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Category: Citizenship

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New Publication: Curating #AanaJaana

1 Jun 20216 Jun 2021
Curating #AanaJaana: gendered authorship in the ‘contact zone’ of Delhi’s digital and urban margins NEW #OPENACCESS PUBLICATION IN CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES. LINK HERE ABSTRACT This paper examines the curation of a…
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New Publication: Self(ie) Governance

28 May 2020
My commentary article for Dialogues in Human Geography "Self(ie)-governance: Technologies of intimate surveillance in India under COVID19" has been published. This article emerges in response to the proliferation of selfie based quarantine…
Citizenship…

Survival Infrastructures under COVID19 in India

12 May 20205 Jun 2021
This is a reposting of a Blog published in Geography Directions. I grew up hearing stories of Calcutta during the Bengal Famine of 1943 from my grandmother. The famine was…
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COVID19 may be an urban crisis, but India’s small cities will be its ‘collateral damage’.

30 Apr 20205 Jun 2021
THIS POST HAS BEEN REBLOGGED FROM 'LEARNING FROM SMALL CITIES' HERE On 24th March, the Indian state announced a 21-day lockdown that would come in place within 4 hours. Almost immediately,…
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The Web as Urban Archives: Nashik’s history in the mobile phone

28 Feb 2020
THIS POST HAS BEEN REBLOGGED FROM THE LEARNING FROM SMALL CITIES WEBSITE HERE Recently I received my first digital capacity training. Our research assistant and I were talking to a…
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New Publication: Intimate Infrastructures. The rubrics of gendered safety and urban violence in Kerala, India

23 Jan 2020
We just received confirmation that our co-authored article for Geoforum "Intimate Infrastructures: The rubrics of gendered safety and urban violence in Kerala, India" has been accepted for publication. This article has…
Citizenship…

Shimla: The slow contoured life of an imagined Smart City

4 Sep 2019
*** This is a reblogged post from our ESRC funded project website 'Learning from Small Cities'. Click here for the original post.*** For all purposes, Shimla is slow. It takes…
Citizenship…

Jalandhar: Emigration, transnationalism and the future of a ‘Smart Chowk’ development

3 Sep 2019
***This is a reblogged post from project website 'Learning from Small Cities' funded by the ESRC. Click here for original post*** ‘Visa denied’ We were sitting in one of the…
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New Publication: The ‘Smart Safe City’: Gendered time, speed and violence in the margins of India’s urban age.

5 Aug 2019
I just received confirmation that my article for the Annals of the AAG titled "The ‘Smart Safe City’: Gendered time, speed and violence in the margins of India’s urban age"…
Citizenship…

Intimate Infrastructures Storymap

16 Mar 2019
Intimate infrastructures is a way of seeing and understanding how infrastructure, in their absence, disconnectedness and exclusions are woven into the intimate material and social relationships of urban life. These intimate…
Citizenship…

#AanaJaana Storymap

2 Mar 2019
Curating gendered digital lives in Delhi’s urban peripheries Combining approaches from urban geography, gender studies, software ethnography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), this ArcGIS mapping initiative is a unique interdisciplinary…
Citizenship…

Indian women from the outskirts of Delhi are taking selfies to claim their right to the city

27 Feb 2019
Ayona Datta., Author provided Ayona Datta, King's College London Taking selfies and posting them on social media is often derided as a narcissistic, self-absorbed and attention-seeking practice. Filters come in…
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“THIS CITY IS FOR YOU AND ME”- Khadar ki Ladkiyan [Khadar Girls] music video

7 Jan 2019
REBLOGGED FROM 'GENDERING THE SMART CITY' Dr. Ayona Datta, Project Principal Investigator We are ending the Delhi phase of the ‘Gendering the Smart City’ project on a high. What began…
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#MeToo has arrived in India, and it’s changing how technology is used to fight injustice

26 Oct 2018
#MeToo has arrived in India, and it's changing how technology is used to fight injustice Shutterstock.Ayona Datta, King's College London; Nabeela Ahmed, King's College London, and Rakhi Tripathi, FORE School…
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Justice and the Digital Symposium

11 Jul 2018
Invited speaker in the Digital Geographies Working Group Annual Symposium ‘Justice and the Digital’ @digital_RGS #DGWGSymp
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‘Fast Urbanism’ keynote

9 Jul 2018
Fast Urbanism: Speed and time at the margins of the Indian city Keynote at the Conference of Irish Geographers Maynooth, 10 May 2018
Citizenship…

‘Undisciplining’ Urban Futures keynote

9 Jul 2018
Keynote at the Sociological Review Conference in Newcastle, 19th June.
Citizenship…

Oxfam event #SafetoSpeakOut

6 Dec 20175 Jun 2021
Ayona Datta speaks at Oxfam #SafetoSpeakOut event on 4 December 2017.  
Citizenship…

Film: Habitat and Living in Plural Cities

24 Apr 20175 Jun 2021
Habitat and Living in Plural Cities Watch this new film produced by the British Academy as part of their Urban Futures series. Abstract: Is our understanding of urban infrastructure changing?…
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Learning from the Utopian City: Navi Mumbai

23 Jun 20165 Jun 2021
This is a reflection on a two day workshop organised by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai as part of our 'Learning from Utopian Cities' AHRC funded international network.

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