Tag Archives: Materiality
Incompleteness
I’m happy to have a chapter in the book, The Social Properties of Concrete, which brings together 40 scholars from across the world to think about how the world’s most ubiquitous material after water – concrete – shapes everyday social life. Many thanks to the editors, Eli Elinoff and Kali Rubaii, for steering this incredible […]
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 […]
GENDERING INFRASTRUCTURE
I was happy to serve as one of the reviewers for the Open Access e-journal Roadsides‘ Spring 2023 Issue, titled Gendering Infrastructure. Many thanks to Sneha Annavarapu and Yaffa Truelove for the invitation. To read the full Issue, please visit https://roadsides.net/collection-no-009/.
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 […]
THE CRITICAL CLASSROOM
Below is a list of teaching resources that I drew up as a supplement to my forthcoming (2023, 55(2)) Antipode article, “Class, Caste, Gender, and the Materiality of Cement Houses in India“. It’s part of new initiative started by antipodeonline.org, called The Critical Classroom, that aims “to create a commons resource of radical geography teaching […]
GEOGRAPHIES OF CONCRETE
Below is a collection of essays and articles written by social science and humanities scholars about one of the most widely found materials on earth: cement/concrete. This list has been compiled with the assistance of countless colleagues and peers at conferences and workshops over the last few years. I hope it will be useful for […]
HISTORY OF SCIENCE BROWN BAG, UW-MADISON
I will be speaking at the History of Science Brown Bag Lecture Series at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Many thanks to Prof. Pablo Gomez for the invitation. The talk is titled “Gendering Cement, Cementing Gender: The Puccafication of Subjectivities in Urbanizing India.” Please find a working abstract below. Houses in the Kangra valley of Himachal […]
“The Promise of Infrastructure” by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta & Hannah Appel (eds.)
Please find below an excerpt from my review of The Promise of Infrastructure by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta & Hannah Appel (eds.) for The AAG Review of Books. To read the full review, please follow this link.
Urban Climates: Power, Development, and Environment in South Asia, Dartmouth College
I was happy to be a part of the Urban Climates: Power, Development, and Environment in South Asia workshop at Dartmouth College on October 11, 12 2019. Many thanks to Nida Rehman and Aparna Parikh for organizing the same. Please find below a poster of the workshop theme, a poster for a film by Hira Nabi, […]
Third Annual International Anthropology of Concrete Workshop 2019, Rice University
It was great interacting with critical scholars working on the relationship between concrete and society from different interdisciplinary perspectives on 2 March, 2019 at Rice University, Houston. A special thanks to Kali Rubaii for organizing the same and for the images. Details below. Ecopolitics of Cement and Concrete Third Annual International Anthropology of Concrete Workshop […]
Siddharth Menon 