Research Team
Dhara Patel, Ph.D.
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Books
2024: “Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans.” London, Routledge.
2018: “High-rise havens: socio-spatial boundaries in the designs of new luxury high-rise condominiums in neo-liberal India”. (PhD Doctoral dissertation), University of Melbourne.
Journal Articles
2025: “Neo-colonial narratives in modern migration: Housing practices and class dynamics of Indian migrants in Frankfurt a.M.”
In: Current Sociology, 74(2), pp. 216-238.2024: “There is No There There, MUSEUM MMK, Frankfurt, 13 April—29 September 2024 : report.”
In: Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Taylor and Francis2023: with Inal-Cekic, Tuba “Urban Narratives of Migration: Dwelling Practises and Identity Formation among Indian and Turkish Highly Skilled Migrants (HSM) in Frankfurt and Berlin.”
In: Dwelling Together. Urban Housing, Neighborliness and Multilocal Homemaking., Berlin.2017: “Evolution of Elite high-rise condominiums in India: from global to neo-colonial?”
In: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 4, pp. 456–478, UK, Routledge.2015: “Negotiating Identities in the Designs for New Luxury Condominiums in Neo-liberal India”
In: International Journal of Design in Society, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 15–29, Illinois, USA, Common Ground publishing.
Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed)
2025: “Veiled vignettes: Tracing the hidden heritage of Indian religious spaces in Frankfurt.”
In: J. C. Barrientos García et al. (Eds.), With/Out identity: Zur Frage von Identitätskonstruktionen in Raum, Erbe und Communities, Vol. 6, pp. 132–145. Ilmtal-Weinstraße: Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag Weimar.
Essays, Exhibition Catalogues & Commentaries
2026: “Segregation by Design: Migrant Housing and the Afterlives of Colonial Spatial Ordering in Frankfurt”
In: Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Working Paper Series, Vol. 2, pp. 111–120, Dinâmia’CET-Iscte, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon.2025: “Statements on Future Housing Settlements.”
In: Doreen Mölders, Susanne Gesser et al. (Eds.), Alle Tage Wohnungsfrage: Vom Privatisieren, Sanieren und Protestieren. pp. 94–95, Frankfurt: Historisches Museum Frankfurt.
Conference Proceedings
2015: “Negotiation of identities in the emergent cosmopolitan Indian landscape: analyses of the designs of new luxury high-rise apartments in neo-liberal India.” Paper presented at the Living and Learning: Research for a Better Built Environment, 49th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association, Melbourne, Australia. http://anzasca.net/2015-conference-papers/
2014: “New cosmopolitans: Gated Communities in India”, The Architect, Journal of The Sri Lanka institute of Architects, Vol. 115, Issue 2, pp. 64–66.
Carla Joraschky
Former
Research Assistant
Student M.A. Sociology at
TU Darmstadt
Jonas Wilzbach
Contact
Postal Address:
Institut für Soziologie - Stadt- und Raumsoziologie
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Residenzschloss, Marktplatz 15
D-64283 Darmstadt