An interdisciplinary 'infrastructure turn'has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the
concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to …

In India, the past couple of decades witnessed, simultaneously, a massive shift of
employment out of agriculture, substantial urban growth in heretofore rural regions, and …

The shift towards urban living is changing food demand. Past studies on India show
significant urban–rural differences in food consumption. However, a scientific understanding …

Urban growth is indispensable in developing countries, particularly in the context of rapid
economic development and growing urban population. The idea of managing urban growth …

Abstract Kerala State in India has a unique Rural-Urban Continuum (RUC) settlement
pattern where it is difficult to distinguish between urban from rural. However, like all the …

This paper argues for the need to integrate migration in future food policy research and
practice and, in doing so, examines the role of internal migration as a livelihood strategy in …

Engaging with reflections on improper urban vocabularies, this article proposes a
translational turn to foreground dialogues—rather than equivalences—between languages …

Recently, though some of the developing countries have been experiencing urbanization at
a rapid pace, India is far behind them. Historically, a hefty proportion of India's urban …

This paper draws on ethnographic material to analyse how unemployed youth create work
in the private educational sector. It shows how a set of educated young men, who moved …

In the developing world, processes of urbanization sometimes remain hidden in official
statistics and urban populations are thought to be substantially misread. This article aims to …