Recorded sessions from the Caste as Practice research network are now live on CRASSH's YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?lis....
Damni Kain
@damnikain.bsky.social
PhD @Cambridge Sociology, Gates Cambridge Scholar 2024 | Cambridge Trust-Commonwealth Scholar 2022 | Convenor @Techatwork2024, CRASSH, Cambridge | RA @towardsfairwork | Researching: Caste, Digital Labour, Platform Economy, Ethnographic Methods
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.
Next was a great panel on the past, present, and future of the study of the Indian caste system at @crasshlive.bsky.social with Joel Robbins, Joel Lee, Surinder S. Jodhka, and Manali Desai www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH6y... (4/5)
CRASSH | Caste beyond Dumont
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I am delighted to share my article, The Odour of Segregation, where I explore how odours associated with the spatial boundaries of caste ghettos act as a powerful mechanism for reproducing caste boundaries. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The odour of segregation - Jusmeet S Sihra, 2025
This article explores odour as a powerful mechanism in reproducing caste and investigates how odour affects caste boundaries. Based on embodied ethnographic fie...
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'Creative Interventions in Prison and De-carceral Activism: Sharing knowledge and practice' Join us from 21-22 Feb for workshops, screenings, and talks about engaging creatively and critically with mass incarceration. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45377
Creative Interventions in Prison and De-carceral Activism: Sharing knowledge and practice - CRASSH
Convenors Joey Whitfield (Cardiff University) Oliver Wilson-Nunn (University of Cambridge) Speakers Lucy Bell (Sapienza University of Rome) Koshka Duff (University of Nottingham) Clara Panozzo Zénere ...
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Passports, past and future: @michaelabenson.bsky.social explores citizenship, post-Brexit Britain and the changing status of HongKongers. 🔎 Our #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project offers free educational resources, including video lectures, lesson plans and reading lists. buff.ly/4j8HthF
‘Global Britain’ and the coloniality of British citizenship - Prof Michaela Benson
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Today 4PM ET book talk with @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social on Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries. Join us on DigiLabour Channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...
Penned some thoughts as we welcome the 'new' year! This is not a pessimistic retraction from celebrating 2025, but mere reflections on how eccentric time and temporalities are and how strangely they place us!
New on our blog: a quiet revolution taking root in Punjab. platform.coop/blog/the-unt...
The Untold Rise of Punjab’s Collective Ecosystem | Platform Cooperativism Consortium
Source: Instagram account of Unati Agri Allied and Marketing Multistate Cooperative Society Ltd. Farmers in India are struggling. Most own small plots—often no larger than two soccer fields—and…
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Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest for a forthcoming Special Section of The Sociological Review journal. Editors: @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social and Karis Campion. Submission deadline is 13 January. buff.ly/4izyRjO Keffiyeh artwork: buff.ly/41uSBir
Today is publication day for the new book - Critical Data Studies. But since my copies are stuck in Holyhead parcel pileup & open access version not yet available on publisher website I'm saving marketing stuff to new year. As a launch day it's a bit of an anti-climax! But it's no longer 'in press'
Congratulations to Saloni Atal who has been shortlisted for the most influential article of the year by NextBillion. The article shares insights on how to measure systems change - nextbillion.net/measuring-sy...
Measuring Systems Change: Three Tools for Understanding Your System-Level Impact
Analysts explore the challenges of measuring system-level impact, and share some measurement tools for initiatives focused on systems change.
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We are looking for a new Outreach and Communications Officer as our wonderful current officer is moving on to a new role: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49463/
Outreach and Communications Coordinator (Part Time, Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Outreach and Communications Coordinator (Part Time, Fixed Term) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.
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#JobOpportunity: join us! The Foundation is seeking two new Sociological Review magazine editors to build on the excellent work of outgoing editors Milena Kremakova and Asiya Islam. Interested? Don’t delay – 19 December is the deadline to apply. buff.ly/3B99lBe
The wonderful Damni Kain and I will be organizing a symposium titled Titled “Movement in (Ethnographic) Method” in May at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social as part of The Sociological Review Seminar Series. More soon! thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
The Sociological Review Seminar Series 2025: winners announced
The 2025 winners, with funding from the Sociological Review Foundation, will lead academic symposia on movement in ethnographic method, feminist liberation imaginaries, social engineering after techla...
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Now, you can easily compare and choose digital platforms based on their Fairwork scores, which reflect how they measure up against Fairwork principles. Whether you're a consumer looking for ethical choices or a worker seeking better opportunities, this tool helps you prioritise fairness.
Fairwork@towardsfairwork.bsky.social · 2y ago⭐ This holiday season, #ChooseFairness! Use #Fairwork's tool to find platforms with the fairest working conditions near you. Many fall short, but your choices can drive change. Let’s build a just digital economy together! 🎉 Explore now: www.fair.work @oiioxford.bsky.social
The latest @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Magazine issue is out and it’s about ‘Waste’. It offers a range of reflections on waste, wasting away, and wasted lives, thinking about gender, race and capitalism.
The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · 2y agoWasted goods, wasted lives: our #TSRWaste issue, edited by @asiyaislam.bsky.social , draws on thinkers from Françoise Vergès to Zygmunt Bauman to take a closer look at food apps, sanitation workers and fishing communities, floods of fast fashion in Ghana, and much more. buff.ly/4iolWBf
Big thanks to TSR for supporting @snehaannavarapu.bsky.social and me in organising the symposium — 'Movement in (Ethnographic) Method: Space, Time and Theory'. Call for participants will be out soon! Also, do not miss the promising keynote lectures by Nayanika Mathur and @asiyaislam.bsky.social
The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · 2y agoBig ideas: four teams focusing on subjects ranging from #azadi and imaginaries of liberation to social engineering after #techlash have received funding for 2025 events via the latest Sociological Review Seminar Series grant round. Read about the winners: buff.ly/4f7jz36
In the Philippines, @towardsfairwork.bsky.social worked with two gig worker unions to develop a pamphlet answering frequently asked questions that workers have. fair.work/en/fw/public...
NEW BLOG from #FairworkIndonesia on the big changes ahead for Indonesia’s platform workers! 🇮🇩 🚨 President Prabowo’s campaign pledge to improve app-based jobs could bring key protections for millions of workers in the country: https://buff.ly/4fg6jJD @oiioxford.bsky.social
