DevikaPrksh's profile picture. PhD Candidate, KTH Royal Institute of Technology: I study smart cities & urban control rooms using a sociotechnical lens. Right now, I focus on India.

Devika

@DevikaPrksh

PhD Candidate, KTH Royal Institute of Technology: I study smart cities & urban control rooms using a sociotechnical lens. Right now, I focus on India.

Dubai diasporas, transnational remittances and intimate infrastructures of finance in India - Siddharth Menon, 2025 journals-sagepub-com.focus.lib.kth.se/doi/full/10.11…


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Purwins and Keck uncover the intricate ways in which #bureaucrats, alongside non-human actors, shape and mediate the socio-material networks that influence the future of contemporary cities buff.ly/Ywie710 #UrbanResilience #ClimateAdaptation

USJ_online's tweet image. Purwins and Keck uncover the intricate ways in which #bureaucrats, alongside non-human actors, shape and mediate the socio-material networks that influence the future of contemporary cities 
buff.ly/Ywie710 
#UrbanResilience #ClimateAdaptation

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Just published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space! This paper examines Mumbai's unfinished sewage infrastructure and deepens our understanding of how infrastructural 'delays' are lived. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25… #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure #Mumbai

purvadewoolkar's tweet image. Just published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space! 

This paper examines Mumbai's unfinished sewage infrastructure and deepens our understanding of how infrastructural 'delays' are lived.

Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…

#UrbanStudies #Infrastructure #Mumbai

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Uma ma'am's account and the work that's happening at rural libraries is such a source of hope, strength and joy! And ufff, these images of women leisurely reading newspapers/books, pure joy ♥

Woman in the rural library reading a newspaper report about astronaut Sunita Williams. #publiclibrariesforall

readingkafka's tweet image. Woman in the rural library reading a newspaper report about astronaut Sunita Williams. 

#publiclibrariesforall


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UWP redesigned its website and is offering 30% discount on almost all its print book until May 10. My book is one of them. uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/E/Electr…


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Assistant Professor in Urban Planning / Design (National University of Singapore) buff.ly/e3o0C0D


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Those in Manipal, do attend this exciting conference on Urban Futures held on 5th and 6th March, 2025 at Manipal Centre for Humanities!

chowkhani's tweet image. Those in Manipal, do attend this exciting conference on Urban Futures held on 5th and 6th March, 2025 at Manipal Centre for Humanities!

The first article from my PhD project is now out and about (in pre-proof) and open access: Understanding decision-making in smart city policy implementation sciencedirect.com/science/articl…


Great news! Happy to have contributed to this volume.

Woman in the rural library reading a newspaper report about astronaut Sunita Williams. #publiclibrariesforall

readingkafka's tweet image. Woman in the rural library reading a newspaper report about astronaut Sunita Williams. 

#publiclibrariesforall


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New online first article by Persis Taraporevala: "Smart ignorance: Instrumentalising useful unknowns to bureaucratise and rescale power in the city" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

envplanf's tweet image. New online first article by Persis Taraporevala: 

 "Smart ignorance: Instrumentalising useful unknowns to bureaucratise and rescale power in the city"

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

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IIM-Bangalore’s Director publicly disclosed a Dalit professor’s caste in a mass email circulated within the institution, denied him equal opportunities, finds inquiry. thenewsminute.com/karnataka/iim-…


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Thrilled to be sharing that i am defending my PhD thesis "Sustainability beyond optimization" on the 17th December @UiBCET ! It's a public defense, and will be streamed online. If you'd like to join, drop me a message!

iamsubina's tweet image. Thrilled to be sharing that i am defending my PhD thesis "Sustainability beyond optimization" on the 17th December @UiBCET ! It's a public defense, and will be streamed online. If you'd like to join, drop me a message!

wish i could get some idli vada


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Reason for desk rejection: "I receive too many papers about India".

bejoykt's tweet image. Reason for desk rejection: 
"I receive too many papers about India".

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We're Listening, and We're Hiring! Department of Political Science invites aplications, from eligible Indian Citizens and Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) for the appointment to various faculty positions under the Special Recruitment Drive – 5.


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Are you interested in doing a PhD that explores: drone geographies, political geographies of airspace, feminist geopolitics/ political geographies of technology, or geographies of verticality and volume? If so, I'd love to hear from you! Info: findaphd.com/phds/project/d… @UniRdg_GES


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New research by @jiathwee uses architecture, cooling technologies and urban thermal metabolism to understand the relations between #hydrocarbons and political power ow.ly/Ck7e50TLL4Q #airconditioning #UrbanMetabolism

USJ_online's tweet image. New research by @jiathwee uses architecture, cooling technologies and urban thermal metabolism to understand the relations between #hydrocarbons and political power
ow.ly/Ck7e50TLL4Q
#airconditioning #UrbanMetabolism

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In this new paper, we trace the history of water in Delhi's rural belt to show how engineering interventions, local responses, and planning regulations continue to shape its agrarian urban character. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…


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'Frankenstein Urbanism through the lens of feminist technoscience'! Check out our latest book review forum curated by @DevikaPrksh with contributions from @motionickness @marianafried @ahjackman & @caseyrlynch urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/book-r…

urbgeog's tweet image. 'Frankenstein Urbanism through the lens of feminist technoscience'! Check out our latest book review forum curated by @DevikaPrksh with contributions from @motionickness @marianafried @ahjackman & @caseyrlynch urbangeographyjournal.org/journal/book-r…

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