Academic Profile : Faculty
Assoc Prof Diganta Das
Associate Professor, National Institute of Education - Humanities & Social Studies Education
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences (Courtesy Appointment)
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Journal Articles (Central)
Das, D., Kwek, B. (2024). AI and data-driven urbanism: The Singapore experience. Digital Geography and Society, 7, 1 - 27.
Das, D. (2015). Hyderabad: Visioning, restructuring an d making of a high-tech city. Cities, 43(March), 48-58.
Bunnell, T., & Das, D. (2010). Urban Pulse - A Geography of Serial Seduction: Urban policy transfer from Kuala Lumpur to Hyderabad. Urban Geogra phy, 31(3), 277 - 284.
Das, D., Choudhary, B., Mishra, S.V., Aditi, A. (2024). Varanasi - The Making of a Smart Heritage City. Environment and Urbanization Asia, 15(1), 1 -15.
Yuen, K.W., Das, D., Tran, D.C., & Park, E (2024). Southeast Asia's Dynamic Sand Trade and the Need for Bette r Data. The Extractive Industries and Society, 1- 15.
Das, D., Lim, N.D., & Aravind, P (2022). Developing a Smart and Sustainable Campus in Singapore. Sustainability, 14(21), 1-18.
Das, D. (2015). Making of High-tech Hyderabad: Mapping neoliberal networks and splintering effects. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 36(2), 231-248.
Das, D., & Zhang, J.J. (2021). Pandemic in a Smart City : Singapore's Covid-19 Management through Technology and Society. Urban Geography, 42(3), 408-416.
Das, D. K., & Narayanan, K. (2005). Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and India's Development: Achievements, Prospects and Challenges Ahead. Journal of Services Research, 5 (Special Issue), 93 - 108.
Irvine, K. Chang, C.H., Seow, T., Das, D. & Loc, H.H. (2021). Framing Human-Environment Geography Connections through Waterscapes: A Geographic Lens for Teaching and Learning about Water Resou rces. Research in Geographic Education, 22(2), 21 - 48.
Das, D. (2020). In Pursuit of being Smart? A critical analysis of India's smart cities endeavor. Urban Geography, 41(1), 55-78.
Das, D. & Skelton, T. (2020). Hydrating Hyderabad: Rapid urbanisation, water scarcity and the difficulties and possibilities of human flourishing. Urban Studies, 57(7), 1553-1569.
Das, D. & Safini, H. (2018). Water Insecurity in Urban India: Looking through a Gendered Lens on Everyday Urban Living. Environment and Urbanization Asia, 9(2), 178-197.
Das, D. (2018). India's Recent Development Dynamics and Challenges. Space and Culture,Indi a, 5(3), 1-4.
Das, D. (2017). Urban Liveability of South Asian Cities. Geography Digest, 2(3), 9-16.
Das, D.; Lam, T. (2016). High-Tech Utopianism: Chinese and Indian Scienc e Parks in the Neoliberal Turn. BJHS themes: British Journal for the History of Science, 49, -.
Irvine, K.N., Chang, C.H., Das, D., Chatterjee, K., Seow, T., and Wu, B.S. (2016). Greenspace and urban sustainable living. Geobuzz, 2016(null), 6-9.
Das, D. (2014). From Classroom to the Field and Back: Understanding the Ways Fieldwork Empowers Geographic Learning. HSSE Online, 3(2), 14-22.
Das, D. (2015). Hyderabad: Visioning, restructuring an d making of a high-tech city. Cities, 43(March), 48-58.
Bunnell, T., & Das, D. (2010). Urban Pulse - A Geography of Serial Seduction: Urban policy transfer from Kuala Lumpur to Hyderabad. Urban Geogra phy, 31(3), 277 - 284.
Das, D., Choudhary, B., Mishra, S.V., Aditi, A. (2024). Varanasi - The Making of a Smart Heritage City. Environment and Urbanization Asia, 15(1), 1 -15.
Yuen, K.W., Das, D., Tran, D.C., & Park, E (2024). Southeast Asia's Dynamic Sand Trade and the Need for Bette r Data. The Extractive Industries and Society, 1- 15.
Das, D., Lim, N.D., & Aravind, P (2022). Developing a Smart and Sustainable Campus in Singapore. Sustainability, 14(21), 1-18.
Das, D. (2015). Making of High-tech Hyderabad: Mapping neoliberal networks and splintering effects. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 36(2), 231-248.
Das, D., & Zhang, J.J. (2021). Pandemic in a Smart City : Singapore's Covid-19 Management through Technology and Society. Urban Geography, 42(3), 408-416.
