Tag Archives: infrastructure
MATERIALITY, INFRASTRUCTURAL LABOR & SOCIAL DIFFERENCE
Below is a selected list of readings that informed my thinking about the connections between infrastructure materiality, infrastructural labor, and social difference. These readings form a key part of my journal article – “Class, Caste, Gender, and the Materiality of Cement Houses in India” – published in Antipode (2023, 55 (2)). Truelove, Y. (2011). (Re-)Conceptualizing […]
CLASS, CASTE, GENDER, AND THE MATERIALITY OF CEMENT HOUSES IN INDIA
Out now in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. My peer-reviewed article on the intersectional class, caste, and gender dynamics of new cement houses in India. It’s open access here. A PDF version can be downloaded below. Menon, S. (2023). Class, Caste, Gender, and the Materiality of Cement Houses in India. Antipode, 55 (2) pp. 574-598 […]
ARCHITECTURE AND/AS INFRASTRUCTURE
I was happy to serve as one of the reviewers for the Open Access e-journal Roadsides‘ Fall 2020 Issue, titled Architecture and/as Infrastructure. Many thanks to Madlen Kobi and Nadine Plachta for the invitation. To read the full issue, please visit https://roadsides.net/collection-no-004/.
URBAN POLITICAL ECOLOGY
Below are sections of my reading list that I compiled for my preliminary/qualifying exams in Human Geography at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am indebted to many professors and colleagues in graduate seminars and conferences who directed me to these excellent sources. This is not meant to be an exhaustive or definitive list. I have selected […]
URBAN GEOGRAPHY
Below are sections of my reading list that I compiled for my preliminary/qualifying exams in Human Geography at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am indebted to many professors and colleagues in graduate seminars and conferences who directed me to these excellent sources. This is not meant to be an exhaustive or definitive list. I have selected […]
B.Arch Thesis Fieldwork
In June 2010, I spent three weeks conducting semi-structured interviews, observations, and collecting textual and visual data about football/soccer stadiums in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, UAE for my BArch thesis. My sincere thanks to Dileep Menon who facilitated this visit and to all the Malayali, South Asian, and Arab stadium managers, groundmen, and security guards […]
Siddharth Menon 