1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (327+ words) Practical steps to achieve this transformation include: 1. Curriculum reform: Courses should integrate South Asian, indigenous, and locally generated knowledge alongside Western theory, emphasising Bangladeshi social movements, ecological systems, and historical contexts — including the intellectual traditions of the Chittagong Hill Tracts…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (123+ words) Doing Sociology Attention and Alienation: The International Political Economy of Information and Communication Technologies: A Discussion with Aarushi Bhandari Aarushi Bhandari is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Davidson College. Her book Attention and Alienation: The International Political Economy of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (163+ words) Chubb, J., Cowling, P., & Reed, D. (2022). Speeding up to keep up: Exploring the use of AI in the research process. AI & Society, 37(4), 1439–1457. Morris, D. (2024). Magical thinking and the test of humanity: We have seen the danger of AI, and it is us. AI…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (66+ words) Doing Sociology A Book Discussion on Sociology of Gender in India: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2026) Editors: Pushpesh Kumar, Rituparna Patgiri and Deepali Aparajita Dungdung Discussants: Deepa Srinivas Professor, Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Hyderabad Leena Pujari…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (408+ words) The question sounded simple. “Why did you leave?” I had asked it many times before. During earlier fieldwork in Delhi, conversations about migration usually unfolded on their own. People spoke of work, families left behind, uncertain futures, and the quiet…...

2+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (64+ words) Doing Sociology A Book Discussion On the War on Tenure with Deepa Das Acevedo Deepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist and Associate Professor of Law at Emory University. Her book, The War on Tenure (Cambridge University Press, 2025) was named…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (215+ words) To understand Bastar today, the question is not merely whether Naxalism is ending. It is also what kinds of lives are taking shape alongside this claim. Life Between Village and City During 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork in 2022–23, I spent time…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (262+ words) Anju Sunil Pawar, kitchen staff Nilesh Jadhav, painter and floor installer His parents farm 2 acres of land in the Yavatmal district. They recently lost half their crop of 40 quintals of wheat to unseasonal rains, and their expected income would be…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (167+ words) Caste and the Regulation of the Senses Towards Reflexive Sensory Methodologies in the Social Sciences “The promise of sonic urban ethnography lies in its ability to interrupt the predominant focus on text and the visual by developing expanded practices of…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (218+ words) Objects surely don’t talk. Or do they? The person in that living room gives an account of themselves by responding to questions. But every object in that room is equally a form by which they have chosen to express themselves....