Madhushree Sekher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3063823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madhushree Sekher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madhushree |
| FAMILY NAME | Sekher |
| SIGNATURE | SEKHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6154-8171 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender dynamics in space appropriation by street vendors – the case of Chennai city, India
Street vending is an integral component of our cities, the dynamics of which are strongly impacted by gender. This study examines street vending in Chennai using a mixed-method approach. Results show that female street vendors, often entering the trade later in life, are economically vulnerable and are strongly influenced by patriarchal relationships in their spatial decisions. Men, by contrast, show higher investments, wider social networks, and…
Do climate adaptation programmes potentially exacerbate rural inequality? Identifying beneficiaries of a drought mitigation scheme in Maharashtra, India
The adverse implications of climate change can exacerbate socially uneven distributions of vulnerability. Therefore, climate adaptation programs are maladaptive if benefits are captured by privileged social groups, contributing to heightened socio-economic inequality and leaving the plight of highly vulnerable population segments unaddressed. This paper examines this potential using the case of Birsa Munda Krishi Kranti Yojana, an irrigation subs…
Strengths-based Gram Sabhas? Challenges and radical possibilities when ‘measuring’ poverty in India
Poverty as an object of study in India continues to be the domain of economists, statisticians and demographers. The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSS) serves as the main instrument of data collection to measure poverty relative to economic indicators. In this paper we draw on strengths-based research undertaken in an Indian village to foreground alternative ways of conceptualising and practising data collection when measuring poverty. Exp…
Land ownership, agriculture, and household nutrition: A case study of north Indian villages
In the rural global South, it is increasingly the case that the relationship between landholding status and household nutrition is intermediated by complex associations between intervening variables. These include changes to agricultural practices, the dynamics of how decisions about food are prioritised within household budgets, the gendering of household power relations, the breadth of non-farm livelihood portfolios, and the effect of landholdi…
A life-cycle approach to food and nutrition security in India
India’s poor performance on critical food and nutrition security indicators despite substantial economic prosperity has been widely documented. These failings not only hamper national progress, but also contribute significantly to the global undernourished population, particularly children. While the recently passed National Food Security Act 2013 adopts a life-cycle approach to expand coverage of subsidized food grains to the most vulnerable hou…
Food Security as a Lagging Component of India's Human Development: A Function of Interacting Entitlement Failures
Contemporary India possesses a food security paradox—progress in combating food insecurity is occurring at a slower pace than might be expected, given the nation's rapid economic growth. This paper provides a conceptual framework to explain this phenomenon. Drawing on the work of Amartya Sen, it uses a broadly framed analysis to conceptualise the problem in terms of the interactivity between three types of entitlement failure. Firstly, pure excha…
Organized participatory resource management: Insights from community forestry practices in India
Tackling society's “detritus: Stakeholder partnerships and Urban service delivery in India
In view of the current emphasis in decentralisation on not only ‘vertical restructuring’ of powers and resources but also on analogous ‘horizontal restructuring’ in the decentralisation efforts, the present paper examines the process of stakeholder partnerships in urban service delivery. Drawing on a case study of Bangalore, with focus on urban environment maintenance service, it argues that much more needs to be understood if institutional plura…
Organized participatory resource management: Insights from community forestry practices in India
Land ownership, agriculture, and household nutrition: A case study of north Indian villages
In the rural global South, it is increasingly the case that the relationship between landholding status and household nutrition is intermediated by complex associations between intervening variables. These include changes to agricultural practices, the dynamics of how decisions about food are prioritised within household budgets, the gendering of household power relations, the breadth of non-farm livelihood portfolios, and the effect of landholdi…
Tackling society's “detritus: Stakeholder partnerships and Urban service delivery in India
In view of the current emphasis in decentralisation on not only ‘vertical restructuring’ of powers and resources but also on analogous ‘horizontal restructuring’ in the decentralisation efforts, the present paper examines the process of stakeholder partnerships in urban service delivery. Drawing on a case study of Bangalore, with focus on urban environment maintenance service, it argues that much more needs to be understood if institutional plura…
Organized participatory resource management: Insights from community forestry practices in India
Tackling society's “detritus: Stakeholder partnerships and Urban service delivery in India
In view of the current emphasis in decentralisation on not only ‘vertical restructuring’ of powers and resources but also on analogous ‘horizontal restructuring’ in the decentralisation efforts, the present paper examines the process of stakeholder partnerships in urban service delivery. Drawing on a case study of Bangalore, with focus on urban environment maintenance service, it argues that much more needs to be understood if institutional plura…
Food Security as a Lagging Component of India's Human Development: A Function of Interacting Entitlement Failures
Contemporary India possesses a food security paradox—progress in combating food insecurity is occurring at a slower pace than might be expected, given the nation's rapid economic growth. This paper provides a conceptual framework to explain this phenomenon. Drawing on the work of Amartya Sen, it uses a broadly framed analysis to conceptualise the problem in terms of the interactivity between three types of entitlement failure. Firstly, pure excha…
A life-cycle approach to food and nutrition security in India
India’s poor performance on critical food and nutrition security indicators despite substantial economic prosperity has been widely documented. These failings not only hamper national progress, but also contribute significantly to the global undernourished population, particularly children. While the recently passed National Food Security Act 2013 adopts a life-cycle approach to expand coverage of subsidized food grains to the most vulnerable hou…
Land ownership, agriculture, and household nutrition: A case study of north Indian villages
In the rural global South, it is increasingly the case that the relationship between landholding status and household nutrition is intermediated by complex associations between intervening variables. These include changes to agricultural practices, the dynamics of how decisions about food are prioritised within household budgets, the gendering of household power relations, the breadth of non-farm livelihood portfolios, and the effect of landholdi…
Strengths-based Gram Sabhas? Challenges and radical possibilities when ‘measuring’ poverty in India
Poverty as an object of study in India continues to be the domain of economists, statisticians and demographers. The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSS) serves as the main instrument of data collection to measure poverty relative to economic indicators. In this paper we draw on strengths-based research undertaken in an Indian village to foreground alternative ways of conceptualising and practising data collection when measuring poverty. Exp…
Do climate adaptation programmes potentially exacerbate rural inequality? Identifying beneficiaries of a drought mitigation scheme in Maharashtra, India
The adverse implications of climate change can exacerbate socially uneven distributions of vulnerability. Therefore, climate adaptation programs are maladaptive if benefits are captured by privileged social groups, contributing to heightened socio-economic inequality and leaving the plight of highly vulnerable population segments unaddressed. This paper examines this potential using the case of Birsa Munda Krishi Kranti Yojana, an irrigation subs…
Gender dynamics in space appropriation by street vendors – the case of Chennai city, India
Street vending is an integral component of our cities, the dynamics of which are strongly impacted by gender. This study examines street vending in Chennai using a mixed-method approach. Results show that female street vendors, often entering the trade later in life, are economically vulnerable and are strongly influenced by patriarchal relationships in their spatial decisions. Men, by contrast, show higher investments, wider social networks, and…
Economics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (3 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Food security (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)