Gitta Shrestha Thapa

PhD Candidate, Division of Rural Development

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+4618673425

I am a PhD candidate 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.

Presentation

In my PhD research, I am trying to understand rural transformations and rural future in the context of transformations of traditional irrigation systems into modernised irrigation systems. I aim to understand how rural youth and young farmers from intersecting socio-economic backgrounds respond to the ongoing changes associated with transformations of irrigation systems in combination of broader socio-economic, political, ecological transformations in the region, driven by forces operating at multiple scales.

Research

Selected Publictions

Women who do not migrate: Intersectionality, social relations, and participation in Western Nepal." World Development

Technology for whom. Solar Irrigation Pumps, women and smallholders in Eastern Tarai. Nepal. Front. Sustain. Food Syst,

Unravelling gendered practices in Nepal water Bureaucracies. Water Policy.

Masculinities in Hydropower: A feminist political ecology perspective. International Journal of the Commons