Rachana Upadhyaya
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachana Upadhyaya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachana |
| FAMILY NAME | Upadhyaya |
| SIGNATURE | UPADHYAYA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies & University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5308-893X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An “ecosystem of support” approach for women’s economic empowerment through agriculture and forestry based enterprises
Existing frameworks and tools for women’s economic empowerment (WEE) put stress on the underlying complexities of defining it in dynamic contexts. Missing in these frameworks are the burgeoning use of digital technology in improving WEE, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we identify this gap in available WEE frameworks, and propose ways to account for dynamic risks and external shocks, while recognizing the growing importance o…
Reassembling narratives of risk in the urban margins
This article examines flood risk as an emergent assemblage rather than a fixed or universally agreed-upon condition. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the paper traces how flood risk materializes through contingent relations among human actors, hydrological processes, infrastructures, legal categories and competing temporal imaginaries. Rather than treating planners, experts and residents as stable groups with predetermined interpretations, the …
Building Collective Capabilities to Respond to Gender-based Constraints in Smallholder Farming
Situating the science of disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) in Nepal for policy and planning
Normative future visioning for city resilience and development
This paper argues for normative visioning as an underdeveloped component of adaptation planning. Multi-stakeholder and normative approaches to future visioning offer generative moments when creativity can meet the power to act required for critical, including transformative, adaptation. Including normative methods with community and city actors in adaptation planning allows for alternative narratives of development to arise as a basis for deeper …
Rural out-migration and water governance
Rural out-migration is changing agrarian political economies and natural resource governance worldwide, and gender and social relations play an important mediating role. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of rural out-migration on collective action in farmer-managed irrigation systems, with a particular focus on household structure and gender relations. We employ a mixed-methods approach combining a household survey (n = 377) of t…
Attempting affirmative political ecologies
Whilst political ecology scholarship has contributed much to articulating social injustices associated with Nepal's community forestry, here we took a different approach, by attempting an 'affirmative political ecology.' We drew on feminist and activist scholarship to inspire collective action that engaged directly with challenges of social justice and those charged with delivering it through their work. Guided by theories and practices of 'trans…
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Attempting affirmative political ecologies
Whilst political ecology scholarship has contributed much to articulating social injustices associated with Nepal's community forestry, here we took a different approach, by attempting an 'affirmative political ecology.' We drew on feminist and activist scholarship to inspire collective action that engaged directly with challenges of social justice and those charged with delivering it through their work. Guided by theories and practices of 'trans…
Situating the science of disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) in Nepal for policy and planning
Normative future visioning for city resilience and development
This paper argues for normative visioning as an underdeveloped component of adaptation planning. Multi-stakeholder and normative approaches to future visioning offer generative moments when creativity can meet the power to act required for critical, including transformative, adaptation. Including normative methods with community and city actors in adaptation planning allows for alternative narratives of development to arise as a basis for deeper …
Rural out-migration and water governance
Rural out-migration is changing agrarian political economies and natural resource governance worldwide, and gender and social relations play an important mediating role. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of rural out-migration on collective action in farmer-managed irrigation systems, with a particular focus on household structure and gender relations. We employ a mixed-methods approach combining a household survey (n = 377) of t…
Building Collective Capabilities to Respond to Gender-based Constraints in Smallholder Farming
An “ecosystem of support” approach for women’s economic empowerment through agriculture and forestry based enterprises
Existing frameworks and tools for women’s economic empowerment (WEE) put stress on the underlying complexities of defining it in dynamic contexts. Missing in these frameworks are the burgeoning use of digital technology in improving WEE, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we identify this gap in available WEE frameworks, and propose ways to account for dynamic risks and external shocks, while recognizing the growing importance o…
Reassembling narratives of risk in the urban margins
This article examines flood risk as an emergent assemblage rather than a fixed or universally agreed-upon condition. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the paper traces how flood risk materializes through contingent relations among human actors, hydrological processes, infrastructures, legal categories and competing temporal imaginaries. Rather than treating planners, experts and residents as stable groups with predetermined interpretations, the …
Political science (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Collective action (2 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)