Raina Ghosh 

Raina Ghosh is a Visiting Fellow and a temporary member at UvA, hosted under the Urban Studies Foundation International Fellowship for a period of nine months. Her project aims to examine how sacred riverfronts in India are reshaped by Hindu nationalist urbanism, informal authority and vernacular, everyday practices, where rivers, deities, and ritual infrastructures act as more-than-human agents in politicising urban spaces and remaking urban territories.

 

As part of this writing fellowship, Raina will be mentored by Prof. Dr. Rivke Jaffe from the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies (GPIO). During her fellowship, she will work to develop her doctoral research findings into publishable research outputs while also contributing to and engaging with the department’s existing research networks.