Arya Thomas
@aryawa.bsky.social
World of Work, labour and health ecology, labour and Gender dynamics
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.
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
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
www.taylorfrancis.com
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!
Out finally!
Some auto sector gossip:
www.moneycontrol.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Some auto sector gossip:
Wages depressed, labour codes passed, removing many kinds of social protection previously available to the working masses
www.business-standard.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Wages depressed, labour codes passed, removing many kinds of social protection previously available to the working masses
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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.
October 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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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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...
www.democracynow.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Global Sumud Flotilla is currently some 150 nautical miles from Gaza.
Interesting!
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…
www.theindiaforum.in
September 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Interesting!
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!
For a change, not just for the Tea shop!
August 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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!
For a change, not just for the Tea shop!
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.
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.
August 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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.
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.
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
Delhi, 17 July 2025
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
Delhi, 17 July 2025
July 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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
Delhi, 17 July 2025
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
Delhi, 17 July 2025
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«Il n’y a pas de génocide à Gaza.» Raphaël Enthoven, 12 mai 2024.
May 18, 2025 at 5:16 AM
«Il n’y a pas de génocide à Gaza.» Raphaël Enthoven, 12 mai 2024.
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.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
April 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Revisiting cybersyn in times of techno- despotic regimes. Sigh.
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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
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
www.historicalmaterialism.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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
This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London
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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?
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri...
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?
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri...
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.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
April 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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?
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri...
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?
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri...
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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...
www.openlibhums.org
April 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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/
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
www.himalmag.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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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
🏺🧪 #science
Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage
https://go.nature.com/4iEQTkE
https://go.nature.com/4iEQTkE
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.
go.nature.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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
🏺🧪 #science
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
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
February 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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
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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"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...
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
www.asanet.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"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...
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...
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While I work on this year's valentine, here's last year's.
February 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
While I work on this year's valentine, here's last year's.
RIP Michael Burawoy
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.
February 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
RIP Michael Burawoy
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.
scroll.in
January 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Adieu to the Chronicler of our times
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 ...
journals.sagepub.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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"
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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.
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
recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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.
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.