@andretwp.bsky.social
Whatever works in life and pronouns
Gender, caste, and street vending in Mumbai: a situated intersectional geography
I'm officially a Dr. now!!
Passed my PhD defence cum laude with my thesis on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai.
Thanks to my examiners Tatiana Thieme @snehakrishnan.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Giulia Torino Francesco Chiodelli + my amazing supervisor @michelelancione.bsky.social
Who's the new Dr in town!?
Our wonderful @saanchi.bsky.social passed her PhD examination with flying colours (& laude!) with a poignant work on gender, caste & street vending in Mumbai
👍 amazing rev @snehakrishnan.bsky.social & Tatiana Thieme + panel @andretwp.bsky.social, G Torino, F Chiodelli
It was such a wonderful dissertation to read and viva to attend
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it's here!
Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa
my book has arrived.
a brief 🧵
Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)
08.04.2025 17:58 — 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Yesss!
11.06.2025 21:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0#Somalia
After 1 week of clashes , Al-Shabaab takes control of Ceel Hareeri.
Many local militias are seen dead in the published photos by Al-Shabaab.
Amsterdam friend @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social please share with your blue media network :)
11.06.2025 10:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Next week: ASCA Global Africa book salon with @tommytse.bsky.social @mariarepnikova.bsky.social Carywn Morris and me uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220 join online or in Amsterdam
11.06.2025 10:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Cannot wait! To see friends @tommytse.bsky.social @mariarepnikova.bsky.social and make new ones in this xchnage
04.06.2025 22:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hard to explain how happy we are about the first multimedia publication out in our journal: Maja-Lee Voigt - Mapping #Amazon 's logistical footprint on the #Ruhr journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... a collage isometry of Amazon's layers in the EU warehouse capital
22.05.2025 09:31 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 3was fun following trucks and knocking on warehouse doors
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What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age?
Thrilled about this new open-access paper with @islandexpress
in @compchange.bsky.social
Read: doi.org/10.1177/1024...
It's packed with ideas. A thread of it's key interventions:
awesome work - so great it's out 👇
22.05.2025 09:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Already missing this crew - a fantastic workshop. I always learn more than what I can teach
20.05.2025 12:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How do platforms produce "helpful" reviewers/consumers? ⬇️⬇️⬇️
20.05.2025 12:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Check this out - most recent piece in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social on Royal Mail becoming more and more like Amazon ⬇️
20.05.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A very valuable meeting point in academic journey.
Team 'platform without borders'
Thank you @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, @andretwp.bsky.social & Denise Kasparian for putting this together.
A room full of people
Brilliant people at the Platforms without borders workshop in London #Space4 #platforms thank you @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social for the wonderful hosting and @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social Denise Kasparian @marcsteinberg.bsky.social
16.05.2025 09:46 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0And of course the behind-the-scenes - esp editors in crime at @platformsnsociety.bsky.social @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @julieychen.bsky.social
13.05.2025 17:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was a fantastic symposium! Thank you @adtechproject.bsky.social for co-hosting and the wonderful speakers Koray Çaliskan Donald MacKenzie @addiemcgowan.bsky.social @devikanarayan.bsky.social @kylzjarrett.bsky.social and @gilliantett.bsky.social
13.05.2025 17:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1A reminder of our online symposium with @adtechproject.bsky.social tomorrow!
11.05.2025 11:09 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2new piece out
11.05.2025 11:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@invisiblemapper.bsky.social sorry for not tagging you
09.05.2025 11:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0⬇️⬇️
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Looks like we have a new paper out journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with some collective reflections on global infrastructure and cities / w brilliant @eliapos.bsky.social Jon Silver, Francesca Governa, and Simone Vegliò
08.05.2025 13:44 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Join us on Monday @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @julieychen.bsky.social
08.05.2025 08:36 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A day of announcements: also flagging another recently published paper on the labor behind Amazon's audiobook value chain - from a feminist Latina perspective. Authored by Ruth L. Nuñez. Enjoy 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Amazing work ⬇️⬇️
30.04.2025 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0A very interesting map of Google search as a supply chain ⬇️⬇️
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