulant" fits Pappu propaganda. As a scholar, I'd go into layeredness of the state in hour long lecture. RG equating compromised institutions with "the state" in party speech is unremarkable. indianexpress.com/article/opin...
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Express View: From Rahul Gandhi, a disquieting petulance
By equating BJP government with state, opposing latter, he does a disservice to Leader of Opposition office
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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A ceasefire imminent. Israel bombing Gaza, attacking the West Bank, colonizing more land, torturing more Palestinians, collectively punishing an occupied people. We celebrate, we cry, we hold our breath to see what the next day brings.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Ugly pushback against the small gains made with movements such as Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, which began in the global cores of slavery and apartheid. Even the rallying call 'anti-woke' is telling. It demeans African American lingo around the revolutionary ideas of awakening, uprising
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Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
My 19 yo son wrote for @labourlist.bsky.social on why young men are attracted to Reform. The commentariat talk a lot about this phenomenon, but we rarely hear from the young men themselves. What struck me was that although "anti-woke" is part of it, so is economics. labourlist.org/2025/01/news...
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‘Why Reform poses a threat to Labour among young men’ – LabourList
With Reform rising in the polls, we asked a 19-year-old first-time voter, who backed Labour at the election, for his perspective on the threat Reform…
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/01/2025
Another baby in Gaza has died of hypothermia – the eighth such death as temperatures plummet amid the Israeli genocide in the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE Updates ⤵️
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Eighth Gaza baby freezes to death as Israel kills 88 Palestinians in a day
Israeli forces launch over 100 attacks in three days as US proposes $8bn weapons sales amid ongoing ceasefire talks.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Legacy of a genocidaire 🤮 www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...
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Biden notifies US Congress of planned $8bn arms sales to Israel: Reports
Package to include precision-guided munitions, artillery shells and air-to-air missiles, according to US media reports.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Looking at proofs for an article accepted for publication in a top journal in my field. Publisher: @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Elsevier charges 1000s of £s for article processing, but my article has had no copyediting. Cursory 'edit' has introduced errors. Are journals just 💰 for publishers now?
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The centre can't out-Right the Right. The Centre leans Rightward, and its constituency is poached. Liberals across institutional spaces attempting to 'meet other side halfway'. Result is validation of Right's performative agendas of being 'marginalised/minoritised', Hindu-phobia, Christian-bans, etc
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
New year, continued horrors www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Children among 22 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza on New Year’s Day
Early hours of 2025 witness intensive Israeli bombardment targeting homes and streets in northern Gaza.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
1/7 The @telegraphnews.bsky.social has published an attack on a Home Office course on British History that’s offered to civil servants. It’s revealing in more than one way. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Home Office ‘indoctrinating civil servants with distorted history of British Empire’
Professors say department’s staff are being exposed to course which is ‘full of exaggerations and misconceptions’
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Notices seen at London Heathrow airport: 'If you have been in Israel/Palestinian Territories and have witnessed or been a victim of terrorism, war crimes or crimes against humanity, then you can report this to the UK police.'
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Head in the clouds convo with GP surgery Me: hello, I have a letter from NHS for a cervical screening. Receptionist: Do you have a cycle? Me: yes. I park along the side of the building. Receptionist: (ignoring this!) Good, we'll see you mid-cycle. How about... So many euphemisms for women's health
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
MP Priyanka Gandhi in 🇮🇳 parliament with colleagues. Been attacked for carrying this 🇵🇸 bag by the Hindu Right that's asking why she hasn't made statements about other causes in a similar manner. For the idiots in the house, again: Solidarity is not transactional, or a tit for tat.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
What are your favourite festive fruit and nut cake / dessert recipes? These are dry fruits and nuts soaking in rum. Now what?
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
What's happening to academic journals? Top one in my field took months to process paper. Told me 'Revise & Resubmit' despite very +ve feedback from 2 reviewers. I did so, and have got another R&R 2 months later. New reviewer also very +ve. Asks for some definitional clarification. What?
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
As a K-drama fan, have to say today's episode Democracy was the best ever.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Heard on the train: "they had an acrimonious divorce. She kicked him out. She's educated and feisty. Not a proper woman."
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Top on the spot reporting from Seoul 👏🏽
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Internet, can you think of colonial banking, energy, infrastructure corporations that are now investing in green energy, esp in the Global South? Writing a paper on renewables capitalism. Wasn't looking for these links across time, but keep coming across them. Thanks
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A personal piece on turning to nature in polycrises aeon.co/essays/an-es...
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An escape from industrial foods, foraging nourishes soul and body | Aeon Essays
Offering an escape from industrial foods, foraging nourishes the soul and body, but it needs democratic access to the land
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
✊🏽❤️
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
👋🏽🌍
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