Ashima Sood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashima Sood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashima |
| FAMILY NAME | Sood |
| SIGNATURE | SOOD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian School of Business |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1036-7589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Locating Urban Knowledge
,
Making and unmaking an Indian middle class
Urban studies in India across the millennial turn: Histories and futures
The millennial turn saw a distinct efflorescence in scholarship on urban India. This essay introduces a Virtual Special Issue on urban studies in India that showcases a selection of articles from the journal’s archives. It traces the disciplinary, thematic and methodological shifts that have marked this millennial turn. On the one hand, the social science of the urban has had a statist bent, reacting to the policy focus on cities as growth engine…
The Speculative Frontier: Real Estate, Governance and Occupancy on the Metropolitan Periphery
What is urban about the peri-urban? This paper explores the speculative frontier of volatile real estate investments and exceptional and transitional forms of local government that characterize this peri-urban terrain. By definition lying outside the municipal norm of the metropolitan core, the peri-urban frontier that is outlined in this analysis through a novel database of large-scale investments in residential and commercial capacity across In…
Interrogating data justice on Hyderabad’s urban frontier: Information politics and the internal differentiation of vulnerable communities
How does data visibility affect vulnerable communities that face uncertainty over land tenure? Can data justice be realised in settings of acute resource injustice? These are the overarching questions that our case study interrogates by opening up the black box of the community in the volatile and fast-transforming peri-urban fringe of Hyderabad, India. We examine the unfolding of data and information processes through the lens of enumeration and…
Speculative Urbanism
The concept of “speculative urbanism” has over the space of only a few years informed a large and growing literature on the intersections of real estate capital flows and processes of urban planning and governance in cities of the Global South. Speculative urbanism can be said to embody urban governance as “investment strategy”; it represents the turbulent trajectory of world‐class city‐making projects in an era where the returns to capital are t…
Data Justice through the Prism of Information Politics and Resource Injustice: A Case Study from Hyderabad’s Urban Frontier
Neoliberal exception to liberal democracy? Entrepreneurial territorial governance in India
Focusing on the industrial area local authority (IALA), a governance regime widely applied in the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this paper examines pathways to illiberal governance within ostensibly liberal democratic contexts. The history of the IALA exemplifies the modes by which the movement towards representative government at the local level in India was subverted at its very origins by the insertion of exceptions into…
Outsourced urban governance as a state rescaling strategy in Hyderabad, India
Industrial townships and the policy facilitation of corporate urbanisation in India
New policy and legislative initiatives in India over the last decade, from the Special Economic Zones Act 2005 to subnational state-level counterparts, have encouraged processes of corporate urbanisation, by facilitating the development of ‘industrial townships’ largely by private actors. This emerging policy architecture places a range of municipal functions, infrastructures and services in the domain of the (private) township, paralleling proce…
The Speculative Frontier: Real Estate, Governance and Occupancy on the Metropolitan Periphery
What is urban about the peri-urban? This paper explores the speculative frontier of volatile real estate investments and exceptional and transitional forms of local government that characterize this peri-urban terrain. By definition lying outside the municipal norm of the metropolitan core, the peri-urban frontier that is outlined in this analysis through a novel database of large-scale investments in residential and commercial capacity across In…
Neoliberal exception to liberal democracy? Entrepreneurial territorial governance in India
Focusing on the industrial area local authority (IALA), a governance regime widely applied in the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this paper examines pathways to illiberal governance within ostensibly liberal democratic contexts. The history of the IALA exemplifies the modes by which the movement towards representative government at the local level in India was subverted at its very origins by the insertion of exceptions into…
Industrial townships and the policy facilitation of corporate urbanisation in India
New policy and legislative initiatives in India over the last decade, from the Special Economic Zones Act 2005 to subnational state-level counterparts, have encouraged processes of corporate urbanisation, by facilitating the development of ‘industrial townships’ largely by private actors. This emerging policy architecture places a range of municipal functions, infrastructures and services in the domain of the (private) township, paralleling proce…
Urban studies in India across the millennial turn: Histories and futures
The millennial turn saw a distinct efflorescence in scholarship on urban India. This essay introduces a Virtual Special Issue on urban studies in India that showcases a selection of articles from the journal’s archives. It traces the disciplinary, thematic and methodological shifts that have marked this millennial turn. On the one hand, the social science of the urban has had a statist bent, reacting to the policy focus on cities as growth engine…
Outsourced urban governance as a state rescaling strategy in Hyderabad, India
Industrial townships and the policy facilitation of corporate urbanisation in India
New policy and legislative initiatives in India over the last decade, from the Special Economic Zones Act 2005 to subnational state-level counterparts, have encouraged processes of corporate urbanisation, by facilitating the development of ‘industrial townships’ largely by private actors. This emerging policy architecture places a range of municipal functions, infrastructures and services in the domain of the (private) township, paralleling proce…
Speculative Urbanism
The concept of “speculative urbanism” has over the space of only a few years informed a large and growing literature on the intersections of real estate capital flows and processes of urban planning and governance in cities of the Global South. Speculative urbanism can be said to embody urban governance as “investment strategy”; it represents the turbulent trajectory of world‐class city‐making projects in an era where the returns to capital are t…
Data Justice through the Prism of Information Politics and Resource Injustice: A Case Study from Hyderabad’s Urban Frontier
Neoliberal exception to liberal democracy? Entrepreneurial territorial governance in India
Focusing on the industrial area local authority (IALA), a governance regime widely applied in the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this paper examines pathways to illiberal governance within ostensibly liberal democratic contexts. The history of the IALA exemplifies the modes by which the movement towards representative government at the local level in India was subverted at its very origins by the insertion of exceptions into…
Outsourced urban governance as a state rescaling strategy in Hyderabad, India
Interrogating data justice on Hyderabad’s urban frontier: Information politics and the internal differentiation of vulnerable communities
How does data visibility affect vulnerable communities that face uncertainty over land tenure? Can data justice be realised in settings of acute resource injustice? These are the overarching questions that our case study interrogates by opening up the black box of the community in the volatile and fast-transforming peri-urban fringe of Hyderabad, India. We examine the unfolding of data and information processes through the lens of enumeration and…
The Speculative Frontier: Real Estate, Governance and Occupancy on the Metropolitan Periphery
What is urban about the peri-urban? This paper explores the speculative frontier of volatile real estate investments and exceptional and transitional forms of local government that characterize this peri-urban terrain. By definition lying outside the municipal norm of the metropolitan core, the peri-urban frontier that is outlined in this analysis through a novel database of large-scale investments in residential and commercial capacity across In…
Urban studies in India across the millennial turn: Histories and futures
The millennial turn saw a distinct efflorescence in scholarship on urban India. This essay introduces a Virtual Special Issue on urban studies in India that showcases a selection of articles from the journal’s archives. It traces the disciplinary, thematic and methodological shifts that have marked this millennial turn. On the one hand, the social science of the urban has had a statist bent, reacting to the policy focus on cities as growth engine…
Making and unmaking an Indian middle class
Locating Urban Knowledge
,
Political science (8 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · State (computer science (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works)