Aditya Balasubramanian
Senior Lecturer at ANU School of History
Working on Roads
Book: Toward a Free Economy @princetonupress.bsky.social
Order: tinyurl.com/5andt77x (USA/UK) tinyurl.com/2p88pvmv (India)
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianBringing together stories of environment and Empire, genocide and ecocide, war and peace – Sunil Amrith's The Burning Earth is a razor-sharp study of accountability for the climate crisis. The Burning Earth is shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize. Learn more here bit.ly/3WsTunW
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- Beyond ridiculous decision www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianOn modern China, see press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
- Found Rule of Experts overrated but @adamtooze.bsky.social’s Statistics and the German State is outstanding and so worthy of being retaught and re-read. Prob my favorite of his books after Wages
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianPrivate consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run. My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... A thread
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianAnd let me take this opportunity to say again: WHITE PPL ARE NOT OPPRESSED IN SOUTH AFRICA
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianCelebrating my beloved, brilliant colleague Prasenjit Duara on the occasion of his 75th and his retirement. “Colleague” doesn’t quite encompass my fondness and gratitude. Prasenjit has been mentor, teacher, friend, and teammate. I am so happy we will be toasting and roasting him for two whole days!
- Reposted by Aditya Balasubramanianthank u to @itihaasnaama.bsky.social for recommending my new book The Future That Was alongside these amazing authors @kalramnath.bsky.social @abalasub.bsky.social 🥰💕 youtube.com/shorts/S99MW...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianAll cuts, at all Unis, should be stopped until the rot at the top of every single one of them has been thoroughly examined. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
- Reposted by Aditya Balasubramanian8/8 The issue ends with a second regular review by Raheel Bashir (Jawaharlal Nehru University) on "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2023) by @abalasub.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianI’m sorry what? I was not aware anyone taught grad students how to read 😭 Both my schools just threw us into the theory fire. “Here’s Chakrabarty. Good luck” 😘 Make this a great thread plz.
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianThis map shows how unevenly Nobel Prizes have been distributed across the world.
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianTaylor Fritz is getting clowned by players like Shelton and Tiafoe about a video in which he couldn't do basic multiplication, but there's a bigger story about how tennis players are being set up to succeed—and fail—on social media videos. Read it at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/taylor-fri...
- There is a special place in hell for T&F
- Amsterdam University Press editors resign en masse following sale of most of its English language book programme to Taylor & Francis www.timeshighereducation.com/news/editors...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianThis is based on an interview I did last week. For days, I’ve been anxious about repercussions for speaking to media. I was totally overwhelmed to discover today that my colleagues have all stuck their necks out with me. I have the best colleagues! www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901572...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianHonours student, Pippa, spoke about her thesis on the history of higher education in Australia which was about “universities and governments putting profits over people.” She said she would like to see Vice Chancellor Bell, “demanding more public funding.” www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901699...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianWhat's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
- I just texted a friend that celebrity culture in academia should die but every rule has exceptions. Friends, Romans, the woman who gave us Life as Surplus, Family Values, Counterrevolution and more has joined and made this platform worth it. Welcome, Melinda! Follow her!! @melindacooper.bsky.social
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianComrades! Friends! Nemeses! The CfP for the annual meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies is open until next Friday, 11th of July. Send us your abstracts on all things law, political economy and modern authoritarianism. The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianBreaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianHello recent History PhDs! My School is supporting applications to the BA postdoc fellowship scheme (and selected applications to the Leverhulme). If you've always wanted to work with me or my super colleagues, get in touch! We have an excellent grants team to help you write your application.
- Reposted by Aditya Balasubramanianthere are a million reasons not to vote for cuomo but let’s start with the fact that he doesn’t fucking live here
- Reposted by Aditya Balasubramanian""I honestly don't feel like we've had anything from the university executive apart from gaslighting, from day one, it's really demoralising," one attendee said." @nteunion.bsky.social stands with #ANU staff. Things cannot continue as they are. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/899465...
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- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianSeems fitting that Trump named his social network after Pravda.
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- Super chuffed to get an AHR review! academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianRead it and weep on.ft.com/3FGos7B
- Reposted by Aditya Balasubramaniani uploaded A Night of Knowing Nothing and the short films of Payal Kapadia onto the internet archive. archive.org/details/a.-nig…
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianThe great historian of Southeast Asia, Anthony (Tony) Reid, died yesterday in Canberra, aged 85. His studies transformed our understanding of Indonesia and the region. A professor at the ANU for many years, he also founded institutes at UCLA & NUS. And he was a lovely person
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianOn Coco Gauff and her parents, a feel-good story in a sport full of cautionary tales, who were the big winners today at #RolandGarros. www.benrothenberg.com/p/coco-gauff...
- Super excited for this. Yay Durba!!
- Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianThank you to all the many new subscribers who have joined Bounces to read the Wim Fissette interview that went up last night, glad folks are enjoying it! If you haven’t yet subscribed or are on the fence, these happy folks can vouch for it! www.benrothenberg.com/p/wim-fisset...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianIn today’s @thehindu.com, my obituary for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: A Life of Defiance — www.thehindu.com/books/author...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianIn 1989 2 historians gave me a trunk full of material they’d used to write a book on the history of EDF.* Yesterday I finally got to pay it forward by giving to a grad student 18 boxes of painstakingly assembled photocopies of documents related to the early history of the French nuclear program
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianA rare work of history that gets more relevant with every year that passes following its publication.
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianChrist, Outlook is terrible
- Reposted by Aditya Balasubramanianimagine WANTING to receive two million emails
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianCongrats, ALP you really thought this one through
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- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianI’m reading an incredible book, which somehow manages to describe, in concrete terms, complex processes like globalisation, financialisation, the transformation of global energy markets, and the rise of state capitalism - all through the story of a single ship…! www.waterstones.com/book/empty-v...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianGood morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianWhen I was a PhD student, I wrote to President Carter asking of his relationship with Thatcher. It was a long shot & never in a million years did I believe he’d respond. He will forever be my favourite historical source & a President that I can’t not admire. I’ve read everything he’s ever said #RIP
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianIn case they skip over it in the obituaries, Jimmy Carter was the first and so far only US president to name the oppression of Palestinians as apartheid. He even wrote a whole book about it. bookshop.org/p/books/pale...
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianThe alleviation of women's abuse "is made less likely by the mandated subservience of women by Christian fundamentalists. What is especially disappointing...is the docile acceptance by so many strong Christian women of their subjugation & restricted role." - Jimmy Carter (RIP)
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianThe H1B program is not about national culture or merit. It's about engineering education in the Global South subsidizing massive corporate profits. It's about the transnational flow of easily exploitable migrants undermining labor rights in general.
- Reposted by Aditya Balasubramanian"you'll be visited by three spirits" The three spirits
- Congrats to AR Venkatachalapathy, in the newest crop of Sahitya Akademi Award winners!! sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/sahityaa...
- Why is this surprising to anyone?! Been happening for centuries
- A lawsuit claims that Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 14 other schools considered applicants’ family wealth and donation potential when choosing who to admit. nyti.ms/4028mN2
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianMe, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianI’m feeling harassed and intimidated just reading this.
- Reposted by Aditya BalasubramanianThe number of Black students entering Harvard Law School dropped sharply this fall after last year’s Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action in college admissions, according to enrollment data released on Monday. nyti.ms/3ZTrNYa
