Bhuvaneswari Raman

Associate Professor
Assistant Director, Centre for the Study of Science, Society and Sustainability

B.Arch (Anna University, Chennai), M.Sc (Human Settlements Development. AIT, Bangkok), M.Sc ( LSE), PhD (LSE).

Phone:

+91-130-4091832

Email:

braman@jgu.edu.in

Bhuvaneswari is trained in architecture, urban planning and social sciences. She was educated at the School of Planning and Architecture in Chennai, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok and the London School of Economics in the UK. She completed her doctoral degree in urban social policy at the London School of Economics, UK. Her research interests are in the areas of : transformation of urban land, urban politics, economic geography and urban poverty. She has held research position at the LSE, UK and has consulted for academic institutions including the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and the University of Birmingham, UK as well as international development agencies including the World Bank and the UNESCO. She has experience with implementing urban poverty alleviation programmes having worked as a sector head for the habitat component of the Bangalore Urban Poverty Alleviation Programme. Currently, she is researching about the transformation of land in small towns and large urbanizing villages in South India and the role of new technologies in spatial governance. Besides, she is involved in research collaboration with the London School of Economics to explore the effects of squatter relocation policies in two cities viz. Chennai and Bangalore.

Publications

Raman, B (2012). ‘The Rhetoric and Reality of Transparency Initiatives: Transparent Cities, Opaque Power and Urban Poor’s Claims to Land’, Journal of Community Informatics. 8 (2): Vol 8 (2): 866-909.
Raman B. 2011. ‘Property in Commons:Contested Spaces and Embedded Claims’. In Commons Initiative and FES (Eds). Vocabulary of Commons. Anand, India: Federation of Ecological Security and International Association for the Study of Commons lead by Dr.Elinor Ostrom.
Benjamin, S and Raman,B. 2011. “Claiming Land, Contestations and the Urban Poor in Globalizing Times”. In Zerah et.al (Eds.) Urban Policies and the Right to the City in India: Rights, Responsibilities and Citizenship. New Delhi: UNESCO-CSH.
Benjamin, S. and Raman, B. 2011. Illegible Claims, Legal Titles, and the Worlding of Bangalore’. Revue Tiers Monde, n° 206, avril-juin.
Raman, B and Bawa,Z. 2011. ‘Interacting with the State via Information and Communication Technologies. The Case of Nemmadi Kendras in Karnataka’. Media Asia, an Asian Mass Communication Quarterly. 38 (1): 52-62.
Benjamin,S. and R.Bhuvaneswari (2007). “Okkupativer Urbanismus. Die Stadt der Nutzer”, Archplus, Issue 185. p.98.
Benjamin, S and R.Bhuvaneswari (2006). ‘Urban Futures of Poor Groups in Chennai and Bangalore: How these are shaped by the relationships between the Parastatals and Local Bodies’. In Niraja, G.Jayal, A.Prakash, P.Sharma (eds.); ‘Local Governance in India, Decentralisation and Beyond’. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Benjamin,S and R.Bhuvaneswari (2001). ‘Inclusive and Pro-poor Urban Governance in Bangalore’, Working Paper no.26. Birmingham: International Development Department, University of Birmingham.
Benjamin, S and R.Bhuvaneswari (1999). Urban Governance, Partnership and Poverty, Working paper 15. Birmingham: International Development Department, University of Birmingham.