Datta, Ayona
Dr Ayona Datta
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Experience keywords:
home, migration, and the city; gender, space, and power; spatiality of social agency; critical geographies of architecture; politics of place
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Dr Ayona Datta is Lecturer in the Cities Programme, and co-convenor of the MSc Culture and Society Degree. She has an interdisciplinary background in architecture, environmental design, and gender studies. Her research interests span overlapping and interlinking themes - Gender, space and place; Home, migration, and the city; and critical geographies of architecture. She is investigating these through three research projects.
She recently completed a British Academy Research Grant titled 'Mapping the Architecture of Control and Resistance' which is a qualitative research examining gendered politics among urban squatters in New Delhi. Based on this work, her forthcoming book 'Illegal Geographies of the city: Spatial Politics of Gender and Social Agency in a New Delhi Squatter Settlement', explores the relationships between gender, place, and social agency in squatter settlements of the global South.
Her second research project titled 'Home-building, migration and the city' explores how notions of home and the global city are shaped through the building acts of East European migrant workers arriving in London after EU expansion in 2004.
Her third research project titled 'New communities, new identities: Architecture of California Homes in Izmir, Turkey' explores the critical geographies of luxury housing and their connections with the mobilities of Turkey's global elites along the Izmir-Cesme expressway.
She has published in leading international journals such as Urban Geography; Gender, Place and Culture; Cultural Geographies; Social and Cultural Geography; Environment and Planning A (forthcoming); Antipode (forthcoming); and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (forthcoming).
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Sectors and industries to which research relates:
Construction and Property; Creative Industries and Culture; Policy and Regulatory Bodies
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Izmir; Phoenix; London; New Delhi
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Languages: Bengali [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Hindi [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]
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Media experience:
TV
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Datta, Ayona (2012) ‘Where is the global city?’: visual narratives of London among East European migrants. Urban studies, 49 (8). pp. 1725-1740. ISSN 0042-0980 Datta, Ayona (2012) “Mongrel City”: cosmopolitan neighbourliness in a Delhi squatter settlement. Antipode: a radical journal of geography, 44 (3). pp. 745-763. ISSN 0066-4812 Brickell, Katherine and Datta, Ayona (2011) Introduction. In: Brickell, Katherine and Datta, Ayona, (eds.) Translocal geographies: spaces, places, connections. Ashgate, London, UK, pp. 3-20. ISBN 9780754678380 Brickell, Katherine and Datta, Ayona, (eds.) (2011) Translocal geographies: spaces, places, connections. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK. ISBN 9780754678380 Datta, Ayona (2011) Translocal geographies of London: belonging and otherness among Polish migrants after 2004. In: Brickell, Katherine and Datta, Ayona, (eds.) Translocal geographies: spaces, places, connections. Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham, Surrey, UK, pp. 73-92. ISBN 9780754678380 Datta, Ayona (2010) Illegal geographies of the city: slums in Delhi’s worldly aspirations. Dérive: Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung, 40 pp. 89-93. ISSN 1608-8131 Hall, Suzanne and Datta, Ayona (2010) The translocal street: shop signs and local multi-culture along the Walworth Road, South London. City, culture and society, 1 (2). pp. 69-77. ISSN 1877-9166 Datta, Ayona (2009) Making space for muslims: housing Bangladeshi families in East London. In: Phillips, Richard, (ed.) Muslim spaces of hope. Zed Books, London. ISBN 9781848133006 Datta, Ayona (2009) Home, migration, and the city: spatial forms and practices in a globalising world. Open house international, 34 (3). pp. 4-7. ISSN 0168-2600 Datta, Ayona and Brickell, Katherine (2009) ‘We have a little bit more finesse as a nation': constructing the Polish worker in London's building sites. Antipode: a radical journal of geography, 41 (3). pp. 439-464. ISSN 0066-4812 Datta, Ayona (2008) Building differences: material geographies of home(s) among Polish builders in London. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33 (4). pp. 518-531. ISSN 1475-5661 Datta, Ayona (2008) Architecture of low-income widow housing: ‘spatial opportunities’ in Madipur, West Delhi. Cultural Geographies, 15 pp. 255-260. ISSN 1474-4740 Datta, Ayona (2008) Spatialising performance: masculinities and femininities in a ‘fragmented’ field. Gender, place and culture: a journal for feminist geography, 15 (2). pp. 189-204. ISSN 0966-369X Datta, Ayona (2007) Gender and learning in the design studio. Journal for education in the built environment, 2 (2). pp. 21-35. ISSN 1747-4205 Datta, Ayona (2007) Book review: colonial and post-colonial geographies of India. Singapore journal of tropical geography, 28 (3). pp. 374-375. ISSN 0129-7619 Datta, Ayona (2006) Book review: the code of the city: standards and the hidden language of place making. Open house international, 31 (1). pp. 112-113. ISSN 0168-2601 Datta, Ayona (2006) Book review: designing social innovation: planning, building, evaluating. Open house international, 31 (2). pp. 87-89. ISSN 0168-2601 Datta, Ayona (2005) Book review: challenge of the slums: global report on human settlements. Open house international, 30 (1). pp. 96-97. ISSN 0168-2601 Datta, Ayona (2005) Homed in Arizona: the architecture of emergency shelters. Urban geography, 26 (6). pp. 536-557. ISSN 0272-3638 Datta, Ayona (2001) The most wonderful place in the world: homeless women’s experiences in a Phoenix shelter. Open house international, 27 (3). pp. 38-46. ISSN 0168-2600 Datta, Ayona and Baker, Nick (2000) Carbon dioxide emissions from the housing sector: possible scenarios for the UK. In: Steemers, Koen and Yannas, Simos, (eds.) Architecture, city, environment. Earthscan, London, pp. 204-209. ISBN 9781902916163
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