Contacts
Contact email:kuntala.lahiri-dutt@anu.edu.au
Contact phone:+61 2 6125 4343
Location:Crawford School of Public Policy
Professor, Resource, Environment and Development Program
Kuntala was trained in Human Geography at the Calcutta University in India and taught in Burdwan University before joining the ANU in 2002. She manages the Environment and Resource Management Graduate Study Field of research at present and convenes the gender specialisation in the Masters in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD). In addition, Kuntala teaches courses on Exploring Gender and Development (ANTH 8038/39) in the first semester (February-June) every year. From 2013, she is introducing a new course on Gender, Resources and the Environment to be taught in Semester 2 every year.
Career highlights
- Rockefeller Academic Writing Residency, Bellagio Centre, Italy, June-July 2017
- Senior Visiting Fellowship, Australian Academiy of Sciences, December, 2012
- Senior Visiting Fellowship, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
- Career Award, University Grants Commission, India (1999-2002)
- Panos Institute, Oral Testimony Project of mining-displaced indigenous people in Jharkhand (2002)
- NASA Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1987)
Research interests
Women, gender and development; environmental sustainability; women's empowerment in relation to water and mining; communities' roles and livelihoods in natural resources, such as in large-scale and artisanal mining, and the water and sanitation sectors. A theme that is currently being researched is informal mining as part of agrarian transition in Asian countries. This is funded by the Australian Research Council through a Discovery Project (2013-2015), titled 'Beyond the Resource Curse' and an ARC Linkage Project, 'Going for Gold'. For more on this topic, see www.asmasiapacific.com. Other areas of continuing interest includes gender and development, and and community-based natural resource management, including feminisation of agriculture in India funded by an ARC Discovery Project, 'Farmers of the Future'(http://womenfarmersofindia.org/).
Kuntala's research is primarily on South Asia, mainly India, but she has also worked in Bangladesh and Nepal. Earlier, she has undertaken research (funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Project) in Indonesia, and a World Bank Project in Lao PDR. A DFAT-funded project led her to studying informal flurospar mining in the Middle Gobi areas in Mongolia.
Doctoral students currently working with Kuntala are writing theses on the feminisation of agriculture in Nepal, the oppression of women from minority communities in South Asia, and the multiple development discourses in water resources management in South Asia. Her former doctoral students have written theses on gender and development in a mining region and informal mining in Indonesia.
Groups
- Researcher, Biodiversity
- Researcher, Water and flooding
- Lahiri-Dutt, K, ed., 2018, Between the Plough and the Pick, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia..
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2018, 'Extractive peasants: reframing informal artisanal and small-scale mining debates', Third World Quarterly, p. 22.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Chowdhury, A 2018, 'In the Realm of the Diamond King: Myth, Magic, and Modernity in the Diamond Tracts of Central India', Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
- Pattnaik, I, Lahiri-Dutt, K, Lockie, S et al 2018, 'The feminization of agriculture or the feminization of agrarian distress? Tracking the trajectory of women in agriculture in India', Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 138-155.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2017, 'Resources and the Politics of Sovereignty: the Moral and Immoral Economies of Coal Mining in India', South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 792-809.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2017, 'Thinking 'differently' about a feminist critical geography of development', Geographical Research, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 326-331.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Dondov, H 2017, 'Informal mining in Mongolia: livelihood change and continuity in the rangelands', Local Environment, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 126-139.
- Siddiqui, M, Lahiri-Dutt, K, Lockie, S et al 2017, 'Reconsidering Women's Work in Rural India: Analysis of NSSO Data, 2004-05 and 2011-12', Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 8pp.
- Jamaludin, H & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2017, 'Could Lynas make a difference in the global political economy of Rare Earth Elements in future?', Resources Policy, vol. 53, pp. 267-273.
- Juran, L & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2017, 'Waterscapes in transition: changing uses and perceptions of water in middle class homes in Kolkata, India', Water History, pp. 1-19pp.
- Jyotishi, A, SivramKrishna, S & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2017, 'Gold mining institutions in Nilgiri-Wayanad: A historical-institutional perspective', Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 52, no. 28, pp. 57-63pp.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2017, 'An epistemological re-visioning of hybridity: Water/lands', in Ravi Baghel, Lea Stepan & Joseph K W Hill (ed.), Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia: Epistemologies, Practices and Locales, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, Longon & New York, pp. 52-69pp.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Brown, H 2017, 'Governing the ungovernable? Reflections on informal gemstone mining in high-altitude borderlands of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan', Local Environment, vol. 2017, pp. 1-17pp..
