Work in this area aims to reframe questions through the juxtaposition of unusual regional and global comparisons, all while remaining firmly grounded in field-intensive data collection and deep empirical investigation. Research includes the comparative experience of rapid urbanization across America, India and China; management of urban slums in contemporary Latin America and India;and the relationship between city-suburban politics and metropolitan inequalities across the United States.
Cabal City: India's Urban Regimes and Accumulation without Development, Business and Politics in India, Heller, Patrick and Partha Mukhopadhyay and Michael Walton, Kanta Murali, Atul Kohli and Chistopher Jaffrelot, Oxford, In Press
Anton-Lippitt Lecture on Urban Affairs – Houston: Prophetic City – What Houston Can Teach the Rest of the Country
6 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
Anthony Pratcher – What I Am Thinking About Now – The Colored Metropolis: Race, Housing, and Metropolitan Development
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Raile Rocky Ziipao – Roads, Region Formation, and the Question of Tribes in North East India
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
March 11, 2019 The Providence Journal
January 25, 2019 The Boston Globe
Going Beyond Governance: New Research Directions on States and Citizens in the Global South
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