Articles
“Cities After Planning.” Special Issue on After Planning: The Contested Times of Urban Expertise. Lindblad, J. and N. Anand (eds). In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Co-Authored with Jenny Lindblad. 2023
“Anthroposea: Perfect Pollution and Planning in Mumbai's Wetscapes.” Special Issue on After Planning: The Contested Times of Urban Expertise. Lindblad, J. and N. Anand (eds). In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2023
“Enduring Harm: Unlikely Comparisons, Slow Violence and the Administration of Urban Injustice.” In International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 46(4): 651-659. Co-authored with Bethany Wiggin, Lalitha Kamath and Pranjal Deekshit. 2022
“ToxiCity 1: On Ambiguation and Slow Violence in the Urban Sea.* Special Issue on Rising Waters. In International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 46(4): 687-697. 2022
“After Breakdown: Invisibility and the Labour of Maintenance.” In Economic and Political Weekly 55 (51): 52-56. 2020
“Consuming Citizenship: On the Matter of Prepaid Technologies in Mumbai.” In City and Society 32 (1): 47-70. 2020
“Leaking Lines.” In Infrastructure, Environment and Life in the Anthropocene. Edited by Kregg Hetherington. Pp 149-170. Durham: Duke University Press. 2019
“Temporality, Politics and the Promise of Infrastructure.” In The Promise of Infrastructure. Edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta and Hannah Appel. Pp. 1-40. Durham: Duke University Press. Co-authored by Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand and Akhil Gupta. 2018
“A Public Matter: Water, Hydraulics, Biopolitics.” In The Promise of Infrastructure. Edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta and Hannah Appel. Pp. 155-174.Durham: Duke University Press. 2018
“Left Dry: Water, Politics and Exclusion in Mumbai”. In Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City. Edited by George Gmelch and Petra Kuppinger. Pp 461-473. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. 2018
“MultipliCity: Water, Rules and the Making of Connections in Mumbai.” In Governing Access to Essential Resources. Edited by Katharina Pistor and Olivier de Schutter. Pp 106-126. New York: Columbia University Press. 2016
“On Pressure and the Politics of Water Infrastructure.” In Infrastructures and Social Complexity. Penelope Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen and Atsuro Morita, editors. Pp 91-101. New York: Routledge. 2016
“Leaky States: Water Audits, Ignorance and the Politics of Infrastructure in Mumbai.” In Public Culture 27(2): 305-330. 2015
Received the Junior Scholar Award, Anthropology and Environment Society, AAA.
“Housing in the Urban Age: Inequality and Aspiration in Mumbai”. In Ecologies of Urbanism. Edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan and A. Rademacher. Pp. 201-224. New York: Columbia University Press. Coauthored by Nikhil Anand and Anne Rademacher. 2013
“Making Connections: Towards an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai”, in People at the Well: Kinds of Water and its Usages. Edited by Hans Peter Hahn, Karlheinz Cless and Jens Soentgen. Pp 217-231. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag. 2012
“Municipal Disconnect: On Abject Water and its Urban Infrastructures.” Ethnography 13 (4) 487-509.`2012
“Towards an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai”, in The Blackwell Companion to the Anthropology of India. Edited by I. Clarke-Deces. Pp 426-441. Malden: Blackwell. 2011
“Pressure: The Polytechnics of Water Supply in Mumbai.” In Cultural Anthropology 26(4) 542-563. 2011
“Housing in the Urban Age: Inequality and Aspiration in Mumbai.” Antipode 43(5) 1748-1772. Co-authored with A. Rademacher. 2011
“Ignoring Power: Knowing Leakage in Mumbai’s Water Supply.” In Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia. Edited by J. Anjaria and C. McFarlane. Pp 191-212. New Delhi: Routledge. 2011
“Disconnecting Experience: Making World Class Roads in Mumbai.” Economic and Political Weekly 41: 3422-3429. 2006
“Planning Networks: Processing India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.” Conservation and Society 4(3): 471-487. 2006
“Bound to Mobility? Identity and Purpose at the World Social Forum”, in The World Social Forum: Challenging Empires. Edited by Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar, and Peter Waterman. Pp. 140-147. New Delhi: Viveka. 2004