Dr. S. (Shakthi) Ramani
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Profile
I am a feminist geographer interested in everyday working lives, socio-cultural processes, postcolonialism, and class-based identities, focussing primarily on urban India. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, where I work within the Governance and Inclusive Development research group at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research. I am a board member of the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality and a member of the Centre for Urban Studies.
My long-term research project examines class, gender and labour dynamics in the Indian information technology sector, highlighting the tensions in class formation that characterise work in this transnational industry. I have extended this research in multiple directions that have revealed how work can shape social identities, and how this in turn impacts our understanding of modernity as a contextually-informed phenomenon. I have also developed a particular interest in the study of emotion. I hold a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and have previously taught at Cambridge and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
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Publications
2024
Shakthi, S. (2024). Travelling ‘down South’: language, cultural capital and spatiality in Chennai’s information technology sector. Social & Cultural Geography, 25(3), 478-495. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2023.2171100 [details]
2023
- Shakthi, S. (2023). Corporate Brahminism and tech work: Caste in a modern Indian profession. South Asia: Journal of South Asian studies, 46(5), 920-933. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2023.2215137 [details]
2022
- Shakthi, S. (2022). Beyond respectability? Office taxis and gendered automobility in urban India. Mobilities, 17(6), 836-849. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2054355
2020
- Shakthi, S. (2020). Confronting my many-hued self: An autoethnographic analysis of skin colour across multiple geographies. Emotion, Space and Society, 37, Article 100732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100732
- Shakthi, S. (2020). Crafting “integrity”: The implications of authentication through unique identification databases. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 23. https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.6414
- Shakthi, S. (2020). The law, the market, the gendered subject: workplace sexual harassment in Chennai’s information technology industry. Gender, Place and Culture, 27(1), 34-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1608912
- Shakthi, S., & Masiero, S. (2020). Grappling with Aadhaar: Biometrics, social identity and the Indian state. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 23. https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.6279
2018
- Manickavasagam, S., Singal, N., Pedder, D., Malathy, D., Shanmugam, M., & Govindarasan, M. (2018). Insights from within activity based learning (ABL) classrooms in Tamil Nadu, India: Teachers perspectives and practices. International Journal of Educational Development, 60, 165-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.08.001
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Shakthi, S. (2024). Travelling ‘down South’: language, cultural capital and spatiality in Chennai’s information technology sector. Social & Cultural Geography, 25(3), 478-495.