Dr Devika Narayan
PhD, M.Phil, MA
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Biography
I am a Lecturer at the University of Bristol. My position is divided between the Bristol Digital Futures Institute and the Busisness School. At the Business School, I am part of the Work, Employment, Organizations, and Public Policy Group.
My research and teaching focuses on economic sociology, platform studies, and organization and magement studies. My work examines the changing structure of markets, new digital platforms, and the emergent workplace structures and management practices that shape contemporary capitalism. I'm particualrly interested in the restructuring of the corporate computing industry.
I hold a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Minnesota and an M.Phil and M.A. in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics
For more information please see here: www.devikanarayan.com
My research and teaching focuses on economic sociology, platform studies, and organization and magement studies. My work examines the changing structure of markets, new digital platforms, and the emergent workplace structures and management practices that shape contemporary capitalism. I'm particualrly interested in the restructuring of the corporate computing industry.
I hold a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Minnesota and an M.Phil and M.A. in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics
For more information please see here: www.devikanarayan.com
Publications
Recent publications
22/02/2023Monopolization and competition under platform capitalism
New Media and Society
Manufacturing Managerial Compliance
Work, Employment and Society
Platform capitalism and cloud infrastructure: Theorizing a hyper-scalable computing regime
Environment and Planning A
Through the optics of finance: Speculative urbanism and the transformation of markets
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Water crisis through the analytic of urban transformation: an analysis of Bangalore’s hydrosocial regimes
Water International