The term “gentrification” was first coined in the 1960s by British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964 to describe the displacement…
I recently revisited two seminal works in urban studies — Susan Roberts’ (1991) critique of urban life cycles and David…
Cultural ideas and symbols surely define the urban landscape but they are in turn redefined, remoulded, and transformed as they…
This article is based on my lived experience and several train journeys I undertook between Delhi to Gaya for conducting…
In Being Single in the City: Cultural Geographies of Gendered Urban Space in Asia edited by Christiane Brosius, Jeroen de…
With the industrial revolution, the world began to change. With the changing world, several spaces became ‘business hubs,’ where people…
The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle (published by Manchester University Press in 2024) by…
Meena Menon, in her book Riots and After in Mumbai: Revisiting a City in Conflict in 1992–93 (published by Yoda…
Dhaneswar Bhoi is an Honorary Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and a Lecturer and Module Leader at…
‘Being a Delhiite for over four decades, the challenge to me has been to not become insensitive to our surroundings…