Saanchi Saxena

Ph.D. in Urban And Regional Development , 37th cycle (2021-2024)

Ph.D. obtained in 2025

Dissertation:

Gender, caste and street vending in Mumbai: a situated intersectional geography (Abstract)

Tutors:

Michele Lancione

Profile

Research topic

Public space, planning, and women street vendors in Mumbai

Research interests

Urban studies
Human, economic and political geography

Biography

Saanchi Saxena is currently a PhD student at DIST, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She has a BA in Anthropology and a Masters in Public Policy from St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Mumbai. She has worked as an urban policy researcher at the All India Institute of Local Self-Government. She is the co-founder of Academic-ish, an online platform making academia contextual and accessible, by focusing on issues from the Global South.
Her doctoral project involves ethnographic research on women street vendors, the politics of urban public space, and gendered negotiations of urban planning in Mumbai. She strongly believes in creative, multi-disciplinary approaches that see the city through an anti-caste, Southern, and feminist lens.

Publications

Works published during the Ph.D. View all publications in Porto@Iris