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Srilata Sircar is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Geography at King's India Institute, King's College London. She received her doctoral degree in Human Geography from Lund University, Sweden in 2017. Her academic background includes studies in History at the University of Delhi and Development Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India. She has been awarded the Antipode Right Discipline Grant in 2021 and the European Research Council Starting Grant in 2024. Her research interests encompass Critical Caste Studies, Subaltern Urbanization, Postcolonial Urbanism, and Feminist Geography. Dr. Sircar's doctoral and postdoctoral work focused on subaltern urbanization and the politics of caste, gender, and urban infrastructure, as well as archival practices in contemporary urban protest movements. She is currently leading an ERC-funded project titled 'Critical Caste Geographies: Mapping Intersections of Law, Labour, and Mobility' (CRITCASTE), which investigates the relationship between caste networks, international migrations, and social mobility. Her scholarship has been published in leading journals such as Geoforum, Urban Geography, and Gender, Place and Culture. In addition to her research, she hosts and produces the podcast 'Confronting Caste'.
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