Dr Ayona Datta
Research overview
Ayona Datta is Senior Lecturer in Citizenship and Belonging. Her broad research interests are in the social and cultural processes shaping notions of home, identity and citizenship in cities like London, Delhi, Mumbai and Izmir. She uses approaches from urban sociology, anthropology, feminist and critical geography focusing specifically on the connections between social, political, and material geographies of cities and urban spaces. She has used innovative and interdisciplinary visual methodologies combining film-making, participant sketches, participant photography, photo-documentation and architectural mapping, with semi-structured interviews and participant observations.
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Contact details
Room 1.42
School of Geography
University of Leeds
University Road
Leeds LS2 9JT UK
Email:
a.datta
Telephone:
+44 (0) 113 34
33362
Student hours:
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Latest publications
Datta, A (2013 in press) Gendered Nature and Urban Culture: The dialectics of gated developments in Izmir, Turkey, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Datta, A (2013 in press) Diaspora and Transnationalism in Urban Studies, in Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani (eds.) Blackwell Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies, Oxford: Blackwell.
Datta, A (2012) The Illegal City: Space, law and gender in a Delhi squatter settlement. Farnham: Ashgate. Reviewed in Times Higher Education, Cities and Housing Studies. Nominated to be honored at the Geographical Perspectives on Women (GPOW) book event at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in 2013 in Los Angeles.
Datta, A (2012) India’s Eco-city? Urbanisation, environment and mobility in the making of Lavasa, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, vol. 30(6), 982-996.
Datta, A (2012) ‘Where is the global city?’ Visual narratives of London among East European migrants, Urban Studies, vol. 49(8), 1725-1740.
Datta, A (2012) ‘Mongrel City’: Cosmopolitan neighbourliness in a Delhi squatter settlement, Antipode, vol. 44(3), 745-763.
Brickell, K and Datta, A eds. (2011) Translocal Geographies: Spaces, Places, Connections, Farnham: Ashgate. Reviewed in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social and Cultural Geography, Population, Space and Place, Australian Planner, European Planning Studies, Localities (Korean).
Current projects
- Negotiating Multilingual Identities in Migrant Professional Networks
- Smart cities: Knowledge exchange and the production of visual teaching aids on sustainable development in India
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