Good morning, kind reminder that when you endorse supposedly "immigration-friendly" narratives such as "we need immigrants to pick our vegetables/clean our shit/sweep our streets" (incl. the most recent Monbiot's piece) you're contributing to the creation of England's internal labour colony
So exciting to see A Woman’s Job make it into the hands of scholars who I admire!
#FeministReview 139 is out! Our most recent #Currents Issue includes research and theoretical articles, and open-space creative writing, with many of them being open access. Have a look and join the conversations/ with us and the authors. Enjoy your reads!
#FR139: journals.sagepub.com/toc/fera/139/1
The children killed in Gaza had names, and favourite subjects in school. They wanted to be teachers, doctors and astronauts when they grew up - the same as children in the UK and across the world.
They were, and still are, someone's everything: their entire universe.
![The Society for the Anthropology of Work and the Anthropology of Work Review invite applications to join the SAW Community of Writing Fellows, a new 8-month writing mentorship program running from September 2025 to April 2026.
We seek six early-career scholars and graduate students working on topics related to labor and work from anthropological perspectives and who seek to develop submissions for the Anthropology of Work Review.
Our initiative is designed to especially support those who may not have robust mentorship supports in their home institutions, and we strongly welcome applicants from equity-deserving groups.
You’ll engage in…
• Monthly writing group meetings and peer feedback
• A developmental editing workshop with Ideas on Fire [ideasonfire.net]
• The opportunity to meet and learn from the AWR editorial collective
• A community of practice (CoP) approach to writing focused on collaborative, supportive, and rigorous writing development
Eligibility:
• Current graduate student or early-career scholar (within five years of PhD)
• Working on an article-length research manuscript related to the anthropology of work
• Committed to attending monthly meetings and engaging in one peer review between meetings
To apply, please submit a short application of max 500 words describing (1) your project and its fit with the anthropology of work, (2) your goals for writing and publishing, and (3) a brief note about your writing and mentoring needs. Applications due August 15, 2025 to Jennifer Shaw, SAW Mentorship Coordinator, at jeshaw@tru.ca. Questions are also welcome!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ibkr7wiji4zkj32duvmnqamn/bafkreiat2m32gw5w65o4zu7gupaxm7glnfjqyycojt7hjya622b7hgsdz4)
The Society for the Anthropology of Work and the Anthropology of Work Review invite applications to join the SAW Community of Writing Fellows, a new 8-month writing mentorship program running from September 2025 to April 2026. We seek six early-career scholars and graduate students working on topics related to labor and work from anthropological perspectives and who seek to develop submissions for the Anthropology of Work Review. Our initiative is designed to especially support those who may not have robust mentorship supports in their home institutions, and we strongly welcome applicants from equity-deserving groups. You’ll engage in… • Monthly writing group meetings and peer feedback • A developmental editing workshop with Ideas on Fire [ideasonfire.net] • The opportunity to meet and learn from the AWR editorial collective • A community of practice (CoP) approach to writing focused on collaborative, supportive, and rigorous writing development Eligibility: • Current graduate student or early-career scholar (within five years of PhD) • Working on an article-length research manuscript related to the anthropology of work • Committed to attending monthly meetings and engaging in one peer review between meetings To apply, please submit a short application of max 500 words describing (1) your project and its fit with the anthropology of work, (2) your goals for writing and publishing, and (3) a brief note about your writing and mentoring needs. Applications due August 15, 2025 to Jennifer Shaw, SAW Mentorship Coordinator, at jeshaw@tru.ca. Questions are also welcome!
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!
Society for the Anthropology of Work and Anthropology of Work Review invite applications to the SAW Community of Writing Fellows, a 8-month writing mentorship program running September 2025 to April 2026. Applications due August 15, 2025 to Jennifer Shaw at jeshaw@tru.ca.
@asiyaislam.bsky.social lecturing on our LSE Summer School course ☀️💻
"The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers."
🚨 Calling all current students! 🚨
Take the LSE postgrad survey and win amazing prizes!!!
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We published several research-based pieces in 2015 for @theconversation.com @theguardian.com @financialtimes.com etc. Our then policy messages/recommendations / now facts could easily be copied-pasted into 2025 @commonswec.parliament.uk’s report. Leave design matters! A few arguments below:
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We‘re not saying we have the best looking faculty but we’re not NOT saying that 💅🏼
(Spot the @lsemedia.bsky.social cameo!)
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So glad that the brilliant keynote delivered by @feministonmarx.bsky.social at this year’s ILPC is now available for all to read. On using the ‘life-making’ approach in labour process theory.
Sharing a new article (co-authored with Dr Shannon Philip) -
We offer 'embodied acting' as a concept to understand workers’ transformations of their selves & reproduction of gender inequalities in aspirational service work in the Global South. @lsegender.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social
The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees.
They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires.
If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.
👏 Eminent scholar, author and activist Françoise Vergès is this year's Stuart Hall Public Conversation speaker.👏
📖 Read our recent conversation between Françoise Vergès and @asiyaislam.bsky.social on the relationship between class, race, gender and waste:
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OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! UNBINDING IS OUT
In this issue, as in the world around us, certainties unravel
Curated by Fatima Raja
otherwisemag.com/unbinding
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More than two and a half thousand now! Academics and educators say loudly TRANS RIGHTS.
Send your work to @feministreview.bsky.social!
New publication - ‘Middle’ in urban India: The conceptual limitations of the global middle class - where I argue for the value of staying with the concept of 'middle-ness', rather than subsume it into the 'global middle class'. Please let me know what you think!
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In the TV show #Severance, a chip inserted into workers’ brains enables them to split into two selves, one for work, one for life.
@asiyaislam.bsky.social uses this example to reflect on her research with women workers in India and the act of transformation for the workplace
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Me:
I’ve been a bit obsessed with Severance. And, of course, it made me reflect on my research (completely normal thing to do when watching TV). Thanks to @lsebr.bsky.social for hosting my reflections!
I had the most wonderful time running a story writing workshop with my research participants. We spoke about what it is to be writer, who we can take inspiration from & what they want to share with the world. A lot more to come! Thanks again to @britishacademy.bsky.social for funding this project.
You can now apply to our LSE Summer School course ‘Gender, Culture and Policy’ led by @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and @asiyaislam.bsky.social 📚
Learn about policy making as a queer and feminist issue while spending summer in London! ☀️☀️
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I’m very excited about this project and so glad that @britishacademy.bsky.social took a chance on it! I’ll be using collaborative story writing to advance my longitudinal ethnographic research with young women in Delhi, eventually leading to a short stories anthology on women’s working lives.
I never met Carol Wolkowitz but always felt like I knew her a little through her writing which is (unlike a lot of academic writing) clear, careful, precise, and insightful. I have found myself returning to Bodies At Work to make sense of my research over the years.
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We passed LSE‘s APRC review with flying colours! 🎉🎉
Grateful to work in an intellectual space that foregrounds care and co-creation between faculty, students and staff!
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With the amazing @lsegender.bsky.social crew 😍
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Only one thing to do when your department is on the 11th floor - lift selfies! 📸
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