Kumar, Sunil


Dr Sunil Kumar  

Department

Position held

Department of Social Policy

Lecturer

Asia Research Centre

Centre for Civil Society (CCS)

Experience keywords:

NGO; construction labour; comparative urban housing policies; developing countries; urban politics; urban poverty; social policy; South Asia; low income housing processes; skills development; human settlement planning; Sub-Saharan Africa; participation; low income private landlords; human settlement development; social development; social housing

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My key research interests are related to urban poverty and urban housing in South Asia. I am also interested in the informal and formal institutions that act as an interface between these two aspects. Most recent expertise relates to housing tenure in India.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

South Asia; Asia; Sub-Sarahan Africa

Languages:

Hindi [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 955 6195

Publications

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2013

Kumar, Sunil (2013) Squatter's loo.

Kumar, Sunil (2013) Water bound.

Kumar, Sunil (2013) Kitchen caddy.

2012

Padel, Ruth and Kumar, Sunil and Broadbent, Stefana (2012) The Forum: what does home means to us? BBC World Service

2011

Kumar, Sunil (2011) The research-policy dialectic: a critical reflection on the virility of landlord-tenant research and the impotence of housing policy formulation in the urban Global South. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 16 (5). pp. 662-673. ISSN 1360-4813

2010

Kumar, Sunil (2010) Gender, livelihoods and rental housing markets in the Global South: the urban poor as landlords and tenants. In: Chant, Sylvia, (ed.) The International handbook of gender and poverty: concepts, research and policy. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 367-372. ISBN 9781848443341

Kumar, Sunil (2010) Savings and loan associations. In: Anheier, Helmut K. and Toepler, Stefan, (eds.) International encyclopedia of civil society. Springer, New York, USA, pp. 1346-1349. ISBN 9780387939964

2008

Kumar, Sunil (2008) Global housing policy shifts. In: Yeates, Nicola, (ed.) Understanding global social policy. Policy Press, pp. 179-205. ISBN 9781861349446

Kumar, Sunil (2008) Urban housing policy and practice in the developing world. In: Colby, Ira C. and Sowers, Karen and Dulmus, Catherine N., (eds.) Comprehensive handbook of social work and social welfare: social policy and policy practice . Wiley, New Jersey, USA, pp. 249-294. ISBN 9780471769989

2007

Kumar, Sunil and Li, Bingqin (2007) Urban labour market changes and social protection for urban informal workers: challenges for China and India. In: Wu, Fulong, (ed.) China's emerging cities: the making of new urbanism. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 109-125. ISBN 9780415416177

2005

Kumar, Sunil (2005) Room for manoeuvre: tenure and the urban poor in India. In: Hamdi, Nabeel and Handal, Jane, (eds.) Urban futures: economic growth and poverty reduction. Intermediate Technology Development Group, London, UK, pp. 109-124. ISBN 1853395994

2002

Kumar, Sunil (2002) Round pegs and square holes: mismatches between poverty and housing policy in urban India. In: Townsend, Peter and Gordon, David, (eds.) World poverty: new policies to defeat an old enemy. The Policy Press, London, pp. 271-296. ISBN 9781861343956

2001

Kumar, Sunil (2001) Embedded tenures: private renting and housing policy in Surat, India. Housing studies, 16 (4). pp. 425-442. ISSN 0267-3037

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