Das, D. K., & Narayanan, K. (2005). Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and India's Development: Achievements, Prospects and Challenges Ahead. Journal of Services Research, 5 (Special Issue), 93 - 108.
Irvine, K. Chang, C.H., Seow, T., Das, D. & Loc, H.H. (2021). Framing Human-Environment Geography Connections through Waterscapes: A Geographic Lens for Teaching and Learning about Water Resou rces. Research in Geographic Education, 22(2), 21 - 48.
Das, D. (2020). In Pursuit of being Smart? A critical analysis of India's smart cities endeavor. Urban Geography, 41(1), 55-78.
Das, D. & Skelton, T. (2020). Hydrating Hyderabad: Rapid urbanisation, water scarcity and the difficulties and possibilities of human flourishing. Urban Studies, 57(7), 1553-1569.
Das, D. & Safini, H. (2018). Water Insecurity in Urban India: Looking through a Gendered Lens on Everyday Urban Living. Environment and Urbanization Asia, 9(2), 178-197.
Das, D. (2018). India's Recent Development Dynamics and Challenges. Space and Culture,Indi a, 5(3), 1-4.
Das, D. (2017). Urban Liveability of South Asian Cities. Geography Digest, 2(3), 9-16.
Das, D.; Lam, T. (2016). High-Tech Utopianism: Chinese and Indian Scienc e Parks in the Neoliberal Turn. BJHS themes: British Journal for the History of Science, 49, -.
Irvine, K.N., Chang, C.H., Das, D., Chatterjee, K., Seow, T., and Wu, B.S. (2016). Greenspace and urban sustainable living. Geobuzz, 2016(null), 6-9.
Das, D. (2014). From Classroom to the Field and Back: Understanding the Ways Fieldwork Empowers Geographic Learning. HSSE Online, 3(2), 14-22.
Books (Central)
Choudhary, B.K., Kumar, A., Das, D. (Ed.). (2020). City, Space and Politics in Global South (PP. 466). New Delhi: Routledge.
Book Chapters (Central)
Lim, D.Y., & Das, D. (2022). Digging Deeper: deep wells, bore-wells and water tankers in peri-urban Hyderabad. In Narain, V., & Roth, D. (Eds.), Periurban water security, conflicts and cooperation in South Asia: Flows across frontiers(PP. 89-103). Singapore: Springer Nature.
Lim, D.Y., Yankai, H., & Das, D. (2022). Policy Learning through Fieldwork Engagement: A Geography classroom ' fieldwork assessment on issues of water for policy understanding. In Nair, S., & Varma, N. (Eds.), Emerging P edagogies for Public Policy Education in Asia(PP. 227-236). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Das, D., & Seow, T. (2021). Tracing the Changing Meaning(s) of a Heritage Space through Geographical Fieldwork. In Sim, Y.H., & Sim, H.H. (Eds .), Fieldwork in Humanities Education in Singapore(PP. 297-308). Singapore: Springer.
Chang, F.Das, D. (2020). Smart Nation Singapore: Developing policies for a citizen-oriented smart city initiative. In D. Kundu, R. Sietchiping, & M. Kinyanjui (Eds.), Developing National Urban Policies: Ways Forward to Smart and Green Cities(PP. NA). Singapore: Springer.
Das, D. (2019). Smart City. In Orum, A. (Ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies(PP. 1865-1871). New York: Wiley Blackwell.
B.K. Choudhary & D. Das (2020). Urban Governance under Neoliberalism: Increasing Centralization or Participatory Decentralization?. In R. Thakur, A. Dutt, S. Thakur, & G. Pomeroy (Eds.), Urban and Regional Planning and Development: 20th Century Forms and 21st Century Transformations(PP. 303-31 2). New York: Springer.
Choudhary, B.K., Kumar, A., Das, D. (2019). Introduction: City, Space and Politics in Global South. In Choudhary, B.K., Kumar, A., Das, D. (Ed.), City, Space and Politics in Global South(PP. 1-7). New Delhi: Manohar Publishers.
Das, D., Chatterjea, K. (2018). Learn ing in the field ' a conceptual approach to field-based learning in Geography. In Chang, C.H., Irvine, K., Wu, B.S., Seow, T. (Ed.), Learning Geography beyond the traditional classroom ' examples from Southeast Asia(PP. 11-33). Singapore: Springer.
