Very excited that my book proofs have arrived! “Making a life: Young men on Johannesburg’s urban margins” will be out in May with Wits University Press witspress.co.za/page/detail/Ma… It’s starting to feel real!

Any friends and colleagues in Delhi next week, I'm giving a talk at CWDS on a new paper I'm writing on corporate masculinities - critically exploring men's everyday forms of sexual harassment of women in the workplace - do come and say hello if you are around.

The first of the term's MSAS Seminars CSASP Oxford Uni on Tues 21 Jan with Jusmeet S. Sihra presenting a talk 'Organisation of Segregation: Reproducing Caste Inequalities in Urban India' St Antony's College, University of Oxford All welcome

Just two more days to go to our first panel of 2025 - Caste, Space and Sensoria at CRASSH, Cambridge with Srilata Sircar King's College London, Bhawani Buswala University of Oxford & Jusmeet S. Sihra Cambridge Sociology, Manali Desai, Vishal! Register here eventbrite.co.uk/e/caste-space-…

Friends and colleagues in Cambridge, do join us for this exciting panel during Queer History Month organised in collaboration with Cambridge South Asia and queerasia Jigisha Bhattacharya J. Daniel Luther

Friends in Delhi ✨ Come along for a futures literacy lab as part of The YP Foundation's "Many Mirrors, Many Masculinities" conclave, 13-14 February - an exciting two day programme full of panels, workshops, comedy, dance, art and more! Register here - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

My latest piece in the The Conversation Africa theconversation.com/6-in-10-young-…

Call for abstracts is open.

For any friends and colleagues around Cambridge today, I'll be giving a talk on "Corporate Machismo" based on some fieldwork with corporate men and their masculinities in India and South Africa at the Centre for Gender Studies at12:30pm. eventbrite.co.uk/e/corporate-ma…

Our article "Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work" has been published by Work, Employment & Society with Nick Martindale and BrendanBurchell

Happy to see this new article published! Written with Anne-Mette Hermans, the article analyzes and theorizes the rise of the cosmetic industry through the novel theoretical framework of enrichment #Boltanski tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It's publication day for "Southern Interregnum" today - a comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects across four emerging powers in the global South. This labour of love has been underway since 2017, and it's SO GREAT to finally see it out! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/

Great opportunity to work across two departments as an assistant professor!

Here at the department, we are excited to announce the Q+ Research Event and Drinks this Thursday with Shannon Philip! The topic will be "Queer Post-colonies in Crisis" Date and time:🕐: 5-6:30pm Location 📍: Sociology Seminar Room, Department of Sociology

Our first panel of the academic year is on Caste is History with Divya Cherian, Chinnaiah Jangam, Ramnarayan Rawat & Manali Desai, Oct 29, 1-3 pm UK time. Register here: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regist… with Cambridge Sociology Jusmeet S. Sihra Damni Kain Vishal

For any friends and colleagues in Cambridge today - please do join us this evening if you are around. 5pm - Seminar room, Sociology

Here at the department, we are proud to announce our next speaker for this term's seminar series! Join us on 4th November for our own Prof Darin Weinberg's talk on the ecology of addiction. Location: Sociology Seminar Room, Date and time 📷:12:30-2pm shorturl.at/WPDIb