Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Dr Matt Birkinshaw
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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.
