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…
From Empire’s Labourers To Nation’s Outsiders – Jahidul Hassan
The question of belonging is not a very old concept; it was shaped with the British annexation of Assam with…
Exploring Labour and Environmental Conflicts in Kerala, India with Silpa Satheesh
Silpa Satheesh is working as an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode. Her primary areas of interest…
Curated Belonging: Surveillance, Labour, and Intimacy in Ambience Mall – Saddam Hussain
Introduction: Mall as a Symbol of Modernity and Exclusion Ambience Mall, situated in Vasant Kunj, urban South Delhi, is a…
Labour, Nature and Capitalism: Exploring Labour-Environmental Conflicts in Kerala, India by Silpa Satheesh (2025): A Review by Sony R K
Silpa Satheesh’s Labour, Nature, and Capitalism: Exploring Labour-Environmental Conflicts in Kerala, India, contributes to the existing literature on environmental and…
A Tryst with Nature: Labour, Self, and Language by Savyasaachi (2023): A Review by Tania Sen
“When there is a loss of the symbolic universe alongside the loss of language, then people’s epistemological and ontological imagination…
Its Time to Care: Preliminary Findings From Time Use Survey, India – 2024 – Apurva K H and Abhishek Sharma
Gender is an organizing principle of society, historically constituted and works in intersection with other structural features of society such…
Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India by Dolly Kikon and Bengt G. Karlsson (2019): A Review by Abhishek Kumar Yadav
Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India by Dolly Kikon and Bengt G. Karlsson (published by Cambridge…
Sociology of Commodity Fetishism: A Humanist Approach – Chahat Walia
“Establishing economic value requires the disvaluing of all other forms of social existence” (Esteva, 2010) This article argues that hyper-consumerism…
Blending Formality and Informality (In) at RVS – Anjali Sidhwani
As part of a research project awarded through the Shivlal Sawhney Scholarship by the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi,…