Guest Membership kattyayani Joag
Kattyayani’s research explores informal urban waste economies in India. Her work examines waste-related labour and material flows, focusing on how they are shaped by urban transformation and the ambivalent role of sustainability narratives in relation to informal labour. Through her research, she investigates the socio-economic and bureaucratic dynamics of informal work and how these interact with the precarities emerging from changing urban infrastructures.
She completed her MA in Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University under the supervision of Prof. Christiane Brosius and holds a BA in Sociology from Shiv Nadar University. Kattyayani is currently pursuing a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Publications
Crossmopollinate, eds. Crossmopollinate Handbook for Urban Transformation. Self-published, 2024.
—. Author: “Cities as Nodes: Practices in Transregional Research” (with Inah Kim).
—. Author: “Infrastructures of Waste: The (Re)Configuration of Informal Waste Management Systems in Mumbai.”
—. Interview facilitator, “Reconciling Epistemic Conflicts in Cartographic Theory.”
Joag, Kattyayani. “Epilogue to Women of Wasteland.” In Waste Work: The Art of Survival in Dharavi, edited by Ben Parry and Graham Jeffery. Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 2023.
—. “Tushar Joag.” In Waste Work: The Art of Survival in Dharavi, edited by Ben Parry and Graham Jeffery. Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 2023.