Citizenship… 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…
COVID19… Gendering Covid19 in India 4 Feb 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 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…
Announcements… 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…
Citizenship… “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…
Citizenship… #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…
Citizenship… ‘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… Oxfam event #SafetoSpeakOut 6 Dec 20175 Jun 2021 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 4 Sep 20155 Jun 2021 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 14 Jul 20145 Jun 2021 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 9 May 20145 Jun 2021 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 2 Dec 20135 Jun 2021 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. 15 Nov 20135 Jun 2021 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 23 Sep 20135 Jun 2021 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 16 Sep 20135 Jun 2021 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 31 Jul 20135 Jun 2021 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 6 Jul 20135 Jun 2021 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…
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