About Me
Greetings!
I am a social scientist working on the historical geography of urbanisation in colonial Bombay/Mumbai and Western India. My research is located between the fields of urban studies, South Asian area studies, and science and technology studies (STS).
I also use free and open source software (FOSS) to develop publishing, archiving and mapping tools for historical and ethnographic research.
The Heptanesian Archives is my research diary and weblog, containing mostly everything I have written and published. For more information, have a look at my CV and my papers and publications going back to around 1997.
Since 2005, I have been pursuing my doctorate in the History, Anthropology, and Science Technology & Society at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Since 2004, the Mumbai Free Map has been an open access geo-spatial database and web mapping service for communities in Greater Mumbai, hosted by the Free Map Collective and the Urban Community GIS Project, and supported by the UNDP Asia Pacific Development Information Network
Since 2003, I have been an Executive Member of CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), Mumbai
a group of architects, artists and researchers working on urban design and research projects in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
