G S Mittal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5437489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G S Mittal |
| GIVEN NAMES | G S |
| FAMILY NAME | Mittal |
| SIGNATURE | MITTAL G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5440-9026 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vernacular governance of public transport
What is public anyway?”
Public transport is a crucial arena where mobility and the public sphere intersect. This article examines transport interventions in Shillong, a small hill city in northeastern India, to show how the publicness of transport has become fragmented despite, and often through, successive state-led interventions. In Shillong, the private interests of transport operators are entwined with the state’s responsibility for passenger welfare through provisi…
Entangled exclusions
An epicentre of ethnicity‐based identity politics and exclusions, India's northeastern region has long been politically imagined as both a ‘frontier’ and ‘borderland’ for state control, territorialization, extractive economies and (re)developments by colonial and subsequent post‐colonial regimes. In post‐independence India, the region experienced many territorial assertions made on ethnic grounds. With the rise of religio‐national and neoliberal …
Digitalization of Solid Waste Management
Digital interventions in urban governance are frequently viewed in a binary light. They are either lauded as game changers or criticized as being completely vacuous projects. Studying the ongoing implementation of a project on digitalizing the solid waste management (SWM) system in Mangaluru, this paper presents a new way of looking at digital infrastructure that is not a zero-sum calculation. The paper makes three arguments: (i) digitalization b…
The state and the production of informalities in urban transport
The state and the production of informalities in urban transport
Digitalization of Solid Waste Management
Digital interventions in urban governance are frequently viewed in a binary light. They are either lauded as game changers or criticized as being completely vacuous projects. Studying the ongoing implementation of a project on digitalizing the solid waste management (SWM) system in Mangaluru, this paper presents a new way of looking at digital infrastructure that is not a zero-sum calculation. The paper makes three arguments: (i) digitalization b…
Entangled exclusions
An epicentre of ethnicity‐based identity politics and exclusions, India's northeastern region has long been politically imagined as both a ‘frontier’ and ‘borderland’ for state control, territorialization, extractive economies and (re)developments by colonial and subsequent post‐colonial regimes. In post‐independence India, the region experienced many territorial assertions made on ethnic grounds. With the rise of religio‐national and neoliberal …
Vernacular governance of public transport
What is public anyway?”
Public transport is a crucial arena where mobility and the public sphere intersect. This article examines transport interventions in Shillong, a small hill city in northeastern India, to show how the publicness of transport has become fragmented despite, and often through, successive state-led interventions. In Shillong, the private interests of transport operators are entwined with the state’s responsibility for passenger welfare through provisi…
Politics (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Public transport (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (2 works) · Business (1 work)