Ghule Harshali Damodar

Urban Policy

Working Title

Becoming Urban: Dynamics of Transitioning Settlements in Maharashtra

Research Interests

Rural-Urban TransitionEconomic Geography of Urbanization and InfrastructureGovernance of Small TownPost Colonial and Decolonial TheoryMix-Method Research
Education
BE Mechanical Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 2016
MA Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 2019
Publications
Accomplishments

Presented a paper titled ‘Onion Town: Agricultural Markets and Urbanization Processes in an Indian Village’ in the RC21-Sociology of Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association conference on “The politics and spaces of encounters: advancing dialogues between and within the Global North and the Global South” at Santiago, Chile, 24-26 July 2024.

Presented a paper titled ‘Losing ground: The contestation between coastal infrastructure and community from a gender perspective’ in the Blue urban project conference “Between ‘Blue Urbanism’ and Tanah Air: Urban Experiments, Circulations, and Placemaking as Sea Level Change Adaptation” at University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 11-13 September 2023.

Presented a paper titled ‘Studying Urbanizing Villages in India: Challenges and Alternatives’ at the conference on ‘Overlooked Cities in Asia: Interrogating blind fields in urban knowledge and praxes’ at Bandung, Indonesia, 6-8 September 2023

Presented a paper titled ‘Becoming urban: Dynamics of Census Towns in Maharashtra’ at the International Conference on ‘Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development in Global South’ during 10-12 August 2023 at New Delhi (IIC).

Attended the Summer School on Urban Mixed-Method Research
Organized by the School of Cities, University of Toronto, from July 30 to August 2, 2023.

Presented paper titled ‘Urban Aesthetics, Marginality, and Exclusion at Public Place: A case of Godavari River Ghat in Nashik City’ at conference on ‘Urban Marginality: Education and Policy’ held at Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune on 27 and 28 March 2023.

Participated and completed the Academic Writing Workshop Funded by the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, Savitribai Phule Pune University held from 2 to 7 March 2020.

Completed online training program on ‘Environment and Disaster: Integrated Risk, Resilience and Sustainable Development’ organized by National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India on 22 to 24 June 2020.

Completed online training program on ‘Gender Budgeting for the Rural Development’ held by the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Rural Development, 18 August to 22 August 2020.

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