(Associate Researcher, September 2024 – present)

Biography:

Nayanjyoti is a social anthropologist, and a Lecturer in Development Practice, and Assistant Director of research development at the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies at Jindal Global University, Sonipat. His research focuses on labour processes, global production networks, automation, intermediation, and subjectivities. His doctoral research in social anthropology from the University of Delhi explored these questions through a multi-scalar ethnography in capital-intensive sectors in the industrial zones in Delhi-NCR. He also works on forms and dynamics of cultural production, and transformations of the subaltern public sphere. He is engaged in a collaborative research with folk artists from five Indian states, hosted at CSH Delhi, on ‘Folk music, digital spaces and cultural commons in India’. He brings a long experience of engagements with the field in a diversity of settings, and has worked over the years in research, teaching, editorial and consultancy capacities with academic institutions like Delhi University, Ambedkar University and Azim Premji University, research organisations, publication houses, and socially engaged practices in various interdisciplinary projects and initiatives.