Dr. Siddharth Menon (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Urban Environmental Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at The London School of Economics and Political Science. In this research, he uses geographical political-economic frameworks to examine two broad areas of interest:
- Infrastructures and urban ecologies in global South cities
- Transnational economic and cultural connections between global South regions
Siddharth’s first book project draws on two years of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in India and the Arabian/Persian Gulf to examine how the changing built environments of city-regions in Kerala, south India – through the production of “world-class” infrastructures – intersect with wider circuits of transnational capital investments mediated by Indian Ocean cultures, subnational labour migration fuelled by uneven regional development, and rural resource extraction shaped by colonial plantation logics in the climate change era.
Siddharth holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has received fellowships from the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. This research builds on a decade of architectural training and professional practice in India where he used sustainable building technologies, like earth and bamboo, to address issues of uneven development and environmental justice (see Architecture Work Sample, 2016).
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