Asiya Islam
@asiyaislam.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at LSE | Researching gender, work, digitalisation in the Global South | Editorial roles at Feminist Review & Otherwise Magazine
Catch @asiyaislam.bsky.social’s ‘A Woman’s Job’ and @rkdasgupta.bsky.social’s ‘Desi Queers’ in the lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social list of 10 great social science books for South Asian Heritage Month! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
Ten great social science books for South Asian Heritage Month - LSE Review of Books
To mark South Asian Heritage Month we've selected ten standout social science books that explore South Asian politics, history, culture and social change.
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📢 Call for Articles: #FeministReview, deadline extended: 4 January 2027, with newly added areas of focus: femrev.wordpress.com/call-for-pap... * All manuscripts will be reviewed AFTER the deadline. We encourage authors to use the full call period to refine their work.
Call for Papers: Articles
Deadline extended: 4 January 2027 Feminist Review invites article submissions. Feminist Review (FR) explores gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships with other social categories and sys…
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The symposium ‘Tensions of Care’ co-edited by @asiyaislam.bsky.social focuses on inherent ’tensions' of care, with particular attention to the dynamics of care in the Global South. ⬇️ antipodeonline.org/2026/04/22/t...
Symposium — “Tensions of Care” - Antipode Online
Organised by Jules Allen, Yasmeen Arif, Asiya Islam, Clare Walsh, and Sibylla Warrington This Symposium examines the “tensions of care” that permeate the everyday practices, politics and infrastructur...
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This symposium was nearly 5 years in the making but we are very proud of what we have put together with care on care. Contributions based on research in Zambia, Chile, Bolivia, Pakistan, India and the US.
Antipode@antipodeonline.bsky.social · 4mo agoSymposium — “Tensions of Care”, organised by Jules Allen, Yasmeen Arif, Asiya Islam, Clare Walsh, and Sibylla Warrington — five articles and two AV interventions available now antipodeonline.org/2026/04/22/t... @jjjules.bsky.social @oxford-anthro.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social
Please help share what must be one of the best jobs ever. We are looking for a writer to join @ourworldindata.org to work with our fantastic team including @maxroser.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social. £80k - £120k / ideally full time / location flexible ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...
We’re looking for a writer
We’re hiring a writer who can make the world’s largest problems understandable to our large Our World in Data audience.
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Good morning, kind reminder that when you endorse supposedly "immigration-friendly" narratives such as "we need immigrants to pick our vegetables/clean our shit/sweep our streets" (incl. the most recent Monbiot's piece) you're contributing to the creation of England's internal labour colony
So exciting to see A Woman’s Job make it into the hands of scholars who I admire!
Hatice Yıldız@hyildizhistorian.bsky.social · 11mo agoJust got hold of my dear friend @asiyaislam.bsky.social’s book, based on her brilliant research on female service workers in India. Can’t wait to dive in!
#FeministReview 139 is out! Our most recent #Currents Issue includes research and theoretical articles, and open-space creative writing, with many of them being open access. Have a look and join the conversations/ with us and the authors. Enjoy your reads! #FR139: journals.sagepub.com/toc/fera/139/1
The children killed in Gaza had names, and favourite subjects in school. They wanted to be teachers, doctors and astronauts when they grew up - the same as children in the UK and across the world. They were, and still are, someone's everything: their entire universe.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! Society for the Anthropology of Work and Anthropology of Work Review invite applications to the SAW Community of Writing Fellows, a 8-month writing mentorship program running September 2025 to April 2026. Applications due August 15, 2025 to Jennifer Shaw at jeshaw@tru.ca.
![The Society for the Anthropology of Work and the Anthropology of Work Review invite applications to join the SAW Community of Writing Fellows, a new 8-month writing mentorship program running from September 2025 to April 2026.
We seek six early-career scholars and graduate students working on topics related to labor and work from anthropological perspectives and who seek to develop submissions for the Anthropology of Work Review.
Our initiative is designed to especially support those who may not have robust mentorship supports in their home institutions, and we strongly welcome applicants from equity-deserving groups.
You’ll engage in…
• Monthly writing group meetings and peer feedback
• A developmental editing workshop with Ideas on Fire [ideasonfire.net]
• The opportunity to meet and learn from the AWR editorial collective
• A community of practice (CoP) approach to writing focused on collaborative, supportive, and rigorous writing development
Eligibility:
• Current graduate student or early-career scholar (within five years of PhD)
• Working on an article-length research manuscript related to the anthropology of work
• Committed to attending monthly meetings and engaging in one peer review between meetings
To apply, please submit a short application of max 500 words describing (1) your project and its fit with the anthropology of work, (2) your goals for writing and publishing, and (3) a brief note about your writing and mentoring needs. Applications due August 15, 2025 to Jennifer Shaw, SAW Mentorship Coordinator, at jeshaw@tru.ca. Questions are also welcome!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ibkr7wiji4zkj32duvmnqamn/bafkreiat2m32gw5w65o4zu7gupaxm7glnfjqyycojt7hjya622b7hgsdz4)
"The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers."
