About The British Academy Fellowship

This project will explore relationships between ethnography, Big Data processes and social analysis. Using Delhi as template, this research will develop a multi-country collaborative project that will investigate discourses and practices of urban governance as they connect with notions of technologically driven urban futures. The project will explore relationships between official visions of the city as expressed through satellite mapping and Big Data and those of poor localities such as the Unauthorised Colonies of Delhi. The state produces satellite maps in order to develop 'transparent' and 'accurate' urban development policies, particularly in relation to slum and shanty town localities. These however, are contested by the urban poor, thereby revealing complex relations between technology, urbanism, governance, and marginality. This Fellowship will involve consultation with experts in the UK and Europe (towards devising the collaborative project) and research dissemination (a workshop and conference participation).

You can find out more about the project by reading Professor Sanjay Srivastava's blog on the ESRC-ICSSR 'Learning From Small Cities' #SmartSmallCityProject website below

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