NEW #OPENACCESS PUBLICATION: Curating #AanaJaana: Gendered authorship in the ‘contact zone’ of Delhi’s digital and urban margins
Read MoreThis short animation based on our research, presents the gendered and intersectional impacts of Covid-19 in India, through the eyes of Mala and Lakshmi – two friends in Bengaluru who care for each other through voice notes throughout the lockdown.
Read MoreOur Urban Pulse review article (written with Arunima Ghoshal, Anwesha Aditi, Arya Thomas and Yogesh Mishra) for Urban Geography "Apps, maps and war rooms: on the modes of existence of “COVtech” in India" has been published. This article emerges in response to the proliferation of technologies that seeks to track, trace and manage the COVID19 pandemic in India and is part of our project on Provincialising the Smart City.
Read MoreAyona Datta argues that our access to urban history, is now determined by algorithms that are programmed to recognise the past as a repository of maps and images on the web, rather than a political process that is contested and negotiated in the current times.
Read MoreExplore the 'Gendering the Smart City' Project #AanaJaana gendered data in smart cities Story Map created in partnership with our participants ‘Khadar Ki Ladkiyan [Khadar Girls]', societal partners Safetipin and Jagori, and institutional partner the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi in India.
Read MoreSpin the globe to India and you’ll see it’s lit up like Diwali: the #MeToo movement is rising, and – like its US predecessor – is largely being played out on social media, with very real consequences for well-known public figures. The campaign is not confined to large cities; among the top areas searching the term are small towns across India.
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