the Hayden library building on the Tempe ASU campus

Contact Us

Contact for group leads

Rimjhim Aggarwal
rmaggarw@asu.edu

Nina Berman
nberman2@asu.edu

Rimjhim Aggarwal with slum children in Delhi, India as part of project on human right to water.
Rimjhim Aggarwal meeting with slum children in Delhi, India as part of project on human right to water.
A group of people in a workshop in India
A youth leadership training workshop in India on sustainable agriculture that Rimjhim Aggarwal co-led for community leaders from Africa and India in 2013-14.

Areas of research

  • Alternative/Informal relations and practices of social & economic exchange
  • Cross-boundary social networks and economic interactions
  • Informality, resilience, inclusion/exclusion and social justice
  • Interdependencies and politics of formal/informal civil society-state relations
  • Social practices and consumption patterns in the formation of communities
  • Historical trajectories of diverse social-economic-technological practices
  • Speculative economies that do not yet exist
  • The interaction between social and physical infrastructures