Gayatri Menon
Biographic Data
| ID | 6682142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gayatri Menon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gayatri |
| FAMILY NAME | Menon |
| SIGNATURE | MENON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disaster and resilience: Intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises
Teaching extraction and its discontents
Anna Zalik, Associate Professor at York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, teaches a course called Extraction and its Discontents: A Social History and Political Economy. The course builds on and extends her work on the politics of industrial extraction in Nigeria, Mexico and Canada, her more recent research on seabed mining, and her writing and reflections on the politics of fieldwork on natural resource extraction. What fol…
Uncovering a politics of livelihoods: Analysing displacement and contention in contemporary India
In this paper, we use livelihoods as an organizing concept which brings together questions of production, social reproduction, and the conditions for these, to describe and reflect upon three ‘moments’ of displacement and contention in India. Our first moment, a massive flash strike by workers in the export garments industry in Bangalore, is located in the present neo-liberal context of jobless growth, increasingly unregulated and precarious form…
Citizens and ‘Squatters’: The Contested Subject of Public Policy in Neoliberal Mumbai
The vast majority of the urban poor in Mumbai live in dehumanizing physical and political conditions, living in public but only reluctantly recognized as being a part of ‘the public’. The difficulties that the urban poor experience in accessing public facilities such as sanitation and water for example, reproduces and amplifies their marginality. Being compelled to take care of their bodily functions in degrading and public ways, they come to be …
Drowned Out
Citizens and ‘Squatters’: The Contested Subject of Public Policy in Neoliberal Mumbai
The vast majority of the urban poor in Mumbai live in dehumanizing physical and political conditions, living in public but only reluctantly recognized as being a part of ‘the public’. The difficulties that the urban poor experience in accessing public facilities such as sanitation and water for example, reproduces and amplifies their marginality. Being compelled to take care of their bodily functions in degrading and public ways, they come to be …
Uncovering a politics of livelihoods: Analysing displacement and contention in contemporary India
In this paper, we use livelihoods as an organizing concept which brings together questions of production, social reproduction, and the conditions for these, to describe and reflect upon three ‘moments’ of displacement and contention in India. Our first moment, a massive flash strike by workers in the export garments industry in Bangalore, is located in the present neo-liberal context of jobless growth, increasingly unregulated and precarious form…
Drowned Out
Citizens and ‘Squatters’: The Contested Subject of Public Policy in Neoliberal Mumbai
The vast majority of the urban poor in Mumbai live in dehumanizing physical and political conditions, living in public but only reluctantly recognized as being a part of ‘the public’. The difficulties that the urban poor experience in accessing public facilities such as sanitation and water for example, reproduces and amplifies their marginality. Being compelled to take care of their bodily functions in degrading and public ways, they come to be …
Uncovering a politics of livelihoods: Analysing displacement and contention in contemporary India
In this paper, we use livelihoods as an organizing concept which brings together questions of production, social reproduction, and the conditions for these, to describe and reflect upon three ‘moments’ of displacement and contention in India. Our first moment, a massive flash strike by workers in the export garments industry in Bangalore, is located in the present neo-liberal context of jobless growth, increasingly unregulated and precarious form…
Teaching extraction and its discontents
Anna Zalik, Associate Professor at York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, teaches a course called Extraction and its Discontents: A Social History and Political Economy. The course builds on and extends her work on the politics of industrial extraction in Nigeria, Mexico and Canada, her more recent research on seabed mining, and her writing and reflections on the politics of fieldwork on natural resource extraction. What fol…
Disaster and resilience: Intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises
Sociology (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (2 works)