Tanja Bosch and Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih will join the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) as the #IAS_NUQ Global Fellows for spring 2024.
As #IAS_NUQ Global Fellows, Bosch and Yasih will spend one month at #IAS_NUQ working on individual research projects while contributing to the intellectual life of the #IAS_NUQ and the wider Northwestern Qatar community by participating in writing groups, presenting research colloquia to the NU-Q community, and providing mentorship to #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellows.
“As an institute for advanced study dedicated to producing and promoting knowledge from and about the Global South, #IAS_NUQ provides scholars a unique environment to develop their projects away from administrative responsibilities and disciplinary constraints,” said Marwan M. Kraidy, dean and CEO of Northwestern Qatar. “We are delighted to welcome these talented scholars, whose projects on feminist digital citizenship in Africa and precarious gig workers in Indonesia will benefit greatly from their time at the Institute. The NU-Q and Education City communities will likewise benefit from their knowledge and perspective.”
Bosch is a professor of media studies and production at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her current research includes work on southern epistemologies, feminist digital citizenship, the politics of racial platform capitalism, and social media culture and activism.
During her fellowship at #IAS_NUQ, Bosch will work on the introductory chapter of Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa: Agency, Rights, and Resistance (Zed Books) that will serve as the book’s foundational framework and set the stage for an exploration of how digital technologies intersect with feminist activism and citizenship. She will also present a research colloquium investigating the intersection of platform capitalism and racial politics, with a specific focus on the SweepSouth app in Cape Town, South Africa.
As #IAS_NUQ Global Fellows, Bosch and Yasih will spend one month at #IAS_NUQ working on individual research projects while contributing to the intellectual life of the #IAS_NUQ and the wider Northwestern Qatar community by participating in writing groups, presenting research colloquia to the NU-Q community, and providing mentorship to #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellows.
“As an institute for advanced study dedicated to producing and promoting knowledge from and about the Global South, #IAS_NUQ provides scholars a unique environment to develop their projects away from administrative responsibilities and disciplinary constraints,” said Marwan M. Kraidy, dean and CEO of Northwestern Qatar. “We are delighted to welcome these talented scholars, whose projects on feminist digital citizenship in Africa and precarious gig workers in Indonesia will benefit greatly from their time at the Institute. The NU-Q and Education City communities will likewise benefit from their knowledge and perspective.”
Bosch is a professor of media studies and production at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her current research includes work on southern epistemologies, feminist digital citizenship, the politics of racial platform capitalism, and social media culture and activism.
During her fellowship at #IAS_NUQ, Bosch will work on the introductory chapter of Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa: Agency, Rights, and Resistance (Zed Books) that will serve as the book’s foundational framework and set the stage for an exploration of how digital technologies intersect with feminist activism and citizenship. She will also present a research colloquium investigating the intersection of platform capitalism and racial politics, with a specific focus on the SweepSouth app in Cape Town, South Africa.
“We are delighted to welcome these talented scholars, whose projects on feminist digital citizenship in Africa and precarious gig workers in Indonesia will benefit greatly from their time at the Institute. The NU-Q and Education City communities will likewise benefit from their knowledge and perspective”
- Marwan M. Kraidy, dean and CEO of Northwestern Qatar
Similarly, Yasih is a faculty member of the Department of Sociology and deputy director for academic affairs at the Asia Research Centre at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Universitas Indonesia. Her research focuses on the increasing precarity in work and life under neoliberal pressures and its link to social and political developments in contemporary Indonesia and across Southeast Asia.
At #IAS_NUQ, Diatyka will work on her book manuscript, Precarious Workers in the Gig Economy: Neoliberalism and its Discontents in Indonesia, which examines precarious gig workers in app-based transport services in Indonesia as part of the broader gig economy. The book delves into challenges experienced by Indonesian gig workers in articulating their struggles through a precarity discourse.
“During their fellowship at the Institute, Tanja Bosch and Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih will greatly contribute to our current research themes on Digitalities and Genealogies and Epistemologies of the Global South, producing knowledge that is deeply embedded in the societies, cultures, and histories they study,” noted Clovis Bergère, assistant director for research at the #IAS_NUQ. “Their research interests in feminist media, digital life, and southern epistemologies closely align with those of our current Global Undergraduate Fellows, Postdoctoral Scholars, and many Faculty at Northwestern Qatar, and as such, we look forward to learning from and exchanging with Tanja and Diatyka during their fellowship at #IAS_NUQ.”
At #IAS_NUQ, Diatyka will work on her book manuscript, Precarious Workers in the Gig Economy: Neoliberalism and its Discontents in Indonesia, which examines precarious gig workers in app-based transport services in Indonesia as part of the broader gig economy. The book delves into challenges experienced by Indonesian gig workers in articulating their struggles through a precarity discourse.
“During their fellowship at the Institute, Tanja Bosch and Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih will greatly contribute to our current research themes on Digitalities and Genealogies and Epistemologies of the Global South, producing knowledge that is deeply embedded in the societies, cultures, and histories they study,” noted Clovis Bergère, assistant director for research at the #IAS_NUQ. “Their research interests in feminist media, digital life, and southern epistemologies closely align with those of our current Global Undergraduate Fellows, Postdoctoral Scholars, and many Faculty at Northwestern Qatar, and as such, we look forward to learning from and exchanging with Tanja and Diatyka during their fellowship at #IAS_NUQ.”
