Citizenship… Survival Infrastructures under COVID19 in India 12th May 202015th May 2020 I grew up hearing stories of Calcutta during the Bengal Famine of 1943 from my grandmother. The famine was an artificially created disaster under the watchful eyes of the British…
Citizenship… COVID19 may be an urban crisis, but India’s small cities will be its ‘collateral damage’. 30th April 202030th April 2020 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,…
Citizenship… The Web as Urban Archives: Nashik’s history in the mobile phone 28th February 202026th February 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…
General… World Urban Forum 2020, Abu Dhabi 27th February 202027th February 2020 From 10-13 February 2020, I was invited by UN-Habitat to speak at the Dialogues 4: Frontier Technologies plenary session and two other side events organised by UK GCRF and IHC…
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…
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…
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… Justice and the Digital Symposium 11th July 201817th January 2019 Invited speaker in the Digital Geographies Working Group Annual Symposium ‘Justice and the Digital’ @digital_RGS #DGWGSymp
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… ‘Undisciplining’ Urban Futures keynote 9th July 201817th January 2019 Keynote at the Sociological Review Conference in Newcastle, 19th June.
Citizenship… Oxfam event #SafetoSpeakOut 6th December 201716th March 2019 Ayona Datta speaks at Oxfam #SafetoSpeakOut event on 4 December 2017.
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…
Announcements… Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Leeds (UK) 9th June 2014 Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Leeds (UK). Looking for candidates for 2014 and 2015 funding rounds. Send s.gonzalez@leeds.ac.uk Expressions of Interest by 20th June. PLEASE SHARE.…