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Arya Thomas

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Social Scientist of Labour and Gender | World of Work New Delhi- Kochi Currently postdoc at South Asian University AMR@lab https://projects.au.dk/amrlab Visiting Faculty at School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal.

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Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Mar 6

Some old notes compiled into an article, thanks to the generous patience and assistance from editor n com. Nandini Dhar from Jindal Global Uni, NCR.

Out finally!

Contemporary Gender Formations in India | In-between Conformity, Disse

The volume discusses critical issues surrounding the developments in gender movements in the last two decades in India following the Delhi rape case and the

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I'd like to be added, thanks

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7d

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 8d

The Global Sumud Flotilla is currently some 150 nautical miles from Gaza.

“Break the Blockade and End the Siege”: Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Speaks from Gaza Aid Flotilla

As the Israeli blockade of Gaza continues, a nearly 50-boat flotilla carrying humanitarian aid is currently some 150 nautical miles from Gaza. The grandson of Nelson Mandela, Nkosi Zwelivelile “Mandla...

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Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · 19d

Interesting!

The India Forum @theindiaforum.bsky.social · 19d

Before antibiotics were widely available, the Soviet Union continued using phage therapy for a longer time than most countries. By the time the world began facing the crisis of antibiotic resistance, this weapon in our arsenal had largely been forgotten.

The Bugs Fighting Superbugs

As antibiotics increasingly fail against dangerous bacterial infections, a century-old solution from the past, bacteriophage therapy, is making a comeback. India’s vast phage diversity offers a rare…

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Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Aug 31

Was happy to go back to alma mater JNU, New Delhi as a discussant in student led symposium on a discussion on power and feminism.

For a change, not just for the Tea shop!

Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Aug 17

Labour’s Polycrisis

A concept that takes on a life of its own often says a lot about the material conditions and structure of feeling of the time. Polycrisis, recently re-popularised by the historian Adam Tooze, was firs...

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Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Aug 7

The urban poor in Delhi city
Forced to 'embed' in an entanglement of land, law and jurisdictions!
2014: the cm sanctions, says, live here!
2025: court says, you can't!
Meanwhile, water and electricity came, then got taken back a month ago.

Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Jul 29

It's coming!

Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Jul 17

Our tree of life

Members of SGU- domestic workers union in Delhi, against evictions- entangled in land legal quagmire combined with xenophobic attacks as 'illegal' migrants from Bangladesh!

For housing rights
Against sludge

We push back, together under the shade of our tree

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Sébastien Fontenelle @vivelefeu.bsky.social · May 18

«Il n’y a pas de génocide à Gaza.» Raphaël Enthoven, 12 mai 2024.

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Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · May 18

Glacier gets Himalayan funeral as thousands of bodies of ice ‘die’

Scientists warn of a rapid acceleration in the loss of land glaciers, compounding climate change

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Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Apr 30

Revisiting cybersyn in times of techno- despotic regimes. Sigh.

Project Cybersyn: Chile's Radical Experiment in Cybernetic Socialism

Fifty years ago, a military coup violently ended Chile’s political experiment with socialism, and with it the nation’s technological experiment with cybernetic management.

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · Apr 1

Now announced... CfP: Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism London Conference, 'Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order'.

This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London

Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism

Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · Apr 9

Good morning,

Did you know that the cloud has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry? That a single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes?

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The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · Apr 7

Pleased to announce that the International Labour Review / @ilr-rit.bsky.social, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to #diamondOA with the Open Library of Humanities: www.openlibhums.org/news/797/

International Labour Review transitions to open access

The International Labour Review, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to open access with the Open Library of Humanities. GENEVA (ILO News) – Th...

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Apr 7

Women bear the brunt of extreme heat in Sri Lanka’s war-torn North, Amita Arudpragasam writes

Women bear the brunt of extreme heat in Sri Lanka’s war-torn North

This story was produced with support from Internews’ Earth Journalism Network. TEMPERATURES ARE RISING again. In the first-ever women-run cashew processin

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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · Mar 24

We don't talk about this enough but the history of #PaleoAnth has "colonial overtones" - to put it lightly! Chapeau to all efforts to decolonise #HumanEvolution 👏

🏺🧪 #science

Nature @nature.com · Mar 24

Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage

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Why Africans should be telling the story of human origins

Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage.

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Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Feb 8

Companion through bleak times. .

Endings are evasive, and let's you stay with the 'incompleteness' of stories, lives and actions.

Zahid Rafiq's the world with its mouth open

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · Feb 5

"Here surely lies sociology's distinctively
public purpose: to represent humanity's interest in containing the unbridled tyranny of the market and
state." May others go forward in memory of Michael Burawoy. www.asanet.org/michael-bura...

Michael Burawoy | American Sociological Association

Michael BurawoyPresidential Address - Video, PDF

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · Feb 4

While I work on this year's valentine, here's last year's.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a wood frog stands on a pink background. The text says: "Feeling unlucky in love? Did you know that male Wood Frogs have difficulty perceiving members of their species? Here are some things they’ve been documented trying to mate with." "Spotted Salamander." The wood frog looks at a large yellow-spotted salamander, with a heart over the frog's head. "Cattail." The frog looks amorously at a large cattail flower or "sausage." "Green frog." The wood frog looks at a large confused-looking green frog. "Dead fish." The wood frog stares at a large dead fish. "Live fish." The wood frog looks amorously at a large trout. "Pine cone." The wood frog looks at a large pine cone. The final text says: "Sorry, there's no moral here. I just thought you'd enjoy this fact about frogs."

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Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Feb 5

RIP Michael Burawoy

Juliet Schor @julietschor.bsky.social · Feb 5

Michael Burawoy is one of the reasons I came to love sociology. I admired him so much, both for his scholarship and activism, but also his deep humanity. It was a privilege to know him and the many brilliant students he produced. What a profound loss to the world we have suffered today. RIP Michael.

Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Jan 29

Adieu to the Chronicler of our times

Tarun Bhartiya (1970-2025): The bird that flew the coop

The North East, and Shillong in particular, has lost its foremost archivist and chronicler of sad, happy, ordinary and extraordinary events and people.

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Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Jan 24

In the time of twin transitions, a significant reminder to labour studies and labour anthropologist, "The trouble was I had my back to future – and this is the sixth ethnographic fallacy – studying the present as a point of arrival rather than a point of departure"

Ethnographic fallacies: reflections on labour studies in the era of market fundamentalism - Michael Burawoy, 2013

Michael Burawoy reflects back on 40 years of industrial ethnography in Zambia, the USA, Hungary and Russia to discover the mistakes he made and, thus, to infer ...

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Dominic Martin @dominic-martin.bsky.social · Jan 24

Exciting PostDoc opportunity in the second phase of our Kilimanjaro Social-Ecological System project!

The 4-y position based at @ufz.de in Leipzig focuses on the environmental social science part of the synthesis subproject.

Advert: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31...
Deadline: 16.2.

Postdoc (f/m/x) at the interface of social-ecological research and sustainability transformations research

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · Jan 22

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (By the art activist collective Led By Donkeys)

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