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Dr Paroj Banerjee
Lecturer (Teaching): MSc Development Administration and Planning
Development Planning Unit
Faculty of the Built Environment
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 2020
Research summary
Paroj is an urban ethnographer researching, teaching and writing
about home, belonging, and everyday responses to marginalisation and spatial
precarity. She has a PhD from the Department of Geography and Environment, London
School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and M.A. from Tata Institute of
Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. Following 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork
with footpath dwellers in Mumbai, her doctoral work contributes towards non-Western
understanding and non-dominant realities of the intimate and the public. With
years of engagement in areas of social, economic and
political inclusion and anti-discrimination mobilisations in India, Paroj has
gathered practical insights on developmental challenges in the South Asian
contexts. In her pedagogic approach and research she assimilates academic
knowledge and practical engagements when teaching issues on housing, global
development and research methods.