Articles by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

I am giving a presentation at 12 in Seminar Room C today in Gender Relations Centre Seminar Series. The title of the seminar is: ‘On the Question of a Right to Mine: Women, Gender and Work in Coal Mining in India’. I am sure it will be of interest to some RMAPpers.

The seminar illuminates the ‘difference/equality’ question in the area of women’s work, and explores a grey area in feminist theory – that of women’s specificity as workers in their biologically based attributes and ’sameness’ in terms of their demands for gender equity.

See details of this Workshop to be held at the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, on 11-12th August, 2008
http://www.cseindia.org/programme/industry/mining/joint_workshop.htm

It is that time of the year again! Activists, researchers and professionals working on water are gathering in Stockholm later this month. This year’s theme is Progress and Prospects on Water for a Clean and Healthy World, with a special focus on sanitation. GWA is holding sessions on water as the means to end conflicts.

For the full program, click here: http://www.worldwaterweek.org/Downloads/Final_Programme_08_lowres.pdf

A conference was recently held in the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA, on large ‘mega’ engineering projects and their social impacts. For details, abstract and list of participants see http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geography/EngineeringEarth/

Gender is indeed a multi-layered complex reality, and feminist scholars have been digging through these layers, to ‘unearth’ women’s contributions in various aspects of life. When gender confronts mining, many articulations of everyday life assume different - even metaphorical - significance. To get a glimpse of the complexities lying at the intersection of gender and mining, read the recently published article in Feminist Review (download here: period-leave-feminist-review.pdf).