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Salman Khan

@salmankhilji.bsky.social
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Sociologist and cultural geographer. Research Fellow @ Uni of Manchester. Extended Reality (XR), privacy, wearable AI, platformisation, algorithmic management, affect, racialisation.

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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Loved this new short piece by @veenadubal.bsky.social in Dissent. Cuts through the obfuscation in a simple and intuitive way. "The Myth of the Gig Economy" muse.jhu.edu/article/999920
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
me starting to work on a fellowship application and looking at the cover letter I wrote for a similar post a year and a half ago
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Michael Scott's Disbelief Reaction
ALT: Michael Scott's Disbelief Reaction
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I was the external examiner for Salman's PhD and very glad to see his work being published: Racialisation in flux: Geographies of difference in a platformised taxicab trade journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Really pleased to share that my paper, "Racialisation in flux: Geographies of difference in a platformised taxicab trade", is now out in EPD: Society and Space :') Available open access at the link below; see linked posts for Abstract. (1/3)
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Racialisation in flux: Geographies of difference in a platformised taxicab trade - Salman Khan, 2026
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with hackney carriage/black cab and Uber drivers in the North East of England, this paper investigates the relationship betwee...
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 10/06/2026
“Last night we had really racist pogroms, or attempted pogroms, on the streets of Belfast.” Matthew O'Toole tells @lewisgoodall.com of having to drive children, whose homes were set on fire during the Belfast protests, to places of shelter. “I’m not sure that experience will leave me for a while.”
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The scenes we saw in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayr last night are unacceptable. Scotland is a welcoming nation and those who choose to make their lives here are valued members of our communities. Racism, hatred and intimidation have no place in Scotland. We must stand against it.
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
With racist rioting having flared up again in the UK, I am (once again) reminded of these prescient passages from Norbert Elias. Classical sociological theory that remains ever relevant. (1/2)
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SPRITE+ @spriteplus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Together with JournoTECH, we're pleased to announce an online workshop examining how immersive technologies reshape journalism, trust, ethics and misinformation. 🤳 ⚙️ This workshop will explore the impact of XRCET for journalism. 🔗 Register to attend here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/immersive-...
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Immersive Technologies in Journalism: Risks, Trust and Ethical Challenges
A SPRITE+ and JournoTECH workshop examining how immersive technologies reshape journalism, trust, ethics and misinformation.
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Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Join our community of interest to understand these and other risks in the development and deployment of #AR #VR and #ImmersiveTech more generally, and help find effective, equitable and ethical harm mitigation strategies www.spritehub.org/communities-...
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Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
We shouldn't be surprised by these tactics. I wrote here about Meta's presentations at UnitedXR Europe in Dec: their strategy for addressing AR glasses privacy concerns ("people will get used to it") & their attempts to co-opt developers to lobby regulators for them www.spritehub.org/metas-vision...
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Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t... 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
"We will launch during a dynamic political environment where
many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would
have their resources focused on other concerns" according to the
document from Meta's Reality Labs, which works on hardware
including smart glasses.
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New paper w/ Kim Jamie and Margarita Staykova - "Using walkshops as a collaborative method in interdisciplinary research" - out now! :) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Using walkshops as a collaborative method in interdisciplinary research
In this article, we analyse the use of ‘walkshops’ as a collaborative method for interdisciplinary research collaboration in the field of pollution. Walkshops are mobile conversations, usually unde...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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Gilles Deleuze For You @deleuzeforyou.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The image of the philosopher is obscured by all his necessary disguises, but also by all the betrayals that turn him into the philosopher of religion, the philosopher of the State, the collector of current values and the functionary of history.
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
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Ms Marchmont @msmarchmont.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Blue sky morning on Bruntsfield Links
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Ms Marchmont @msmarchmont.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
More from the misty Meadows this morning
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22/09/2025
think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22/09/2025
Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
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Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Beyond the media's omission of migrants navigating a path to ILR paying thousands of £ for the NHS, visa fees, NI, etc., and of any opposing views, this to me is as clear a plan to strip dignity away from those who choose to build a life here as can be. And it's been given legitimacy.
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Reform plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain for migrants
The party says scrapping the scheme and restricting migrant access to benefits will save hundreds of billions of pounds.
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Don’t buy the hysteria. Ignore the right-wing propaganda. Buy the facts. The UK’s problems are no more being caused by immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth. @timharford.ft.com
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The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
But it’s also been a site of racism and racist violence for a century as well. It was especially bad in the 1970s and 1980s, with economic decline exploited by the National Front to foment racial hatred. As I say in my book:
(The national front had set up an office in Canning Town to drum up anti immigrant feeling through the guise of pro)viding housing advice to white residents. In 1978 it supported striking (white) workers at the Tate & Lyle factory. Through its increasing activity in the borough, the NF cast the problems of Newham at the feet of its immigrant community; it was claimed by the NF they sold more newspapers outside the Boleyn stadium, West Ham's home ground, on match days than outside any other football club. By 1987, a piece in the London Review of Books stated that 'Newham is like a macabre laboratory for studying the hideous cruelties which whites are capable of inflicting on people of a different colour'.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
It's fairly pointless fact-checking this sort of racist bilge, but as it happens I live in Plaistow and -- of course the area is undoubtedly multicultural, one of the most diverse in the country -- but there are certainly white children here. I've got two of them in my house.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 15/09/2025
“The Overton window moves when there are no ideas to fight the ideas moving it.” @lewisgoodall.com asked a senior gov’t minister - Peter Kyle - about Musk’s comments at Saturday’s rally. His response? It was “too silly to even talk about.”
