Suraj Telange

Suraj has been recipient of prestigious Doctoral Felix Scholarship at SOAS and has received research grant from National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Award, USA for his postdoc research in the USA. He has BA in Political Science from Fergusson College, India. 

His Masters' degree is in Development and Labour Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India’s premier research university. He holds Diplomas in Gender Studies from Department of Gender Studies and German Language from Department of Foreign Languages of University of Pune, India. He also has a diploma in information technology from Center for Advanced Computing, Government of India, a nodal agency for Indian cyber infrastructure and security. Suraj has also been a co-editor in chief of the SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research between 2024-2025.   Suraj has worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS and the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS teaching courses on Political Economy and Global Development over two-year period. He also has been module contributor and teaching assistant on methods course module -‘Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts’ (for advanced and post-PhD researchers) at University of Konstaz, Germany.   Suraj's present research studies labour relations under Neo-liberal capitalism, with specific focus on India and modern techno-savvy workplaces. He is interested to study the interrelations between technology, organisation, and everydayness of working (every day work experiences) in our times.  

Suraj’s PhD at SOAS tries to study these interrelations by taking a case study of E-commerce Warehouses in India. He engages with recent Labour Regime approaches with Labour Process theories, by innovatively deploying Anthropological Extended Case Study Method in his PhD research.  Although his PhD used a case study of warehouse labour India, his postdoc at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, NC, USA shall use comparative approach between this Indian case study and new case study in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Through this, he connects emerging scholarship on technologies and new labour relations between Global South and the Global North.

• Digital technologies and Warehouse labour
• Labour Regimes and Labour Process 
• Neo-liberalism and Labour in Global Production Networks 
• Methods of Science making 
• India 
• USA

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