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Gender and Mining: Insights from a Lifetime of Scholarly Research

Introduction The mining sector has traditionally been conceptualised as a masculine domain, with women’s roles either rendered invisible or marginalised within both industry practices and scholarly analysis. My research has challenged this gendered erasure, revealing women’s multifaceted engagement with mining activities across both large-scale industrial operations and small-scale artisanal sites. My research, spanning over three […]

Why Gender Integration in Natural Resource Management is Good for Sustainability

Emeritus Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, AO Resource, Environment & Development Program Crawford School of Public Policy The Australian National University Gender: The Blind Spot in the Anthropocene The management of the Earth’s natural resources, its forests, waters, soils, and biodiversity, stands as the defining challenge of the twenty-first century. As humanity navigates the Anthropocene, a geological […]

A Possible World: Transforming gender relations for sustainability

The ANU Order of Australia Oration, 2024 Yumulundi – yetu tung, hello! Daora nuna daora Ngunnawal. Yangu gulanin nalawiri, dunai Ngunnawal daora. Wangaralijinin marini balan bugarabang. This is Ngunnawal country. Today we are all meeting together on this Ngunnawal country. We acknowledge and pay respect to the elders. Thank you, Mr Andrew Phelan, for inviting […]

Indian women bargaining with patriarchy

On 8th March, International Women’s Day, the parliament of the Government of India introduced a historic piece of legislation that seeks to set aside one third of seats in the Lok Shabha. Read details

Indus Floods 2010

Something as simple and as small as the fluttering of the wings of a butterfly might set off a tornado in another, far away, place. Read detials

Mamata’s khamota or backlash of the bhadraloks

In 1990 after Lalu Prasad Yadav, the lower caste charismatic political leader of Bihar, became the Chief Minister of the state, the young, English-speaking, sauve jounalists flocked from metropolitan cities like New Delhi and Bomaby to catch his sound bites on tap and camera. Read details

The Delhi Gang Rape

I still remember, in early 1990s, a largish, unknown man just flopped on my lap on the aisle seat. When I mildly expressed displeasure.