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Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal." Urban Studies (2022).
"Challenging infrastructural orthodoxies: Political and economic geographies of a Himalayan road." Geoforum 120 (2021): 103-112.
"Community interactions and sanitation use by the urban poor: Survey evidence from India’s slums." Urban Studies 58, no. 4 (2021): 715-732.
"Disaggregating Development: A Critical Analysis of Sino-African Megaprojects." Progress in Development Studies 21, no. 1 (2021): 86-104.
"‘Much better than earlier’: dam-building in Uganda and understanding development through the past." Journal of Eastern African Studies 15, no. 3 (2021): 400-420.
"A tale of two cities: The fate of Delhi as UNESCO World HeritageAbstract." International Journal of Cultural Property 28, no. 1 (2021): 27-42.
"Being citizens of the City of Gaza: the resettlement of the Al-Shati Refugee Camp at Sheikh Radwan, 1967-1982." Citizenship Studies 24, no. 8 (2020): 1030-1046.
"Concreting the frontier: Modernity and its entanglements in Sikkim, India." Political Geography 76 (2020): 102089.
"The Roads (Not) Taken: The Materiality, Poetics and Politics of Infrastructure in Manipur, India." Journal of South Asian Development 15, no. 1 (2020): 34-61.
"Where do good girls have sex? Space, risk and respectability in Chennai." Gender, Place & Culture (2020): 1-20.
"The world-class city comes by tramway: Reframing Casablanca’s urban peripheries through public transport." Urban Studies 57, no. 9 (2020): 1827-1844.
"Between metis and techne: politics, possibilities and limits of improvisation." Social & Cultural Geography (2019): 1-24.
"‘The Cradle of Tantra’: Modern Transformations of a Tantric Centre in Northeast India from Nationalist Symbol to Tourist Destination." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42, no. 2 (2019): 256-277.
"Greening Displacements, Displacing Green: Environmental Subjectivity, Slum Clearance, and the Embodied Political Ecologies of Dispossession in Mumbai." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 43 (2019): 112-132.
"Technologies of Peasant Production and Reproduction: The Post-Colonial State and Cold War Empire in Comilla, East Pakistan, 1960–70." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42, no. 3 (2019): 435-451.
"Tracing mutations of neoliberal development governance: ‘Fintech’, failure and the politics of marketization." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 51, no. 7 (2019): 1442-1459.
"The Architecture of Environment: Building houses along the Great Rift Valley in Jordan." International Journal of Middle East Studies 50, no. 3 (2018): 513-536.
"Dilemma of local socio-economic perspectives in management of historic ruins in Kilwa Kisiwani World Heritage Site, Tanzania." International Journal of Heritage Studies 24, no. 10 (2018): 1019â1037.
"Dreaming of pipes: Kathmandu’s long-delayed Melamchi Water Supply Project." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 37, no. 7 (2018): 1198-1216.
"Model employers and model cities?: Bangalore’s public sector and the rise of the neoliberal city." Urban Geography 39 (2018): 726-745.
"Old house, new meaning: The change and persistence of ume kbubu in Oinlasi, South Amanatun, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia." In Proceedings of International Conference on Issues in Social and Education Research. ICISER. Atlantis Press, 2018.
"“A Pleasant and Tidy Arrangement”: Housing Development and Economies of Segregation in Mtwara, Tanganyika, 1949-1954." Journal of Urban History 44, no. 4 (2018): 713-735.
"The Quest for Water, Rights and Freedoms: Informal Urban Settlements in India." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 42 (2018): 1080-1095.
"Shadows of Colonialism: Structural Violence, Development and Adivasi Rights in Post-Colonial Madhya Pradesh." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 41, no. 2 (2018): 315-330.
"THE SHAPE OF ASPIRATION: CLANDESTINE MASONRY HOUSE CONSTRUCTION IN LOURENÇO MARQUES, MOZAMBIQUE (1960–75)." The Journal of African History 59, no. 2 (2018): 283-304.
"The story of building healthful houses in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia." Saúde e Sociedade 27, no. 2 (2018): 605-614.
"Teaching development: Debates on ‘scientific agriculture’ and ‘rural reconstruction’ at Khalsa College, Amritsar, c. 1915–47." The Indian Economic & Social History Review 55, no. 1 (2018): 77-132.
"Features of Modernity, Development and ‘Orientalism’: Reading Johannesburg through its ‘Chinese’ Urban Spaces." Journal of Southern African Studies 43, no. 5: Special JSAS Conference Issue: Southern Africa beyond the West: Political, Economic and Cultural Relationships with the BRICS (2017): 979-96.
"“From factory to field”: USAID and the logistics of foreign aid in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36, no. 4 (2017): 719-738.
"Insecurity as confinement: The entrenched politics of staying put in Delhi and Mumbai." International Sociology 32, no. 4 (2017): 512-531.
"‘Negotiated planning’: Diverse trajectories of implementation in Nairobi, Addis Ababa, and Harare." Habitat International 59 (2017): 71-79.
"Cabal City: Regime Theory and Indian Urbanization." SSRN Electronic Journal 10 (2016).
"Tunisia, 1940–1970: The Spatial Politics of Reconstruction, Decolonization, and Development." ABE Journal, no. 9-10 (2016).
"The political economy of urban climate adaptation and development planning in Surat, India." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (2015).
"Bangalore Lake story: reflections on the spirit of a place." Journal of Cultural Geography 31, no. 1 (2014): 32-56.
"Globalisation and the urban studio: evaluating an inter-university studio collaboration in Nairobi." International Development Planning Review 36, no. 2 (2014): 205-226.
"‘The Chinese just come and do it’: China in Africa and the prospects for development planning." International Development Planning Review 35, no. 3 (2013): v - xii.
"Constructing ‘Public’ Water: The World Bank, Urban Water Supply, and the Biopolitics of Development." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 31, no. 2 (2013): 280-300.
"Slum-free cities of the Asian century: Postcolonial government and the project of inclusive growth." Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 35 (2013): 136-150.
"Structural contingencies and untimely coincidences in the making of neoliberal India: The Kandla Free Trade Zone, 1965–91." Contributions to Indian Sociology 48, no. 1 (2013): 17-43.
"Urbanist Expansions: Planner-Technocrats, Patrimonial Ethics and State Development in Hyderabad." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 36, no. 3 (2013): 375-396.
"Water, Technology, and Development: Transformations of Development Technonatures in Changing Waterscapes." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 31, no. 2 (2013): 337-353.
"Building the city of the future: visions and experiences of modernity in Ghana's Akosombo township." The Journal of African History 53, no. 3 (2012): 367-390.
"Divergent Pathways of Development: A Comparative Case Study of Human Well-Being in Two Thai Provinces." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 30, no. 5 (2012): 891-909.
"Palembang in the 1950s: The Making and Unmaking of a Region. Program Authorized to Offer Degree: Department of History, University of Washington, 2012.
Gujarat's Hindutva of Capitalist Development." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 34, no. 3 (2011): 354-381.
"Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next World City." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35, no. 3 (2011): 555-581.
"Dharmic projects, imperial reservoirs, and new temples of India: An historical perspective on dams in India." Conservation and Society 8, no. 3 (2010): 182.
"Architecture of low-income widow housing: 'spatial opportunities' in Madipur, West Delhi." cultural geographies 15, no. 2 (2008): 231-253.
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