Aneesh Aneesh 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. 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. In the early 2000s, he taught in the science and technology program at
Stanford University
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and formulated a theory of algocracy, distinguishing it from bureaucratic, market, and surveillance-based governance systems, pioneering the field o
algorithmic governancein the social sciences. Author o
Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization(Duke 2006) an
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
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.
Books
Aneesh has written or edited the following books:
* ''Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global'' (2015)
*''The Long 1968: Revisions and New Perspectives'' (co-edited, 2012)
* ''Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices'' (co-edited, 2011)
* ''Virtual Migration: the Programming of Globalization'' (2006)
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References
External links
Home page*
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Living people
Indian emigrants to the United States
University of Allahabad alumni
Rutgers University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Government by algorithm