Dr Persis Taraporevala

Overview

Biography

Dr. Persis Taraporevala is a Lecturer (Geography) at the School of Social Sciences and the Programme Director for the University of London MSc Global Environment and Sustainability that runs through Birkbeck. Dr. Taraporevala's research interests lie at the junction of law and governance. Dr. Taraporevala completed her PhD in Geography from King's College London and her doctoral thesis focused on Indian smart cities.

Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked for the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi India.

Highlights

• Taraporevala, P. (2024). Smart ignorance: Instrumentalising useful unknowns to bureaucratise and rescale power in the city. Environment and Planning F. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349825241283831

• Birkinshaw, Matt, and Persis Taraporevala. "Social Media as E-governance. Digital Lives of Indian Municipal Bodies and Smart Cities." South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (2023). https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/8855
  

• Orcid 0009-0006-5478-5837
  
  

• PhD Human Geography from King's College London (2023)
  

  
  

Qualifications

• PhD, King's College London
• MPhil , University of Oxford
• BA , University of Pune

Web profiles

• Linkedin
• Mastodon

Research

Research interests

• Legal Geography
• Digital Governance
• Digital Rights

Research Centres and Institutes

• Birkbeck Institute for Social Research

Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Teaching modules

• Globalization in the Contemporary World (GGPH065S6)
• Humans and the Environment (GGPH072S4)
• Future Food Systems and Sustainability (SSGE123S5)

Publications

External Repositories