Yutaka Sato
Guest Professor
About me
Yutaka Sato is Professor at the Department of Comparative Study of Cultures, Tsuru University, Japan. He earned his PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on the theme of the role and limitations of NGOs in collectivising women in a slum sanitation programme in Ahmedabad, India. Drawing on both his doctoral and postdoctoral fieldwork, he currently prepares a book manuscript tentatively titled, Slums of hope or despair? Development, gendered insecurity and local power play in neoliberal Ahmedabad. He recently embarked on a research project that investigates women’s vulnerabilities in coping with adverse impacts of the pandemic in Ahmedabad.
Research interests
Urban informalities; Urban restructuring; Gendered poverty; Grassroots NGOs; India
Recent publications
- Sato, Yutaka (2023) ‘Changing discourses on development and the poverty question in Indian sociology’, Waseda Review of Social Science, 29(1): 98–117. [in Japanese. English translation available from the author]
- Sato, Yutaka (2020) ‘Urban redevelopment, slum evictions and the social process of resettlement: Re-examining the gentrification in Ahmedabad, India’, Annals of the Japanese Association of Urban Sociology, 38: 47–64. [in Japanese. English translation available from the author]
- Sato, Yutaka (2017) ‘Coping with the threat of evictions: Commercialisation of slum development and local power play in Ahmedabad, India’, in Gülçin Erdi and Yıldırım Şentürk (eds.), Identity, justice and resistance in the neoliberal city, pp. 37–62. London: Palgrave Macmillan.