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About Sneha Annavarapu
Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College.
NBN Episodes hosted by Sneha:
November 20, 2024
Social Spaces and the Public Sphere
What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms and libraries reify-or su…
August 27, 2024
Mumbai on Two Wheels
Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expan…
May 3, 2024
The Stigma Matrix
As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. They are pressed into…
February 20, 2024
H-Pop
Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India's dusty, …
December 10, 2023
A Thousand Tiny Cuts
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in the borderlands of northern Bangladesh and eastern India, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the B…
November 5, 2023
Coastlines, Climate, and Comics: In conversation with Dr. V. Chitra
How can we use comics to present ethnographic research in new and unique ways? In this episode, we talk with Dr. V. Chitra about the fieldwork and com…
July 25, 2023
Hailing the State
In Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections (Duke UP, 2023), Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in Ind…
June 13, 2023
Corruption Plots
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City (Cornell UP, 2023) illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global stor…
March 24, 2023
Migrants and Machine Politics
How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside…
February 11, 2023
Access to Power
Pakistan would desperately like to produce enough electricity, but it usually doesn't. Despite prioritization by successive governments, targeted refo…
December 22, 2022
The Dancer's Voice
In The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke UP, 2022) Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer pe…
November 4, 2022
Lifelines
In Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma (Duke UP, 2022), Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospitals, na…
October 13, 2022
The Right to Be Counted
In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exc…
May 31, 2022
Patching Development
How can development programs deliver benefits to marginalized citizens in ways that expand their rights and freedoms? Political will and good policy d…
May 30, 2022
Genetically Modified Democracy
How the debate over genetically modified crops in India is transforming science and politics. Genetically modified or transgenic crops are controversi…
May 18, 2022
Waste Worlds
Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Wo…
May 10, 2022
Studying Borderlands
How do border policing and violence intersect with gender and sexuality to affect border communities? Today’s guest, Dr. Sahana Ghosh, Assistant Profe…
March 31, 2022
The Politics of Surviving
For women who have experienced domestic violence, proving that you are a “good victim” is no longer enough. Victims must also show that they are recov…
February 9, 2022
The Moving City
The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure (U California Press, 2022) is a rich and intimate account of urban …
January 26, 2022
Bombay Brokers
A political party worker who produces crowds for electoral rallies. A “prison specialist” who serves other people’s prison sentences in exchange for a…
January 25, 2022
Taxis Vs. Uber
Uber's April 2016 launch in Buenos Aires plunged the Argentine capital into a frenzied hysteria that engulfed courts of law, taxi drivers, bureaucrats…
December 7, 2021
Brutal Beauty
Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City (Northwestern UP, 2021) follows a postcolonial city as it transforms into a bustling globa…
November 4, 2021
Doing an Ethnography of Policing
How has the use of big data and algorithms changed policing and police surveillance? On this episode, we speak with Dr. Sarah Brayne, Assistant Profes…
September 7, 2021
Crooked Cats
Big cats—tigers, leopards, and lions—that make prey of humans are commonly known as “man-eaters.” Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes them…