Deshdeep Dhankhar

Lessons from AR Memorialization: Artists' and Activists' Approaches to Responsible AR Development | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Together with colleagues & led by PhD students Ana Cardenas & Payton Croskey, our new paper examines how artists & activists use augmented reality technology for memorializing episodes of violence & injustices, navigating technical & ethical dilemmas. Published open access dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Politics in the Urban Periphery: Citizen-Led Expansion and Informality at the Edges of India’s Cities ABSTRACT Some privately developed neighborhoods on the outskirts of India’s cities are formalized by urban authorities while others are not. What explains this uneven formalization and what are its...

The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.

proud look :)

In this CASI Deep Dive IiT Interview, as CASI Director Tariq Thachil prepares to step down from his role next month, CASI Managing Editor @rohanvenkat.bsky.social speaks to him about "CASI and the Complex Challenge of Studying India in the United States" casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/casi-dee...

How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India How do political families maintain their hold in local politics? While the impact of dynastic politics on economic development has received scholarly attention, the underlying mechanisms that susta...

A fascinating and carefully researched article on party politics, networks, dynastic politics and the business-politics nexus in India. #entrepreneurialpoliticians #Maharashtra
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Event - Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy

Join us on March 19 for Prof @louisetillin.bsky.social's book launch w/ Christophe Jaffrelot, @indrajitroy.bsky.social
& Sheba Tejani

Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/makin... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

The next talk under
@mwfdelhi.bsky.social #seminarseries
🗣️Sneha Annavarapu, National University of #Singapore
📆Friday, 28 March 2025
🛐Maple Hall, India Habitat Centre, Delhi
Registrations mandatory.
To register send 📩 to events@mwsindia.org by
19 March 2025

Good to have a publication out with @katadeney.bsky.social just as I set up my bsky account.

How do international audiences perceive, and respond to, gender equality reforms in autocracies? latest from @sarahbush.bsky.social @danieladonno.bsky.social & @parzetterberg.bsky.social.

#OpenAccess for now at APSA: bit.ly/3s7jjyD