Levin Ahmed

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My research areas include Critical Anthropocene studies, Environmental Justice, Decolonial Studies, Environmental Humanities, Posthumanism, Digital Humanities, Political Eco-philosophy, Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Philosophy of Science, Multi-species Studies, More-than-human Studies, Speculative Realism, Object-oriented Ontology (OOO), New materialism, Critical University Studies, Necropolitics, Processual Ontology, Pharmacology, Philosophical Anthropology, and Future Studies.

BSS (2009- 2013): Department of Sociology, Dhaka University, Bangladesh.
Dissertation title: Emergence of Bangladesh: A Sociological Study
MA (2013-2015): Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
MPhil (2015-2017): Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Dissertation title: Governance and Citizenship and Neoliberal Dhaka City
Ph.D. (2017-) in Social Anthropology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), School of Social Sciences (SSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
Ph.D. thesis in progress: Anthropocene Mobilities in Deltaic Bangladesh: An Ontological Inquiry
Address: Jawaharlal Nehru University

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Rethinking the Anthropocene as Algorithmocene: Perspectives from South Asia

Eleanor is a Christina Gaw Research Associate on the Gender and Technology Research Project, a co... more Eleanor is a Christina Gaw Research Associate on the Gender and Technology Research Project, a collaboration between the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, and the Leverhulme CFI. Eleanor started her career in financial technology before co-founding an e-commerce company. She graduated with an International Dual PhD from the University of Bologna at the University of Granada in 2019, where she was an Early Stage Researcher for the EU Horizon 2020 ETN-ITN-Marie Curie project "GRACE" (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe). As part of this project Eleanor helped develop a software application that transmitted intersectional feminist ideas and methodologies to the general public. Her current research investigates how humanity defines and constitutes itself both through socio-cultural processes such as race and gender and through its connection with computational networks and digital systems. She is interested in how technology can prompt and develop certain kinds of behavioral skills, and how anti-racist and anti-sexist critical theory from academia can be used by industry to help develop ethical and socially transformative technological products.

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GANDHI, GUATTARI AND THE DECOLONIZATION OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

deeply problematic concept because it hides troublesome differences between humans. Jairus Victor... more deeply problematic concept because it hides troublesome differences between humans. Jairus Victor Grove suggests that we live not in the Anthropocene but in the Eurocene, 2 an epoch that is dominated by European colonialism. Along with other concepts such as plantationocene, 3 racial capitalocene 4 and white-supremacy-scene, 5 the Eurocene shows how European colonialism emerged as a central organizing category within the emerging historiography of the Anthropocene. The concept of Eurocene helps us to realize how the structural accommodation of European colonialism shapes the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene, as an ontological category, is inextricably bound up with the techno-military apparatuses of colonialism. Therefore, the Gandhian invocation of swaraj is politically relevant to challenge the racial dimension of the Anthropocene. By conjoining the histories of European imperialism, racial capitalism, and white supremacy, it is necessary to reflect on the embedded technocratic racism of the Anthropocene, which is usually perceived as a race-neutral, scientific category. 6

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Decolonising Degrowth Conference: From Sustainability to Climate Justice

by Marco Pavanini, Abigail Perez Aguilera, Edoardo Toffoletto, Ruth Irwin, Leiyo Singo, Levin Ahmed, and Shashikantha Koudur

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