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2017, 'Coal as national development in India: transforming landscapes and social relations in the quest for energy security', in Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Patrik Oskarsson (ed.), Industrializing Rural India, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 85-106.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2016, 'The diverse worlds of coal in India: Energising the nation, energising livelihoods', Energy Policy, vol. 99, no. online, pp. 203-213.
- Chowdhury, A & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2016, 'The geophagous peasants of Kalahandi: De-peasantisation and artisanal mining of coloured gemstones in India', The Extractive Industries and Society, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 703-715.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2015, 'Counting (Gendered) Water Use At Home: Feminist Approaches In Practice', ACME, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 652-672.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2015, 'Researching World Class Watering in Metropolitan Calcutta', ACME, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 700-720.
- Fam, D, Lahiri-Dutt, K & Sofoulis, Z 2015, 'Scaling Down: Researching Household Water Practices', ACME, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 639-651.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K, Williams, D & Imam, J 2014, Revisiting coal cycles in Eastern India: Report of 2012 survey.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, Voices of the Displaced.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, Extracting Peasants from the Fields: Rushing for a Livelihood?.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2006, ''May God Give Us Chaos, So That We Can Plunder': A critique of 'resource curse' and conflict theories', Development: The Journal of the Society for International Development, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 14-21.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Samanta, G 2002, 'State initiatives for the empowerment of women of rural communities: Experiences from eastern India', Community Development Journal, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 137-156.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2000, 'A new bond: Coal in the energy sector in South Asia', South Asian Survey, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 131-141.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Adhikari, M 2016, 'From sharecropping to crop-rent: women farmers changing agricultural production relations in rural South Asia', Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 997-1010.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2015, 'The Feminisation of Mining', Geography Compass, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 523-541.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2015, 'The silent (and gendered) violence: Understanding water access in mining areas through the rights lens', in Buechler, Stephanie, and Hanson, Anne-Marie (ed.), A Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 38-57.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2015, 'Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of Rivers', in Iyer, Ramaswamy R. (ed.), Living Rivers, Dying Rivers, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, pp. 421-434.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2015, 'Medicalising menstruation: a feminist critique of the political economy of menstrual hygiene management in South Asia', Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 1158-1176.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2015, 'Livelihoods of marginal mining and quarrying households in India', Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 50, no. 26-27, pp. 27-37.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K, Alexander, K & Insouvanh, C 2014, 'Informal mining in livelihood diversification Mineral dependence and rural communities in Lao PDR', South East Asia Research, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 103-122.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Mukhopadhaya, P 2014, 'Women as marginal workers in informal mining and quarrying, India: a preliminary analysis', Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 290-309.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, 'Climate Justice Must Integrate Gender Equality: What are the Key Principles?', in Velma I. Grover (ed.), Impact of Climate Change on Water and Health, CRC Press, USA, pp. 106-119.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2015, 'Chapter 5: Background of the Utopia', International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 55-78.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, 'Beyond the water-land binary in geography: Water/lands of Bengal re-visioning hybridity', ACME, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 505-529.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, Experiencing and coping with change: women-headed farming households in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Australia.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2015, 'Gender in and gender and mining: feminist approaches', in Coles, Anne, Gray, Leslie, and Momsen, Janet (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 162-172.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, 'Between Legitimacy and Illegality: Informal Coal Mining at the Limits of Justice', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Farnham, UK and Burlington, USA, pp. 39-62.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, 'Introduction to Coal in India: Energising the Nation', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Farnham, UK and Burlington, USA, pp. 1-35.
- Herbert, T & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, 'World Bank, Coal and Indigenous Peoples: Lessons from Parej East, Jharkhand', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Farnham, UK and Burlington, USA, pp. 145-163.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K, Krishman, R & Ahmad, N 2014, ''Captive' Coal Mining in Jharkhand: Taking Land from Indigenous Communities', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Farnham, UK and Burlington, USA, pp. 165-181.
