Knowledge/Nation: The Humanities and the Social Sciences in Postcolonial India
Knowledge/Nation brings together reflections on how the social sciences and allied interdisciplinary fields have evolved in the country, and where we can go from here. It explores how India has … Continue reading
Research Handbook on Urban Sociology
Emphasising the social, critical and situated dimensions of the urban, this comprehensive Research Handbook presents a unique collection of theoretical and empirical perspectives on urban sociology. Bringing together expert contributors … Continue reading
Informal subaltern surveillance and counter-hegemonic resistance: Towards congruence
Subaltern urbanism has emerged as a paradigm shift to trouble the orthodoxy of urban informality. Bandauko’s recent article elevates this radical turn by examining the concept of ‘subaltern surveillance’ and … Continue reading
Vietnamese Vernacular Modernism Is a Local Language Created by the Ordinary People
The characteristics of Vietnamese modernism invite us to reconsider how architectural value is understood. It is not only the “scholarly” architecture practiced by a few, but rather the popular practice … Continue reading
Between Order and Unruliness: Rethinking Vietnam’s Post-Colonial City
What if apparent disorder is not simply evidence of a city failing to conform to a plan? What if it reveals something about how the city actually works? From this … Continue reading
Envisioning Labour-led urban development: A collective reflection
Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities
Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities presents a nuanced and revealing picture of how urban violence manifests and operates in multiple and unprecedented ways, challenging the common conception of urban violence solely … Continue reading
Decolonial informal urban futures
Urban informality scholarship is concerned with injustice and anti-democratic practices. It addresses these issues by engaging with and critiquing urban displacement, inequality, and exclusionary governance. Decoloniality is present in this … Continue reading
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