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D. Asher Ghertner

PhD Candidate
Energy and Resources Group
University of California, Berkeley

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D. Asher Ghertner is a doctoral candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, trained in political ecology, urban geography and development studies, with a regional focus on South Asia. His research explores urban informality and governance, aesthetic politics, and the epistemology of rule. He is currently completing his dissertation, titled Conjuring the World-Class Future: The Political Economy of Slum Demolitions and Environmental Improvement in Delhi. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and legal research, this project examines how slum demolitions are discursively justified and given meaning, legally enacted, and experienced by slum residents. He has published in Economic and Political Weekly and has forthcoming articles in Economy and Society and a number of edited books.