This essay revisits Marc Bousquet’s insight that the flexibilization of labour is at the centre of the informatization of the university as it embraces the force of neoliberal regimes. This orientation of labour around processes of informatization draws on work undertaken by various researchers…
A materialist turn in the humanities and social sciences has revitalized work in feminism, science and technology studies, critical social theory and phenomenology. Nonetheless, we want to ask what’s at stake when ‘race’ is grasped from a materialist standpoint? Is…
This contribution is a reflection, conversation and debate between two people struggling to understand their own prejudices and interrogate the meaning of anti-racist politics. Acknowledging our own positions of privilege, we see ourselves as embodying whiteness: Dinesh as an Indian…
1. A Goan village
let’s see. when we came in there was a huge number of brits and some rich indians and a few backpackers, still very few tranceheads. so it wasn’t entirely sure whether it would get to
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technology corridor, southern California[1]
technoparks, surround me. equipped with a notebook, tape recorder and the questions of an ethnographer of science, i arrive.
a man white, moustache, casual dress, waits for me outside of the bathroom.…
Embodied Experience of Race and Gender in Precarious Work
Murat Kurnaz, born in Bremen but holder of a Turkish passport, is a well-known figure in Germany, due no doubt, at least in part, to his voluminous beard. A racializing interpretation…
Transnational Feminism – Terrorism: A round-table discussion between Scholars from the USA and Europe
Organised by Cultural Theory Institute and Sociology, University of Manchester, 23rd March 2006
Speakers: Gargi Bhattacharya (University of Birmingham, President (elect) AUT); Inderpal Grewal (University of California at Irvine); Ronit Lentin (Sociology, Trinity college, Dublin); Jasbir Kaur Puar (Gender Studies/Geography, Rutgers University)
