Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Dr Matt Birkinshaw
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology Research Fellow
- Department
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology
- Email address
- mb146@soas.ac.uk
Key publications
- Birkinshaw, M., Taraporevala, P. Social Media as E-governance: Digital Lives of Indian Municipal Bodies and Smart Cities. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (30). October 2023.
- Grabbing Groundwater: Capture, Extraction and the Material Politics of a Fugitive Resource. Geoforum (136). September 2022.
- Birkinshaw, M., Grieser, A., & Tan, J. How does community-managed infrastructure scale up from rural to urban? An example of co-production in community water projects in Northern Pakistan. Environment and Urbanization, (22), 2. September 2021. Book review: Andrea Ballestero. 2019. A Future History of Water. Progress in Development Studies, (22), 1. September 2021.
- Water mafia politics and unruly informality in Delhi’s unauthorised colonies. Jones, K, and Roberts, L, (eds.), Creative Approaches to Human-Water Relations, Routledge Earthscan, August 2018.
- Politics, information and informal infrastructures in urban governance. Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Urban Affairs, (51), 5, January 2016.
Research interests
South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh); urban governance and politics; technology, infrastructure and urban development; political ecologies of water (and land); informality, private sector participation and public sector reform.
