Syeda Jenifa Zahan

Research Assistant
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)

Profile

Research interests

Feminism
Housing justice
Smart cities
Urban geography
Violence against women

Curriculum

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Scientific branch

M-GGR/02 - ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
(Area 0011 - Historical, philosophical, pedagogical and psychological sciences)

Skills

ERC sectors

SH3_3 - Aggression and violence, antisocial behaviour, crime
SH7_7 - Cities; urban, regional and rural studies
SH2_2 - Democratisation and social movements
SH7_1 - Human, economic and social geography
SH3_2 - Inequalities, discrimination, prejudice
SH3_7 - Kinship; diversity and identities, gender, interethnic relations
SH2_1 - Political systems, governance

SDG

Goal 5: Gender equality
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Research

Other activities and projects related to research

Dr. Syeda Jenifa Zahan is an Urban Studies Foundation Research Fellow at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Jenifa is a feminist urban geographer working on Indian and South Asian cities. Her research interests lie in the areas of geographies of power, gendered violence and (in) security, intersectional power relations and marginality, and urban governance in South Asia. Jenifa has a PhD (2020) from the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, where she focused on gendered violence and discrimination against young, single, middle-class women in public spaces of Delhi, India. Jenifa takes multi-method, multi-scalar ethnographic approaches to her research about her. Jenifa has published her research about her in peer-reviewed journals such as: Space and Polity, Journal of the British Academy and Gender, Place and Culture. At the Politecnico di Torino, Jenifa will work on smart housing developments and how these developments engender new forms of governance and (re)consolidation of power in urban India with a special focus on Delhi, in close collaboration with the Beyond Inhabitation Lab.