Urban Undesirables: City Transition and Street-Based Sex Work in Bangalore

Anant Kamath is Associate Professor with the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore. He works on the sociology of technology in India, with special interest in the subaltern. Concerns on inequality, urban transition, social mobility, spatiality, gender, and caste, undergird his enquiries on technological experiences and outcomes. He is the author of Urban Undesirables: City Transition and Street Based Sex Work in Bangalore (2022) The Social Context of Technological Experiences (2020) and Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development (2015), besides several research articles. He completed his PhD at the United Nations University / MERIT (The Netherlands, 2013), and has studied at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS, Trivandrum), Madras School of Economics (MSE, Chennai), and St Joseph’s College, Bangalore.