Twentieth-century India, and in this specific context Calcutta, experienced and participated in some of the most crucial political and economic…
Humans transform through their socioeconomic interactions, eventually altering the environment in which they reside. They make continuous efforts to mould…
Sushmita Pati’s Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi (published by Cambridge University Press in 2022) seeks…
Dr Gayatri Nair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology…
Doing Sociology discussed Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay’s on Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta.…
Neoliberalism has had a profound impact on societies in the global South. India has been no exception. It has led…
As Neil Smith, a revolutionary geographer, along with Setha Low has written in the introduction of their edited work The…
Homewards: Towards a Politics of Space is an anthology of short stories, poems, personal essays and art (digital and hand…
Introduction Urbanisation is a widespread phenomenon in contemporary times. In countries such as India and elsewhere in the Global South…
The book Set Adrift: Capitalist Transformations and Community Politics along Mumbai’s Shore (published by Oxford University Press) by Gayatri Nair,…