Ph.D. candidate in Urban And Regional Development , 37th cycle (2021-2024)
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
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Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
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PhD
Thesis title
Gender, caste and street vending in Mumbai: a situated intersectional geography
Research topic
Public space, planning, and women street vendors in Mumbai
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Research interests
Biography
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
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- Mcfarlane, Colin; Amin, Ash; Brickell, Katherine; Mcelroy, Erin; Saxena, Saanchi; ... (2025)
Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home. In: URBAN STUDIES, vol. 62, pp. 786-797. ISSN 0042-0980
Contributo su Rivista - Saxena, Saanchi (2024)
Giving urban motion a ‘grip on the ground’. Streets in motion: the making of infrastructure, property and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta, Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2022. 320 pp., ISBN: 9781009100113, $99.99 (hardback). In: CITY, pp. 1-5. ISSN 1360-4813
Contributo su Rivista - Saxena, Saanchi (2024)
Gender, caste, and street vending in India: Towards an intersectional geography. In: AREA. ISSN 0004-0894
Contributo su Rivista