Recasting Citizenship for Development - File UPI

394 Women’s Livelihood Rights
B. Lakshmi teaches Sociology at Aditi Mahavidyalaya, University of Delhi.
She was awarded a doctoral degree by the University of Delhi in 2005 on
her dissertation titled Education and Society: A Sociological Study in
Chhimtuipui District of Mizoram.
Viren Lobo is Programme Director, Society for Promotion of Wastelands
Development, Udaipur, Rajasthan. He has a Masters from the Institute
of Rural Management, Anand, and nearly two decades of experience in
natural resources management, especially in dryland areas, and livelihoods.
He has formulated and monitored projects in partnership with
grassroots-level NGOs on watershed development and joint forest management
in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. He is associated with
several people’s movements on drought mitigation and community-based
resource management. He has a special interest in process documentation,
and has written extensively on livelihoods in dry-land areas.
Vinalini Mathrani, a freelance social researcher based in Bangalore, is
concerned with rural women’s empowerment through research and
training. She has monitored and evaluated a range of women’s empowerment
programmes. She has a Masters in Social Work (1988) from the
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, and has worked as
lecturer in its Unit for Rural Studies. She is presently pursuing a Ph.D. on
women’s health issues at TISS. She is also a board member of Sutradhar,
an educational resource centre.
Deepak K. Mishra is currently Associate Professor of Economics at the
Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has worked in the areas of
agrarian relations, and gender and livelihood diversification in mountain
economies. He is one of the authors of the first Human Development
Report of Arunachal Pradesh.
Mandakini Pant is Fellow, PRIA Continuing Education at the Society
for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), New Delhi. She has worked on
issues of rights, citizenship and governance, adult education and livelihood,
and women’s leadership in local self-governance. She has a Ph.D.
in sociology, and has been a Reader at the Research Centre for Women
Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai.
Vani Periodi, an activist working for women’s empowerment with a rights
perspective, is based in a village in Karnataka, and is involved with the