Dr Ayona Datta Contact details: Cities Programme, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE a.datta2@lse.ac.uk [ Homepage ] [ Publications ] [ Research ] [ Teaching ] [ Talks/Lectures/Service ] [ Cities Programme ]
	Selected Publications
	Book | Refereed Journal Publications | Book Chapters | Journal Special Issues
		Book Brickell, K and Datta, A. (eds.) 2011. Translocal Geographies: Spaces, Places, Connections, London: Ashgate. View on Amazon
	Refereed Journal Publications Datta, A (2011) 'Where is the global city?' Visual narratives of London among East European migrants, Urban Studies. DOI: 10.1177/0042098011417906 Datta, A (2011) 'Mongrel City': Cosmopolitan neighbourliness in a Delhi squatter settlement, Antipode: A radical journal of geography. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00928.x Datta, A (2011) ‘A Review on the Potential and Risks Associated with Development of New Eco-Cities in India in Relation to Urbanisation: Case Study of Mumbai-Pune Region’, in Report of the Global Environmental Migration Project, Foresight in the UK Government Office for Science. Hall S, and Datta A (2010) The Translocal Street: Shop signs and local multi-culture along Walworth Road, London, City, Culture and Society. vol. 1(2), 69-77. Datta A (2010) Illegal Geographies of the City: Slums and  Delhi’s worldly aspirations, Derive, October (40), 89-93. Datta A, and Brickell K (2009) ‘We have a little bit more finesse as a nation’: Constructing the Polish worker in London's Building Sites, Antipode: A radical journal of geography., vol. 41(4), 439-464. Datta A (2009) Places of everyday cosmopolitanisms: East European construction workers in London, Environment and Planning A, vol. 41(2), 353 – 370. Datta A (2008) Building Differences: Material Geographies of Home(s) among Polish Builders in London, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 33(4), 518-531. Datta A (2008) Spatialising Performance: Masculinities and Femininities in a Fragmented Field, Gender, Place, and Culture, vol. 15(2), 191-207. Datta A (2008) Architecture of Low-income Widow Housing: ‘Spatial Opportunities’ in Madipur, West Delhi, Cultural Geographies, vol. 15(3), 231-253. Datta A (2007). ‘Samudayik Shakti’: Working-Class Feminism and Social Organisation in Subhash Camp, New Delhi. Gender, Place, and Culture, vol. 14(2), 215-231. Datta A and Yucel Young S (2007) New Suburbia: The rise of ‘Sites’ in Izmir, Turkey, Global Built Environment Review, vol. 6(1), 44-55. Datta A (2007) ‘Gender and Learning in the Design Studio’, Journal for Education in the Built Environment, vol. 2(2), 21-35. Datta A (2006) From Tenements to Flats: Gender, Class, and Modernisation in Bethnal Green Estate, in Social and Cultural Geography, vol. 7(5), 789-805. Datta A (2005) ‘Homed’ in Arizona: The Architecture of Emergency Shelters. Urban Geography, vol. 26(6), 536-557. Datta A (2002) ‘The Most Wonderful Place in the World’: Homeless Women’s Experiences in a Phoenix Shelter. Open House International, vol. 27(3), 38-46.
	Book Chapters Datta A (2011) ‘The Translocal City: Home and belonging among East-European migrants in London’, in Katherine Brickell and Ayona Datta (eds.) Translocal Geographies: Spaces, Places, Connections, London Ashgate. Brickell K and Datta A (2011) ‘Introduction’, in Katherine Brickell and Ayona Datta (eds.) Translocal Geographies: Spaces, Places, Connections, London Ashgate. Datta A (2009) ‘This is Special Humour': Visual Narratives of Polish Masculinities in London’s Building Sites, in Kathy Burrell (ed.) After 2004: Polish Migration to the UK in the ‘New’ European Union, London: Ashgate, 189-210. Datta A (2009) ‘Making Space for Muslims: Housing Bangladeshi Families in East London’ in Richard Phillips (ed.) Muslims Spaces of Hope: Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West, London: Zed Books, 120-138.
	Journal Special Issues Datta A (Ed.) (2009) ’Home, Migration, and the City: Spatial forms and practices in a Globalising World' [Special Issue] in Open House International, 34(3). Datta A (2004) ‘Homelessness: A Cross-Cultural Perspective’, [Special issue] in Open House International, vol. 29(2)