Dr. Siddharth Menon (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of urban studies, urban political ecology, economic and development geography, science and technology studies, South Asian studies, and Indian Ocean studies.
Siddharth’s current book project draws on two years of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in India and the UAE to critically examine how the changing built environment of city-regions in south India intersects with wider circuits of transnational migration, capital investment, and resource extraction in the climate change era.
Siddharth holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and has received fellowships from the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. This research trajectory builds on a decade of architectural training and professional practice in India where he used sustainable building technologies, like earth and bamboo, to address issues of uneven development and environmental justice.
Selected publications
Menon, S. (2025). Sand, Plantation Urbanism, and the Extended Political Ecology of Infrastructures in India. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Read paper.
Menon, S. (2025). Dubai Diasporas, Transnational Remittances, and Intimate Infrastructures of Finance in India. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 0(0). Read paper.
Rehman, N., Parikh, A., Lamb, Z., Syal, S., Ghertner, D. A., Menon, S., Anwar, N., Nabi, H., Butt, W., Ranganathan, M., Srinivasan, K., Bhat, H., Powis, A., & Anand, N. (2023). South Asian Urban Climates: Towards Pluralistic Narratives and Expanded Lexicons. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 47(4), 667–687. Read paper.
Menon, S. (2023). Class, Caste, Gender, and the Materiality of Cement Houses in India. Antipode, 55(2), pp. 574-598. Read paper.