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About Sneha Annavarapu
Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College.
NBN Episodes hosted by Sneha:
March 18, 2026
A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras
In this intimate, yet simultaneously anthropological, exploration of the life of her maternal grandmother Pankajam (1911–2007), Kalpana Karunakaran ac…
March 9, 2026
The Hyderabadis
From the annexation of the princely state of Hyderabad in September 1948 to the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 and the eventual creation of Telan…
March 1, 2026
Cartographies of Youth Resistance
In Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico (U California Press, 2020), based on a decade of ethnographic fieldw…
November 1, 2025
Film City Urbanism in India
Film City Urbanism in India: Hyderabad, from Princely City to Global City ,1890-2000 (Cambridge UP, 2025) is about the reciprocal relationship between…
May 23, 2025
Emergent Genders
In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese p…
April 15, 2025
Performing Corporate Bodies
How do corporations use theater to reconcile the crises of late capitalism? In our latest interview on Ethnographic Marginalia, we speak with Dr. Sara…
March 23, 2025
Drawing Coastlines
Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore (Cornell UP, 2024) reveals the ways that technical images such as w…
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…