Skip to content

the city inside out

A blog on gender, citizenship and urban life

Search
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • Soundcloud
  • RESEARCH
    • Digitising the Periphery
    • Learning from Small Cities
    • Gendering the Smart City
    • (Dis)Connected Infrastructures and Violence against Women (VAW)
    • Provincialising the Smart city
    • Learning from the Utopian City
  • WRITING
    • Books
      • Mega-urbanization in the global south
      • The Illegal City: Space, law and gender in a Delhi squatter settlement
      • Translocal Geographies: Spaces, places, connections
    • Articles and chapters
    • Op-eds
    • Reports
  • SPEAKING
    • Podcasts
  • TEACHING
  • PRESS+MEDIA

Category: Sustainability

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…

Film: Habitat and Living in Plural Cities

24th April 20177th May 2018
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?…
Citizenship…

India’s GIFT: The hubris of technotopia in its “first” smart city

19th May 20155th June 2018
It was 45 degC on a scorching day in early May as we made our way to the much publicized GIFT (Gujarat International Financial Tech-city). Excitement and anticipation was building…
Citizenship…

Forthcoming Book: Ecological Citizenships in the Global South

21st May 201411th March 2016
Following our sessions in the RGS-IBG last year, I am very pleased to announce that we have received a book contract from Zed Books. Below is a short synopsis of…
Announcements…

Learning from Small Cities: New Urban Frontiers in the Global South

1st May 20145th June 2018
Further to my earlier CfP for the 2014 Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) annual meeting,  I am very pleased to announce that our double session 'Learning from Small Cities: New urban…
Citizenship…

City in a box: ‘Fast’ cities in the global south

9th September 20133rd May 2014
Recently, Lego began a new range of assembled toys. Called the Design Studio kit, it includes more than 1,200 white and transparent blocks with a 272-page design guide as a…
Citizenship…

What is smart about smart cities? A response from the global south

30th June 20135th June 2018
Imagine that you get off your flight and go straight into an electric car that takes you zipping over traffic into your business meeting. Imagine that your  mobile phone never…
Citizenship…

Book Review – Andrew Ross (2011) Bird on Fire: Lessons from the world’s most unsustainable city. (OUP: USA).

19th June 201320th June 2013
This review first appeared on LSE Review of Books. For the original review click here.Bird on Fire is a tour de force of the sustainability credentials of “the world’s least…
Citizenship…

RGS-IBG 2013 Sessions on Ecological Citizenships in the Global South

31st May 201321st May 2014
I am organizing a double session on Ecological Citizenship in the global south in the forthcoming RGS-IBG 2013 Annual International Conference in London. This stems from my recent interest in…

City Inside Out

My Tweets

Gendering the Smart City

My Tweets

Learning from Small Cities

My Tweets

(Dis)connected Infrastructures

My Tweets

Follow Blog via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Home
  • About me
  • Contact me
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • Soundcloud