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/