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Remittance and Resilience: New Geographies of Transnational Urbanism in the Global South

Below is the conference panel that Dr. Andre Ortega and I co-organized at the 2025 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Detroit. Many thanks to Dr. Michelle Buckley for serving as discussant and to the participants for engaging in thoughtful discussions on transnational urbanism in the Global South. Organizers: Siddharth Menon, University of […]

Global Development, Speculative Urbanism, and Infrastructure: Critical Approaches to Capital and Difference

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 […]

(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 […]