ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

2022. “Placing Caste: Spatialization, Urban Segregation, and Musical Boundary-Making”. Social Forces.

2021. “Spaces at Risk: Urban Politics and Slum Relocation in Chennai” in eds. Jacob A.C. Remes, Andy Horowitz. Critical Disaster Studies. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 97-115.

2021. “City Music: A Reprise” Contexts 20(1): 63-64.

2021. (co-authored with Joshua Babcock)“Legacies and Remnants of the Chicago School: Lineage-Making and Interdisciplinary Urban Research at the University of Chicago” in eds. Anthony M. Orum et al. Companion to Urban and Regional Studies, First Edition. Wiley-Blackwell. 172-191.

2019. “A Recipe for Disaster: Framing risk and vulnerability in slum relocation policies in Chennai, India”. City and Community 18(4): 1314-1337.

2019. “Notes from the Field: Cultural Distances, Boundaries, and Urban Ethnography”. Sectors, Newsletter of Sociology of Development 6(2): 28.

2019. “The Other City” in Postscript, Economic and Political Weekly 55(4): 63-64.

2019. “Anatomy of a Protest” in Postscript, Economic and Political Weekly  54(51): 61-62.

PUBLIC WRITING

• Notes on Notes, a monthly playlist exchange (2020-21)

• A Retrospective, A Year in Review

• Going Back Home (playlist)

• City Sounds (playlist)

• Mystery (playlist)

• Take Me To The Sea (playlist)

• How I Went On the Internet and Got Lanked Up In a Music Lovers’ Cult Community, Lanky Bastards Music Blog, April 27th, 2020.

• Disaster, Dystopia, and Disphony, Anthrodendum Blog, June 5th, 2020.

• Writing on the Wall, Rachel Tanur Memorial Visual Sociology Prize (second prize), 2020.

• Brahmins are the new Jews of India? Here’s why that’s utterly wrong co-authored with Liza Weinstein, Scroll.in, November 27, 2018.