Theorist
Ananya Roy
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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
Notes
[DRAFT] Urban theorist raised in Kolkata and educated in the United States (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1999); Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare at UCLA Luskin and founding director of its Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Best known for theorising 'urban informality' and critiquing 'subaltern urbanism' (notably her 2011 article 'Slumdog Cities'), arguing for new geographies of theory attentive to the global South.
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 July 17, 2026.