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Sarah Zia

Sarah Zia

Visiting Faculty

Teaching

Courses

Nov 2022

Education

B.A (Hons.) Journalism, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi – 2012
MA Mass Communication, AJKMCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia – 2014 

Profile

Sarah Zia is a journalist and independent researcher with interests lying at the intersection of media,  mobilities, identities and urban cultures. Currently, she is an assistant editor at HT Media Ltd. She is  also a qualitative researcher and her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and as book  chapters. Most recently, she was awarded a research grant by the Centre for Internet and Society  funded by the Azim Premji University to conduct an ethnographic study of ride hailing drivers in  the platform economy.  

Research Interests

  • Media cultures and identities
  • Politics of representation
  • Platform labour
  • Urban mobility

Publications

Book chapters:

  • Arundhati & Zia, S. (2019). Lonely Indian Housewives: Gendered Portrayal of Loneliness in Bollywood Cinema in Bianca Fox, Emotions and Loneliness in a Networked Society (pp. 253-268). Palgrave Macmillan.   
  • Arundhathi & Zia, S. (Forthcoming). Decentering the Center: Examining the Materiality of Connaught Place, in Minu Susan Koshy, Materiality Cultures. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

Other selected articles: 

Zia, S. (2022, February 20). Hands off my hijab: India’s Muslim women battle Hindu hardliners.  South Asian Today. https://www.southasiantoday.com.au/article-10209-hands-off-my-hijab-indias muslim-women-battle-hindu-hardliners-details.aspx 

Zia, S. (2022, May 5). Mehnat vs Nasha: Unpacking the motivations of a cab driver in The Center  for Internet and Society and Azim Premji University, Studying Platform Work in Mumbai and New  Delhi (pp.16-21). 

Zia, S. (2019, July 18). Not knowing as pedagogy: Ride-hailing drivers in Delhi. Platypus: The  CASTAC blog. https://blog.castac.org/2019/07/not-knowing-as-pedagogy-ride-hailing-drivers-in delhi/ 

Zia, S. (2017, August 24). Why do fewer girls make it to IITs?. Livemint. https://www.livemint.com/ Education/uLBJcsQF4smkikVEfQ0gEO/Why-do-fewer-girls-make-it-to-IITs.html 

Zia, S. (2017, October 15). Can institutional safeguards prevent campus sexual harassment?.  Livemint. https://www.livemint.com/Education/ZkM6SeJwUa15oO8LBmwRWJ/Can-institutional safeguards-prevent-campus-sexual-harassmen.html