Gitta Shrestha Thapa

My previous experience includes consulting on projects implemented by various international organizations and working as a researcher for universities and a CGIAR centre. I earned a Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Geography from Calcutta University, a Master’s degree in Geography from Tribhuvan University, and an MPhil in Resources and Human Adaptations from the University of Bergen.

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. 

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