Hafsah Siddiqui

Postdoctoral Fellow

Campus

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

Urban politics, political mobilization, social movements, class and gender, citizenship, the Right to the City, Global South, qualitative research methods

Biography

My research explores urban claim-making and urban political mobilization processes through an intersectional lens. My postdoctoral project examines how gender and class together shape urban residents' claims for the right to the city.

My doctoral work, which was conducted as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, investigated cross-class political action as an alternative to entrenched clientelistic norms in urban contexts.

I have previously taught on urban politics, urban citizenship, and global urbanism at the University of Toronto, University College London, and the University of Cambridge.

Publications

Siddiqui, H. (2024) 'Conceptualising overlapping politics: Cross-class political relationships in urban Pakistan', Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, OnlineFirst. DOI: 10.1177/239965442412557

Siddiqui, H. (2023) 'A research broker for a third-culture researcher: Experiences conducting field research in urban Pakistan', Area, 55(3), pp. 372-380. DOI: 10.1111/area.12863

Siddiqui, H. (2019) 'Disgraced, dispossessed, displaced: Delhi’s global city aspiration and the city’s slum dwellers', The Toronto Urban Journal, 1(1), pp. 23-32.

Supervisor

Mark Hunter

Education

PhD Geography, University of Cambridge
MA Geography, University of Toronto
BA (Hons) Human Geography, Sociology, Writing & Rhetoric, University of Toronto