Das, D., Choudhary, B.K. (2018). From 'Ru ral' to 'Urban' India: Transforming a nation's identity through serial urban renewals. In Diener, A.C., Hagen, J. (Ed.), The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity(PP. 221-234). New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Das, D. (2016). Sub-national neoliberalism through city restructuring and policy boosterism: A case of Hyderabad, India. In Wang, J.Oakes, T.Yang, Y. (Ed.), Making cultural city in Asia: Mobility, assemblage, and the politics of aspirational urbanism(PP. 53-68). London: Routledge.
Das, D. (2012). Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Cyberabad. In Perera, N., & Tang, W.S. (Eds.), The Transforming Asian Cities: Intellectual impasse, Asianizing space, and emerging translocalities(PP. 112 - 122). Abingdon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Lim, D.Y., Yankai, H., & Das, D. (2022). Policy Learning through Fieldwork Engagement: A Geography classroom ' fieldwork assessment on issues of water for policy understanding. In Nair, S., & Varma, N. (Eds.), Emerging P edagogies for Public Policy Education in Asia(PP. 227-236). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Das, D., & Seow, T. (2021). Tracing the Changing Meaning(s) of a Heritage Space through Geographical Fieldwork. In Sim, Y.H., & Sim, H.H. (Eds .), Fieldwork in Humanities Education in Singapore(PP. 297-308). Singapore: Springer.
Chang, F.Das, D. (2020). Smart Nation Singapore: Developing policies for a citizen-oriented smart city initiative. In D. Kundu, R. Sietchiping, & M. Kinyanjui (Eds.), Developing National Urban Policies: Ways Forward to Smart and Green Cities(PP. NA). Singapore: Springer.
Das, D. (2019). Smart City. In Orum, A. (Ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies(PP. 1865-1871). New York: Wiley Blackwell.
B.K. Choudhary & D. Das (2020). Urban Governance under Neoliberalism: Increasing Centralization or Participatory Decentralization?. In R. Thakur, A. Dutt, S. Thakur, & G. Pomeroy (Eds.), Urban and Regional Planning and Development: 20th Century Forms and 21st Century Transformations(PP. 303-31 2). New York: Springer.
Choudhary, B.K., Kumar, A., Das, D. (2019). Introduction: City, Space and Politics in Global South. In Choudhary, B.K., Kumar, A., Das, D. (Ed.), City, Space and Politics in Global South(PP. 1-7). New Delhi: Manohar Publishers.
Das, D., Chatterjea, K. (2018). Learn ing in the field ' a conceptual approach to field-based learning in Geography. In Chang, C.H., Irvine, K., Wu, B.S., Seow, T. (Ed.), Learning Geography beyond the traditional classroom ' examples from Southeast Asia(PP. 11-33). Singapore: Springer.
Das, D., Choudhary, B.K. (2018). From 'Ru ral' to 'Urban' India: Transforming a nation's identity through serial urban renewals. In Diener, A.C., Hagen, J. (Ed.), The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity(PP. 221-234). New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Das, D. (2016). Sub-national neoliberalism through city restructuring and policy boosterism: A case of Hyderabad, India. In Wang, J.Oakes, T.Yang, Y. (Ed.), Making cultural city in Asia: Mobility, assemblage, and the politics of aspirational urbanism(PP. 53-68). London: Routledge.
Das, D. (2012). Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Cyberabad. In Perera, N., & Tang, W.S. (Eds.), The Transforming Asian Cities: Intellectual impasse, Asianizing space, and emerging translocalities(PP. 112 - 122). Abingdon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Conference Papers (Central)
Conference Papers Published in Proceedings
Das, D, Skelton, T. (2017, March). Hydrating Hyderabad: rapid urbanization, water scarcity/plenty, and human flourishing/resilience. In Douglass, M., Rigg, J., Miller, M. (Ed.), Resilient Cities for Human Flourishing: Governing the Asia-Pacific Urban Transition in the Anthropocene, 1, 0.
Conference Papers Without Proceedings
Das, D. & Mishra, S.V. (2024, April). Everyday water geographies and practices in Indian cities. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 2024, Hawaii, Unite d States.
Das, D. (2022, August). Smart & Sustainable Cities: Cases from Asian Cities. Paper presented at SDG11 Sustainable Cities Workshop - Tackling the Challenges of Technological Equity, Sydney/Virtual, Singapore.
Das, D., & Kwek, B. (2022, September). AI Urbanism: The Singapore ex perience. Paper presented at Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Das, D. (2020, November). Smart Urbanism and Contexts of Participation in India and Singapore. Paper presented at Singapore Research Nexus, NUS worksh op on Smart Cities and Citizenship, Singapore / Virtual, Singapore.
Das, D. (2019, April). The Making of Singapore in Amaravati: Policy mobility, praxis, and challenges of planning a smart capital. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2019, Washington DC, Un ited States.
