Publications/CV

Major Publications

• Social Life of a Bus. Documentary directed, produced, and scripted Govind Gopakumar, editing Chinmayi Arakali, camera B. R. Viswanath, sound Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, made in partnership with Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike (Bangalore Bus Commuter Forum), 2015.
  
  
• Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India: The Role of Reform and Partnerships in Globalization. Routledge, UK, 2012.
  
  
• Water Resources Development in India: Does it Help the Farmer?. Academic Foundation, India, 2004 (co-author with K. V. Raju, A. Narayanamoorthy, & H. K. Amarnath).
  
  

Journal Publications (ordered according to my dominant research streams).

Policy dynamics of water supply

• Experiments and Counter-Experiments in the Laboratory of Water Supply Partnerships in Bengaluru, India, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38.2, 393-412, 2014.
  
  
• Policy Transmission: The policy dynamic of water supply infrastructure development in India, Water Policy 13.3, 375-92, 2011.
  
  
• Transforming Water Supply Regimes in India: Do Public Private Partnerships have a role to play? Water Alternatives 3.3, 492-511, 2010.
  
  
• Sustainability & the indispensability of politics: A study of sanitation partnerships in urban India. International Journal of Sustainable Society, 2.4, 376-392, 2010.
  
  
• Developing Durable Infrastructures: Politics, Social Skill and Sanitation Partnerships in Urban India. Review of Policy Research, 26.5, 571-87, 2009.
  
  

Infrastructure, Cities, & Urban Renewal in India

(with David Sadoway) (Un)bundling Bengaluru (Bangalore): Infrastructurescapes and the contested construction of urban enclaves in the global South. Geoforum (under review).



(with David Sadoway, Vinay Baindur, and Madhav Badami) Window on urban governance—the past, present, and future of JNNURM. Economic and Political Weekly (under review).



Intrusiveness of Urban Renewal in India. Canadian Journal of Development Studies 36. 1, 89-106, 2015.



(with Christopher Gore) Infrastructure and Metropolitan Reorganization: An Exploration of the Relationship In Africa And India. Journal of Urban Affairs. Published online.



Who will Decongest Bengaluru? Politics, Infrastructures, & Scapes. Mobilities, 10.2, 304-325, 2015.



Investigating Degenerated Peripheralization in Urban India: The Case of Water Supply Infrastructure and Urban Governance in Chennai. Public Works Management and Policy, 14.2, 109-29, 2009.

Public Leadership in Engineering Education

• (with Brandiff Caron, Deborah Dysart Gale, Matthew Harsh) Navigating a Constitutional Moment: Reflections on Implementing Graduate Attributes in Canadian Engineering Education. Engineering Studies, 6.1, 44-61, 2014.
  
  
• Public Leadership Framework: Approaches to Diversify Engineering Education. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy, 4.1, 43-48, 2014.
  
  
• Teaching global engineering in Canada, learning informality of the Global South. European Journal of Engineering Education. 39.4, 349-364.
  
  
• Making community water/sanitation partnerships sustainable – some lessons. Journal of Policy Engagement , 2.1, 9-14, 2010.
  
  

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Some recent seminar and conference presentations:

• "Noticing the Materialities of Infrastructure in a Congested Bengaluru" Infrastructures - Provocations towards an Inter-disciplinary Dialogue, National University of Singapore, August 29, 2015 (with David Sadoway)


• 'Social Life of a Bus' - a panel discussion,' International conference on Public Policy and Management, Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru, August 4, 2015


• "Leveraging Networks: Online Network Based Learning for 21st Century Engineering Education and Practice," Engineering Education for Sustainable Development, Vancouver, June 10, 2015 (with Alexandra Meikleham, Patrick Miller, and Deborah Dysart-Gale)


• "Implementing Experiential Education on Engineering and Society," CEEA Annual conference, Hamilton, June 3, 2015 (with Matthew Harsh, Brandiff Caron, Deborah Dysart-Gale and Ketra Schmitt).


• "'Social Life of a Bus' - an Annotated Screening" Colloquium, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, April 22, 2015.


• "'Social Life of a Bus' - an Annotated Screening" Colloquium, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, March 11, 2015.


• "Contingent Designs: Governance of Infrastructures in Urban India." Publics, Politics, and Technoscience in Contemporary Indian Contexts, Jindal Global University, Sonepat, November 18th, 2014.


• "(Un)bundling street infrastructurescapes in Bangalore: The dream of seamless infra-integration versus real world ruptures." International Conference, Tutzing, June 12th, 2014 (David Sadoway primary author).


• "Enrolling the global: Transnational mobilities in the renewing of Indian cities," International Conference on Global STS, Nanyang Technological University, March 14th, 2014 (with David Sadoway).


• "Infrastructure as Statecraft: Power politics and unfolding of urban infrastructure in Urban India" Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, February 28th, 2014 (David Sadoway primary author).


• "Seeing the state in a bus," 4S Annual Conference, San Diego, October 11th, 2013


• "How are Indian cities being speeded up? Methods to gauge renewing cities and mobilized infrastructures," Mobility Futures Conference, Lancaster University, September 6th, 2013 (with David Sadoway).


• "Dissassembling Infrastructure Sites: Tracing the links between infrastructure, space, and governance," International RC21 Conference, Berlin, 30th August, 2013 (David Sadoway primary author).


