Asher’s Publications
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.