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Research interests
I am a Human Geographer (PhD, King’s College London) with a background in Urban Policy (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai) and Architecture (B.Arch, CEPT University Ahmedabad). My key areas of interest are legal, political and health geographies, spatial politics and social life of infrastructure, precarity and affective labour, planning and governance, and ethnography of the everyday state.Three overarching themes encompass my work and research interests:
· Entangled and conflicted understandings of 'publicness' in infrastructure and public services
· Moral politics of care
· Embodied mobility and socio-labours of the everyday
I examine these primarily through the empirics of public infrastructure and provisioning, interdisciplinary perspectives, and feminist and phenomenological epistemologies. My current work has a strong empirical focus on the postcolonial Indian railway, and I locate it within a broader aim of advancing contemporary railway studies through a truly interdisciplinary approach.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Human Geography, King's College London
16 Sept 2016 → 15 Sept 2021
Award Date: 1 Oct 2021
Bachelor, Architecture, CEPT University
Master, Urban Policy and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Keywords
- HE Transportation and Communications
- Railways, Postcolonial railways
- GN Anthropology
- Ethnography of the state, Anthropology of infrastructure
- G Geography (General)
- Global South, Mumbai
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 1 Active
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RAILIMAGE: Twentieth-Century Railway Imaginations: Building the Mobility and Infrastructural Humanities
Finch, J. (Principal Investigator), Joshi, N. (Co-Investigator) & Henriques Correia, Z. C. (Co-Investigator)
01/08/24 → 31/07/27
Project: Foundation
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Decolonising From The Ground Up: Racialised students’ perspectives to decolonise the curriculum and practices in the Department of Geography, King’s College London
Joshi, N. & Heimer, R., 2021Research output: Book/Journal/Report › Commissioned report › Professional
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Will not speed by: Contestations around India’s first high-speed rail project
Joshi, N., 1 Sept 2019, 46 p. Mumbai : Marg Publications .Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
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The varied forms of ‘street’ smart water
Joshi, N., 2018Research output: Other contribution › Blog article › General public
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Losing lives while India moves
Joshi, N., Dec 2017Research output: Other contribution › Blog article › General public
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“May I know who is on the line?": Technology consumption, mobile telephony and the gender question
Joshi, N., 1 Dec 2014, In: SUBVERSIONS. 2, 2, p. 35-52Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional
Activities
- 2 Public or invited talk
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Owning Railway Trauma
Joshi, N. (Speaker)
23 Aug 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Public or invited talk
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Accident-al care: A critical political geography of human accidents in Mumbai’s commuter railway
Joshi, N. (Speaker)
24 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Public or invited talk