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Gitta Shrestha

Gitta Thapa Shrestha

Presentation

I am a PhD student in rural development at SLU. I work on the project titled  “The Future of Agrarian Mountain Livelihoods (FAML): Youth Aspirations and Irrigation Modernisation in Nepal” with Stephanie Leder, Marien González Hidalgo and Jonathan Rigg. The project is funded by FORMAS.

Selected publications

Shrestha, G., Pakhtigian, E. L., & Jeuland, M. (2023). Women who do not migrate: Intersectionality, social relations, and participation in Western Nepal. World Development, 161, Article 106109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106109

Shrestha, Gitta et al., (2023). "Technology for whom? Solar irrigation pumps, women, and smallholders in Nepal," Papers published in Journals (Open Access), International Water Management Institute, pages 1-7:1143546.

Leder, S., Shrestha, G., and Das, D. 2020. Transformative Engagements with Gender Relations in Agriculture and Water Governance. (2020). New Angle: Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy, 5(1), 128-158. https://doi.org/10.53037/na.v5i1.50

Shrestha, G., Joshi, D., & Clement, F. (2019). Masculinities and hydropower in India: a feminist political ecology perspective. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1), 130–152. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26632716

Shrestha,Gitta. and Clement, Floriane (2019). Unravelling gendered practices in the public water sector in Nepal. Water Policy 1 October 2019; 21 (5): 1017–1033. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2019.238

Shrestha, Gitta; Upreti, B. R.; Kolas, A. (2017). Women, peace and security: the case of Nepal. In Kolas, A. (Ed.). Women, peace and security in Nepal: from civil war to post-conflict reconstruction. Oxon, UK: Routledge. pp.99-122.

Byrne, S., & Shrestha, G. (2014). A compromising consensus? Legitimising local government in post-conflict Nepal. International Development Planning Review, 36, 435-453. https://doi.org/10.3828/IDPR.2014.24.

My full publication list is available here


Contact

Doctoral Student at the Department of Urban and Rural Development; Division of Rural Development
Telephone: +4618673425
Postal address:
Inst för stad och land, Box 7012
75007 UPPSALA
Visiting address: Ulls väg 27, Uppsala