In Fall 2023, I had the opportunity to teach a mid-level undergraduate course, “Poverty and Global Development” in International Studies at UW-Madison, that introduces students to key factors that shape the uneven distribution of wealth in the world, including the role of global financial institutions, international development interventions, different aid regimes, neoliberal economic policies, urbanization, […]
Work from my Master’s degree on the social dimensions of concrete houses in India was featured in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Letters & Science Newsletter. Many thanks to Kai Wen Li for taking interest in my work and for writing this excellent article. https://ls.wisc.edu/news/a-concrete-solution
I was selected to participate in Antipode’s 9th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ): “Radical Geographies of Social Reproduction” in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA from June 3-7, 2024. Many thanks to Kate Derickson and Marion Werner for organizing the meeting and to the invited faculty fellows, Kiran Asher, Beverly Mullings, Bradley Wilson, Diana Ojeda, and […]
I’m happy to have been awarded the Whitbeck Graduate Dissertator Award 2024 from the Department of Geography at UW-Madison to support me through the final stages of writing my PhD dissertation titled, “Infrastructural Entanglements: Money, Mediation, and Materiality in Transnational India”. Ray Hughes Whitbeck, Professor of Geography
I published a short essay from PhD dissertation in Ala: A Kerala Studies Blog. Many thanks to Shilpa Menon and the Editors of Ala for thoughtful comments and feedback that have significantly improved this essay. Read the full essay here, https://alablog.in/issues/68/gulf-houses-to-nri-flats/ As you exit the “world’s first green airport” in Nedumbassery on the outskirts of […]
I had the opportunity to participate in the panel titled, “Global Development, Speculative Urbanism, and Infrastructure: Critical Approaches to Capital and Difference“, at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI on April 18, 2024. Many thanks to the organizers, David Fernando Bachrach and Naomi Hazarika, for organizing it and to the […]
Below are images from ethnographic fieldwork conducted with research participants involved in Dubai’s real estate industry, including diaspora Indian home buyers and investors, real estate brokers, sales and marketing executives, and banking sector officials.
I had the opportunity to participate in the Symposium titled “Material as Method: New Histories of the Built Environment” at the Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in October 2023. Many thanks to Ateya Khorakiwala (Columbia University) & Curt Gambetta (Dartmouth College) for organizing and facilitating the same. Please find the […]
Siddharth Menon 