Ayona Datta

Ayona Datta is Professor of Human Geography in University College London. Her broad research interests are in the geographies of smart urbanism, gender citizenships and urban futures in the global south. Her research has sought to develop theoretical and empirical work on slums and informal settlements in exploring how marginal social actors live through the violence of law and urban development. This is particularly related to the resultant transformations in gender relations and citizenship struggles that occupy social, political and environmental spaces of action in the global South. Her current research seeks to advance theoretical and empirical work on postcolonial urbanism through the examination of smart cities as experiments in urban innovation and digital citizenships.

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