Books
2020 -
Datta, A. (accepted in Press) Distant time: The future of urbanisation from 'there' and 'then'" [Anchor article], Dialogues in Human Geography
Datta, A. and Muthama D. M. (2024) Sorting Paper: Archival labour of digitising land records in Kenya, The Geographical Journal, 00, 1–12. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12581
Datta, A. and Söderström, O. (2023) Webinars and War-rooms: Technopolitics of data in a post-covid world, in Söderström, O. and Datta, A. eds. Data Power in action. Urban data politics in times of crisis. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Söderström, O. and Datta, A. (2023) Data Power in Action: Urban Data Politics in Times of Crisis (Introduction), in Söderström, O. and Datta, A. eds. Data Power in action. Urban data politics in times of crisis. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Ahmed, N. and Datta, A. (2023) “Dirty Phone”: Infrastructures of violence against women in urban Kerala, in Anu Sabhlok and Yaffa Truelove (eds.) Gendered Infrastructures: Dialectics of Form, Identity and Space. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.
Datta, A. (2023) The Informational Periphery: Territory, logistics and people in the margins of a digital age, Asian Geographer (AAG 2023 Plenary].
Shaban, A., Datta, A. and Fatima, S. (2023) Overlapping marginalities: Digital Education and Muslim Female Students in Bhiwandi, Economic and Political Weekly, 58(29).
Datta, A. (2022) The digitalising state: Governing digitalisation-as-urbanisation in the global south. Progress in Human Geography.
Datta, A. (2022) ‘Thick time’: Experiments with feminist urban futures in community podcasts, [2021 RGS-IBG plenary] Geoforum.
Datta, A (2022) Curating #AanaJaana [#ComingGoing]: Gendered digital lives and networked violence in Delhi’s urban margins, In Gillian Rose (ed.) Seeing The City Digitally: Reconfiguring Temporalities, Spatialities and Collectivities. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Bailey, David, Riccardo Crescenzi, Elisa Roller, Isabelle Anguelovski, Ayona Datta, and John Harrison (2021) ‘Regions in Covid-19 Recovery’. Regional Studies 55 (12): 1955–65.
Datta, A. and Thomas, A. (2021) Curating #AanaJaana [#ComingGoing]: Gendered authorship in the ‘contact zone’ of Delhi’s digital and urban margins, Cultural Geographies.
Datta, A (2021) The ‘Smart Safe City’: Gendered time, Speed and violence in the margins of India’s urban [reworked article from Annals of the AAG]. in Christoph Lindner, Gerard Sandoval (eds) Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Datta, A., Aditi, A. Ghoshal, A., Thomas, A. and Mishra, Y. (2020) Apps, Maps and War Rooms: On the modes of existence of ‘COVtech’ in India, Urban Geography. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2020.1
Datta, A. (2020) The ‘Smart Safe City’: Gendered time, Speed and violence in the margins of India’s urban age. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1687279.
Datta, A and Ahmed, N. (2020) Intimate Infrastructures: The rubrics of gendered safety and urban violence in Thiruvananthapuram, India. Geoforum. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.01.016.
Datta, A and Ahmed, N. (2020) Mapping Gendered Infrastructures: Critical Reflections on Violence Against Women in India. Architectural Design, vol. 90, 104-111, DOI:10.1002/ad.2597.
Ray Murray, P and Datta, A. (2020) Wiki-Urbanism: Curating a Delhi resettlement colony with open knowledge platforms. In Mike Hodson, Rebecca Ince, Andrew McMeekin, John Stehlin and Kevin Ward. (eds.) Urban platforms and the future city: Transformations in infrastructure, governance, knowledge, and everyday life. London: Routledge
2015-2019
Datta, A. (2019) Postcolonial Urban Futures: Technology and mythology in India’s smart urban age. EPD: Society and Space, vol. 37(3), 393-410.
Shaban, A and Datta, A (2019) Towards “Slow” and “Moderated” Urbanism. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 54(48), 36-42.
Datta, A (2019) “WhatsApp: Of the people, for the people, by the people”, in Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw (eds.) How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. London: Meatspace.
Datta, A. (2018) The ‘digital turn’ in postcolonial urbanism: Smart citizenship in the making of India’s 100 smart cities. Transactions of the IBG, vol. 43(3) 405-419.
