More than 17 million people have been affected in India, Bangladesh and Nepal by the recent floods. Around 3 million people have been rendered homeless and more than one million are now living in relief camps. Nature’s rage and human misery have been written about in graphic details encouraging one to consider why this great disaster happened, whether it was avoidable and what lessons might be gleaned from it. For more on this, read on …. kosi-flood-2008
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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
Journalist Sue Branford of the Guardian looks at the stories behind Bt cotton billed as a “wonder product” that would solve the serious problems of pests. Branford meets Indian farmers and scientists Abdul Qayum and Kiran Sakhari who assessed Bt cotton’s performance and say that what has been happening on the ground has been very different from the official success story.
Despite claims by the company, farmers were not achieving big yields… They found that pesticide use was not falling either, because farmers were facing serious problems with secondary pests
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I am pleased for this opportunity to introduce myself to the RMAP Blog community. I am Professor in Social Geography in India’s premier institution– Jawaharlal Nehru University, named after the first prime minister of independent India. I remember the day I had joined the Centre for the Study of Regional Development in the University most vividly as if the event has taken place only yesterday. |
My main interest in terms of academic engagement with teaching and research is in gendered geographies in the spheres of labour market and social development, particularly literacy, education and skills, and social space.
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