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"Militarisation of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi? A localised document analysis of Africa’s ‘fatigue duty’ politics." Journal of Contemporary African StudiesJournal of Contemporary African StudiesJournal of Contemporary African Studies (2023): 1-16.
"Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island." Urban Studies (2023): 004209802211409.
"The politics of market redevelopment in African cities: Insight from two market projects in Ghana." Geoforum 131 (2022): 136-150.
"The Speculative Frontier: Real Estate, Governance and Occupancy on the Metropolitan Periphery." South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, no. 26 (2021).
"From urban congestion to political confinement: collecting waste, channelling politics in Lagos." Territory, Politics, Governance 8, no. 3 (2020): 390-406.
"Governance Challenges in African Urban Fantasies." In Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Robert Home, 155-169. Local and Urban Governance. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
"Neoliberal exception to liberal democracy? Entrepreneurial territorial governance in India." Territory, Politics, Governance 8 (2020): 23-42.
"Who is the state? Infrastructural power and everyday water governance in Delhi." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2020): 2399654419897922.
"Failed fantasies in a South African context: The case of Modderfontein, Johannesburg." Urban Forum 30, no. 2 (2019): 171-189.
"Counter–Urbanisation as the Growth of Small Towns: Is the Capital Region of India Prepared?" Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 110 (2018): 156-172.
"Dreaming of pipes: Kathmandu’s long-delayed Melamchi Water Supply Project." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 37, no. 7 (2018): 1198-1216.
"The Familiar Face of the State: Affect, Emotion and Citizen Entitlements in Dehradun, India." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 44, 3 (2018): 429-446 ,.
"From Base Map to Inductive Mapping—Three Cases of GIS Implementation in Cities of Karnataka, India." Comprehensive Geographic Information Systems (2018): 411-421.
"Planning a ‘slum free' Trivandrum: Housing upgrade and the rescaling of urban governance in India." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 37, no. 2 (2018): 256-276.
"Understanding the Contribution of the BSUP (JNNURM) to Inclusive Cities in India." SSRN Electronic Journal (2018).
"Urban climate adaptation and the reshaping of state–society relations: The politics of community knowledge and mobilisation in Indore, India." Urban Studies 55, no. 8 (2018): 1766-1782.
"Directed Decentralisation: Analysing the Experience of Decentralisation via JNNURM in Maharashtra." Social Dynamics of the Urban (2017): 81-97.
Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India: The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation, Edited by Kanekanti Chandrashe Smitha. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017.
"Fragile Entrepreneurialism: The Mumbai Airport Slum Redevelopment Project." In Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India: The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation, edited by Kanekanti Chandrashe Smitha, 157-173. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017.
"Neoliberal Urban Transformations in Indian Cities: Paradoxes and Predicaments." Progress in Development Studies 17 (2017): 307-321.
"Urban Transition in West Bengal, India." Journal of Asian and African Studies 52, no. 8 (2017): 1258-1276.
"Beyond a state-centric approach to urban informality: Interactions between Delhi’s middle class and the informal service sector." Current Sociology 65 (2016): 248-259.
"The evolution of the smart cities agenda in India." International Area Studies Review 19, no. 1 (2016): 28-44.
"From quiet to bold encroachment: contesting dispossession in Accra’s informal sector." Urban Geography 38, no. 7 (2016): 974-992.
"Varieties of knowledge for assembling an urban flood management governance configuration in Chennai, India." Habitat International 54 (2016): 112-123.
Gentrifying the State: Governing Through Property In Rule By Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi. New York, NJ: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Introduction In Rule By Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi. New York, NJ: Oxford University Press, 2015.
"Spatial Perspectives of the New Census Towns, 2011: A Case Study of West Bengal." Environment and Urbanization Asia 6, no. 2 (2015): 109-124.
"Urban traditions in the contemporary lived space of cities on the Arabian Peninsula." Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 27, no. 1 (2015): 21-39.
"Constructing Lyari: place, governance and identity in a Karachi neighbourhood." South Asian History and Culture 5, no. 3 (2014): 365-383.
"Digital and spatial knowledge management in urban governance: Emerging issues in India, Brazil, South Africa, and Peru." Habitat International 44 (2014): 501-509.
"Enclaves, insecurity and violence in Karachi." South Asian History and Culture 5 (2014): 93-107.
"A New Delhi every day: multiplicities of governance regimes in a transforming metropolis." Urban Geography 35 (2014): 402-419.
"The realpolitik of informal city governance. The interplay of powers in Mumbai's un-recognized settlements." Habitat International 44 (2014): 367-374.
"Chapter 9: Building a “World Class Heritage City”: Jaipur's Emergent Elites and the New Approach to Spatial Planning." In Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of The Local, edited by Gavin Shatkin, 241-264. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2013.
"Delhi revisited." Cities 31 (2013): 641-653.
"Disciplining the informal service sector in Delhi, India." In Resourceful Cities: RC 21 Conference 2013. Germany: Sociology of Urban and Regional DevelopmentInternational Sociological Association/Humboldt University Berlin, 2013.
"From blueprint master plans to democratic planning in South Asian cities: Pursuing good governance agenda against prevalent patron–client networks." Habitat International 38 (2013): 183-191.
"The Making of “World-Class” Delhi: Relations Between Street Hawkers and the New Middle Class." Antipode 46 (2013): 557-573.
"Territorial re-arrangements; the city redefined." In IAPEX - The next 50 years of Pakistan Architecture. Islamabad, Pakistan, 2012.
"“A World Class City of Your Own!”: Civic Governmentality in Chennai, India." Antipode 44, no. 4 (2012): 1143-1160.
"Agents of Change and Obstruction: Municipal Councilors and Urban D/Development in the Mumbai Metropolitan." Human Geography 4 (2011): 31-47.
"Gentrifying the State, Gentrifying Participation: Elite Governance Programs in Delhi." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35, no. 3 (2011): 504-532.
"An urban informal economy: Livelihood opportunity to poor or challenges for urban governance." Global Journal of Human Social Science 11 (2011).
"Civil Society Organisation Partnerships in Urban Governance: An Appraisal of the Mumbai Experience." Sociological Bulletin 59, no. 1 (2010): 92-110.
"Matching deprivation mapping to urban governance in three Indian mega-cities." Habitat International 33, no. 4 (2009): 365-377.
"“Negotiated spaces” for representation in Mumbai: ward committees, advanced locality management and the politics of middle-class activism." Environment and Urbanization 20, no. 2 (2008): 483-499.
"International migration, diversity and urban governance in cities of the South." Habitat International 30, no. 3 (2006): 706-715.
"Scope for bottom-up planning in Kolkata: rhetoric vs reality." Environment and Urbanization 18, no. 2 (2006): 501-521.