Theorist

Ananya Roy

Critical urban theory & postcolonial urbanism

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Details

Nationality: Indian-American

Classifications

Holder: Individual
Source of authority: ObservationReason
Subject: Human centred
Political position: Subaltern resistant
Mode of transmission: Text drawing
Knowledge type: Propositional
Epistemic cluster: Western philosophical

Connections

proposed Urban Informality (the informal city)
authored Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism
proposed Subaltern Urbanism
associated with Southern Urbanism

Referenced by

Postcolonial Theory central to

Sources

Ananya Roy. Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35(2), 2011.
Wikipedia. Ananya Roy. Wikipedia, 2024.
Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong (eds.). Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Cite this entry

First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Ananya Roy." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/ananya-roy/. Accessed September 1, 2026.