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Siddharth Menon is an Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography 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 and technology studies, South Asian studies, and Indian Ocean studies. His current book project is informed by years of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in India and the UAE, critically examining the changing built environment of city-regions in South India in the context of wider circuits of transnational migration, capital investment, resource extraction, and climate change. 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, National Science Foundation, and American Institute of Indian Studies. His research trajectory is built on a decade of architectural training and professional practice in India, using sustainable building technologies, such as earth and bamboo, to address issues of uneven development and environmental justice.
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