Swasti Vardhan Mishra
Biographic Data
| ID | 5437163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Swasti Vardhan Mishra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Swasti Vardhan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mishra |
| SIGNATURE | MISHRA S V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calcutta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2499-679X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Varanasi—The Making of a Smart Heritage City
One of the oldest cities in the world, Varanasi is home to more than one religion. It is an acclaimed centre of spirituality for Hindus and Buddhists while being equally sacred for Jains and Sikhs. The city is located along the river Ganga, which many believe is a celestial incarnation to grant salvation. Varanasi is a million-plus-population city; an increasingly important provincial metropolitan centre enshrined with the values of commerce, rel…
How Sustainable Are Indian Cities
This article examines the fifth iteration of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) to determine the state of urban India. We have some surprising revelations. First, regardless of class and caste affiliations, the gap between the higher and lower hierarchies in the NFHS-5 has shrunk since the previous edition, with the exception of provision of on-premises drinking water. Second, in combination with the growing body of literature on caste an…
Fragments of Water in a Himalayan Town
Narrativizing water conditions in hill settlements only through the optic of water scarcity hides more than it reveals. This piece has employed fragment as a trope to understand and read the different modes through which water intertwines with the quotidian, policy, and governance framework in Kalimpong, India. Here fragment has acted as a critique of a whole; whole as sameness, ubiquity, and undifferentiated spatiality. The first one looks into …
Reading Variegated Dispossession in an Asian Megacity
This paper reads multiple shades of dispossession in an Asian megacity. The multiple dispositions talk of dispossession as an instrument that limits the autonomy and the self-sufficiency in material and non-material dimensions. In that endeavor we emphasize taking a broader picture of dispossession while pursuing critical urban theory. Through unpacking four ethnographies in Kolkata, the essay looks into dispossession, and in that process displac…
Subaltern urbanisation from elsewhere
Covid-19 and urban vulnerability in India
Urban deprivation in a global south city-a neighborhood scale study of Kolkata, India
Rivers divided: Indus basin waters in the making of India and Pakistan
Rivers divided: Indus basin waters in the making of India and Pakistan." Contemporary South Asia, 25(4), pp. 453–454
Reading Kolkata’s Space of Prostitution as a Political Society
The present article builds upon the idea of political society to read a red-light district in the city of Kolkata. The district is the biggest in Asia and it has given its name to the biggest movement of the sex workers—Sonagachi Project. This article is an attempt to view the subaltern space as a resistant space and a political society by highlighting their habitat, economic and political roles. Their present situation has a colonial legacy that…
Understanding needs and Ascribed Quality of life – through maternal factors – infant mortality dialectic
In this paper Needs theory is being redefined as the foundation block of the Quality of life (Qol) structure and as a starting point in the lexicon of Qol philosophies. It is argued that the elementary and the most important characteristic to define Qol is always the needs-based approach – through its merging with the means-end dialectic. Keeping this epistemology intact, Ascribed Qol (aQol) is defined as that Qol which transfuses from mother to …
Covid-19 and urban vulnerability in India
Urban deprivation in a global south city-a neighborhood scale study of Kolkata, India
Rivers divided: Indus basin waters in the making of India and Pakistan
Rivers divided: Indus basin waters in the making of India and Pakistan." Contemporary South Asia, 25(4), pp. 453–454
Subaltern urbanisation from elsewhere
Reading Variegated Dispossession in an Asian Megacity
This paper reads multiple shades of dispossession in an Asian megacity. The multiple dispositions talk of dispossession as an instrument that limits the autonomy and the self-sufficiency in material and non-material dimensions. In that endeavor we emphasize taking a broader picture of dispossession while pursuing critical urban theory. Through unpacking four ethnographies in Kolkata, the essay looks into dispossession, and in that process displac…
Understanding needs and Ascribed Quality of life – through maternal factors – infant mortality dialectic
In this paper Needs theory is being redefined as the foundation block of the Quality of life (Qol) structure and as a starting point in the lexicon of Qol philosophies. It is argued that the elementary and the most important characteristic to define Qol is always the needs-based approach – through its merging with the means-end dialectic. Keeping this epistemology intact, Ascribed Qol (aQol) is defined as that Qol which transfuses from mother to …
Understanding needs and Ascribed Quality of life – through maternal factors – infant mortality dialectic
In this paper Needs theory is being redefined as the foundation block of the Quality of life (Qol) structure and as a starting point in the lexicon of Qol philosophies. It is argued that the elementary and the most important characteristic to define Qol is always the needs-based approach – through its merging with the means-end dialectic. Keeping this epistemology intact, Ascribed Qol (aQol) is defined as that Qol which transfuses from mother to …
Reading Kolkata’s Space of Prostitution as a Political Society
The present article builds upon the idea of political society to read a red-light district in the city of Kolkata. The district is the biggest in Asia and it has given its name to the biggest movement of the sex workers—Sonagachi Project. This article is an attempt to view the subaltern space as a resistant space and a political society by highlighting their habitat, economic and political roles. Their present situation has a colonial legacy that…
Rivers divided: Indus basin waters in the making of India and Pakistan
Rivers divided: Indus basin waters in the making of India and Pakistan." Contemporary South Asia, 25(4), pp. 453–454
Urban deprivation in a global south city-a neighborhood scale study of Kolkata, India
Covid-19 and urban vulnerability in India
Reading Variegated Dispossession in an Asian Megacity
This paper reads multiple shades of dispossession in an Asian megacity. The multiple dispositions talk of dispossession as an instrument that limits the autonomy and the self-sufficiency in material and non-material dimensions. In that endeavor we emphasize taking a broader picture of dispossession while pursuing critical urban theory. Through unpacking four ethnographies in Kolkata, the essay looks into dispossession, and in that process displac…
Subaltern urbanisation from elsewhere
How Sustainable Are Indian Cities
This article examines the fifth iteration of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) to determine the state of urban India. We have some surprising revelations. First, regardless of class and caste affiliations, the gap between the higher and lower hierarchies in the NFHS-5 has shrunk since the previous edition, with the exception of provision of on-premises drinking water. Second, in combination with the growing body of literature on caste an…
Fragments of Water in a Himalayan Town
Narrativizing water conditions in hill settlements only through the optic of water scarcity hides more than it reveals. This piece has employed fragment as a trope to understand and read the different modes through which water intertwines with the quotidian, policy, and governance framework in Kalimpong, India. Here fragment has acted as a critique of a whole; whole as sameness, ubiquity, and undifferentiated spatiality. The first one looks into …
Varanasi—The Making of a Smart Heritage City
One of the oldest cities in the world, Varanasi is home to more than one religion. It is an acclaimed centre of spirituality for Hindus and Buddhists while being equally sacred for Jains and Sikhs. The city is located along the river Ganga, which many believe is a celestial incarnation to grant salvation. Varanasi is a million-plus-population city; an increasingly important provincial metropolitan centre enshrined with the values of commerce, rel…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works)