Sanitation Infrastructure
As a Research Associate at Hyderabad Urban Lab, I conducted ethnographic research and contributed to collaborative projects addressing a range of topics related to sanitation such as public toilet management, the politics of community toilets, and the gendered differentials of access to sanitation. I helped coordinate and organize an online campaign called #DontHoldItIn to spread awareness on the massive shortcomings in public sanitation facilities for women. I also worked with community based organizations to support their advocacy programs and their movements to demand better infrastructures.
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.
Jonnalagadda, Indivar, and Sandeep Tanniru. “Rethinking Governance of Public Toilets: Lessons for Swacch Bharat from Hyderabad.” Economic & Political Weekly 49, no. 48 (2014): 41–45.
Book Contributions
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.
Online Posts
Jonnalagadda, Indivar. “Unanswered Questions: Are there Public Toilets Adequate for Women?,” Don’t Hold It In Campaign Blog, Novermber 17, 2015, http://dontholditin.hydlab.in/blog/view/2.
Jonnalagadda, Indivar. “Unanswered Questions: Why Can't Women Pee in Public?,” Don’t Hold It In Campaign Blog, Novermber 17, 2015, http://dontholditin.hydlab.in/blog/view/3.
Websites
“#DontHoldItIn”, an online campaign and knowledge hub advocating for better sanitation: http://dontholditin.hydlab.in/