Talking About Objects: Material Elicitation as a Method – Anwesha Panigrahi
Objects surely don’t talk. Or do they? The person in that living room gives an account of themselves by responding…
A Sociology of Fermented Foods: Who Forgot, Who Remembered, And Who Profits? – Ananya Roy Pratihar
Scroll through any social media platform, particularly during the summer months, and one encounters a proliferation of short-form videos like…
The Making and Unmaking of Domestic Workers in India: A conundrum of Data, Law and Policy – Aditi Yajnik
Introduction: Domestic Workers at the Margins of Labour Law Every year, Jantar Mantar becomes the centre of domestic worker mobilisations…
On Women, Artificial Intelligence and Its Real Consequences – Shimaila Mushtaq
AI has raised concerns and anxieties regarding loss of jobs, digital scams, data privacy, geopolitics, and even the potential to…
Doing Sociology in Public: Pedagogy, Practice, and Disciplinary Futures
Maitrayee Chaudhuri is a retired Professor of Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests have been…
Understanding ‘Shame’ in the Judicial Process – Ankita Chatterjee
Introduction Judicial decisions are supposed to uphold objective fidelity to facts and legal doctrines. Emotions are supposed to be kept…