Fieldwork… Simla ‘below Cart Road’: Biographies of houses in the margins of an Imperial urban age 23rd September 2019 **This is a reblogged post. Click here for original** After three months, we finally receive permission to access the Shimla Municipal Corporation (MC) Records Room. We walk down the four…
Citizenship… Shimla: The slow contoured life of an imagined Smart City 4th September 20193rd September 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 3rd September 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…
Citizenship… Intimate Infrastructures Storymap 16th March 201916th March 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 2nd March 201929th April 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…
Fieldwork The Inaugural Mumbai Fieldtrip 2013 6th January 20146th January 2014 Related post: The 'impact' of student fieldtrips: Some post-REF reflections
Fieldwork… The ‘impact’ of student field trips: Some post-REF reflections 5th January 201427th June 2014 The past year or so has been very hectic in UK Higher Education institutions. The deadline for the dreaded Research Excellence Framework (REF) through which university funding and the fate…
Citizenship… HEA online resource on negotiating difference for fieldworkers 17th June 201322nd May 2015 I have recently been commissioned by the Higher Education Academy in the UK to create an online resource for fieldworkers in GEES (Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences) on negotiating differences during fieldwork. This…