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Pleased to share that after a long, at-times difficult review process, 'Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving' w/ @tiagoemoreira.bsky.social is out now! Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving
Increasing use of digital platforms for coordinating and organising work processes has drawn research interest in and policy concern about conditions …
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Reminder: if interested in learning about Uber drivers' struggles for finding value in their work, and some of the ways in which they contend with diminished chances of doing so, come by Room 2.220 at 2:30pm tomorrow! #wesconf25 @britsoci.bsky.social @bsaecf.bsky.social
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 03/09/2025
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Looking forward to presenting at the BSA Work, Employment & Society conference next Wednesday, contributing to a timely debate on 'Continuities and Discontinuities in Work and Employment'. See abstract for my talk below, based on a paper in its initial stages. Join us in Room 2.220 at 2:30pm! :)
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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
3 project reports now available for our Leverhulme-funded Rural Racism project. A film below reflecs just 3 of our 135 in-depth interviews. These supplement statistics, gaining insights into the human experience of racism in the countryside, where only 4% of the population is from a minoritised gp
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/08/2025
Dining across the divide: ‘I was really hardline about immigration – but her struggles softened me a bit’
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Dining across the divide: ‘I was really hardline about immigration – but her struggles softened me a bit’
Illegal immigration and the climate crisis were hotly debated by the novelist and the former tram driver. But did they end up on the same track?
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Jérôme Denis @jrmdns.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away. A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
trying to relate a Deleuzian/materialist analysis of everyday socio-spatial enactments of race with the racial capitalism literature, and this by Kendra Strauss provided the best opening for it. 'Racialization' here goes *beyond* labour market hierarchies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
2. Domaining: associating certain knowers (usually based on their perceived characteristics/identity) with certain domains of knowledge, and thus limiting their knowledge claim to contribution *within that field* (see also: why is de Beauvoir a 'feminist philosopher' and Sartre a 'philosopher')
Domaining
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Happy #100th citation to "Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning" (2021, not 2023), surpassing "Knowing neoliberalism", my erstwhile-most-cited article! 🎉 This is especially remarkable as the article is itself subject to practices of citational erasure/omission/appropriation it theorises...
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Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com's Scientific Reports! We investigated emotional & psychological impact of late ADHD diagnoses in women Highlighting how undiagnosed ADHD contributes to life-long challenges & how diagnosis in adulthood can be life-changing #ADHD #WomenWithADHD #ADHDawareness
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Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Platform companies like Uber helped normalise this dynamic pricing and workers have pushed back with attempts to monitor and track rates (see Worker Info Exchange), but yes, "without a public record of all fares, it would be difficult... to determine if Delta is charging vastly different fares..."
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
4th July 2025 22.18
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Public lecture in London on 30th June, 6pm, on mine and Anna Secor’s new book, to the title of: The Politics of Feeling in Crisis Times: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism. Event bite link here, would be lovely to see people there!: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-politi...
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The Politics of Feeling in Crisis Times
Join for the Public Lecture on the Politics of Feeling in Crisis Times: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism
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Adam Creme @adamcreme.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Sometimes I think we’ve become completely anaesthetised to terrible events because they happen to other people. I don’t believe the families would have been subjected to the almost gleeful public display of the footage of the crash when I was a kid. 2025 is quite a horrible time really.
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Of note (and dangerous) is how his rhetoric and online engagement are causing fissures *within* the far right.
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
me writing my first post phd paper:
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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
No comment.
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
25th May 2025. 20.55
Rain clouds and rainbow
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
For those interested, my PhD thesis on how platformisation is experienced by workers in the UK's taxicab trade is now available to read online: etheses.dur.ac.uk/16033/ Stay tuned as I rework parts of it into papers (and hopefully also a monograph)!
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Shifting Sands: Crises of Self-Worth in a Platformised Taxicab Trade - Durham e-Theses
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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
11th May 2025 06.51
Clear sky, sun rising over flat sea. Gentle breeze
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
But why are on-demand delivery platforms allowed to facilitate dangerous working conditions: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...
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Cyclists who kill pedestrians could be jailed for life under new law in England and Wales
Reckless cycling is currently prosecuted under legislation from the 1860s, with a maximum two-year jail sentence
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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Reminder: if you're at #britsoc25, and interested in hearing about how the rise of the gig economy is leading to new forms of racialisation that exceed white/non-white and conventional racial-ethnic lines, come attend my talk at 1:30pm tomorrow.
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