- Ahmad, N & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, 'Gender in Coal Mining Induced Displacement and Rehabilitation in Jharkhand', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Farnham, UK and Burlington, USA, pp. 229-253.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K, ed., 2014, The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Farnham, UK and Burlington, USA.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Sil, P 2014, 'Women's 'double day' in middle-class homes in small-town India', Contemporary South Asia, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 389-405.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, 'Stranded Between the State and the Market: Uneconomic Mine Closure in the Raniganj Coal Belt', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Farnham, UK and Burlington, USA, pp. 129-142.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, 'CHARS Islands that float within rivers', Shima, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 22-38.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2014, 'Commodified Land, Dangerous Water: Colonial Perceptions of Riverine Bengal', Rachel Carson Center (RCC) Perspectives, vol. 2014, no. 3, pp. 17-22.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Samanta, G 2013, 'How do the poor handle money? What do the financial diaries of char dwellers tell us about financial inclusion?', Space and Culture, India, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 44-57.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2013, 'Bodies in/out of place: hegemonic masculinity and kamins' motherhood in Indian coal mines', South Asian History and Culture, vol. 2013, no. 25 Feb 2013, pp. 1-16.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Samanta, G 2013, Dancing with the River, Yale University Press, United States of America.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2013, 'PhD theses and online availability in India', Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 48, no. 33.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2013, 'Paisagens aquaticas femininas', Concilium: Revista Internacional de Teologia, vol. 348, no. 2012/5, pp. 81-93.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2013, 'Fokus: Koniginnen der Kohle', in Eine Reise in die Reviere der anderen (ed.), Kohle.Global, Klartext Verlag, Essen, pp. 236-241.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2012, 'Weibliche Wasserlandschaften (Female water landscapes)', Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Theologie, no. December 2012, pp. 543-553.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2012, 'Feminine Waterscapes: Water as a Gendered Subject', in Herausgegeben von Solange Lefebvre and Marie-Theres Wacker (ed.), Water Marks Our Life, SCM Press, London, pp. 78-87.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2012, 'Afrikanische Frauen und Wasser. Sachlagen und Notlagen, Traditionen und Visionen', Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Theologie, vol. 48, no. December, 2012, pp. 543-553.
- Curthoys, A, Paisley, F, Lahiri-Dutt, K et al 2011, 'Reviews', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 26, no. 68, pp. 239-247.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2010, 'Of Cleanliness and Godliness', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania).
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2008, 'A report from GWA/AIT regional workshop: Strategic planning for mainstreaming gender in IWRM in Southeast Asia and the Pacific and possible lessons for Australia', Gender, Technology and Development, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 144-146.
- Ganguly-Scrase, R & Lahiri-Dutt, K, eds, 2012, Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Surrey.
- Ganguly-Scrase, R & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2012, 'Dispossession, Placelessness, Home and Belonging: An Outline of a Research Agenda', in Ruchira Ganguly-scrase and Kuntala Lahiri-dutt (ed.), Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Surrey, pp. 3-29.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2013, 'Gender (plays) in Tanjung Bara mining camp in Eastern Kalimantan, Indonesia', Gender, Place and Culture, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 979-998.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K, Krishnan, R & Ahmad, N 2012, 'Land acquisition and dispossession: Private coal companies in Jharkhand', Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 39-45.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2012, 'Large dams and changes in an agrarian society: Gendering the impacts of damodar valley corporation in eastern India', Water Alternatives, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 529-542.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2012, 'Large Water Control Mechanisms: Gender Impact of the Damodar Valley Corporation, India', in Margreet Zwarteveen, Sara Ahmed, Suman Rimal Gautam (ed.), Diverting the Flow: Gender Equity and Water in South Asia, Zubaan, New Delhi India, pp. 468-500.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2012, 'Race and Gender in Peripheral Resource Towns: Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in Tanjung Bara Mining Camp in Kalimantan, Indonesia', in Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres (ed.), Company Towns: Labor, Space, and Power Relations across Time and Continents, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, New York, pp. 207-226.
- Raju, S & Lahiri-Dutt, K, eds, 2011, Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New Delhi, India and Abingdon.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Samanta, G 2012, 'Home-making and Regrounding: Lives of Bangladeshi Migrants on the Damodar Charlands of Lower Bengal, India', in Ruchira Ganguly-scrase and Kuntala Lahiri-dutt (ed.), Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Surrey, pp. 197-220.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Burke, G 2011, 'Gender Mainstreaming in Asian Mining: A Development Perspective', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), Gendering the Field: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities, ANU ePress, The Australian National University, pp. 213-230.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2011, 'Gender-Based Evaluation of Development Projects: The LAST Method', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), Gendering the Field: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities, ANU ePress, The Australian National University, pp. 111-131.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2012, 'Digging women: towards a new agenda for feminist critiques of mining', Gender, Place and Culture, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 193-212.
