Tag Archives: construction
A Concrete Solution
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
TRANSNATIONAL URBANISM
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.
MATERIAL AS METHOD-New Histories of the Built Environment
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 […]
SAND ECOLOGIES
Below are images from dissertation fieldwork in Kerala, India where I followed the trail of sand for concrete construction along its production chain from building construction sites in Kochi city, Kerala’s commercial capital, to its sources in rivers and stone quarries in the Western Ghat mountain ranges in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
M-Sand, Metal, and the “More-than-Urban” Political Ecology of Urban Development in Kerala
I was invited to present my latest research paper, titled M-Sand, Metal, and the “More-than-Urban” Political Ecology of Urban Development in Kerala, at the Center for Development Studies (CDS) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on 28 April 2023. Many thanks to Prof. J. Devika for her support and guidance through the research project. Please find details of […]
Siddharth Menon 