Nitya Rao (University of East Anglia)

Gebundenes Buch

Quest for identity

Beschreibung

The book offers an ethnographic analysis of Adivasi social dynamics â the economic trajectories, ecological environment and gender relations â over two decades of political-economic contingencies and change, adding to knowledge alongside offering useful lessons for policy and practice.

Autor

Nitya Rao is Professor of Gender and Development at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom and Director of the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development. Her areas of interest are women's rights and gender justice, with a particular focus on food, nutrition, health and livelihood security. She has worked with indigenous populations, confronting both climatic variability and economic precarity, to explore gendered changes in their lives, livelihoods, and wellbeing. She served on the Global Advisory Committee of the United Nations Girls Education Initiative for over a decade. She is currently a member of the Steering Group of the High-Level Panel of Experts to the Committee on World Food Security, Commissioner, EAT-Lancet 2.0 on healthy and sustainable diets and member of the Scientific Advisory Group to the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9781009358002
• ISBN-10: 1009358006
• Artikelnr.: 67828695