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Siddharth Menon is an Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests lie at the intersection of urban studies, urban political ecology, economic development geography, science technology studies, and South Asian studies. Siddharth's current book project is informed by years of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in India and the UAE, critically examining the changing built environment in city-regions of South India and its intersection with wider circuits of transnational migration, capital investment, resource extraction, and climate change. He 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 and the National Science Foundation, among others. His prior experience includes a decade of architectural training and professional practice in India, where he employed sustainable building technologies to address issues of uneven development and environmental justice.
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