Contributors

Anne-Marie Broudehoux is an assistant professor at the School of Design of the University of Quebec at Montreal. She is the author of The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing (2004), which was awarded the 2004-2005 International Planning History Society book prize in 2006. She is currently working on a new book on the socio-spatial impacts of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Melissa Butcher is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, Open University, UK. The focus of her research is the impact of transnational mobility on urban space, cultural change and conflict, with an emphasis on questions of identity and belonging. Before joining the Open University, Melissa taught in universities in Ireland and Australia. Melissa presents and writes regularly on issues relating to globalisation, migration, popular culture and global human resources management.

Limin Hee is assistant professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, and the Asia Research Institute based in Singapore. She leads the Urban Studies Group at the Department of Architecture at the University. Limin’s research interests include sustainable cities, Asian urbanism, public spaces and design pedagogy. Her research on sustainable architecture and urbanism has been a collaborative effort with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and has been the subject of a travelling exhibition shown in major cities in Asia and Europe.

Jennifer Hsu is a specialist in development studies at the University of Cambridge. She has published research looking at the development of civil society organisations in China, including HIV/AIDS and the changing nature of Chinese state-society relationship in an era of socioeconomic reforms. Her current research examines the development of migrant non-governmental organizations in China. She has recently completed an edited collection (with Reza Hasmath) on China in an Era of Transition.

Sameera Khan is a journalist, writer and researcher. A former assistant editor at The Times of India in Mumbai, she writes on issues related to public health, environment, women, and local history and culture. She was an integral part of the Gender & Space project at PUKAR and is currently writing a book based on this project along with Shilpa Phadke and Shilpa Ranade. She is also authoring a book on the old Muslim neighbourhoods of Mumbai. She has a BA in History and Anthropology from the University of Bombay and an Masters in Journalism from Columbia University, New York.

Maurizio Marinelli is a senior lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol (U.K.), specialising in the study of contemporary China’s intellectual and urban history. His research investigates how China’s relations with the rest of the world have influenced historical narratives and shaped visual representations within their respective intellectual discourses. He is currently working on the socio-spatial transformation of Beijing and Tianjin.

Diya Mehra is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently researching the urbanisation of post-Independence Delhi including transformations following the introduction of neoliberal policies. Her work on slum demolition has appeared in both popular and academic publications (Brosius and Ahuja 2006, Mahadevia, forthcoming), and she has been actively involved in campaigns against demolition since 2004. Between 2002-2004, she worked at Sarai-Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.

B. Lynne Milgram is professor of anthropology at the Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada. Her research on gender, development and globalisation in the Philippines analyzes the cultural politics of social change with regard to microfinance, material cultural production and trade, and women’s work in the second-hand clothing trade between the Philippines and Hong Kong. This research has been published in edited volumes and journals. She has also co-edited (with K. M. Grimes) Artisans and Cooperatives: Developing Alternative Trade for the Global Economy, (with Roy Hamilton) Material Choices: Refashioning Bast and Leaf Fibers in Asia and the Pacific and (with K.E. Browne) Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches. Her current research explores issues in urbanisation and street vending in the Philippines.

Shilpa Phadke is a sociologist, researcher, writer and pedagogue. She is assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has been educated at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, SNDT University and the University of Cambridge, UK. She conceptualised and led the Gender & Space Project at PUKAR from September 2003 to September 2006. Her areas of concern include gender and the politics of space, the middle classes, sexuality and the body, feminist politics among young women and pedagogic practices.

Shilpa Ranade is a practicing architect and researcher. She trained in architecture from CEPT, Ahmedabad and has done her MA in Comparative Cultural & Literary Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Shilpa has been associate editor of the South Asian volume in the series ‘World Architecture 1900-2000: A Critical Mosaic’ and has also published articles in various architectural magazines. Shilpa is a partner in the design firm DCOOP in Mumbai, in addition to her work on the Gender and Space project at PUKAR.

Selvaraj Velayutham is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia. His current research interests include moral economies of migration, transnational affect and emotion, multiculturalism and the sociology of everyday life. He is the author of Responding to Globalisation: Nation, Culture and Identity in Singapore and editor of Tamil Cinema: The Cultural Politics of India’s Other Film Industry. He has published widely on the area of globalisation, global cities, transnationalism and migration.

Yeoh Seng Guan is a senior lecturer in the School of Arts and Sciences, Monash University, Sunway campus, Malaysia. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He has conducted fieldwork in various parts of Malaysia as well as in Baguio City in the Philippines. His research interests include anthropologies of the city, religion and media with particular focus on the Southeast Asia region. He has published widely in academic journals and produced two ethnographic documentaries on street vendors and cockfighting. He is lead editor for Penang and its Neighbours (2008) and has a chapter on cosmopolitanism in Little India, Kuala Lumpur in The Other Global City, edited by Shail Mayaram (forthcoming).