Shakthi
@Shakthi_2016
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feminist geographer | Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam @UvA_Amsterdam | gender, labour, mobility, tech work
Joined May 2011
Happy to share my new paper, ‘Affective exits: Leaving as desire against neoliberal futurity’ in @SocCultGeog Focussing on the Indian IT industry, it bridges emotional and labour geographies, offering ‘weighted temporalities’ as a way to think through the felt quality of time.
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Tonight, August 10, Anas Sharif, @AnasAlSharif0, renowned Palestinian journalist, & father of two was bombed to death by Israel alongside his peer, Mohammad Qaraqei. I will refrain from sharing the gruesome video of his murder, but he died in his press vest, which was mostly
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In writing this article, I drew from the work of @BenAndersonGeog @ProfSrilaRoy @outtaKimbo @HarrygPettit and others, which I found invaluable for bringing together the themes of affect, neoliberalism, and temporality.
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The paper is part of a special issue on ‘Geographies of Leaving’ edited by @rachelcolls Link #openaccess : https://t.co/yZJaoG16Lg
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This article explores the desire to leave a profession, and what this desire signifies about the conditions of work in the global economy. The setting for this research is the Indian information te...
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"Five years have passed, almost. Half a decade. That’s time enough for people to complete their PhDs and look for jobs, time enough to fall in love, marry and have a baby..." Is it time enough for our release?" https://t.co/jc3fP9zm0b
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Umar Khalid finds solace in Dostoevsky's prison reflections, exploring themes of hope and despair in captivity.
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Concentration camp 2025 Starving people forced to walk miles under scorching heat. Lined up like animals, only a few are fed. Some are arrested, Some are shot at. New Israel US joint venture. The worst humanity is capable of from the bastions of Power. We. Must. Stop. This.
🚨Thousands of starved Gazans storm the dystopian Israeli-American aid complex in Rafah after being forced to stand in endless queues & bake in the sun in a fenced concentration camp while being subjected to biometric surveillance US mercenaries & Israeli troops are opening fire
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The Faculty Association of @AshokaUniv strongly condemns the arrest of Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, on 18 May 2025, on groundless and untenable charges. 1/-
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Join us on January 21, 2025, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at the Chennai Photo Biennale, VR Mall, for Sudaroli – a photography field visit and introductory workshop led by Priyadarshini Ravichandran. (1/2)
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Please consider submitting your best work and share it in your networks.
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Writing this @GPCjournal review of @chowdhury_romit ‘s City of Men was an absolute pleasure. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in masculinities and urban working lives in South Asia (and beyond),
Book review of City of men: masculinities and everyday morality on public transport https://t.co/TI989BFQ9Y
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The death of GN Saibaba is not just a tragedy; it is an institutional murder executed with impunity, facilitated by a system designed to crush dissent. For close to a decade that the Indian state held him in inhumane conditions, knowing full well the impact it would have on his
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🇺🇳 A new damning UN report on Israel asserts it is carrying out the crime against humanity of extermination. 🇵🇸 This will be barely reported in Western Media. So here are some of its findings (link to full report below). 🔴 Attacks against health-care facilities directly
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This research was first presented at the anti-caste thought conference organised by @DhandaMeena and @KRManoharan - grateful to them, @GAURAVJPATHANI2 and others for their feedback.Also @lapshiii @SevenDeviled @ssjodhka @HariBapuji @ajanthasub and more whose work shaped the paper
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Very belatedly sharing my article in @southasiajsas on caste dynamics in the Indian information technology industry. In the paper, I use the term ‘corporate Brahminism’ to discuss the intersections between caste and capital. https://t.co/5KXcNj3306
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This article investigates caste dynamics within the information technology (IT) industry in Chennai. While there has been considerable commentary on the dominance of ‘upper’ castes within the indus...
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Gaza solidarity encampment at @UvA_Amsterdam! Talks by faculty planned for 6. Let’s try and stay later as well, in case the riot cops turn up as usual
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Feminist philosopher and scholar Nancy Fraser from @TheNewSchool is uninvited by the University of Cologne #Germany as Albertus Magnus Professor and all planned May 2024 events are cancelled because she expressed solidarity with #Palestine @strikegermany
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Dr. Hamdi Baroud, a prominent law professor and former Dean at Al-Azhar University's Faculty of Law, was detained by Israeli forces on 27 January. His body was discovered this week, bearing bullet wounds. Israel's relentless assault on Palestinian education continues.
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Survivors of the Flour Massacre said “this was a trap”. They were ordered by the army to arrive to the spot of the massacre, others baited there with aid trucks carrying flour.
As Israel's military continues to block trucks of humanitarian aid from entering northern Gaza, it started making phone calls to the residents ordering them to evacuate through Al Rasheed Streets, at which at least 104 civilians were killed this morning, towards Al Mawasi in the
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