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Dubai diasporas, transnational remittances and intimate infrastructures of finance in India - Siddharth Menon, 2025 journals-sagepub-com.focus.lib.kth.se/doi/full/10.11…

@squarehaunting they won't. don't worry.

Purwins and Keck uncover the intricate ways in which #bureaucrats, alongside non-human actors, shape and mediate the socio-material networks that influence the future of contemporary cities buff.ly/Ywie710 #UrbanResilience #ClimateAdaptation

Just published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space! This paper examines Mumbai's unfinished sewage infrastructure and deepens our understanding of how infrastructural 'delays' are lived. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25… #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure #Mumbai

Uma ma'am's account and the work that's happening at rural libraries is such a source of hope, strength and joy! And ufff, these images of women leisurely reading newspapers/books, pure joy ♥

UWP redesigned its website and is offering 30% discount on almost all its print book until May 10. My book is one of them. uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/E/Electr…

Assistant Professor in Urban Planning / Design (National University of Singapore) buff.ly/e3o0C0D

Those in Manipal, do attend this exciting conference on Urban Futures held on 5th and 6th March, 2025 at Manipal Centre for Humanities!

The first article from my PhD project is now out and about (in pre-proof) and open access: Understanding decision-making in smart city policy implementation sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great news! Happy to have contributed to this volume.

New online first article by Persis Taraporevala: "Smart ignorance: Instrumentalising useful unknowns to bureaucratise and rescale power in the city" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

IIM-Bangalore’s Director publicly disclosed a Dalit professor’s caste in a mass email circulated within the institution, denied him equal opportunities, finds inquiry. thenewsminute.com/karnataka/iim-…

Thrilled to be sharing that i am defending my PhD thesis "Sustainability beyond optimization" on the 17th December @UiBCET ! It's a public defense, and will be streamed online. If you'd like to join, drop me a message!

wish i could get some idli vada

Reason for desk rejection: "I receive too many papers about India".

@Catherineoscopy I have licked my Himalayan salt lamp. It was salty.

I don’t know. I might lick it tomorrow. Will report back.

We're Listening, and We're Hiring! Department of Political Science invites aplications, from eligible Indian Citizens and Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) for the appointment to various faculty positions under the Special Recruitment Drive – 5.

Are you interested in doing a PhD that explores: drone geographies, political geographies of airspace, feminist geopolitics/ political geographies of technology, or geographies of verticality and volume? If so, I'd love to hear from you! Info: findaphd.com/phds/project/d… @UniRdg_GES

New research by @jiathwee uses architecture, cooling technologies and urban thermal metabolism to understand the relations between #hydrocarbons and political power ow.ly/Ck7e50TLL4Q #airconditioning #UrbanMetabolism

In this new paper, we trace the history of water in Delhi's rural belt to show how engineering interventions, local responses, and planning regulations continue to shape its agrarian urban character. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…