PhD candidate in Regional & Urban Planning
Email: p.banerjee1@lse.ac.uk
Paroj likes to think about cities and the systematic disorder of the urban fascinates her. She holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology (honours) from St Xavier’s College, Kolkata and a Master’s degree in Habitat Policy and Practice (gold medallist) from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai. For over 5 years, Paroj has worked with various organizations around the themes of environmental sustainability, human rights and welfare entitlements.
Before beginning her Phd at LSE she had worked on a wide range of urban issues that centred on invisibility of marginal groups in cities, affordable housing, planning and policy, urban campaigns focussing on gender and space and migration. It is her sustained interest in invisibility in the lives of many urban dwellers that has got her interested in pursuing postgraduate research on spatial practices of street dwellers in India. She is interested in conducting an ethnographic enquiry into the everyday micro interactions and negotiations of the street dwellers.
Research Interests
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Homelessness
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Urban Social Movements
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Citizenship
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Urban marginalization
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Myth of World Class Cities
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Segregated spaces (Ghettos and Special Geographical Clusters)
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Gated communities
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Urban Space and Gender
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People’s participation in planning
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