“Women silenced across ranks: LSE’s mishandled sexual misconduct investigation into professor” So angry and so unsurprised. thebeaverlse.co.uk/sexual-miscond…

How should educators respond in the classroom when criticality assumes characteristics of orthodoxy? Kira Huju explores the curious case of comfortable criticality. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio…

👇A short E-International Relations piece on my book, "Cosmopolitan Elites": Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order e-ir.info/2024/03/18/ind…

In "Decolonizing Indian International Relations: Postcolonial Populists and Ethical Quandaries," Kira Huju (LSE Intl Relations) examines the politics and ethics of decolonizing Indian International Relations in times of Hindutva. casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/kirahuju

What happens when the formerly left-wing language of anti-imperialism is added to the nativist politics of Hindutva? Read Kira Huju's India in Transition piece about 'postcolonial populists' and thinking through academic decolonisation. casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/kirahuju

Using nativist Hindutva politics+anti-imperialist argot, 'Decolonial Hindutva' dates Indian subjugation to Mughals, not British raj, thus allowing Hindutva to subsume its anti-Muslim politics under the banner of decolonial nation building, says Kira Huju thewire.in/world/the-chal…

Now in HINDI, BANGLA, and TAMIL: In "Decolonizing Indian International Relations: Postcolonial Populists and Ethical Quandaries," Kira Huju (LSE Intl Relations) examines the politics and ethics of decolonizing Indian International Relations in times of Hindutva. casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/translatio…

👇🏻 I write in Scroll.in about ”postcolonial populists” and what they mean for the future of decolonial argumentation

For two years Johan has been wrongfully imprisoned. He shares a small cell 2m x 3m with three other inmates. The cell has no windows and artificial light is on 24/7. There are no mattresses. This must end now! #freeJohanFloderus

Interested in teaching International Relations of South Asia (IRSA) at SOAS Politics? Please consider applying for this fixed term (0.5FTE) lectureship. vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/544998

Many of the in-built contradictions in the liberal international order were pointed out by critics early on. How was contestation made acceptable by people in power? My article draws on the sociology of knowledge to explore the 'normalization of deviance’ doi.org/10.1093/isagsq…

📩 1st review of my book is in & I’m blushing “Huju’s display of empirical and analytical rigour is brilliant […] This book is a must read to understanding contemporary Indian outlooks on the world.” Thank you for this generous assessment to The Lowy Institute and Adarsh Badri

Talking about my book Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order ☝🏼 - with Subir Sinha at SOAS at 17.00 today All very welcome!

Welcome home, dear Johan 🤍 Free Johan Floderus #freejohanfloderus

👀 Had a blast doing this podcast interview about my book on Indian diplomats and the social lives of global order with New Books Network 📚 Especially fun as I’ve been a faithful listener of NB South Asia 📚 and NB Critical Theory 📚 for years 🙏🏻 Listen here👇🏼 newbooksnetwork.com/cosmopolitan-e…

Just published in CSA: By treating the upper caste as an ethnographic category, Akhil Kang's article shows what an endeavour of flipping the ethnographic gaze away from Dalits and onto the upper caste looks like. Read Akhil's full article: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New job in South Asian Studies at Oxford Oxford School of Global & Area Studies is now live! An Associate Professorship for *any* social scientist working on the contemporary politics or political economy of the region who can show global relevance of their research. CSASP Oxford Uni shorturl.at/GegJ1

🥁New article! Notice how 🇮🇳 rarely explicitly criticizes or even names 🇨🇳 in diplomatic speech? Well Raphaëlle Khan & I have a theory for that. Our new BJPIR article draws on language pragmatics to argue that 🇮🇳 often signals via a mode of indirect speech called "implicature"