Lutfun Nahar Lata
I am a casual lecturer at the University of Queensland. My research interests include informality, work, right to the city, street vending, housing, governance, gender and public space. My current research explores the impact of COVID-19 on the urban poor in Asian cities including Dhaka, Mumbai, Delhi and Manila. For my doctoral thesis, I adopted a critical realist perspective and employed a gender and social justice lens to explore how different forms of urban governance enable and constrain poor people’s access to public space and how they access public space through constant negotiation with powerful state and non-state actors and use this space to earn livelihoods. I did my fieldwork in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Recent Publications
Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Walters, Peter and Roitman, Sonia. (2020). The politics of gendered space: parochial realm, informality and women’s safety in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Gender, Work & Organization. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12562
Lata, Lutfun Nahar. (2020). To whom does the city belong? Exploring obstacles to a right to the city for the urban poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Journal of Contemporary Asia. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2020.1791934.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar. (2020). Negotiating gatekeepers and positionality in building trust for accessing the urban poor in in the Global South. Qualitative Research Journal. doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-03-2020-0017
