Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️

Word of the day. Kakistocracy - a system of government in which a country is ruled by its least competent, least qualified or most unscrupulous citizens. It describes a government in which incompetence, corruption, and unfitness for office become defining characteristics of those in power.

Delighted to join the Advisory Board of the @americananthro.bsky.social Interest Group on NGOs and Nonprofits. Looking forward to critical anthropological analysis and discussions on the opportunities/challenges of #nonprofits, #NGOs and #internationaldevelopment in a fractured world. #anthropology

Happy Thanksgiving Canada, and to everyone around the world! So much to be grateful for! May truth, peace and compassion prevail in the world. 🙏🕊️🌏🌍🌎

Today, my hope in humanity is restored as the @nobelprize.org for Peace is awarded to Navi Pillay, an international judge of the International Court of Justice "for her efforts to promote peace and international law.” It's life-affirming when right wins over might! Check out my new article on this.

Happy to share my latest travel article "Buddhist Mountain Temples of Bhutan" in the latest issue of Tashi Delek Magazine. Buddhist temples are perhaps one of the most striking and culturally-spiritually profound features of the Bhutanese landscape. Stay tuned for the book! #Bhutan #Buddhism #peace

There is still a long road ahead of us, as battles that were won long ago by feminists like @gloriasteinem.bsky.social, have recently come undone by narrow-minded shortsighted patriarchs & broligarchs. Rest in Power Gloria. We got this. We will finish what you and others started. We shall overcome.

As tributes pour in from all over the world they speak to her ability to listen to people. I met her on her book tour for "Revolution from Within". The book changed my life. She told me I was doing an amazing but difficult thing as a woman engineer, that needed doing, & to keep dong it. I felt seen.

She was a role model for many women, and men. Her radical approach to bringing about much needed social change. Her radical writing. Her epic quotes. Her ability to bring people together to mobilize for change. She was an important leader and symbol for the #feminist movement. Rest in Power Gloria.

Among a week of unrelenting losses, an icon and feminist trailblazer @gloriasteinem.bsky.social passes away. One of the most influential leaders of the 2nd wave of #feminism. She was radical. An intellectual. An activist. A feminist. A journalist. A writer. An innovator. Unapologetic. Rest in power.

Happy to share my 1st article on Substack on the destruction from the flash flood in Nepal, "Nepal: 'The Perfect' Climate Storm - When flash floods, GLOFs, earthquakes and overdevelopment collide together in the time of the climate emergency". Please check it out and subscribe! #climate #Nepal #GLOF

Climate loss and damage funds must go to countries like #Nepal, who are at the frontline of the climate crisis, but did little to bring about the #climate emergency. This is right. We need to fix an economic system based on endless growth that externalizes environmental costs. This is long overdue.

Overconsumption and climate emissions generated in the global north, beyond its fair fare, generate climate loss and damage in the global south. This is unjust. The global north takes needs to take responsibility for #climate loss and damage it is responsible for in the #globalsouth. This is just.

Destabilization of Himalayan glaciers due to rising temperatures is caused by human activity. Some countries emit more CO2 than their fair share. Nepal emits far below its fair share. People in #Nepal bear the brunt of climate emissions generated elsewhere on the planet. This is not fair. #climate

Deeply shaken by the news out of #Nepal. A GLOF (glacial lake outbursts burst) so strong that it simulated an earthquake of 5.2, caused a wall of water to crash down, tearing through dams, towns, bridges - the cause of the horrific loss of life and destruction that followed. This is climatechange.

My thoughts are with people whose lives were destroyed in #Nepal. So many lost their lives, families, friends, homes, land, communities, crops, animals, livelihoods. All of that, now gone. Hundreds of people are missing. Not to mention loss of animal life and environments. This is climate change.

A win for every woman in the world.

Delighted to share my latest article on "The Majestic Mountain Fortress-Temples of #Bhutan" in my regular travel column in this issue of Tashi Delek, Drukair's inflight magazine. Stay tuned, a book containing this article, and all my other articles (of which there are now many!) is being planned.

No words necessary. Okay, maybe just one. Karma. #fifaworldcup #footballworldcup

Happy 91st Birthday to His Holiness The Dalai Lama, who continues to be an inspiration to the world. An Ocean of wisdom. May peace and kindness prevail in the world. 🙏🏼 #FreeTibet

Heureuse de voir notre article collectif publiée aujourd'hui sur l'importance d'aller "beyond GDP" dans @theguardian.com et @lemonde.fr, et faire parmi 400 experts global compris @jasonhickel.bsky.social @deschuttero.bsky.social @thomaspiketty.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social et Joseph Stiglitz.

My thoughts are with everyone in Bhutan today, as a major 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Punakha. I hope everyone is safe, and that it did not cause too much trauma or damage. I am thinking of friends, colleagues, neighbors and all sentient beings in Bhutan. Please stay safe. 🙏🏼 #bhutan #earthquake

My thoughts are with everyone in Bhutan today, as a major 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Punakha. I hope everyone is safe, and that it did not cause too much trauma or damage. I am thinking of friends, colleagues, neighbors and all sentient beings. Please stay safe. 🙏🏼 #bhutan #earthquake

Following on the short in-memoriam I wrote for my mentor, friend and fellow #anthropologist Joachim Voss for @americananthro.bsky.social, I am honored to share the longer full-length version published by @cas-sca.bsky.social with moving quotes from #anthropologists James Fairhead and Johan Pottier.

As women gather from all over the world in Kathmandu to discuss #pastoralism & #rangelands I’m happy to share this edited volume published by #ICIMOD in 2016. While a decade has passed, issues of #gender & pastoralism continue to remain at the margins of development. www.academia.edu/9913252/Gend...

May the 4th be with you to protect the pale blue dot we call home. There is no planet B 🌍 May we have the wisdom to preserve & conserve all its resources, including all sentient beings we share our planet with. #Climate #adaptation and mitigation are the only way. We have the solutions. Use them! 🌏

The world must achieve gender equality. That’s all. #gender #genderequality #genderequity #feminism #genderequalitybeyondgdp

@jasonhickel.bsky.social SAPs were a neoliberal project aimed at rolling back of the State (ie social sevices, agricultural extension, etc). They increased women’s unpaid household, care and farming work burdens in the global south, and exacerbated gendered poverty (income, time) and inequalities.

What is the impact of IMF structural adjustment on social outcomes in the global South? Our analysis in the BMJ Global Health compiles evidence from existing empirical studies with advanced methods. The record is devastating. Buckle up:🧵 gh.bmj.com/content/bmjg...