Purva Dewoolkar
@purvadewoolkar
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Architect, Urban researcher | Tutor @TheMSArch (she/her)
Bombay/Manchester
Joined November 2012
Excited to share our newly published paper in City Journal: "Habitation counter-stories: thinking from the autoconstructed basti—Cheeta Camp, Mumbai" with Lalitha Kamath @elkamath Read it here: https://t.co/YMYKQp2wzX
#UrbanStudies #DecolonisingKnowledge #Mumbai
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This paper explores the multiple sites of knowledge production that emerge through the process of making bastis, or autoconstructed settlements, in Mumbai. By centreing the knowledge and lexicon of...
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My op-ed in today’s The Hindu critiques the per capita water supply standard — highlighting its lack of empirical grounding, objective rationale & validity. https://t.co/b8AuIpn1XV
#WaterPolicy #UrbanPlanning #Sustainability #India #PublicPolicy #Standards
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Just published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space! This paper examines Mumbai's unfinished sewage infrastructure and deepens our understanding of how infrastructural 'delays' are lived. Link: https://t.co/dVY9o1oyzV
#UrbanStudies #Infrastructure #Mumbai
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Hi Nitin, I have been trying to get in touch with your team for fixing the air at zerodhas office. We did an IAQ test and found excess CO2 and PM2.5; I am offering a free installation and a guarantee that AQI will be single digit. All I have been getting is "we ll get back to
The biggest takeaway for me after meeting @bryan_johnson was debunking the myth I once believed: that only Delhi in India has an air quality problem—and that it occurs only in winter. We recorded @nikhilkamathcio’s (link in the following tweet) WTF podcast in a sea-facing
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New #OpenAccess special issue article by @purvadewoolkar, @deljanai, @dralibrowne, @SitaramShelar, @elsa_holm and @PaniHaq: Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for #water infrastructure in #Mumbai
https://t.co/IzwQdXy4Ca
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Read about the everyday struggles and strategies in @urbanstudies: https://t.co/1l6fAu5gZ2
@SitaramShelar @deljanai @dralibrowne @elsa_holm
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In this paper, we use the notion of administrative precarity to refer to the vulnerability and insecurity experienced by marginalised and disadvantaged groups a...
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📢 New paper alert! Through the work of @PaniHaq Mumbai, we reveal how 'de-ambiguation labour' becomes essential for transforming legal water rights into actual water access. #WaterJustice #WaterAccess #Mumbai
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Sitaram Shelar,Paani Haq Samiti, Angel Of Mumbai 2023 : FPJ Felicitates ... https://t.co/PLOS39Qpqz via @YouTube
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The Indian Government recently issued a safety alert on one of the safest anti-inflammatory drugs, mefenamic acid based on one of the rarest side-effects, virtually unrecorded by Indian pharmacovigilance. In this brilliant article, @verma_shivani12 reports for @TheKenWeb on why
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Everything you need to know about i'Local, an urban ideas competition by HUL: the larger idea, what are the themes, where are the sites, and the different ways you can engage with us! Head to our website https://t.co/26l97P9Dhk for more details! #ilocal
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Check out "Unmuting the Voice of Caste in Urban Studies" in @epw_in. @amaringanti & @elkamath write about the different ways in which questions of caste come up in urban studies while framing the inquiry, doing fieldwork, and while writing and publishing.
epw.in
. When I was in the village, I knew where I could go, how I could dress, what I could say and what I could not say. Even when I chose to transgress, I knew what exactly I was risking. We all knew...
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So excited to share news of this workshop we're organising in April 2024 with @liquidperson and Rohit Mujumdar. Please share and apply!
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ICYMI: We're running a helpdesk for PhD applicants across social/political studies. If you're looking for peer feedback in a safe space, we're here! Many thanks to @fromagefreya for lending us a hand. 🔗 https://t.co/K0U1O32d8t
If you are applying to graduate programs in the social/political sciences and from the #globalsouths (widely understood), we're here to help and offer feedback on your applications as peers and with care! Write to us at organize@southsouthmovement.org https://t.co/K0U1O32d8t
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Mumbai based-friends, join us in IIT for a book discussion on newly published Concealing Caste on 10th Nov, 3:30 pm with in-person discussion with the editors K. Satyanarayana and Joel Lee, and legendary writer Urmila Pawar.
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Pleased to have this paper out, with friend and collaborator @nate_millington. Special thanks to the residents of Cissie Gool House @ReclaimCT @NdifunaUkwazi Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure: thinking with Cissie Gool House
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Understood as a direct claiming and remaking of vacant space by marginalized urban residents, occupations claim the right to housing and disrupt property relations, surfacing conflicting rationalit...
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Supeeeeerrrrrrr thrilled to see my paper with @gandhisahil & @ATabarrok in the Journal of Development Economics #JDE
https://t.co/ueiKiiUdH3 🧵👇(1/10)
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Putting together a reading list - 'Decolonising Architecture', hosted on the Uni's portal, the aim is to celebrate authors who can be understood as racialised and/or minoritised #diversifyarchitecture #RepresentationMatters Got suggestions? Please share them with me! 💬
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After ten years of struggle, today, Siddharth Nagar gets legal tap water. We celebrated this across continents. Friendship and solidarities that keep me going… My heart is so so full @PaniHaq ज़िंदाबाद!!! #righttowater #WorldWaterDay2023
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