Heptanesian Archives

Publications

• ‘The City as Extracurricular Space: Re-Instituting Urban Pedagogy in South Asia’ (co-authored with Anirudh Paul and Prasad Shetty) in Ashish Rajadhyaksha, ed., Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (London), Vol.6, No.3, 2005
• Murder of the Mills: A Case Study of Phoenix Mills, Mumbai: Lokshahi Hakk Sanghatana and Girangaon Bachao Andolan, 2000

Editions

• ‘Future Academies’ in Geetha Narayanan, ed., Tana Bana: Srishti Bangalore at Ars Electronica 2005, Linz (Austria), August 2005
• ‘Les espaces de Mumbai à l’ère post-industrielle’, Stephen Wright, ed., trans. Mouvements (Paris), No.39/40, May–August 2005
• ‘The Urban Turn’, Transcript of Symposium at the Bombay Paperie organised by PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research), Mumbai, December 2002
• Workers Rights and Labour Law: A Backgrounder (for the Workshop on Labour at the National Conference on Human Rights, Social Movements, Globalisation and the Law at Panchagani, Maharashtra), Mumbai: India Centre for Human Rights and Law, 2000

Journalism

• ‘Some Reasons to be Optimistic, or, Mumbai and the Global History of Urban Disasters’ in TimeOut Mumbai, 28 August-8 September 2005
• ‘Bombay’s Blame Game: On the Recent Floods’ in DNA (Daily News and Analysis), Mumbai, 5 August 2005
• ‘Mills as Public Spaces: Mumbai’s Industrial Heritage’, Art India, April 2005
• ‘Should Mumbai be a City-State?’, TimeOut Mumbai, 10 April 2005
• ‘Mumbai Vision 2010: ‘Reporting the Future’ and ‘Get Up, Stand Up’ in TimeOut Mumbai, Vol.I, Issue 6, 19 November–2 December 2004
• ‘Free the Airwaves: Using Low-Power FM Radio in Arts and Culture’ in Abhay Sardesai, ed., Art India Issue on ‘The Art of Humour’, Vol.VIII, Issue 4 (Mumbai), October 2003
• ‘Documenting the City: New Media and Pedagogic Practice in the Monsoon Doc-Shop’ in Shilpa Phadke, ed. Humanscape Special Issue on ‘Learning Beyond Teaching: Experiments with Pedagogy’ (Mumbai), August 2003
• ‘Phoenix Mills Bowled Over’, From the Lawyers Collective (Mumbai), 2001
• ‘The Murder of Mumbai’s Mills’, People’s Reporter (Mumbai), 10–25 June 2000
• ‘Mill on the Loss’, Indian Express Mumbai Newsline, 5 April 2000

Reviews

• ‘The Worlds of Indian Industrial Labour, ed. Jonathan Parry, Jan Breman, and Karin Kapadia’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (London), Fall 2001
• ‘Democratic Politics and Economic Reforms in India by Rob Jenkins’, Contemporary South Asia vol.10, no.1, Carfax Publishing (Bradford, U.K.), 2000
• ‘Wages of Freedom: Fifty Years of the Indian Nation-State, edited by Partha Chatterjee’, Contemporary South Asia, vol.8, no.3, Carfax Publishing (Bradford, U.K.), 1999
• ‘Untouchable Pasts by Saurabh Dube’, Contemporary South Asia, vol.8, no.3, Carfax Publishing (Bradford, U.K.), 1999
• ‘The Concept of Race in South Asia by Peter Robb’, Contemporary South Asia, vol.8, no.1, Carfax Publishing (Bradford, U.K.), 1999

Papers and Presentations

• Labour Space and Politics: Rajnarayan Chandavarkar and the History of Modern South Asia
  Presented on a roundtable at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Boston, March 2007
• Metrolog(ue): Publishing, Mapping and Archiving
  Presented at Metrolog(ue): Discussions on Emerging Urbanism in India, organised by CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) and SARAI, Mumbai, December 2006
• The Crisis of the Database
  Presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2006
• Building the Mumbai Free Map
  Presented in the workshop on Open Maps: Building, Accessing, Annotating at the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures, London, U.K., October 2005
• Geographies of Resistance: Urban Housing as Social Practice in Mumbai
  Presented at the Roundtable on ‘Asian Cities and Cultural Change’ at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, July 2005
• Academies of the Future
  Presented at the Future Academy Symposium at the Edinburgh College of Art School of Architecture, Edinburgh, U.K., March 2005
• Public Knowledge and New Institutional Forms in Mumbai’
  Presented at ‘Networks and Collaborations’ workshop organised by the Alternative Law Forum, Waag Society, and SARAI, Bangalore, November 2004
• Ideas and Institutions in Contemporary Mumbai’
  Presented at ‘Emerging Urbanism’ workshop organised by SARAI and the School of Planning & Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, October 2004
• Urbanism Before Nationalism in Mumbai’
  Presented at ‘The City as Target’ workshop organised by the National University of Singapore, August 2004
• ‘Historical Ecology of Ideas and Institutions in Mumbai’
  Presented at ‘Urban Imaginaries’ workshop organised by the Kwan Fong Center for Cultural Research and Development and Australian National University (ANU) at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, May 2004
• ‘The Geneaology of Civic Sensibility — Bombay in the Thirties’
  Presented with Nikhil Rao at ‘The City as Archive’ workshop organised by the Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, May 2004
• ‘The City as Extracurricular Space’
  Presented with Anirudh Paul at Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference on ‘New Pedagogic Possibilities’ organised by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and Christ College, Bangalore, February 2004
• ‘Packaging the City’
  Presented in ‘Conversations’ at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai, February 2003
• ‘The Spaces of Post-Industrial Mumbai’
  Audio of presentation at CITY ONE organised by SARAI/Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, January 2003
• ‘Making Indepedent Media’
  Presented at the Alternatives to the Media Empires workshop organised by SARAI at the Asian Social Forum, Hyderabad, December 2002
• ‘The Spaces of Post-Industrial Mumbai’
  Presented with Sudhir Patwardhan at the Visual Arts Forum of the Mohile-Parikh Centre, National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, November 2002
• ‘Indymedia in Mumbai’
  Presented at the ‘Tactical Media Lab’ workshop organised by SARAI/Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, October 2002
• ‘Action Research and the City’
  Presented at the ‘Urban Designs’ seminar organised by The Globalization Project at the University of Chicago, May 2002
• ‘The Murder of Phoenix Mills’
  Presented at the annual conference of the Indian Association of Labour Historians, V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, U.P., March 2000