• "Assembling Infrastructure Decongestion: An Overview of Critical Issues in and about Urban Infrastructure and JNNURM in India," Seminar at National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi, August 1st, 2013 (with David Sadoway).


• "Bussing in contemporary Bengaluru: A preliminary study of its social and political elements," Seminar at CiSTUP, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, July 26th, 2013. (same talk given on August 3rd, 2013 to the Bengaluru Bus Commuter Forum).


• "Creating Faculty Buy-in: Leadership Challenges in Implementing CEAB Graduate Attributes," CEEA Annual conference, Montreal, June 18th, 2013 (with Deborah Dysart-Gale and Ali Akgunduz).


• "Critical Urban Infrastructure(s): Launching a research network on critical issues in urban infrastructures," at Shastri Indo-Canada Institute Conference on Engaging Canada: Emerging Priorities for Sustainable Partnerships, June 1st, 2013 (presented by David Sadoway).


• "Rhythming a Fast Life: Inscribing Reform on Infrastructure Technologies and Flows," Water & Waste: The Future of Water and Sanitation in India, Rutgers University, February 8th, 2013


• "Complementary Studies & Global Engineering: A Synergy," Global Engineering Symposium, EWB Annual Conference, Calgary, January 13th, 2013 (with Deborah Dysart-Gale).


• "Acting from a distance: States and urban infrastructures," EASST-4S Annual conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 18th, 2012.


• "A Constitutional Moment? The Challenge of Graduate Attributes in Canadian Engineering Education," INES 2012 Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 16th, 2012 (with Brandiff Caron and Deborah Dysart-Gale).


• "Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India: The Role of Reform and Partnerships in Globalization," CTARA Seminar, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, August 23rd, 2012.


• "Models for Leadership in Curricular Innovation: Concordia's Centre for Engineering in Society," CEEA Annual conference, Manitoba, June 18th, 2012 (with Brandiff Caron, Deborah Dysart-Gale and Robin Drew).


• "Manufacturing Flatness: A recent history of "mobiles" and their entanglements with urban infrastructure in Bengaluru," at Engaging India: Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology organized by the Shastri Indo-Candian Institute, Calgary, June 3rd, 2012.


• "Decongesting Infrastructure, Depoliticising Cities: Governing Democracy and the Politics of Urban Renewal," CASID Annual conference, Waterloo, May 29th, 2012.


• "Unclogging Bengaluru: Imagining Decongested Infrastructurescapes," GLOB-AL and Technologia y Sociedad seminar organized by the National University of Colombia and the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, April 27th, 2012.


• "Decongesting Infrastructures, Assembling Cities: Emerging Circulations of Knowledge and Infrastructure Work in Urban India," AAG annual conference, New York City, February 28, 2012.


• "Knotty and Naughty: Seeing the Indian State through a Technoscientific Lens," Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual conference, Cleveland, November 4, 2011.


• "Clogged and Cluttered: The Intrinsic Logic of Infrastructure Congestion," International Conference on the Distinctiveness of Cities - Modes of Re-Production, June 17, 2011, Darmstadt, Germany.


• "Public Leadership Framework: Approaches to Diversify Engineering Education," Canadian Science Policy Conference, Montreal, Ocotber 21, 2010.


• "Infrastructure & Metropolitanization: Comparing the Relationship in Cities of Africa and India," American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, September 4th, 2010.


• “Reforming Water Supply Infrastructure Regimes in India: Do PPPs have a role to play?” CASID Annual conference, Montreal, June 1, 2010.
  
  
• “Decongesting Infrastructure: Shahri Navikaran, politics & policy,” STS & South Asia conference, Austin, TX, May 14, 2010.
  
  
• “Archipelagos & Tendrils: the Civics of Water Supply Partnerships in India,” AAG annual conference, Washington D.C., April 17, 2010.
  
  
• “Predatory Impulses in Water Supply Regimes in urban India,” Gary Gaile Development Geography pre-conference, Washington D.C., April 13, 2010.
  
  
• “Designing for Sustainability: Essential Infrastructures for Developing Communities,” Faculty of Engineering, Architecture & Science, Ryerson University, January 28, 2010.
  
  
• “Engineers & Community Infrastructure Projects,” University of Toronto’s Citizen Engineer student chapter, January 28, 2010.
  
  
• “Constructing Technological Recesses, Politicizing Places: Resisting the Commodification of Water Supply,” Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference, Washington D.C., October 30, 2009.
  
  
• Constructing Water Infrastructure, Territorializing Justice: Resisting the commodification of water in Bengaluru. Panel on Water and Justice: Global and Local Perspectives, University of California, Davis, June 2, 2009.
  
  
• “Sociotechnical Transition Theory: A framework for multi-level, political analysis of infrastructure partnerships in urban India,” Annual Conference of American Political Science Association, Boston, August 28, 2008.
  
  
• “Urban territories, political and infrastructure dynamics” at Annual conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Montreal, October 12, 2007.
  
  
• “Purposive Transition Analysis: Dynamics Of Indian Sanitary Regimes,” at Politics and Governance in Sustainable Socio-technical Transitions, September 20-21, 2007 - Berlin, Germany.

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