Dr. Siddharth Menon (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at The London School of Economics and Political Science. He uses geographical political-economic frameworks to examine two broad research areas:
i) Infrastructural ecologies and urban environmental change in global South cities
ii) Transnational urban and economic networks 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 environment of city-regions in Kerala, south India – through the production of “world-class” infrastructures – intersects with wider circuits of transnational remittance investment mediated by Indian Ocean cultures, subnational labor migration fuelled by uneven regional development, and rural-urban entanglements driven by capitalist resource extraction 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 materials, like earth and bamboo, to address issues of uneven development and environmental justice (see Architecture Work Sample, 2016).
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