Gayatri Nair

Gayatri Nair is Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy and Governance, TISS Hyderabad. Gayatri has studied in Delhi, Mumbai and Pune and has completed her M.Phil and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her doctoral research explored contestations for rights on urban commons, specifically the fisheries, in the context of a capitalist transformation.

Gayatri teaches courses on the sociology of public policy and urbanisation. She also offers a Policy area Concentration on Urbanisation.

Research Interests: Her research interests lie at the interstices of urbanisation and social conflict with a focus on its impact on labour. She is also interested in a study of popular culture specifically related to questions of caste and gender.