- Rahman, M. Z & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2011, 'Ensuring Water Security in Rural Areas of Bangladesh under Climate Change and Non-climatic Drivers of Change', in Hans Gunter Brauch (ed.), Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security, Springer, Germany, pp. 969-981.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K, ed., 2011, Gendering the Field: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities, ANU ePress, The Australian National University.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2011, 'The Geographers' Burden: What does the Work of Kamins in Indian Collieries Tell Us about the Mining Industry?', in Saraswati Raju (ed.), Gendered Geographies: Space and Place in South Asia, Oxford University Press, New Delhi India, pp. 161-184.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2011, ''Doing Gender' in Geography: Exploring Contemporary Feminist Methodologies', in Saraswati Raju and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New Delhi, India and Abingdon, pp. 45-83.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2012, 'The Shifting Gender of Coal: Feminist Musings on Women's Work in Indian Collieries', South Asia-Journal of South Asia Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 456-476.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2011, 'Introduction: Gendering the Masculine Field of Mining for Sustainable Community Livelihoods', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), Gendering the Field: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities, ANU ePress, The Australian National University, pp. 1-20.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Ahmad, N 2011, 'Considering Gender in Social Impact Assessment', in Frank Vanclay and Ana Maria Esteves (ed.), New directions in social impact assessment: conceptual and methodological advances, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, pp. 117-137.
- Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala (ed) 2011. Gendering the Field: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities, Canberra: ANU E Press. Available from: http://epress.anu.edu.au/gendering_field_citation.html
- Note on South Asia Masala on the Anglo-Indian community in Australia
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2009, 'Protective Laws and Women in the Public Sphere', in Human Development Report Unit (ed.), E-Discussion: Gender - Overcoming Unequal Power, Unequal Voice, United Nations Centre for Asia Pacific, Colombo, Sri Lanka, pp. 69-71.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2009, 'The City in Action: Bombay Struggles for Power', Asian Studies Review, vol. 33, no. 4, p. 5350563.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Wasson, R, eds, 2008, Water First: Issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia, Sage Publications Inc, New Delhi.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2009, 'Water, women and Rights', in Ramaswamy R. Iyer (ed.), Water and the Laws in India, Sage Publications Inc, New Delhi, pp. 275-308.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2008, 'Introduction: Placing water first', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Robert J Wasson (ed.), Water First: Issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia, Sage Publications Inc, New Delhi, pp. xix-l.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2008, 'Negotiating water management in the Damodar Valley: Kalikata Hearing and the DVC', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Robert J Wasson (ed.), Water First: Issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia, Sage Publications Inc, New Delhi, pp. 316-348.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2008, 'Anatomy of a flood: Kosi - India, 2008', in Barbara Nelson and Robin Jeffrey (ed.), Capturing the Year 2008, Australian National University, Canberra Australia, pp. tba.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K, ed., 2006, Fluid Bonds: Views on gender and water , Stree Books, Kolkata.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2006, 'Nadi O Nadi. Representing the River and Women of the Rural Communities in the Bengal Delta', in Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), Fluid bonds: views on gender and water, Stree Books, Kolkata, p. 387408.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Harriden, K 2008, 'Act on gender: A peep into intra-household water use in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) region', Rural Society, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 230-243.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2003, 'Reflections on water: gender and governance in Indian development', Development Bulletin (Canberra), vol. 63, pp. 50-55.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2003, 'People, power and rivers: experiences from the Damodar River, India', Water Nepal, vol. 9/10, no. 1/2, pp. 251-267.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2009, 'Illegal coal mining in Eastern india: Rethinking legitimacy and limits of justice.', in S. Roohi, K. and R. Samaddar (ed.), State of Justice In India: Issues of Social Justice, Sage Publications Inc, India, pp. 294-323.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2009, 'Viewpoint: How can revenues from natural resources extraction be more efficiently utilized for local sustainable development?', Natural Resources Forum, vol. 33, no. 2009, p. 245.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2009, 'Coal Mining Industry at the Crossroads: Towards a Coal Policy for Liberalising India', in C Sri Krishna (ed.), Mining: Global Experiences, ICFAI University Press, India, pp. 303-329.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2008, 'Digging to Survive: Women's Livelihoods in South Asia's Small Mines and Quarries', South Asian Survey, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 217-244.
