Shakthi

feminist geographer | Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam @UvA_Amsterdam | gender, labour, mobility, tech work

[Shakthi @Shakthi_2016]

Happy to share my new paper, ‘Affective exits: Leaving as desire against neoliberal futurity’ in @SocCultGeog

Focussing on the Indian IT industry, it bridges emotional and labour geographies, offering ‘weighted temporalities’ as a way to think through the felt quality of time.

[Mohammed R. Mhawish @mrmhawish]

I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It was deep, painful, and at times unbearable.

It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Read in @NYMag

https://t.co/DBfVVfn4f0

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

Tonight, August 10,

Anas Sharif, @AnasAlSharif0, renowned Palestinian journalist, & father of two was bombed to death by Israel alongside his peer, Mohammad Qaraqei.

I will refrain from sharing the gruesome video of his murder, but he died in his press vest, which was mostly burned.

No bulletproof vest can protect against Israeli psychopathy.

Anas, like all journalists in Gaza, was killed for sharing the truth without filter. Doing what most journalists in their comfortable offices can’t— their job.

[Shakthi @Shakthi_2016]

@ProfSrilaRoy Thank you! :)

[Shakthi @Shakthi_2016]

Happy to share my new paper, ‘Affective exits: Leaving as desire against neoliberal futurity’ in @SocCultGeog

Focussing on the Indian IT industry, it bridges emotional and labour geographies, offering ‘weighted temporalities’ as a way to think through the felt quality of time.

[Shakthi @Shakthi_2016]

The paper is part of a special issue on ‘Geographies of Leaving’ edited by @rachelcolls

Link #openaccess :
https://t.co/yZJaoG16Lg

[N S @nandinisundar]

"Five years have passed, almost. Half a decade. That’s time enough for people to complete their PhDs and look for jobs, time enough to fall in love, marry and have a baby..."
Is it time enough for our release?"
https://t.co/jc3fP9zm0b

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Concentration camp 2025
Starving people forced to walk miles
under scorching heat.
Lined up like animals,
only a few are fed.
Some are arrested,
Some are shot at.

New Israel US joint venture.

The worst humanity is capable of from the bastions of Power.

We.
Must.
Stop.
This.

[Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 @maya206]

The Faculty Association of @AshokaUniv strongly condemns the arrest of Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, on 18 May 2025, on groundless and untenable charges. 1/-

[Prajnya Initiatives @prajnya]

Join us on January 21, 2025, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at the Chennai Photo Biennale, VR Mall, for Sudaroli – a photography field visit and introductory workshop led by Priyadarshini Ravichandran. (1/2)

[Hari Bapuji (హరి) 🇮🇳🇨🇦🇦🇺 @HariBapuji]

Please consider submitting your best work and share it in your networks.

[Shakthi @Shakthi_2016]

Writing this @GPCjournal review of @chowdhury_romit ‘s City of Men was an absolute pleasure. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in masculinities and urban working lives in South Asia (and beyond),

[Gender, Place and Culture @GPCjournal]

Book review of City of men: masculinities and everyday morality on public transport
https://t.co/TI989BFQ9Y

[Suchitra Vijayan @suchitrav]

The death of GN Saibaba is not just a tragedy; it is an institutional murder executed with impunity, facilitated by a system designed to crush dissent. For close to a decade that the Indian state held him in inhumane conditions, knowing full well the impact it would have on his health, all while cloaking its cruelty behind the veil of legality and the UAPA—a law that masquerades as national security but functions as a weapon of repression.

“Bombay's High Court granted Saibaba bail on medical grounds 14 months after his May 2014 arrest. (He was taken to hospital 27 times during this period, and his left hand became paralyzed.”

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

🇺🇳 A new damning UN report on Israel asserts it is carrying out the crime against humanity of extermination.

🇵🇸 This will be barely reported in Western Media. So here are some of its findings (link to full report below).

🔴 Attacks against health-care facilities directly resulted in the killing of civilians, including children and pregnant women, who were receiving treatment or seeking shelter and indirectly led to deaths of civilians owing to the resulting lack of medica l care, supplies and equipment, which constitutes a violation of Palestinians’ right to life. The Commission also concludes that such acts constitute the crime against humanity of extermination

🔴 The Commission finds that Israeli security forces resorted to perfidy when soldiers entered a hospital in Jenin dressed as medical staff and female civilians on 30 January. That action constitutes a violation of international humanitarian law .

🔴 Israeli security forces used detainees as human shields in several instances in the West Bank and Gaza, which constitutes a war crime. Israeli security forces transported detainees from the West Bank on the bonnets of Israeli security forces vehicles in the middle of an exchange of fire. They forced detainees into tunnels and buildings ahead of military personnel in the Gaza Strip.

🔴 The Commission finds that such persecutory acts continued in detention in the form of sexualized torture. Male detainees were subjected to attacks on their sexuality and reproductive organs, including violence to their genitals and anus, and were forced to perform humiliating and strenuous acts naked or stripped as a form of punishment or intimidation, with a view to extract information from them. Male detainees were subjected to rape, which is a war crime and a crime against humanity. Such acts of sexual violence, causing severe physical and mental suffering, also amount to torture.

[Shakthi @Shakthi_2016]

@SevenDeviled Thanks very much, Pallavi!

[Shakthi @Shakthi_2016]

Very belatedly sharing my article in @southasiajsas on caste dynamics in the Indian information technology industry. In the paper, I use the term ‘corporate Brahminism’ to discuss the intersections between caste and capital.

https://t.co/5KXcNj3306

[Shakthi @Shakthi_2016]

@KRManoharan @DhandaMeena Thanks, Karthick! :)

[Enzo Rossi @enzoreds]

Gaza solidarity encampment at @UvA_Amsterdam!

Talks by faculty planned for 6. Let’s try and stay later as well, in case the riot cops turn up as usual