Housing Rights
Between 2014-2016, as a Research Associate on a Ford Foundation funded project anchored at Hyderabad Urban Lab, I conducted ethnographic research across three cities: Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam; collaboratively carried out analysis of policy discourse, geospatial data, and survey data; helped build relationships and networks among grassroots activists and organizations; among other project activities. The goal of the project was to bridge "1) the gap between local experience in different cities and state and national level housing rights strategies; 2) the gap between housing rights and allied rights such as rights to work, education, health and clean environment."
Publications
Journal Articles
Maringanti, Anant, and Indivar Jonnalagadda. “Rent Gap, Fluid Infrastructure and Population Excess in a Gentrifying Neighbourhood.” City 19, no. 2–3 (May 4, 2015): 365–74.
Book Contributions
Hussain, Mohammad Sajjad, Sriharsha Devulapalli, Indivar Jonnalagadda, and Anant Maringanti. “The Neighbourhood Effect: Coexistence of Residential and Occupational Opportunities in ‘Muslim Neighbourhoods’ of Hyderabad.” In Muslims in Telangana: A Discourse on Equity, Development, and Security, edited by G. Sudhir, M. A. Bari, Amir Ullah Khan, and Abdul Shaban, 102–23. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021.
Devulapalli, Harsha, and Indivar Jonnalagadda. “A Civic Mapping Project in an Indian Megacity: The Uses and Challenges of Spatial Data for Critical Research.” In This Is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies, 120–25. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2018.
Sinha, Nikhilesh, and Indivar Jonnalagadda. “No Entry.” In The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, edited by Alena Ledeneva, 2:250–53. Fringe. London, UK: UCL Press, January 2018.
Reports
Jonnalagadda, Indivar, and Anindita Mukherjee. “Housing & Informality: Stories from Hyderabad,” Hyderabad Urban Lab, 2016.
Online Posts
Jonnalagadda, Indivar. “15% Damage – A Photo Essay on Vizag post-Hudhud,” Hyderabad Urban Lab Blog, December 1, 2014, http://hydlab.in/blogposts/15-damage-a-photo-essay-on-vizag-post-hudhud.
Jonnalagadda, Indivar. “Histories from Bholakpur: Of Settlements, Survival, Slums - Part 2,” Roti, Khata aur Makaan, October 28, 2014, http://housing.hydlab.in/?p=124.
Jonnalagadda, Indivar. “Histories from Bholakpur: Of Settlements, Survival, Slums - Part 1,” Roti, Khata aur Makaan, October 28, 2014, http://housing.hydlab.in/?p=120.
Websites
“Roti, Khata, aur Makaan”, an online repository of resources on housing rights in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh: http://housing.hydlab.in/
Conference Presentations
Paper Presentations
“Narratives of Yuddham (War) and Sangham (Solidarity) in Squatter Settlements of Visakhapatnam,” Telugu Studies Workshop on Power and Cultural Production: Philadelphia PA, March 31, 2019.
“Political Entrepreneurs in Indian Slums: Changing Contexts of Community Leadership in Hyderabad,” 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA): San Jose CA, November 13, 2018.
“Technologies of Invasion: Insurgence and Inducements on Public Land in Coastal Andhra,” 47th Annual Conference on South Asia: Madison WI, October 12, 2018.
“Nature and Nuisance: Land-use Ideologies in Indian Cities,” Natures, Penn Anthropology Graduate Symposium: UPenn, Philadelphia PA, April 30, 2018.
“The Fieldworker and the Field: (Re)Producing Political Influence in Uncertain Times,” Workshop on Indian Politics in its Vernaculars: Philadelphia PA, March 30, 2018.
“Enclaves of Violence: The Case of Squatter Settlements in Visakhapatnam,” International Conference on Re-thinking Cities in the Global South: Mumbai, January 20, 2016.
“Citizenship as Embodied and Situated Performance: Notes from Hyderabad,” Conference on Framing India through Perspectives from Elsewhere: Shimla, July 27, 2015. (co-authored with Dr. Anant Maringanti)
“The Agrarian Question as the Urban Question: Determinants and Consequences of Circular Migration,” International Conference on Labour and Employment Issues in the Context of Emerging Rural-Urban Continuum: Hyderabad, March 12, 2015. (co-authored with Dr. Anant Maringanti)