Biography:

Nayanjyoti is a social anthropologist and his research focuses on labour processes, global production networks, automation, precarity and subjectivities. These are situated through the analysis of modes of control, mediation, valorisation and self-organisation of labour. His doctoral research in social anthropology from the University of Delhi, was a multiscalar ethnography, which explored these questions in capital-intensive sectors in the industrial zones in Delhi-NCR. He also has an interest in forms and dynamics of cultural production, and transformations of the proletarian public sphere. The current research project expands this into the domain of folk music, digitisation and the concept of commons. 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.