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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):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Human Geography, King's College London

16 Sept 201615 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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