Navigating the City through Food, Identity and Belongingness: Humayunpur in Delhi – Madhusmita Devi and Prerona Barman
‘Humayunpur feels like home.’ ‘I feel safe when I am there.’ ‘The food there reminds me of home.’ – …
Street Food, Taste and Urban Spaces: Musings with Krishnendu Ray
Krishnendu Ray is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University (NYU). He is…
Sex and the City: Decoding the Series Sociologically – Upali Bhattacharya
Rewatching Sex and the City as a show today can be both confusing and liberating. Confusing, in the sense, that…
Gentrification and Redevelopment In Dharavi: Balancing Urban Transformation With Community Preservation – Aashish Gaur and Natasha Mittal
The term “gentrification” was first coined in the 1960s by British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964 to describe the displacement…
Social Sciences and the Politics of Organic Metaphors – Madiha Tariq
I recently revisited two seminal works in urban studies — Susan Roberts’ (1991) critique of urban life cycles and David…
The Social Action Theatrical – Bhoomi Bohara
Cultural ideas and symbols surely define the urban landscape but they are in turn redefined, remoulded, and transformed as they…
Deprivation and Desperation: Reiterating the Plight of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar through Train Journeys – Ritika Rajput
This article is based on my lived experience and several train journeys I undertook between Delhi to Gaya for conducting…
Being Single in the City: Cultural Geographies of Gendered Urban Space in Asia edited by Christiane Brosius, Jeroen de Kloet, Laila Abu-Er-Rub and Melissa Butcher (2024): A Review by Smita Choudhury
In Being Single in the City: Cultural Geographies of Gendered Urban Space in Asia edited by Christiane Brosius, Jeroen de…
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansion, Hong Kong (2011) by Gordon Mathews: A Review by Mayur Narendra Kudupale
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 by Alexandrina Vanke (2024): A Review by Arpita Rachel Abraham
The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle (published by Manchester University Press in 2024) by…