- Deb, M, Tiwari, G & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2008, 'Artisanal and small scale mining in India: selected studies and an overview of the issues', International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 194-209.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Gangopadhyay, P 2007, 'Subsurface Coal Fires in the Raniganj Coalbelt: investigating their causes and assessing human impacts', Resources, energy, and development, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 71-87.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Robinson, K 2008, ''Period Problems' at the Coalface', Feminist Review, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 102-121.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Samanta, G 2007, ''Like the Drifting Grains of Sand': Vulnerability, Security and Adjustment by Communities in the Charlands of the Damodar River, India', South Asia-Journal of South Asia Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 327-349.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Robinson, K 2008, 'Bodies in contest: Gender difference and equity in a coal mine', in Michelle Ford and Lyn Parker (ed.), Women and Work in Indonesia, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 120-135.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2006, 'Globalization and Women's Work in the Mine Pits in East Kalimantan, Indonesia', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Martha Macintyre (ed.), Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, England, pp. 349-369.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Williams, D 2010, Moving Pictures: Rickshaw Art of Bangladesh, Mapin Publishing, Ahemedabad, India.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2009, 'Geography as a Marginal Social Science', in R. Singh (ed.), Indian Geography: Perspectives, Concerns and Issues, Rawat Publications, India, pp. 242-250.
- Samanta, G & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2007, 'Marginal Lives in Marginal Lands: Livelihood strategies of women-headed, Immigrant households in the Charlands of the River Damodar, West Bengal', in Sumi Krishna (ed.), Women's Livelihood Rights: recasting citizenship for development, Sage Publications Inc, New Delhi, India, pp. 99-120.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K, Samanta, G, Sil, P et al 2006, Engendering Urban Environmental managment: A study of women councilors in Burdwan India, pp. 42-46pp.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Samanta, G 2006, 'Constructing Social Capital: Self-help Groups and Rural Womens Development in India', Geographical Research, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 285-295.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2004, 'I plan, you participate: A southern view of community participation in urban Australia', Community Development Journal, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 13-28.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Samanta, G 2004, 'Fleeting Land, fleeting People: Bangladeshi women in a Charland Environment in Lower Bengal, India', Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 475-495.
- Samanta, G & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2005, 'Close rural-urban interactions in India: Evidences from Burdwan and its surrounding region in West Bengal', in K R Gupta (ed.), Urban Development Debates in the New Millennium: Studies in Revisited Theories and Redefined Praxes, Volume II, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, India, pp. 190-212.
- Gangopadhyay, P, Lahiri-Dutt, K & Saha, K 2006, 'Application of remote sensing to identify coalfires in the Raniganj Coalbelt, India', International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 188-95.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2007, 'Coal Mining Industry at the Crossroads: Coal Policy in Liberalising India', International Conference on Managing the Social and Environmental Consequences of Coal Mining in India 2007, ed. Gurdeep Singh, David Laurence and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Power Print, Dhanbad India, pp. 27-40.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2006, 'Mainstream gender in the mines: results from an Indonesian colliery', Development in Practice, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 215-221.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2006, 'Kamins Building the Empire: Class, Caste, and Gender Interface in Indian Collieries', in Jaclyn J. Gier and Laurie Mercier (ed.), Mining Women: Gender in the development of a global industry, 1670 to 2005, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, USA, pp. 71-87.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Macintyre, M 2006, 'Introduction: Where life is in the pits (and elsewhere) and gendered', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Martha Macintyre (ed.), Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, England, pp. 1-22.
- Ahmad, N & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2006, 'Engendering Mining Communities: Examining the MIssing Gender Concerns in Coal Mining Displacement and Rehabilitation in India', Gender, Technology and Development, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 313-339.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2006, 'Mining Gender at Work in the Indian Collieries: Identity Construction by Kamins', in Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Martha Macintyre (ed.), Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, England, pp. 163-181.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2007, 'Illegal Coal Mining in Eastern India: Rethinking Legitimacy and Limits of Justice', Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 42, no. 49 December 8-14, pp. 57-66.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2005, 'Book Review: Negotiating Local Knowledge: Power and Identity in Development', Anthropological Forum, vol. tba, pp. 86-88.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2005, 'What Quality of Life in Mining Regions?', Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 3, p. 2.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Williams, D 2005, 'The coal cycle: small scale illegal coal supply in eastern India', Resources, energy, and development, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 93-105.
- Herbert, T & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2004, Coal sector loans and displacement of indigenous populations: Lessons from Jharkhand, pp. 2403-2409.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2004, 'Informality in mineral resource management in Asia: Raising questions relating to community economies and sustainable development', Natural Resources Forum, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 123-132.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2003, 'Informal coal mining in eastern India: Evidence from the Raniganj coalbelt', Natural Resources Forum, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 68-77.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K 2004, 'Competing Histories: Voices of Indigenous Communities in the Coal Mining Region of Jharkhand, India.', International Mining History Congress 2003, ed. Takao, H. et al., E A Books, Japan.
- Lahiri-Dutt, K & Sil, P 2004, 'Beyond the boundary: middle-class women in income-generating activities in Burdwan, India', Contemporary South Asia, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 257-272.
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