Housing and informal urbanization patterns in the global north and its intersections with affordability and inequality, urban governance and development, and sustainability.
Urbanization in the Global South; African urbanisms; informal land and housing markets; urban political economy; real estate and property regimes; governance and informality; diaspora investment and transnational urban development; comparative urban studies.
Digital infrastructure rollout, its intersection with land, energy and water systems, urban governance and territorial statecraft in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia)
Urban and transportation policy; political economy and public finance of urban transportation; poverty and development; accessibility and spatial inequality; state capacity and public service delivery; causal inference and spatial analysis; Latin American cities.
Housing, public space, urban governance, public/social housing, urban politics, violence and policing, urban history and theory, the city in literature and film.
Political Economy, Federalism, Critical Development Studies, Anthropology of Work, Urban Studies, Critical Theory, Critical Geography, World Systems Analysis, South Asia (Tamil Nadu)
Urbanization in the Global South, Geographical Political Economy, Latin American cities, Peripheral and Frontier Urbanization, Informal Land and Housing Markets
Issues of housing in cities in India and the United States. I am particularly interested in the interactions between planning norms and everyday practices, and in identifying discursive and material possibilities therein.
geriatric social work, community service delivery, smart community, digital inclusion; qualitative and mixed methods, community-based participatory research, co-design approach
