Salman Khan
@salmankhilji.bsky.social
Sociologist and cultural geographer. Postdoc @ Edinburgh Uni. Wearable AI, platformisation, algorithmic management, affect, racialisation.
This account combines academic updates, thoughts & amateur photography.
This account combines academic updates, thoughts & amateur photography.
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But it’s also been a site of racism and racist violence for a century as well. It was especially bad in the 1970s and 1980s, with economic decline exploited by the National Front to foment racial hatred. As I say in my book:
September 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
But it’s also been a site of racism and racist violence for a century as well. It was especially bad in the 1970s and 1980s, with economic decline exploited by the National Front to foment racial hatred. As I say in my book:
Taking a practice-based approach to health, it adds to research on an as-yet underexplored dimension of how platformisation affects workers. Hoping to follow up on this with outputs on racialisation (up next!🤞🏼) and work value.
September 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Taking a practice-based approach to health, it adds to research on an as-yet underexplored dimension of how platformisation affects workers. Hoping to follow up on this with outputs on racialisation (up next!🤞🏼) and work value.
Based on ethnographic data collected during my PhD, this paper examines how the rise of digital platforms has recast the configuration of stressors in an already 'unhealthy' occupation - intensifying existing stressors like isolation, and bringing forth new stressors like algorithmic control.
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Based on ethnographic data collected during my PhD, this paper examines how the rise of digital platforms has recast the configuration of stressors in an already 'unhealthy' occupation - intensifying existing stressors like isolation, and bringing forth new stressors like algorithmic control.
would be keen to follow this!
September 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
would be keen to follow this!
I will be reading the experiences and struggles of Uber drivers in terms of not only regimes of value/orders of worth (see abstract), but also Bissell's work on 'anaesthesia' or numbing affects, tying the two together.
Read his insightful paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Read his insightful paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour
Building on critical geographic research on the embodied politics of labour that has explored how different forms of work transform bodily capacities for action, this paper argues that a body’s capac...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I will be reading the experiences and struggles of Uber drivers in terms of not only regimes of value/orders of worth (see abstract), but also Bissell's work on 'anaesthesia' or numbing affects, tying the two together.
Read his insightful paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Read his insightful paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
the paper (in progress) looks at new geographies of difference in a platformised taxicab trade - more hopefully soon! :)
August 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
the paper (in progress) looks at new geographies of difference in a platformised taxicab trade - more hopefully soon! :)