[Anthropgrad] RMAP RESEARCH SEMINAR - Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt - 12.30-1.30 pm 9 September 2008

[RMAP Seminars]

THE MEGA-PROJECT OF MINING: A FEMINIST CRITIQUE

Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Fellow, Resource Management in the Asia Pacific 
Program

12.30-1.30 pm Tuesday 9 September 2008
Seminar Room B (Arndt Room) Coombs Building

Abstract
Most contemporary mining projects are characterised by their large size, 
the intensive use of technology and capital, and symbolize the evils of 
neoliberal development. Consequently, a host of ideologies and 
approaches to development have battled with each other on the mine 
sites, especially as the mines 'break new ground' in poorer countries. 
This seminar problematises some representations of mining as they appear 
through a gender lens, and explores what the feminist perspectives could 
say about the mega-project of mining.

Bio
Kuntala grew up near the eastern collieries of Bengal in India, 
attending Calcutta University, completing her PhD in 1985. During her 
early teaching career at Burdwan University, she wrote a number of 
books, one of which, /In Search of a Homeland: an exploration of the 
search for identity of the marginal community/, /Anglo-Indians/, was the 
basis of a BBC documentary. In the 1990s, she became involved with local 
struggles over rights on resources and livelihoods and her research 
examined environmental changes in coal mining and women living in 
marginal and resource-constrained situations. She joined the Resource 
Management in Asia Pacific Program in 2002 and has since received 
several grants and successfully undertaken projects and consultancies. 
She teaches a course on Gender and Development in the Masters of Applied 
Anthropology and Participatory Development 
<http://rspas.anu.edu.au/maapd> program.

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