Nipesh Palat Narayanan

Assistant Professor
Affiliation(s): 
Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Department: 
Centre Urbanisation Culture Société
Email: 
nipesh.palat.narayanan@inrs.ca
Research thematic keywords: 
Southern Theory , Urban studies, Imaginaries, Culinary Cultures, Informality, Infrastructures
Research region keywords: 
India, Sri Lanka, Italy, Canada

I study urban from South Asia (Colombo and Delhi), where I investigate the production and mobilization of urban knowledges: how various actors imagine and understand cities, whose imaginations and understandings dominate, and how these imaginations and understandings impact everyday practices and governmental interventions.

My interest in the CIRCLE is to learn from and engage with other scholars. I feel the wide-ranging topical focus of the CIRCLE will help me broaden my understanding of the region. To the CIRCLE I bring an urban angle, which is often ignored or subsumed within development studies.