Recasting Citizenship for Development - File UPI

About the Editor and Contributors 391
About the Editor and Contributors
THE EDITOR
Sumi Krishna, an independent environment-development researcher
and gender consultant, currently President of the Indian Association for
Women’s Studies, has over 35 years of experience at the field, programme
and policy levels. Her interests include the gender dimensions of biodiversity
and natural resource-based livelihoods in rural and tribal areas;
local knowledge systems and resource rights; participatory governance
through community institutions; inter-disciplinary research methodology;
and capacity-building for young professionals. She has served as
guest faculty/adviser at various institutions and universities, and earlier
worked for several years in development communication. Her major
publications include Environmental Politics: People’s Lives and Development
Choices; Restoring Childhood: Learning, Labour and Gender in South
Asia; and the edited volume Livelihood and Gender: Equity in Community
Resource Management. She is a founder-moderator of the e-group ‘jivika’
on livelihood and gender.
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Chhaya Datar, Professor, Centre for Women’s Studies, Tata Institute of
Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, was also earlier in-charge of the TISS rural
campus at Tuljapur, Osmanabad district, Maharashtra. She has fervently
promoted women’s studies in universities, and is also a grassroots feminist
activist. Her interest in rural development grew out of her deep environmental
awareness and concern for ecological principles. She has focused
on women’s rights over land and water for livelihood assurance; has edited
Nurturing Nature and co-authored a monograph, Women Demand Land
and Water.
Shaila Desouza trained in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, Mumbai (1987) and also has a degree in Fine Arts (1985).