Arun Jacob

Arun Jacob

glumpenproletariat (noun): The melancholic stratum of the proletariat.

Publications

Bloody frontier politics: Menstrual equity, military inclusion, and the Canadian workplace

Published in Diversity and Inclusion Research, 2025

We examine how menstrual concealment and suppression technologies are made available to AFAB soldiers as military technological solutions for occupational health that simultaneously expand participation and reinforce cultural beliefs that menstruation is a logistical problem to be minimized and/or erased in service of operational readiness.

Recommended citation: Facca, Danica, and Arun Jacob. (2025). Bloody frontier politics: Menstrual equity, military inclusion, and the Canadian workplace. Diversity & Inclusion Research, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70029 https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70029

Forced reproduction: abortion access in a landscape of data violence

Published in Journal of Gender Studies, 2025

While popular responses to tracking practices call for increased data protections, this paper challenges the position that legislation can help undo these harms. In examining the practices of data intermediaries and the legal contexts that protect them, this article argues that data intermediaries are not simply bad actors profiting from post-Dobbs regulations but they reify a culture of forced reproduction through the instrument of data violence.

Recommended citation: Noone, Rebecca, and Arun Jacob. (2025). Forced reproduction: abortion access in a landscape of data violence. Journal of Gender Studies, 00(00), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2505573 https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2505573

AKA WWJD?: Interrogating Gendered Ideologies and Urban Revanchism

Published in Diverging the Popular, Gender and Trauma AKA The Jessica Jones Anthology, 2024

Kilgrave’s psychological abuse of his victims, his absolute and total control, his manipulation, and his dominance over their agency are all part of what makes him utterly terrifying: his powers are subtle exaggerations of very real human abilities.

Recommended citation: Jacob, Arun and Elizabeth Di Emanuele. (2024). “AKA WWJD?: Interrogating Gendered Ideologies and Urban Revanchism”, Diverging the Popular, Gender and Trauma AKA The Jessica Jones Anthology edited by Mary Grace Lao, Jessica Bay and Pree Rehal, University of Calgary Press. pp. 243-252. https://ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/9781773855752. https://ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/9781773855752/resource/chapter-15-aka-wwjd-interrogating-gendered-ideologies-and-urban-revanchism

Bad Boundaries: Geofences and the Intimacies of Location Data

Published in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 2024

Geofencing is a practice that exploits the intimacy of locational data not simply by accessing private data but also by using intimate data to index the body in relation to risk and safety and property and trespass.

Recommended citation: Noone, Rebecca, and Arun Jacob. (2024). “Bad Boundaries: Geofences and the Intimacies of Location Data,” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Issue 48, Special Issue: Platform Intimacies. https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2023-0035 https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2023-0035

Making the most of the ‘crisortunity’: Techno-fixes and precarity in a global pandemic

Published in Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), 2022

What does a robust and useful technological response to a crisis, aware and attentive to the biases and messages of digital media, look like?

Recommended citation: Bryant, Haley, Nelanthi Hewa, Camille Inston and Arun Jacob (2022).“Making the most of the ‘crisortunity’: Techno-fixes and precarity in a global pandemic” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), vol. 3, no. 2, Dec 02, 2022. https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.db5a6abe. https://ideah.pubpub.org/pub/vpuit7w4/release/2

Transforming DH Pedagogy

Published in Digital Studies/le champ numérique (DSCN) Open Issue 2020, 2021

This paper is describing the ways in which new forms of pedagogical practices are expanding and changing the field of Digital Humanities.

Recommended citation: Boulay, N., Morford, A. C., Jacob, A., Patel, K., O'Donnell, K. (2021). "Transforming DH Pedagogy." Digital Studies/le Champ Numérique. 11(1). https://www.digitalstudies.org/articles/10.16995/dscn.379/