@DevikaPrksh

PhD, KTH Royal Institute of Technology: I studied. smart cities & urban control rooms using a sociotechnical lens.

 Berlin, Germany
Joined July 2017
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New paper out. I argue that so-called “informal” transport isn’t unregulated—it’s governed through local, bottom-up systems that organise services and resist top-down reforms. Rethinking formal vs informal as co-produced, not opposites. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Vernacular governance of public transport: contesting formalisation from below

This paper examines the governance of public transport – shared taxis and autorickshaws – in two small Indian cities, Dehradun and Shillong, through the concept of vernacular governance. Vernacular...

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Admissions to our fully funded, interdisciplinary, full time PhD are open. Details in image and on iihs.ac.in. Check it out!
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Dubai diasporas, transnational remittances and intimate infrastructures of finance in India - Siddharth Menon, 2025 journals-sagepub-com.focus.l…
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Purwins and Keck uncover the intricate ways in which #bureaucrats, alongside non-human actors, shape and mediate the socio-material networks that influence the future of contemporary cities buff.ly/Ywie710 #UrbanResilience #ClimateAdaptation
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Just published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space! This paper examines Mumbai's unfinished sewage infrastructure and deepens our understanding of how infrastructural 'delays' are lived. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure #Mumbai
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Uma ma'am's account and the work that's happening at rural libraries is such a source of hope, strength and joy! And ufff, these images of women leisurely reading newspapers/books, pure joy ♥
Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta@readingkafka21 Mar 2025
Woman in the rural library reading a newspaper report about astronaut Sunita Williams. #publiclibrariesforall
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UWP redesigned its website and is offering 30% discount on almost all its print book until May 10. My book is one of them. uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/E/Ele…

Electrifying Indonesia

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Assistant Professor in Urban Planning / Design (National University of Singapore) buff.ly/e3o0C0D
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Those in Manipal, do attend this exciting conference on Urban Futures held on 5th and 6th March, 2025 at Manipal Centre for Humanities!
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The first article from my PhD project is now out and about (in pre-proof) and open access: Understanding decision-making in smart city policy implementation sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Great news! Happy to have contributed to this volume.
amrita pande@Tiyathetwit16 Jan 2025
Happy news to start the new year: my edited volume Birth Controlled: Selective Reproduction and Neoliberal Eugenics in South Africa and India was honoured at the 2024  AAA awards. Congrats to the wonderful contributors! @Sree_socscience @DrRChadwick @GoverningI @ManchesterUP
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New online first article by Persis Taraporevala: "Smart ignorance: Instrumentalising useful unknowns to bureaucratise and rescale power in the city" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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IIM-Bangalore’s Director publicly disclosed a Dalit professor’s caste in a mass email circulated within the institution, denied him equal opportunities, finds inquiry. thenewsminute.com/karnataka/…

IIM-B officials humiliated and denied equal opportunities to Dalit professor, finds probe

An inquiry has found evidence of caste-based discrimination at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), prompting the Karnataka Department of Soci

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Thrilled to be sharing that i am defending my PhD thesis "Sustainability beyond optimization" on the 17th December @UiBCET ! It's a public defense, and will be streamed online. If you'd like to join, drop me a message!
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wish i could get some idli vada
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Reason for desk rejection: "I receive too many papers about India".
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We're Listening, and We're Hiring! Department of Political Science invites aplications, from eligible Indian Citizens and Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) for the appointment to various faculty positions under the Special Recruitment Drive – 5.
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Are you interested in doing a PhD that explores: drone geographies, political geographies of airspace, feminist geopolitics/ political geographies of technology, or geographies of verticality and volume? If so, I'd love to hear from you! Info: findaphd.com/phds/project/dr… @UniRdg_GES

Drone geographies; political geographies of airspace at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Drone geographies; political geographies of airspace at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

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New research by @jiathwee uses architecture, cooling technologies and urban thermal metabolism to understand the relations between #hydrocarbons and political power ow.ly/Ck7e50TLL4Q #airconditioning #UrbanMetabolism
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'Frankenstein Urbanism through the lens of feminist technoscience'! Check out our latest book review forum curated by @DevikaPrksh with contributions from @motionickness @marianafried @ahjackman & @caseyrlynch urbangeographyjournal.org/jo…
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