Asher’s Publications

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2012         ‘Nuisance talk and the propriety of property: Middle class discourses of a

                 slum-free Delhi,’ Antipode, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00956.x


2011          ‘Gentrifying the state, gentrifying participation: Elite governance programs in

                  Delhi,’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35(3): 504-532.


2011         ‘Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi,’ in Ananya Roy &

                  Aihwa Ong (eds) Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being    

                  Global. Oxford: Blackwell.


2011         ‘The nuisance of slums: Environmental law and the production of slum    

                  illegality in India,‘ in Jonathan Anjaria and Colin McFarlane (eds) Urban

                  Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia. New Delhi:

                  Routledge, pp. 23-49.


2011          ‘Green evictions: Clearing slums, saving nature in Delhi,’ in Richard Peet,

                   Paul Robbins, & Michael Watts (eds) Global Political Ecology. London:

                   Routledge, pp. 145-165.    


2010           ‘Calculating without numbers: Aesthetic governmentality in Delhi's slums,’

                    Economy and Society 39 (2): 185-217.


2008            ‘An analysis of new legal discourse behind Delhi’s slum demolitions,’

                    Economic and Political Weekly 43: 57-66.


2007            ‘Trading away damage: Quantifying U.S. environmental leakage through

                    consumption-based, life-cycle analysis,’ (with Matthias Fripp) Ecological

                    Economics 63(2-3): 563-577.


2006             ‘Technology and tricks: Intra-household technology implementation and

                     gender struggles in India,’ Gender, Technology and Development 10(3):

                     282-312.


2005             ‘Transforming place, placing transformation: The politics of the Mumbai

                      World Social Forum 2004,’ (with Kamal Kapadia) Interventions:

                      International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 7(1): 118-130.



 

Peer-reviewed publications

Other publications

2010            ‘Commonwealth Games, a failure of “just-in-time” planning,’ New

                     Statesman, October Issue


2005            Purani plan ki kabr par nayi plan ki buniyad: Dilli Master Plan 2021 ki

                    chunauti aur sambhavnae’ [The new plan’s foundation on the grave of the

                    old: The challenges and possibilities of the Delhi Master Plan 2021] (in

                    Hindi) Yojana: Journal of the Indian Planning Commission, July: 6-12.