Biography

Dr. Nayanjyoti is a social anthropologist working on global value chains, automation, precarity, cultural production and subjectivities. His doctoral research was a multiscalar ethnography in the capital-intensive sectors in the industrial zones in Delhi-NCR. He has an interdisciplinary training with graduation in literature, post-graduation in sociology from J.N.U., and MPhil and PhD in anthropology from Delhi University. He brings a long experience of engagements with the field in a diversity of settings, and has worked over the years in research, teaching, editorial and consultancy capacities with academic institutions like Ambedkar University, Delhi University, and Azim Premji University, research organisations, publication houses, and socially engaged practices in various interdisciplinary projects and initiatives. Before joining IDEAS, he taught sociology in Sri Venkateswara College, DU. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) Delhi.