COVID19… Gendering Covid19 in India 4th February 20214th February 2021 This is a repost from Geography Directions by RGS-IBG By Ayona Datta, UCL In March 2020, the Indian Government imposed a Covid-19 lockdown that within 6 hours shut down all schools,…
Announcements… New Publication: Intimate Infrastructures. The rubrics of gendered safety and urban violence in Kerala, India 23rd January 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…
Announcements… New Publication: The ‘Smart Safe City’: Gendered time, speed and violence in the margins of India’s urban age. 5th August 201923rd January 2020 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 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…
Citizenship… Indian women from the outskirts of Delhi are taking selfies to claim their right to the city 27th February 201927th February 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…
Citizenship… “THIS CITY IS FOR YOU AND ME”- Khadar ki Ladkiyan [Khadar Girls] music video 7th January 201920th January 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…
Citizenship… #MeToo has arrived in India, and it’s changing how technology is used to fight injustice 26th October 201827th October 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…
Citizenship… ‘Fast Urbanism’ keynote 9th July 201817th January 2019 Fast Urbanism: Speed and time at the margins of the Indian city Keynote at the Conference of Irish Geographers Maynooth, 10 May 2018
Citizenship… Oxfam event #SafetoSpeakOut 6th December 201716th March 2019 Ayona Datta speaks at Oxfam #SafetoSpeakOut event on 4 December 2017.
Citizenship… The making of City Stories: Two mini-documentaries on citizenship, belonging and urban development in Maharashtra, India 4th September 20157th May 2018 It has been a long arduous road, but I am pleased to say that 'City Stories' is out now on dvd. It features two short documentaries on urban development in…
Announcements… CfP: Everyday Encounters with Violence: Critical Feminist Perspectives, 9-11 Sept 2015 14th July 20145th May 2015 Call for Papers 2015 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA) Conference Everyday Encounters with Violence: Critical Feminist Perspectives 9-11 September, 2015 School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK Although violence…
Announcements… Announcement of two opportunities to serve on the FWSA Executive Committee 9th May 201427th June 2014 PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY. APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS. Dear colleagues and friends, Further to our recent announcement of the 2015 Feminist and Women's Studies Association (FWSA) conference I am writing as…
Gender… BBC Radio Interview on impact of the Delhi gang rape on British South Asian feminisms 2nd December 2013 Podcast of my interview on 1st December 2013 on the impact of Delhi Rape case on British South Asian Feminism. This interview was conducted in parallel to the Birmingham debate…
Announcements… Ayona Datta: Who she is…what she does…how she does it…as a feminist geographer. 15th November 201315th November 2013 Featuring Feminist geographers: Who we are, what we do, why we do it.
Citizenship… City Forgotten: The fate of small towns in India’s urbanization 23rd September 201328th January 2016 THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN OPENDEMOCRACY ON 18TH SEPTEMBER 2013. CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE http://youtu.be/vJRLRdcujBc Late one evening, my academic partner Abdul Shaban, his research assistant Noor Alam and I…
Gender… BBC Radio Leeds interview on the death penalty as the verdict in the Delhi gangrape case 16th September 201316th September 2013 Listen to podcast of my interview on 13th September 2013 on the death penalty as the verdict in the Delhi gangrape case.
Citizenship… City Bypassed: The casualties of Mumbai’s urban renewal 31st July 201328th January 2016 This film was first hosted on the openDemocracy website. https://vimeo.com/71271947 Mumbai's road to global city status has been marked by the construction of road infrastructure projects. Apart from increasing the…
Citizenship… The politics that matter: Men, women and political knowledge 6th July 201317th September 2013 A recent research funded by the ESRC has reported that women worldwide know less about politics than men. This is based on the assumption that political knowledge is produced from…
Citizenship… Are Women underrepresented at academic conferences? 24th June 201325th June 2013 This post is a response to an article in the Times Higher Education today that women are underrepresented in academic conferences. The article dealt with a number of issues and statistics…