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Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India (2025)
Book Chapter
Srivastava, S. (2025). Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India. In S. Rau, & J. Rüpke (Eds.), Handbook of Religion and Urbanity. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.13901298

The city of Gurugram, the administrative headquarters of a district of the same name, is located in the state of Haryana. Gurugram adjoins the southern borders of Delhi and has been the site of intense urban development over the past two decades. Rap... Read More about Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India.

Technotopias, Consumer Cultures, and the Gendered City (2024)
Book Chapter
Srivastava, S. (2024). Technotopias, Consumer Cultures, and the Gendered City. In C. Brosius, J. de Kloet, L. Abu-Er-Rub, & M. Butcher (Eds.), Being Single in the City: Cultural Geographies of Gendered Urban Space in Asia (231-253). Heidelberg University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1425.c20542

Discourses of post-colonial urbanism are characterized by a pervasive emphasis on technology as panacea to problems of governance, policy, and social interaction. The idea that technology will overcome deep-rooted structural malaise and lead to admin... Read More about Technotopias, Consumer Cultures, and the Gendered City.

Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond (2023)
Digital Artefact
Srivastava, S. Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond. [Audio]

How do different groups of men navigate urban life and enact masculinity in the bustling metropolises of contempory Indian society? In this special 30th episode, marking two years of Now and Men, we speak to Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdh... Read More about Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond.

Relation Flexibility: "Personality Development", Selfhood and the Limits of Theorising Neoliberalism in India (2022)
Journal Article
Srivastava, S. (2022). Relation Flexibility: "Personality Development", Selfhood and the Limits of Theorising Neoliberalism in India. American Ethnologist, 49(4), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13101

Since the 1990s, training programs for service-sector jobs have proliferated in India. Frequently referred to as “skills training,” these programs aim to overcome the perceived cultural and professional “deficiencies” of youth from the poorest sectio... Read More about Relation Flexibility: "Personality Development", Selfhood and the Limits of Theorising Neoliberalism in India.

Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home (2022)
Book
Srivastava, S. (2022). Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009179874

Imagining the city as a series of interconnected spaces, the book explores how several such connections – between the home and the street, family and public spaces, religious and non-religious contexts, for example – relate to the topic of masculinit... Read More about Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home.

New Urbanism and the Remaking of Citizenship, Class and "Community" (2022)
Book Chapter
Srivastava, S. (2022). New Urbanism and the Remaking of Citizenship, Class and "Community". In S. Patel (Ed.), Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India (109-131). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190132019.003.0006

The chapter focuses upon the privately developed DLF City in Gurgaon (Haryana) in order to explore what contemporary urban processes tell us about new forms of citizenship, the changing nature of the state, and ideas of ‘community’. It develops the n... Read More about New Urbanism and the Remaking of Citizenship, Class and "Community".

Spatial Politics: Sociality, "Transparency" and Ideas of Community in Delhi and Gurgaon (2021)
Book Chapter
Srivastava, S. (2021). Spatial Politics: Sociality, "Transparency" and Ideas of Community in Delhi and Gurgaon. In S. Chakravorty, & S. Neelanjan (Eds.), Colossus: The Anatomy of India’s National Capital Region (290-310). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108935654.014

This chapter seeks to explore certain ideas around corruption, transparency, and community as they emanate from two different socioeconomic contexts. The first of these concerns the middle-class locality of what I will call New Gurgaon. In particular... Read More about Spatial Politics: Sociality, "Transparency" and Ideas of Community in Delhi and Gurgaon.

Hindu Majoritarianism, Forms of Capital, and Urban Politics. The Making of a New Ordinary Citizen in India (2020)
Journal Article
Srivastava, S. (2020). Hindu Majoritarianism, Forms of Capital, and Urban Politics. The Making of a New Ordinary Citizen in India. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 10(3), 742-749. https://doi.org/10.1086/711894

This article explores the remaking of ideas of the “ordinary citizen” in India in the context of Hindu majoritarian politics and changing relationships between the state and private capital. Focusing on one of India’s largest privately developed town... Read More about Hindu Majoritarianism, Forms of Capital, and Urban Politics. The Making of a New Ordinary Citizen in India.

(Hi) Stories of Desire: Sexuality and Culture in Modern India (2019)
Book
Srivastava, S., & Kumaramkandath, R. (Eds.). (2019). (Hi) Stories of Desire: Sexuality and Culture in Modern India. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108637770

(Hi)Stories of Desire situates questions of sexuality in the larger domain where they are conditioned by and, in turn, also condition historically and culturally produced landscapes of being, doing and desiring. The book draws upon multi-disciplinary... Read More about (Hi) Stories of Desire: Sexuality and Culture in Modern India.

Masculinity, Sexuality and Culture: Entangled Narratives (2019)
Book Chapter
Srivastava, S. (2019). Masculinity, Sexuality and Culture: Entangled Narratives. In A. Aneja (Ed.), Women’s and Gender Studies in India: Crossings. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429025167-9

This chapter explores recent histories of masculine cultures in India. It further suggests that masculinity and sexuality are intertwined topics. The discussion proceeds through outlining the most significant sites of the making of masculinity discou... Read More about Masculinity, Sexuality and Culture: Entangled Narratives.

On the Merits of Recognising the Near-impossibility of Dialogue (2018)
Journal Article
Srivastava, S. (2018). On the Merits of Recognising the Near-impossibility of Dialogue. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(2), 133-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820618780572

What does it mean to insert and describe actual spaces of dialogue and debate within discussions regarding power, privilege, disparate geographies, and the ‘Possibilities and Limits to Dialogue’? Is there a critical potential to the argument that we... Read More about On the Merits of Recognising the Near-impossibility of Dialogue.

Masculinity Studies and Feminism: Othering the Self, Engaging Theory (2018)
Book Chapter
Srivastava, S. (2018). Masculinity Studies and Feminism: Othering the Self, Engaging Theory. In R. Chowdhury, & Z. Al Baset (Eds.), Men and Feminism in India (35-49). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351048248-3

This chapter explores the relationship between masculinity studies and feminism, one of the most significant contexts of gender research in contemporary humanities and social sciences. While women’s studies helped us understand various aspects of pow... Read More about Masculinity Studies and Feminism: Othering the Self, Engaging Theory.