Shantanu Kulshreshth
Biographic Data
| ID | 368216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shantanu Kulshreshth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shantanu |
| FAMILY NAME | Kulshreshth |
| SIGNATURE | KULSHRESHTH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3376-1346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Becoming serious young men
Platformisation serves as a contradictory resource for educated youth in India. • Amazon work enables young men to partially achieve breadwinner norms. • Simultaneously, it deepens the experience of risk and precarity. • Ethnographic research reveals contradictions of platform work at scales. Drawing on 14-month-long ethnographic fieldwork in North India, this paper analyses the ways in which young marginalised people in the global south are navi…
Kaam
Drawing from year-long ethnographic fieldwork in a North Indian Madrasa, this paper looks at how young Madrasa students are navigating socio-economic precarity in their everyday lives. I primarily focus on young people's navigation of neoliberal and Hindu Nationalist discourses surrounding work and employment. In doing so, I draw on the recent turn in critical work geographies by de-emphasising a wage-centric approach to studying practices of wor…
Social Media Is the Second Ambedkar’
Understanding the increasing Dalit activism on social media through the lens of publics and counter-publics, this paper shows how the Bhim Army, a popular on-ground Dalit organisation in North India, makes use of two social media platforms, Twitter and Facebook, to further its organisational agenda, and to recruit, inform and mobilise. Using insights from digital ethnography and interviews with Bhim Army leaders, this paper also builds on the the…
The State is the Biggest Goonda
This paper explores the emergence of the Bhim Army, a Dalit-led social movement in North India that has gained significant political influence in recent years. In doing so, it develops the idea of 'boss power' as a cultural repertoire in North India through which marginalized actors negotiate and engage with the state and society. It shows how the organization creates new identities based on masculinity, civic duty, and radical victimhood to enac…
Social Media Is the Second Ambedkar’
Understanding the increasing Dalit activism on social media through the lens of publics and counter-publics, this paper shows how the Bhim Army, a popular on-ground Dalit organisation in North India, makes use of two social media platforms, Twitter and Facebook, to further its organisational agenda, and to recruit, inform and mobilise. Using insights from digital ethnography and interviews with Bhim Army leaders, this paper also builds on the the…
The State is the Biggest Goonda
This paper explores the emergence of the Bhim Army, a Dalit-led social movement in North India that has gained significant political influence in recent years. In doing so, it develops the idea of 'boss power' as a cultural repertoire in North India through which marginalized actors negotiate and engage with the state and society. It shows how the organization creates new identities based on masculinity, civic duty, and radical victimhood to enac…
Social Media Is the Second Ambedkar’
Understanding the increasing Dalit activism on social media through the lens of publics and counter-publics, this paper shows how the Bhim Army, a popular on-ground Dalit organisation in North India, makes use of two social media platforms, Twitter and Facebook, to further its organisational agenda, and to recruit, inform and mobilise. Using insights from digital ethnography and interviews with Bhim Army leaders, this paper also builds on the the…
The State is the Biggest Goonda
This paper explores the emergence of the Bhim Army, a Dalit-led social movement in North India that has gained significant political influence in recent years. In doing so, it develops the idea of 'boss power' as a cultural repertoire in North India through which marginalized actors negotiate and engage with the state and society. It shows how the organization creates new identities based on masculinity, civic duty, and radical victimhood to enac…
Kaam
Drawing from year-long ethnographic fieldwork in a North Indian Madrasa, this paper looks at how young Madrasa students are navigating socio-economic precarity in their everyday lives. I primarily focus on young people's navigation of neoliberal and Hindu Nationalist discourses surrounding work and employment. In doing so, I draw on the recent turn in critical work geographies by de-emphasising a wage-centric approach to studying practices of wor…
Becoming serious young men
Platformisation serves as a contradictory resource for educated youth in India. • Amazon work enables young men to partially achieve breadwinner norms. • Simultaneously, it deepens the experience of risk and precarity. • Ethnographic research reveals contradictions of platform work at scales. Drawing on 14-month-long ethnographic fieldwork in North India, this paper analyses the ways in which young marginalised people in the global south are navi…
Sociology (3 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Work (physics (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Amazon rainforest (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work)