Senior Research Assistant, CUES

Ajay has been associated with the Centre for Urban Ecology and Sustainability since 2015. He is also a PhD Scholar at the School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi. His research focuses on understanding the ecology and behaviour of mesopredators such as the Golden Jackal (Canis aureus) in the parks and forests of the Delhi Ridge. Although primarily ecological in nature, Ajay’s research uses ecology as a tool to try and unravel the various entanglements the mesopredator finds itself in vis-à-vis other non-human and human creatures in the urban woodlands of Delhi.

ajaygonji@aud.ac.in

Contributions to CUES Blog

• Disciplining Non-human Bodies in the City
• Valuing Insects
• Life in the Fastlane: Roadkill in the Anthropocene
• Exploring the Behaviour of Urban Wildlife
• Rights to a ‘World-class’ City
• Unique Disposition of Urban Wildlife
• Hybridization in Dogs
• A Short Introduction to Urban Ecology
• Understanding Street Dogs
• Where Access is Denied
• Unique Howling Behaviour in Street Dogs
• Animals in Eco-tainment
• Fast-fashion: Clothing the Planet or Stripping it?
• Birding from my Balcony
• Monkey Business: Gaining Access and Rights to the City
• Where Humans and Virus Meet
• Monkey Business: Expressing Intentions and Emotions
• Nocturnal City
• Human-generated Food and Urban Wildlife
• Camera Trapping in Dheerpur Wetland Project Site
• Dodging the Dog
• Nature in a Dynamic World
• Enclosures and Ethics
• Huge Opportunity and Even Bigger Challenges: Wetland Restoration in the Urban
• Fauna in the City – Part II
• Fauna in the City – Part I

Publications

• Gonji, A. I. (2021). Book review: Amita Baviskar. 2020. Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 55(2), 294–297. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211002426