Author Archives: Siddharth Menon
Decolonizing Infrastructure in India and the US: A Conversation with Malini Ranganathan
Recently, many scholars in the humanistic social sciences have begun to focus on the more-than-human agency of nonhuman natures, things, objects, and materials. Within this posthuman turn, objects are not simply inert backdrops for the ordering of social life but are actively involved in creating new sociopolitical orders. Infrastructure has emerged as a useful analytical […]
“Shiptown: Between Rural and Urban North India” by Ann Grodzins Gold
Please find below an excerpt from my review of Shiptown: Between Rural and Urban North India by Ann Grodzins Gold for Economic and Political Weekly To read the full review, please follow this link.
Third Annual International Anthropology of Concrete Workshop 2019, Rice University
It was great interacting with critical scholars working on the relationship between concrete and society from different interdisciplinary perspectives on 2 March, 2019 at Rice University, Houston. A special thanks to Kali Rubaii for organizing the same and for the images. Details below. Ecopolitics of Cement and Concrete Third Annual International Anthropology of Concrete Workshop […]
(Re)assembling the Politics of the Everyday: Things and Materials in Geographical Analysis; AAG 2019, Washington D.C.
(Re)assembling the Politics of the Everyday: Things and Materials in Geographical Analysis Organizers Siddharth Menon (UW-Madison) sidmen@gmail.com Andrew Grant (CU-Boulder) andrewgrantphd@gmail.com Geographers and scholars in the social sciences and humanities are increasingly interrogating the social and political life of materials, ranging from smaller things like faucets, walls, and chairs to larger transnational infrastructure projects […]
Gender, Materiality & Development in the Himalayas: A Critical Geographic Perspective; AAS-in-Asia 2018, New Delhi
Panel Title: Gender, Materiality & Development in the Himalayas: A Critical Geographic Perspective. Panel Abstract: The Himalayan mountain region is experiencing rapid change in terms of state led development practices, urbanization, and neoliberal globalization across national divides. How do local people based on caste, class, and gender deal with these changes? What kind of new […]
(DE)CONSTRUCTING CONCRETE: MEANING & MATERIALITY IN POSTCOLONIAL INDIA
Below is the abstract and a link to my MA thesis (2018) in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder titled, “(De)Constructing Concrete: Meaning & Materiality in Postcolonial India.” Many thanks to my thesis advisor: Prof. Mara Goldman and committee members: Prof. Tim Oakes, Prof. Yaffa Truelove, and Prof. Shawhin Roudbari for their constructive […]
Humanitarian Engineering Symposium, MSU-Denver
Will be speaking at the Humanitarian Engineering Symposium, organized by the Humanitarian Engineering Club at Metropolitan State University (MSU) Denver. Details below: Title: “Of Mud and Modernity: Building with earth in Rural India” Date: Friday, April 20, 2018 Time: 2.35 pm Symposium Schedule
American Association of Geographers Preview- Student Talks
Four Geography graduate students will present a preview of the talks they will give at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting in New Orleans April 10-14, 2018: Sarah Tynen: State Territorialization through Bureaucratic Control: Authoritarian Governance at the Neighborhood Level in China Aaron Malone: Diaspora Bureaucracy? Formalizing emigrant engagement and the evolution of Mexico’s 3×1 Program Joseph […]
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