Find our more about our ESRC funded free public exhibition titled 'Learning from Small Cities' and accompanying conference "(Re)thinking Smart, (Re)building Scale" at the Building Centre, London.
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NEW #OPENACCESS PUBLICATION: Curating #AanaJaana: Gendered authorship in the ‘contact zone’ of Delhi’s digital and urban margins
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This short animation based on our research, presents the gendered and intersectional impacts of Covid-19 in India, through the eyes of Mala and Lakshmi – two friends in Bengaluru who care for each other through voice notes throughout the lockdown.
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Deeply honoured to be representing Geography in @REF_2021. Look forward to the very best of British geography with some amazing colleagues as sub-panel members.
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Our Urban Pulse review article (written with Arunima Ghoshal, Anwesha Aditi, Arya Thomas and Yogesh Mishra) for Urban Geography "Apps, maps and war rooms: on the modes of existence of “COVtech” in India" has been published. This article emerges in response to the proliferation of technologies that seeks to track, trace and manage the COVID19 pandemic in India and is part of our project on Provincialising the Smart City.
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In this podcast Ayona Datta, Professor of Human Geography, thinks about survival infrastructures in India, and their collapse or dysfunctionality in the context of the mass exodus and precarity of migrant workers, forced to forsake the city because of India’s lockdown.
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Ayona Datta argues that our access to urban history, is now determined by algorithms that are programmed to recognise the past as a repository of maps and images on the web, rather than a political process that is contested and negotiated in the current times.
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Ayona Datta was invited by UN-Habitat to speak at the World Urban Forum, Dialogues 4: Frontier Technologies plenary session and two other side events organised by UK GCRF and IHC Global.
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