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Gendering climate-change adaptation: pastoral perspectives from Western India
March 9, 2017 @ 1:40 pm - 2:50 pm
Economic Justice Speaker Series Presents
“Gendering climate-change adaptation: pastoral perspectives from Western India.”
a talk by Smita Ramnarain.
Thursday March 9th.
Room L.76 NB
Community hour (1:40pm to 2:55pm)
Smita Ramnarain is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Rhode Island. She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on the political economy of development in South Asia. She is especially interested in examining development issues using the lens of gender. She has worked on post-conflict reconstruction, peacebuilding and development, the feminization of poverty and female headship, microfinance, and more recently, environmental adaptation and resource conflicts.
Her work has been published in diverse and interdisciplinary fora such as Feminist Economics, Gender Place & Culture, and the Community Development Journal, and in edited volumes. Smita is also interested in mixed methods research in economics, and has recently contributed to an edited collection, the Handbook of Research Methods in Heterodox Economics.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Economics Club