Das, D. (2018, April). Hydrating Hyderabad: Geographies of water distribution, privatization andeveryday practices. Paper presented at AAG Annual Conference 2018, New Orleans, United States.
Das, D. (2016, April). Of sub-national entrepreneurialism, (urban) policy mobility and the making of smart cities. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers' Annual Meeting, San Francisco, United States.
Das, D. (2015, April). Back to the future? Travel of Southeast Asian city models to India. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers' Annua l Meeting, 2015, Chicago, United States.
Das, D (2015, February). Worlding Cities, Cyberising Spaces and Grounded Realities. Paper presented at 36th Indian Institute of Geographers' Congress and International Seminar on Environmental Changes and Challenges, 2015, Guwahati, India.
Das, D. (2014, August). Cyberisation of Hyderabad: Exploring human geographies of splintering urbanism. Paper presented at Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London, London, United Kingdom.
Das, D, Skelton, T. (2017, March). Hydrating Hyderabad: rapid urbanization, water scarcity/plenty, and human flourishing/resilience. In Douglass, M., Rigg, J., Miller, M. (Ed.), Resilient Cities for Human Flourishing: Governing the Asia-Pacific Urban Transition in the Anthropocene, 1, 0.
Conference Papers Without Proceedings
Das, D. & Mishra, S.V. (2024, April). Everyday water geographies and practices in Indian cities. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 2024, Hawaii, Unite d States.
Das, D. (2022, August). Smart & Sustainable Cities: Cases from Asian Cities. Paper presented at SDG11 Sustainable Cities Workshop - Tackling the Challenges of Technological Equity, Sydney/Virtual, Singapore.
Das, D., & Kwek, B. (2022, September). AI Urbanism: The Singapore ex perience. Paper presented at Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Das, D. (2020, November). Smart Urbanism and Contexts of Participation in India and Singapore. Paper presented at Singapore Research Nexus, NUS worksh op on Smart Cities and Citizenship, Singapore / Virtual, Singapore.
Das, D. (2019, April). The Making of Singapore in Amaravati: Policy mobility, praxis, and challenges of planning a smart capital. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2019, Washington DC, Un ited States.
Das, D. (2018, April). Hydrating Hyderabad: Geographies of water distribution, privatization andeveryday practices. Paper presented at AAG Annual Conference 2018, New Orleans, United States.
Das, D. (2016, April). Of sub-national entrepreneurialism, (urban) policy mobility and the making of smart cities. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers' Annual Meeting, San Francisco, United States.
Das, D. (2015, April). Back to the future? Travel of Southeast Asian city models to India. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers' Annua l Meeting, 2015, Chicago, United States.
Das, D (2015, February). Worlding Cities, Cyberising Spaces and Grounded Realities. Paper presented at 36th Indian Institute of Geographers' Congress and International Seminar on Environmental Changes and Challenges, 2015, Guwahati, India.
Das, D. (2014, August). Cyberisation of Hyderabad: Exploring human geographies of splintering urbanism. Paper presented at Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London, London, United Kingdom.
Keynote Speeches & Editorship of Special Issues (Central)
Keynote Addresses
Das, D. (2022, July). NJC International Humanities Symposium 2022. KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Building an Inclusive and Sustainable Society in the post-Covid-19 World, Singapore.
Keynote Addresses
Das, D. (2022, July). NJC International Humanities Symposium 2022. KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Building an Inclusive and Sustainable Society in the post-Covid-19 World, Singapore.
Other Research Outputs/Projects (Central)
Professional Articles
Das, D. (2015, April). GeoBuzz - Geography Teachers' Association of Singapore newsletter SEAGA Fieldtrip and Conference, 2014, 5(1), -.
Technical Reports or Monographs
Das, D.Skelton, T.Rao, A.N.Nagasubbarao, G. (2014, December). City & Neighbourhood Report: Hyderabad, India, 28.
Workshops and Seminars
Skelton, T.Das, D. (2013, November). Comparative Urbanism Research in Asia: Conundrums, communication and collaboration.
Professional Articles
Das, D. (2015, April). GeoBuzz - Geography Teachers' Association of Singapore newsletter SEAGA Fieldtrip and Conference, 2014, 5(1), -.
Technical Reports or Monographs
Das, D.Skelton, T.Rao, A.N.Nagasubbarao, G. (2014, December). City & Neighbourhood Report: Hyderabad, India, 28.
Workshops and Seminars
Skelton, T.Das, D. (2013, November). Comparative Urbanism Research in Asia: Conundrums, communication and collaboration.