Suneel

Environmental and ecological anthropologist, Indus Delta, Pakistan, South Asia. Ontologies, multispecies ethnography, STS, New Materialism. Traveler & curious

[Integrative Conservation PhD Program @UGAICON]

The Center for Integrative Conservation Research is accepting abstracts for next year's Integrative Conservation Conference, New Visions for Conservation! Check it out! 🙌

[UGA Center for Integrative Conservation Research @UGACICR]

📢CICR is excited to announce our latest Integrative Conservation Conference, New Visions for Conservation, in Athens, GA from February 16-17, 2024! 📢

We hope to rethink conservation within & outside of the academy. 💡

Abstract deadline: 11/6/23. 📅
https://t.co/BiU8QP1Gck

[Suneel @suneeluga]

Excited to announce @UGAICON's Integrative Conservation Conference @UGAICC. This year's theme is New Visions for Conservation.

The event is hybrid from February 16-17, 2024.

The abstract and CfP are here: https://t.co/drC4bjZkuQ. The submission deadline is November 06, 2023.

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How to make "home" a field amid Covid. My brief thoughts on Patchwork ethnography #patchworkethno
https://t.co/I7RYKfBS3O

[Patchwork Ethnography @PatchworkEthno]

Patchwork Ethnography Conversations are back! Check out the latest conversation with Suneel Kumar here: https://t.co/rEv2GL1fAC

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@iconsuraj @UGAICON @UGAGradSchool Thank you Suraj @iconsuraj. I hope you are doing well.

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The British colonial language of the Indus River flows is remarkably violent, "...such a violence of stream....has cast up a dangerous sandbank" (Richard Burton). The transformative vocabulary reduces the river processes to dangers only.

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@UGAICON @cydneykate @UGAGradSchool Congrats, Cydney!

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@MairaHayat I agree. Once I talked about war on terrorism and its impact on Pakistan at informal gathering and they said SORRY. Then they talked about dogs for more than an hour.

[UGA Center for Integrative Conservation Research @UGACICR]

Tune in for a @UGACICR roundtable discussion on "Decolonization in Research & Science Practice"🌱💚🌎

When: 📅Dec 5, 2022, ⏰12:00 PM EST (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting: https://t.co/c0x2ihwEzU

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@areebxh Can I relate?

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@BhuttoZulfikar @WWFPak @WWFRiverDolphin I have stories from fisherman of Manchar Lake who told me how they used to make nets from akh and silk thread. Killing a fish in water with nets was a sin. Fish only should die when taken out of water.

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@akkhan81 Very well said!!

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@mfhusayn Many friends sof mine are leaving and most of them and even those who are in Pakistan advice me to leave Pakistan.

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@BhuttoZulfikar And now all eyes are on Keti Bunder and rest of the Indus Delta.

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https://t.co/F3XUkOOrIl

"If it happens to us, rich countries seem to say, we won’t starve. We can always eat you". An important read.

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An important thread on the politics of loans, development and the World Bank.

[Mubbashir Rizvi @Mubbashir_R]

Important Facts on WB and the Pandemic ⬇️

[Mubbashir Rizvi @Mubbashir_R]

Important Facts on WB and the Pandemic ⬇️

[Suneel @suneeluga]

Today, this annual pilgrimage is interrupted by the barrages and altered flow of the Indus River. One day, a fisherman took sand in his hand and asked me in anger and grief "how can fish move in the sand". We need water. Pallo needs water. Delta needs water. Water is life.

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Zulfiqar Bhutto shared a video of Khawaja Khizer's shrine which was swept away by floods. Local folklore tells the story of Pallo traveling from the sea to the river as the annual pilgrimage to this shrine. Khizer blesses Pallo and Pallo transforms into peer, gharo (red), pallo.

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In the past fishers of the Indus Delta would not dare to catch peer Pallo. Peer Pallo returns to the sea, fishers told me, to tell the story of their murshid - Khizer to other fish who cannot reach the shrine. In fact, other fish can see their murshid in peer pallo.