Brishti Banerjee
Urban Policy
Working Title
Politics and Lived Implications of Policy Categories: Informal Settlements in Guwahati
Supervisor(s)
Research Interests
BA Political Science, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, 2014
Conferences
Banerjee, B. (2024, June). Precarious categories: Researching informal settlements and the policy landscape in Guwahati City. Collectif de recherche et d’action sur l’habitat (CRACH) Conference on Housing: Global Crisis, Seeking Justice, Montreal, Canada.
Banerjee, B. (2024, April). Precarious categories: Researching informal settlements and the policy landscape in Guwahati City. 2024 International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York, NY, USA.
Banerjee, B. (2024, March). Unstable and uncertain: Informal settlements and the politics of policy categories in Guwahati City. Limapolis 2124: Conferences, Department of Architecture, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru.
Banerjee, B. (2024, January). Unstable and uncertain: Informal settlements and the politics of policy categories in Guwahati City. Eighth Edition of Urban ARC Research Conference: Equal Cities, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India.
Seminars
Banerjee, B. (2024, March). Unstable and uncertain: Informal settlements and the politics of policy categories in Guwahati City. 3rd New Housing Researchers Online Seminar, European Network for Housing Research (ENHR), Online.
Banerjee, B. (2023, November). Navigating housing insecurity and forced eviction: Women’s struggles, resistance, and survival in informal settlements of Guwahati City. Seminar Series on Feminising Urban Struggles: Bodies, Territories and Politics in Women’s Production of Peripheral Spaces, Centre for Urbanism and the Built Environment Studies (CUBES), University of the Witwatersrand, University of São Paulo (USP), Architecture and Urbanism School, LabCidade, and Ardhi University, Institute of Human Settlements Studies (IHSS), Online.
Professional Experience
3.5 years in the development sector (Project Associate)
Awards
Awarded Shield of Honor for Best Student Social Work (CODP), TISS Mumbai, 2017