Development

Scholarship in the past years has called for a ‘post-development’ turn and reasonably been critical of the power-based legacy of development as a mission for certain geographies and populations. Nevertheless, the term holds sway for progressive politics and pluralistic claims in the Global South and gives expression to diverse desires, aspirations and politics. I study these underlying aspirations around development, and the ways in which these play out and interact with global financial flows and capital markets. I work with activist research centers based in India on conceptualizing and empirically studying facets of development. I’m interested in organizing collaborative workshops and discussions on themes of development across geographical, disciplinary and creative boundaries and have previously done so on themes of urbanity, margins and peripheries and, racialized and gendered constructions of space.