Hello Academic Tooters (#AcaTooters), as promised, this is my first thread for desi academics (thought not limited to) who want to connect with each other in this new space, and create a virtual support system. Please introduce yourself under here with your name, field, area of research, geographical location (optional). Once we have the thread going, I'll create a list.
Will be also holding future threads on conference, publishing, writing, and other #AcaWoes you can think of.
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To start of, this is Paridhi, I am a final year PhD student bases in Delhi, working on aesthetics of feminist movements in India.

@Paridhigupta

Hi and welcome.
I don't really understand you PhD, what is your problematic exactly?

@LienRag hi, it's about how can one look at women's movements, and learn from them

@Paridhigupta

Sorry, I don't understand, why "aesthetics" then?

@LienRag because I look at the aesthetics produced within protest and of protest to look at them

@Paridhigupta

Feel free to not answer if I'm bothering you, but I still don't understand your problematic.
How do you look at them? Why do you look at these aesthetics? In what perspective?

@LienRag I use the visuals as an empirical data to look at the aesthetics of the movement through the perspectives of social movement and visual theories.

@Paridhigupta

I never heard about visual theories, would you be kind enough to elaborate?

@LienRag it's an entire field of study. You can start by reading works of WJT Mitchell, Roland Barthes, Gillian Rose, Rancier.

@Paridhigupta

I have read a little bit of Barthes, but maybe not the parts that you think of?

@LienRag Camera Lucida by Barthes