Hi, I'm Ashique
About Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat
I am a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto.
I study the role of technology in social movements and the intersection of technology with labour, caste and resistance practices by communities at the margins.
I am part of Socio-technical Resistance and Ethical Technologies (STREET) Lab, University of Toronto
Credentials
Education
BA (H) Political Science | Ramjas College, University of Delhi, India
Master of Arts in Political Science | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
M.Phil in Political Science | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Expertise
Qualitative Research
Journal Articles
Dhar, Dipsita, and Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat. ‘Gendered Labour’s Positions of Vulnerabilities in Digital Labour Platforms and Strategies of Resistance: A Case Study of Women Workers’ Struggle in Urban Company, New Delhi’. Gender & Development 30, no. 3 (2 September 2022): 667–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2022.2127574
Book Chapter
Sanu, V.P., and Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat. ‘Entrenching Caste and Withdrawing State: An Analysis of Modi’s Education Policies’. In Education or Exclusion? The Plight of Indian Students, 144–55. New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2022.
Conference Presentations
Digital Labour Platforms
1) "Tech-mediated Resistance and Traditional Trade Union: A Case Study of Kolkata App Cab Ola Uber Union, West Bengal"
BSA Work, Employment and Society Conference 2023, Glasgow on 13-15 September 2023.
Authors: Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, Dipsita Dhar and Priyank Chandra
2) "Union Makes Us Strong: Experiences of Traditional Trade Union Organizing in Ride Sharing Digital Labour Platforms in Kolkata, West Bengal"
BSA Work, Employment and Society Conference 2023, Glasgow on 13-15 September 2023.
Authors: Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, Dipsita Dhar and Priyank Chandra
3) "Gender and Intersectional Inequalities Within Workplace Resistance Discourses"
BSA Work, Employment and Society Conference 2023, Glasgow on 13-15 September 2023.
Authors: Dipsita Dhar and Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat
4) "The Survival Strategy among the Malayali Diaspora in Malta: Negotiating through the GiG Economy."
Second Athens Historical Materialism Conference, Panteion University, Athens on 20-23 April 2023.
Authors: Dipsita Dhar & Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat
5) "Understanding Gig Economy & Socially Reproductive Labour: A Case Study from India."
41st International Labour Process Conference (ILPC 2023), Glasgow on 12th - 14th April 2023.
Authors: Dipsita Dhar, Soham Bhattacharya & Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat
Conference Presentations
CASTE
1) "Understanding Digital Caste Publics: Examining YouTube Vlogging amongst the Brahmin-Savarnas in Kerala." Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD, USA on February 23-26, 2023
2) "Caste Inequalities and State Responses in the Education Sector: Marginalising Dalit Students’ Access to Education during the Covid-19 Pandemic in India."
Dublin City University’s 5th Annual South Asia Conference organised by the Ireland India Institute, April 26 - 29, 2022.
Conference Presentations
Cooperatives
1) "Combating Crisis: Lessons from the Cooperative Movement in North Malabar, Kerala."
Centre for South Asian Studies Graduate Symposium 2023, Univeristy of Toronto, Canada on April 20-21, 2023.
2) "The Political Economy of a Successful Cooperative Movement : A Kerala Experience."
YSI Asia Convening, Hanoi, Vietnam on 12-15 August, 2019.
Social Media
1) “Democracy In the Age of Social Networking Sites.”
Democracy and Public Institutions in India: Crisis and Opportunity? Ambedkar University, New Delhi, on 29 March 2019
CHI Workshop
“Supporting Social Movements Through HCI and Design"
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany on April 23-28, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573812
https://chi2023.acm.org/for-authors/workshops-and-symposia/accepted-workshops-symposia/#ws33
Organizers:
- Adrian Petterson, University of Toronto, Canada
- Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, University of Toronto, Canada
- Shamika Klassen, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
- Maggie Jack, Syracuse University/UC Irvine, USA
- Jun Liu, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Priyank Chandra, University of Toronto, Canada
Recent Panels
“Caste in Canada: Discrimination and Resistance”
Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada on 15 November 2023
“Mediated Activism: Clicks for Justice and Freedom“
International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) 9.4 at Lima, Peru on 25 - 27 May 2022.
Teaching Assistant
Technology and City (Fall 2023)
Rhetoric and Media (Winter 2023, Summer 2023)
The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT), University of Toronto, Mississauga
ICT, Designs & Marginality (Fall 2023)
Information Experience (Fall 2023)
Accessibility and Inclusive Design (Winter 2023)
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, St. George
Public Writings
Far-right Hindu nationalists are using digital propaganda to delegitimize India’s wrestler protests, The Conversation, June 5, 2023.
The Indian Farmers’ Movement Has Shattered Narendra Modi’s Strongman Image, Jacobin, November 28, 2021.
Kerala’s Communists Are Showing India a Path Out of Poverty, Jacobin, November 1, 2021. Co-authored with Angshuman Sarma.
Breaking Barriers: Women enter Sabarimala hours after Women’s Wall, Indian Cultural Forum, January 2, 2019.
Click here for public writings in Malayalam language
Chat with me?
ashique.thuppilikkat@mail.utoronto.ca