Meet the Previous Global Fellows

Tanja 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.

Diatyka 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.