Vignesh Ramachandran
Position title: Ph.D.
Pronouns: He/him/his
Address:
Advisor: Keith Woodward
EDUCATION
2022 – MS in Geography, University of Wisconsin – Madison
2018 – B.A. in International / Global Studies – Middle East, Middlebury College
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Platform labor, racial capitalism, affect, social movements, policing, abolition geographies, history of management, Asian American Studies
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed
2024
Ramachandran, V. “The Carceral Geographies of Platform-Based Delivery Work: Essential Work and Bike Registrations in New York City.” Antipode. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13027 .
Ramachandran, V., J. Raihan, and A. Singh. “Under Attack from the State and in Our Homes: Materialist Interventions and Lessons in Abolition Feminisms from Desis Rising Up & Moving.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies.
Book Chapters
(Forthcoming) Ramachandran, V. and A. Singh. “Rising Waters from New York City to Pakistan: Abolitionist Organizing at the Intersection of Immigration Justice and the Climate Crisis.” In Border. Abolition. Now., edited by Campbell, S., Medien, K., Riva, S. and Whitener, B. Pluto Press.
Public Writing
2021
Collaborative public archive, “Stop the Disappearances! Organizing for Freedom in the Wake of Post-9/11 State Violence,” https://www.drumnyc.org/9-11-freedom/
2020
Ramachandran, V. and N. Hasan. “An Abolition Politics for the Climate Crisis: Out of the Woods’ Hope Against Hope.” The Trouble. https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2020/12/16/an-abolition-politics-for-the-climate-crisis-out-of-the-woods-hope-against-hope
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2024
Things, Plants, Gods: Rethinking Value in Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis, Dimensions of Political Ecology. Lexington, KY.
2023
Scaffolding, Necropolitics, and the Politics of a Bad Mood,” West Lakes Division American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. (1st place prize for graduate student paper competition)
“Delivery work and abolition geographies in the platform economy,” The American Association of Geographers’ Annual Conference. Denver, CO.
2022
“‘Inquilab Zindabad, INS Murdabad’ Refusals and Resistances in Grassroots Post-9/11 Archives” The American Association of Geographers’ Annual Conference. New York, NY, Virtual.
“Speculative ecologies of the gig economy, or in other words, Grubhub and the Poetics of Relation” Dimensions of Political Ecology (DOPE). Lexington, KY, Virtual.
2021
“Postcolonial Identity and the Carnivalesque: The Errant Potentialities of Mustapha Matura’s Theatre” West Lakes Division American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Virtual, October 16. (2nd place prize for graduate student paper competition)
TEACHING
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fall 2023 GEOG 101: Introduction to Human Geography, Course Development Teaching Assistant
Summer 2023 GEOG 342: Geography of Wisconsin, Lecturer
2021-2023 GEOG 101: Introduction to Human Geography, Teaching Assistant
2022-Present ENGL 100: Writing in the World, Odyssey Behind Bars Prison Education Project
AWARDS
2023
Graduate School Public Humanities Exchange Scholarship, Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate Research Award, AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group
Racial Justice Research Award, AAG Digital Geography Specialty Group
Master’s Student Paper Award, AAG Socialist & Critical Geography Specialty Group
2022
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Bangla
2021
Morgridge Fellowship for Community Engaged Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2020
Trewartha Graduate Research Award, Geography Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Two-Year Graduate School University Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison