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Biography
I am an urban and digital geographer working at the intersection of urbanisation, technology and society. My research contributes to debates on expanded urbanisation, critical property studies, digital geographies and agrarian-urban transitions.
I am currently a British Academy Wolfson Fellow (2023-2025), conducting a project, Digital enclosures: automating property in India that examines the politics of PropTech schemes in rural and peri-urban areas of India. In 2025 I was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Geography in recognition of my contributions to the study of agrarian urbanisation.
I hold a PhD in Urban Geography from the Department of Geography at King's College London. Prior to joining the School at Nottingham I was a Leverhulme Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London, and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. I have previously taught Human Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at King's College London.
My book, Subaltern Frontiers: agrarian city-making in Gurgaon, India was published by Cambridge University Press in December 2022. The book explores the social, political and economic geographies of India's spectacular urban transformation since the early 1990s, examining the development of the 'Gurgaon model' of privatised urban planning and development. The book argues that the production of real estate and labour markets in Gurgaon has relied upon the speculative remediation of agrarian property regimes, governance institutions, and class structures. The book builds upon scholarship within subaltern studies, postcolonial marxist geographies, feminist geographies and anthropologies of global real estate to develop a reading of contemporary urbanisation in north India.
Elsewhere my work has been published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Antipode, Urban Geography, City, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Focaal, Geoforum, and Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
Expertise Summary
Urban Geography
Digital Geography
Southern Urbanism
Agrarian studies
Critical Property Studies
Science and Technology Studies
Urban Political Economy
Teaching Summary
My teaching focuses on advanced modules in Urban Geography, Digital Geography, Political Economy, International Development, and the Geographies of Gender, Labour and Property.
Current teaching (*convenor):
Year 1 - Tutorial
Year 2 - Urban Geography*
Year 2- Techniques in Human Geography
Year 2 - Research Tutorial
Year 3 - Digital Geography*
PhD Supervision:
I welcome PhD candidates in geography interested in any area of research. I am particularly interested in supervising PhD projects focusing on the following subjects: Critical urban studies | Southern urbanism | Labour geographies | Critical property studies | Digital geographies
Research Summary
See my Google Scholar page for an up to date list of publications.
Selected Publications