(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
https://yourstory.com/2018/02/siddharth-menon-sustainable-architecture/ Meet Siddharth Menon, who uses architecture to address socio-economic inequality, ecological and cultural degradation Hema Vaishnavi posted on 20th February 2018 Siddharth Menon, a travelling architect and geographer, works with the aim to provide contextual and contemporary design solutions in the rural hinterland. Siddharth Menon, who graduated from IES College of Architecture in Mumbai, veered […]
Through Fall 2017, I was a Graduate Research Assistant for an NSF funded research project, titled “Engineering Dissent: Moving Political Engagement for Social Justice from the Vanguard into the Mainstream of the Engineering Profession.” This project was initiated at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Program in Environmental Design by Prof. Shawhin Roudbari and is a collaborative […]
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