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Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Jawaharlal Nehru University

Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Delhi

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (B.A. Hons.), University of Delhi

Avantika Tewari

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Email avantika.tewari@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0000-0003-0468-8597
Key Expertise Theory of Subject, Social Theory, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Political Economy, Artificial Intelligence, Platform Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Labor Theory, Social Movements, Critical Legal Thinking

Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Jawaharlal Nehru University

Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Delhi

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (B.A. Hons.), University of Delhi

Biography

Avantika Tewari is an MPhil and PhD scholar at the Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, where she anchored the Science, Technology, and Democracy project. She has previously worked with IT for Change, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
  
Avantika is the editor of Feminist Perspectives on Social Media Governance and has contributed chapters to Psychoanalysis and ChatGPT and AI from the Global Majority—the official outcome of the UN IGF’s Data and AI Governance Coalition.

Her research spans Marxist political economy, feminist theory, value theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Her writings have appeared in The Indian Express, Critical Legal Thinking, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bot Populi, Everyday Analysis, Sublation Magazine, Critical Collective and other academic and public platforms.
 

Political Theory

Travel Grant – YouthMediaLife 2024 Conference (University of Vienna, March 25-28, 2024)

INDL-7 Grant Award (2024) Awarded by the International Network on Digital Labor to support conference participation in Santiago, Chile, covering registration and partial travel costs.

Travel Grant – Exploring Epistemic Virtues and Vices: Data, Infrastructures, and Episteme (C²DH, Luxembourg, March 14-16, 2024) Sixth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History, organized by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI), the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), and the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo.

Full Travel and Accommodation Grant – ʻAlgorithms for Her?ʼ Conference (University of Sheffield, March 23-24, 2023) Organized with support from the University of Sheffield Management School and the University of Sheffield Digital Society Network.

Geeta Chopra Memorial Scholarship (2015) Awarded by Jesus and Mary College, given to five exceptional students selected by the Staff Council of the College.

Recognize-Resist-Remedy Project (August 2019 – April 2022)

Ford Foundation's BUILD Program (2021-2022)

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) - Berlin and IT for Change’s Feminist Visions of the Digital (2022-23)

IT For Change's School of Digital Justice: Institute on Frontiers and Frames for a New Digitality (June 2022 – February 2023)

Participatory Action Research on Digital Cultures (April 2022 – 2023)

Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi (July 2023 – August 2024)

Peer Reviewer, Economic and Political Weekly, 2025

Peer Reviewer, Political Geography, 2024

Co-convenor of a 36 member global working group on Feminist Digital Justice

Member, STS-India network

Member, Responsible Data network

Member, Just Net Coalition (JNC - Forum).

Member, Coalition for Independent Technology Research

An Exploratory Study of Discrimination Based on Non-Normative Genders and Sexualities An Exploratory Study of Discrimination Based on Non-Normative Genders and Sexualities Jan 2018 - Jan 2020

Tewari, Avantika. 2025. “Zwigato: Algorithmic Mastery over Life?” Economic & Political Weekly Vol. 60 Issue No. 8, 22 February 2025. pp . 95-96. ISSN (Print): 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online): 2349-8846. Link to the Article

Tewari, Avantika. 2025. “DeepSeek’s Disruptive Intervention: AI beyond Big Tech’s Grip.” Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 60, Issue No. 7, 15 February 2025, pp 15-18. ISSN (Print): 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online): 2349-8846. Link to Article

Tewari, Avantika. “The Infrastructure of Digital Capitalism.” Economic & Political Weekly, vol. 60, no. 20, 17 May 2025. ISSN (Print): 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online): 2349-8846 Link to the Article

Tewari, Avantika. 2024. “The Prosumer in AI Governance: Class Antagonisms and the Social Relations of Labor.” United Nations’ Data and AI Governance Coalition, “AI from the Global Majority.” pp. 215-227. Link to the Article

Tewari, Avantika. 2024. “Anatomy of a Fall.” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 59, Issue No. 44-45, November 2, 2024, pp. 81-82. ISSN (Print): 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online): 2349-8846. Link to Article

Contribution included in Psychoanalysis and ChatGPT (June 21, 2023) alongside Slavoj Žižek, Duane Rousselle, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Jacob Johanssen, and others.

Tewari, Avantika. 2022. “Cultural Frames of the Digital: A Window into Subjectivity.” Journal of AI Humanities, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea, Vol. 11, pp. 37-78. Print ISSN: 2635-4691 | Online ISSN: 2951-388X. DOI: 10.46397/JAIH.11.2.

Tewari, Avantika. 2021. “Confronting Agamben on the Pandemic: Biopolitics, Class Struggle, and Surveillance Capitalism.” Law, Culture and Humanities, SAGE Publications. Special Issue: “Different Lives of Pandemic.” ISSN: 1743-8721 | eISSN: 1743-9752. DOI: 10.1177/17438721211018765.

Tewari, Avantika. 2021. “Corona Crisis or Life versus Freedom?” Revista Direito, Estado e Sociedade, Law School of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol. 58, Jan/Jun 2021, pp. 42-80. ISSN: 1516-6104. DOI: 10.17808/des.58.1777.

Tewari, Avantika. 2021. “Life versus Freedom: The Corona Crisis and the States of Exception.” The JMC Review, Vol. 5 (December), pp. 54-96. ISSN: 2456-9550. Link to Article

Tewari, Avantika. 2021. “Fighting the Machine? De-Mystifying Technology under Capitalism.” Journal of AI Humanities, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea, Vol. 7, pp. 25-58. ISSN: 2635-4691. DOI: 10.46397/JAIH.7.2.

Authored a piece for the student activism dossier in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, Issue 2 (2020), edited by Judith Butler and Juan Obarrio, on behalf of the women’s movement Pinjra Tod.

Report: “Housing, Discrimination and Non-Normative Gender and Sexuality” (as part of the Exploratory Study of Discriminations Based on Non-Normative Genders and Sexualities, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, September 2019).
Email avantika.tewari@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0003-0468-8597
Key Expertise Theory of Subject, Social Theory, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Political Economy, Artificial Intelligence, Platform Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Labor Theory, Social Movements, Critical Legal Thinking
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