Nirmal Kumari
Biographic Data
| ID | 1359291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nirmal Kumari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nirmal |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumari |
| SIGNATURE | KUMARI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0628-9987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Natural farming for whom? Environmental justice and state-led chemical-free farming promotion in India
India's government has recently begun promoting ‘agroecological' agriculture through the National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF). While NMNF is framed as a strategy to improve farmer incomes, health and nutrition, and environmental sustainability, little research has examined its justice implications. Drawing on qualitative and ethnographic research from two districts in eastern Madhya Pradesh, this paper analyzes NMNF through an environmental…
The gendered dimensions of an ‘herbicide revolution’
Herbicide adoption transforms women’s labor and rural gender relations. • A feminist lens reveals trade-offs in “labor-saving” agricultural change. • Herbicide use can erode women’s social spaces and ecological expertise. • “Drudgery” is context-specific and can devalue women’s unpaid labor. • Labor-saving tools like herbicide may not reduce women’s total workload. Across much of the world weeding has primarily been a form of feminized agricultur…
Centering the body in agricultural development
How specific are negative automatic thoughts to a depressed population? An exploratory study
This paper is concerned with the relationship between negative or dysfunctional automatic thoughts and dysphoric mood in a non‐clinical population. It addresses the question of how specific are these automatic thoughts to a depressed population. Negative automatic thoughts were obtained from 27 normal subjects via a thought‐sampling method using the Daily Record of Dysfunctional Thoughts Form (Beck, Rush, Shaw & Emery, 1979) over a two‐week perio…
How specific are negative automatic thoughts to a depressed population? An exploratory study
This paper is concerned with the relationship between negative or dysfunctional automatic thoughts and dysphoric mood in a non‐clinical population. It addresses the question of how specific are these automatic thoughts to a depressed population. Negative automatic thoughts were obtained from 27 normal subjects via a thought‐sampling method using the Daily Record of Dysfunctional Thoughts Form (Beck, Rush, Shaw & Emery, 1979) over a two‐week perio…
Centering the body in agricultural development
Natural farming for whom? Environmental justice and state-led chemical-free farming promotion in India
India's government has recently begun promoting ‘agroecological' agriculture through the National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF). While NMNF is framed as a strategy to improve farmer incomes, health and nutrition, and environmental sustainability, little research has examined its justice implications. Drawing on qualitative and ethnographic research from two districts in eastern Madhya Pradesh, this paper analyzes NMNF through an environmental…
The gendered dimensions of an ‘herbicide revolution’
Herbicide adoption transforms women’s labor and rural gender relations. • A feminist lens reveals trade-offs in “labor-saving” agricultural change. • Herbicide use can erode women’s social spaces and ecological expertise. • “Drudgery” is context-specific and can devalue women’s unpaid labor. • Labor-saving tools like herbicide may not reduce women’s total workload. Across much of the world weeding has primarily been a form of feminized agricultur…
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (1 work) · Bridging (networking (1 work) · Children's Rights and Participation (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Computer security (1 work)