Aneesh Aneesh[1] is a sociologist of globalization, labor, and technology. He is Executive Director of the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and a Professor of Global Studies and Sociology.[2] Previously, he served as a professor of sociology and director of the Institute of World Affairs and the global studies program at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee[3]. In the early 2000s, he taught in the science and technology program at Stanford University and formulated a theory of algocracy, distinguishing it from bureaucratic, market, and surveillance-based governance systems, pioneering the field of algorithmic governance in the social sciences. Author of Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization (Duke 2006) and Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global (Duke 2015), Aneesh is currently completing a manuscript on the rise of what he calls modular citizenship.

Education

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Aneesh studied Physics, Economics, and Philosophy at the University of Allahabad, earning a Bachelor's degree there in 1987. After pre-doctoral study in Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University he came to the University of California, Irvine for a Master's degree in social relations in 1996, and completed a Ph.D. in Sociology at Rutgers University in 2001.[3]

Books

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Aneesh has written or edited the following books:

  • Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global (2015)[4]
  • The Long 1968: Revisions and New Perspectives (co-edited, 2012)[5]
  • Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices (co-edited, 2011)[6]
  • Virtual Migration: the Programming of Globalization (2006)[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Aneesh Aneesh". Berggruen Institute. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Aneesh Aneesh | College of Arts and Sciences". cas.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  4. ^ Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global. Duke University Press, 2015. Reviews:
  5. ^ The Long 1968: Revisions and New Perspectives. Indiana University Press, 2012. Editors: A. Aneesh Daniel Sherman, Ruud van Dijk, and Jasmine Alinder. Reviews:
  6. ^ Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices, Rutgers University Press, 2011. Editors: A. Aneesh, Lane Hall, and Patrice Petro. ISBN 978-0-8135-5154-8. Reviews:
  7. ^ Virtual Migration: the Programming of Globalization. Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8223-3669-3. Reviews:
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