PC Saidalavi
@pc_saidalavi
Assistant Professor in Sociology @ShivNadarUniv. Alum @ANUAnthropology | caste | labour | hierarchy | technology | religion | India |
I am thrilled to announce that my forthcoming book has been announced on @PennPress’ website. ❤️❤️❤️ pennpress.org/9781512828498/…
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Our faculty Dr. P.C. Saidalavi has published an article titled ‘Ethical listening within a culture of difference’ in the journal Anthropology and Humanism. If you don’t have access, you may write to [email protected] for a copy. @pc_saidalavi anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
Few glimpses from our two days’ workshop. It has been quite productive to think about region and Global South from Kerala. Thank you to everyone who participated and contributed in various ways! We hope to bring out a collective reflection about the region in some ways.




It was lovely to sit together for two days and converse with each other. ❤️
A workshop that did not demand explanations or clarifications of the field/ that did not need english as the medium/ that had scholars engaging without posturing to their amazing work. Thanks @pc_saidalavi / Dr Adil/ Dr Prasad for bringing this together!
This will be an exciting opportunity. 😍
Applied yet? This is for those who want to turn their dissertations or long extant fragments of research writing into a publishable manuscript. With four weekend webinars over a month and one-on-one feedback over email. Write in ASAP to [email protected]
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Our faculty @pc_saidalavi has published an article in @haujournal. It looks at how Muslim barbers in Kerala constructed antassu (dignity) for themselves through radical public action. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…
Chuffed to be here😍❤️
***NEW ISSUE of HAU Journal, Volume 15.1 | Spring 2025*** Read it for free (for 20 days!): journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hau/2025/1… For issue highlights and HAU/SET updates, head to our newsletter: mailchi.mp/hausociety/hau…
RESEARCH ARTICLES from our latest issue G. Ali Shair examines the creative resilience of Lahore’s baithak gatherings sustaining classical music post-Partition. P. C. Saidalavi studies how Muslim barbers in Kerala reconceptualize their work through the lens of antassu (dignity).
Day after tomorrow at @bennettuniv. This is a talk based on a forthcoming article.

Do read this!
Delighted to share my latest article with you, published in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. This is a version of one of the chapters from my forthcoming book. 😍❤️ @haujournal journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…
Looking forward to be a discussant here.
The Department of Sociology invites you to a graduate student workshop titled ‘Immersions: From Field to Text’ scheduled on 24-25 April 2025, from 10:00 AM in D330.
Looking forward to read
Thrilled to share the cover of my book, forthcoming from @PennPress 😍❤️
Interested in doing a Sociological study of labor, religion, caste? Please apply to Shiv Nadar University's competitive, funded PhD program and work with me. Please feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]

Wonderful to see this, @Medha_ Looking forward to reading it.
Glad to share that my article, in which I draw upon Islam to theorise an alternative foreign policy imaginary for India, is now out. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @ShivNadarUniv @irgssnioe