Datta, A (2018) ‘Cityzens become Netizens’: Hashtag citizenships in the making of India’s 100 smart cities, in Claudio Coletta, Leighton Evans, Liam Heaphy and Rob Kitchin (eds.) Creating Smart Cities. London: Routledge.
Rose-Redwood, R., Kitchin, R., Rickards, L., Rossi, U., Datta, A. and Crampton, J. (2018) The possibilities and limits to dialogue. Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 8(2), 109–23.
Rose-Redwood, R., Kitchin, R., Rickards, L., Rossi, U., Datta, A. and Crampton, J. (2018) The uneven terrain of dialogical encounters and the spatial politics of listening. Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 8(2), 160–67.
Datta, A (2017) “Introduction”, in Ayona Datta and Abdul Shaban eds. Mega-urbanization in the Global South: Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state. London: Routledge.
Shaban, A and Datta, A (2017) “Slow: Towards a Decelerated Urbanism”, in Ayona Datta and Abdul Shaban eds. Mega-urbanization in the Global South: Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state. London: Routledge
Caprotti, F., Cowley, R., Datta, A. Castán Broto, V., Gao, E., Georgeson, L., Herrick, C., Odendaal, N. & Joss, S. (2017). The New Urban Agenda: key opportunities and challenges for policy and practice. Urban Research & Practice. DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2016.1275618.
Datta, A (2016) Another Rape? Persistence of public/private divisions in sexual violence debates in India Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 6(2) 173–177.
Datta, A (2016) The intimate city: violence, gender and ordinary life in Delhi slums [2014 AAG plenary], Urban Geography, vol. 37(3), 323-342.
Datta, A (2016) The Smart Entrepreneurial City: Dholera and a 100 other utopias in India, in Colin McFarlane, Andrés Luque and Simon Marvin (eds) Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False dawn? London: Routledge.
Datta, A (2015) New Urban Utopias of Postcolonial India: Entrepreneurial urbanization and the smart city in Gujarat, [Anchor paper] Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 5(1), p3-22.
Datta, A (2015) A 100 smart cities, a 100 utopias [Response paper] Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 5(1), p49-53.
2010-2014
Datta, A (2014) Gendered Nature and Urban Culture: The dialectics of gated developments in Izmir, Turkey, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 38(4), 1363–1383.
Datta, A (2013) Diaspora and Transnationalism in Urban Studies, in Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani (eds.) Blackwell Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies, Oxford: Blackwell, 88-105.
Datta, A (2013) Encounters with law and critical urban studies, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, vol 17(4), 517-522.
Datta, A (2012) India’s Eco-city? Urbanisation, environment and mobility in the making of Lavasa, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, vol. 30(6), 982-996.
Datta, A (2012) ‘Where is the global city?’ Visual narratives of London among East European migrants, Urban Studies, vol. 49(8), 1725-1740.
Datta, A (2012) ‘Mongrel City’: Cosmopolitan neighbourliness in a Delhi squatter settlement, Antipode, vol. 44(3), 745-763.
Datta, A (2011) Translocal Geographies of London: Belonging and otherness among Polish migrants after 2004, in Katherine Brickell and Ayona Datta (eds.) Translocal Geographies: Spaces, Places, Connections, London Ashgate, 73-91.
Brickell, K and Datta, A (2011) ‘Introduction’, in Katherine Brickell and Ayona Datta (eds.) Translocal Geographies: Spaces, Places, Connections, London Ashgate.
Hall, S & Datta, A (2010) The Translocal Street: Shop signs and local multi-culture along Walworth Road, London, City, Culture and Society, vol. 1(2), 69-77.
Pre-2010
Datta, A (2009) Places of everyday cosmopolitanisms: East European construction workers in London, Environment and Planning A, vol. 41(2), 353-370.
Datta, A & Brickell, K (2009) ‘We have a little bit more finesse as a nation’: Constructing the Polish worker in London’s Building Sites, Antipode: a Radical Journal of Geography, vol. 41(4), 439-464.
Datta, A (2009) ‘Making Space for Muslims: Housing Bangladeshi Families in East London’ in Richard Phillips (ed.) Muslim Spaces of Hope: Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West, London: Zed Books, 120-138.
Datta, A (2009) ‘This is Special Humour: Visual Narratives of Polish Masculinities in London’s Building Sites’, in Kathy Burrell (ed.) After 2004: Polish Migration to the UK in the ‘New’ European Union, London: Ashgate, 189-210.