AI boom means regulator cannot predict future water shortages in England
Datacentres, which do not have to report amount of water used to cool servers, leave Environment Agency with no idea of shortfalls
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🚨 Calling all current students! 🚨 Take the LSE postgrad survey and win amazing prizes!!! info.lse.ac.uk/current-stud... @aikoiiris.bsky.social @hsw.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @smrodriguez.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social
We‘re not saying we have the best looking faculty but we’re not NOT saying that 💅🏼 (Spot the @lsemedia.bsky.social cameo!) @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @aikoiiris.bsky.social @banaji.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social
So glad that the brilliant keynote delivered by @feministonmarx.bsky.social at this year’s ILPC is now available for all to read. On using the ‘life-making’ approach in labour process theory.
Ale Mezzadri aka FeministOnMarx.@feministonmarx.bsky.social · last yr.My keynote for ILPC 2025 in Santiago is now published in an amended version in GLJ 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour... @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
Sharing a new article (co-authored with Dr Shannon Philip) - We offer 'embodied acting' as a concept to understand workers’ transformations of their selves & reproduction of gender inequalities in aspirational service work in the Global South. @lsegender.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social
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The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.
👏 Eminent scholar, author and activist Françoise Vergès is this year's Stuart Hall Public Conversation speaker.👏 📖 Read our recent conversation between Françoise Vergès and @asiyaislam.bsky.social on the relationship between class, race, gender and waste: thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/dec...
Pluto Press@plutopress.bsky.social · last yr.💥BOOK EVENT💥 Françoise Vergès will be the keynote speaker for the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation. 🗓️Sat, May 17 ⏰3 pm 📍@conwayhall.bsky.social
OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! UNBINDING IS OUT In this issue, as in the world around us, certainties unravel Curated by Fatima Raja otherwisemag.com/unbinding Photo credits: Rebecca Dongallo: www.flickr.com/photos/94467...
More than two and a half thousand now! Academics and educators say loudly TRANS RIGHTS.
Caroline Dodds Pennock@carolinepennock.bsky.social · last yr.Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Send your work to @feministreview.bsky.social!
Feminist Review@feministreview.bsky.social · last yr.#FeministReview is inviting article submissions. Authors should submit completed manuscripts through FR’s online submissions portal by 31 July 2025. We ask that article submissions be 6,000 to 8,000 words. For more details: femrev.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...
New publication - ‘Middle’ in urban India: The conceptual limitations of the global middle class - where I argue for the value of staying with the concept of 'middle-ness', rather than subsume it into the 'global middle class'. Please let me know what you think! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
‘Middle’ in urban India: The conceptual limitations of the global middle class - Asiya Islam, 2025
The 21st century has been branded the age of the global middle class. Against this sweeping claim, ethnographies show that there are as many middle classes as t...
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In the TV show #Severance, a chip inserted into workers’ brains enables them to split into two selves, one for work, one for life. @asiyaislam.bsky.social uses this example to reflect on her research with women workers in India and the act of transformation for the workplace @lsebr.bsky.social
The implications of splitting ourselves into different versions for work and life - LSE Business Review
In the TV fictional series Severance, a chip inserted into workers’ brains enables a company to split employees’ work and life selves. As they enter the lift at the corporate office, people transform…
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I’ve been a bit obsessed with Severance. And, of course, it made me reflect on my research (completely normal thing to do when watching TV). Thanks to @lsebr.bsky.social for hosting my reflections!
LSE Business Review@lsebr.bsky.social · last yr.In the TV fictional series Severance, a chip inserted into workers’ brains enables a company to split employees’ work and life selves. @asiyaislam.bsky.social uses this extreme example to reflect on her research with women workers in India.
I had the most wonderful time running a story writing workshop with my research participants. We spoke about what it is to be writer, who we can take inspiration from & what they want to share with the world. A lot more to come! Thanks again to @britishacademy.bsky.social for funding this project.
Asiya Islam@asiyaislam.bsky.social · last yr.I’m very excited about this project and so glad that @britishacademy.bsky.social took a chance on it! I’ll be using collaborative story writing to advance my longitudinal ethnographic research with young women in Delhi, eventually leading to a short stories anthology on women’s working lives.
You can now apply to our LSE Summer School course ‘Gender, Culture and Policy’ led by @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and @asiyaislam.bsky.social 📚 Learn about policy making as a queer and feminist issue while spending summer in London! ☀️☀️ www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
I’m very excited about this project and so glad that @britishacademy.bsky.social took a chance on it! I’ll be using collaborative story writing to advance my longitudinal ethnographic research with young women in Delhi, eventually leading to a short stories anthology on women’s working lives.
The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · last yr.We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Talent Development Awards. The scheme promotes the acquisition and advancement of skills in relevant areas by UK-based researchers, promoting innovative research methods in the SHAPE disciplines. Read more:
