Sukriti Issar

Academic Director of Governing the Large Metropolis master’s program, Urban School, Sciences Po, Paris.

Defense for the accredidation to supervise research (HDR) - Présentation des travaux en vue de l'obtention de l'Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches en sociologie, le 19 novembre 2020 à Sciences Po.  The Great Bombay Fire of 1803: Public Vices, Private Benefits.
 

Sukriti Issar studies how urban policy transforms cities, with a particular focus on low-income housing in Mumbai over the last hundred years. Her research interests are in urban sociology, cities in the developing world, urban governance, comparative policy, and research methods. Her published work can be found in World Politics, Social Service Review, and the Journal of Historical Sociology. 

Before Sciences Po, she completed a PhD at Brown University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford.

Latest Communications

• 2022, "Nuisance law and the Committee of Buildings in late 18th-century Bombay", Common Law Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, 10 January.
• 2021, "Chronicles of Property after the Great Fire of Bombay In 1803", OSC Seminar, Sciences Po, Paris, 26 March.
• 2021 (with Matthias Dilling), "Institutional Change and the Affordable Care Act", Nuffield Political Science Seminar, University of Oxford, 16 February.
• 2019, "The political economy of urban regulations: theory, politics, mechanisms", ISA-RC21 "In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures", Delhi (India), 21 September.
• 2018, "Segregation in Nineteenth-Century Mumbai", Spatial Structure in the Social Sciences, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, 7 December. 
• 2016, "Documents, Power and Rule Ambiguity", Methodology Seminar Series, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Thu. 3 March.
• 2016, "Nuts and Bolts: Fieldnotes, Analysis, Writing", Nuffield Qualitative Methods Seminar Series, Hilary 2016 - Term Card, Wed. 2 March. 
   

• "Housing and Land in the Metropolis", Master Governance of Large Metropolis
• "Major fields of investigation in sociology (Urban sociology)", Collège universitaire de Sciences Po
   

• Sukriti Issar. The Hustler and the Mooch: Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay. Slavery and Abolition, 2024, pp.1-19. ⟨10.1080/0144039X.2024.2302210⟩. ⟨hal-04433368⟩
• Sukriti Issar. Historicizing Real Estate: The East India Company in Early Colonial Bombay. Enterprise and Society, 2023, pp.1-23. ⟨10.1017/eso.2023.40⟩. ⟨hal-04266878⟩
• Sukriti Issar. Property, Custom, and Religion in Early Nineteenth-Century Bombay. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2022, 52 (3), pp.401-421. ⟨10.1162/jinh_a_01763⟩. ⟨hal-03829229⟩
• Sukriti Issar. Policy Change and Floor Space Index. Economic and political weekly, 2022, 57 (25). ⟨hal-03860628⟩
• Sukriti Issar. The Religious and Racial Geography of Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2022, 45 (3), pp.507-525. ⟨10.1080/00856401.2022.2051808⟩. ⟨hal-03829217⟩
• Sukriti Issar. The financialisation of floor space, Mumbai 1880–2015. Urban Studies, 2022, pp.004209802210767. ⟨10.1177/00420980221076745⟩. ⟨hal-03829228⟩
• Sukriti Issar, Matthias Dilling. Analyzing Failed Institutional Change Attempts. Political Research Quarterly, 2021, 75 (1), pp.203-215. ⟨10.1177/1065912921989442⟩. ⟨hal-03566458⟩
• Sukriti Issar. Conceptualizing the connections of formal and informal housing markets in low- and middle-income countries. Housing Studies, 2020, 37 (5), pp.789-808. ⟨10.1080/02673037.2020.1831444⟩. ⟨hal-03566575⟩
• Sukriti Issar. Editorial: We have never been urban. City, 2018, 22 (1), pp.1-4. ⟨10.1080/13604813.2018.1443594⟩. ⟨hal-03897405⟩
• Sukriti Issar. Les bidonvilles de Mumbai, une anarchie régulée. 2017. ⟨hal-03392916⟩
• Sukriti Issar. Density Regulations and Informal Housing: Mumbai 1880-2015. Development in the Face of Global Inequalities (World Society Foundation), May 2017, Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals, Barcelona, Spain. ⟨hal-03414324⟩
• Sukriti Issar, John Logan, Zengwang Xu. Trapped in Place? Segmented Resilience to Hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, 1970–2005. Demography, 2016, pp.24. ⟨10.1007/s13524-016-0496-4⟩. ⟨hal-03567788⟩
• Sukriti Issar. Reviews: The paradoxical slum. City, 2016, 20 (1), pp.167-170. ⟨10.1080/13604813.2015.1125715⟩. ⟨hal-03414459⟩
• Sukriti Issar. Codes of Contention: Building Regulations in Colonial Bombay, 1870-1912. Journal of Historical Sociology, 2015, 30 (2), pp.164 - 188. ⟨10.1111/johs.12113⟩. ⟨hal-03414521⟩
• Melani Cammett, Sukriti Issar. Bricks and Mortar Clientelism: Sectarianism and the Logics of Welfare Allocation in Lebanon. World Politics, 2010, 62 (3), pp.381-421. ⟨10.1017/S0043887110000080⟩. ⟨hal-03829240⟩