Datta, A (2008) Building Differences: Material Geographies of Home(s) among Polish Builders in London, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 33(4), 518-531.
Datta, A (2008) Spatialising Performance: Masculinities and Femininities in a Fragmented Field, Gender, Place, and Culture, vol. 15(2), 191-207.
Datta, A (2008) Architecture of Low-income Widow Housing: ‘Spatial Opportunities’ in Madipur, West Delhi, Cultural Geographies, vol. 15(3), 231-253.
Datta, A (2007) ‘Samudayik Shakti’: Working-Class Feminism and Social Organisation in Subhash Camp, New Delhi. Gender, Place, and Culture, vol. 14(2), 215-231.
Datta, A & Yucel Young, S (2007) Suburban Development and Networks of Mobility: ‘Sites’ in Izmir, Turkey, Global Built Environment Review, vol. 6(1), 44-55.
Datta, A (2007) ‘Gender and Learning in the Design Studio’, Journal for Education in the Built Environment, vol. 2(2), 21-35.
Datta, A (2006) From Tenements to Flats: Gender, Class, and Modernisation in Bethnal Green Estate, in Social and Cultural Geography, vol. 7(5), 789-805.
Datta, A (2005) ‘Homed’ in Arizona: The Architecture of Emergency Shelters. Urban Geography, vol. 26(6), 536-557.
Datta, A (2002) ‘The Most Wonderful Place in the World’: Homeless Women’s Experiences in a Phoenix Shelter. Open House International, vol. 27(3), 38-46.
Datta, A and Baker, N (2000) ‘Carbondioxide Emissions from the Housing Sector: Possible Scenarios in the UK’ in Koen Steemers and Simos Yannas (eds.) Architecture, City, Environment. London: James and James, 204-209.
2021-2016
Datta, A (2021) Gendering COVID19 in India, Geography Directions.
Datta, A (2020) Survival Infrastructures under COVID19. Geography Directions
Datta, A (2019) Why Smart City projects may not be enough to hold back Jalandhar’s youth. Citizen Matters
Datta, A (2019) ‘Khadar ki Ladkiyan’: A hip hop music video co-produced with young women in Delhi’s urban peripheries. Guftugu: Indian Writers’ Collective.
Datta, A (1 February 2019) Indian women from the outskirts of Delhi are taking selfies to claim their right to the city. The Conversation UK.
Datta, A (26 Oct 2018) #MeToo has arrived in India, and it’s changing how technology is used to fight injustice. The Conversation UK
Datta, A (9 June 2016) Three big challenges for smart cities and how to solve them. The Conversation UK
Datta, A (27 January 2016) Will India’s experiment with smart cities tackle poverty or make it worse? The Conversation UK.
2015-2010
Datta, A (22nd May 2015) ‘Smartness Inc.’ openDemocracy digital commons
Datta, A (17th April 2014) ‘India’s smart city craze: Big, green and doomed from the start?’ Guardian.
Datta, A (7th January 2014) ‘Why student fieldtrips make an impact‘ edited blog published in Guardian Higher Education.
Datta, A (2013) Negotiating differences: A resource for enhancing learning and capacity building in fieldwork. Higher Education Academy.
Datta, A (18th September 2013) – City Forgotten: The fate of India’s small city, openDemocracy digital commons
Datta, A (6th August 2013) – City Bypassed: The casualties of Mumbai’s urban renewal, openDemocracy digital commons
Datta, A (21st May 2013) The Myth of resettlement in Delhi, openDemocracy digital commons.
Datta, A (2012) ‘Migration and Urban Living in Less Developed Countries’, entry under Welfare and Wellbeing in International Encyclopedia of House and Home, Oxford: Elsevier Limited
Datta, A (2011) ‘A Review on the Potential and Risks Associated with Development of New Eco-Cities in India in Relation to Urbanisation: Case Study of Mumbai-Pune Region’, Foresight: Migration and Global Environmental Change, London: Government Office for Science.
Datta, A (2010) Illegal Geographies of the City: Slums in Delhi’s worldly aspirations, Dérive, October 40, 89-93.
Datta, A (2010) ‘Where is the Modern City?’ Visual narratives of London by East European migrants’, in Herausgegeben Von Tilman Broszat, Sigrid Gareis, Julian Nida-Rumelin and Michael M Thoss (ed.) Woodstock of Political Thinking, Theater der Zeit: Recherchen 79.
