Barun Gurung
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barun Gurung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barun |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurung |
| SIGNATURE | GURUNG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN), 13403 Norden Drive, Silver Spring MD, 20906, USA. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating Bureaucratic Narratives
This article questions some of the implicit assumptions that underlie a managerial approach to gender mainstreaming. It argues that for gender mainstreaming strategies to become effective, they need to be based on an understanding of the structure and cultural practices of institutions, together with analyses of the strategic actions of intermediaries of change within the restricting and constrained environments of bureaucracies. By analyzing gen…
Institutional change
This article argues that the managerial approaches to development need to be reconstituted through a more comprehensive understanding of how institutional and behavioural change processes occur. Drawing from a case study in Nepal, and by exploring the largely unintended consequences of project actions, this article argues for viewing change as a complex social phenomenon based on people's interests, motivations, relationships, and actions that ar…
Addressing Food Scarcity in Marginalized Mountain Environments
Experiences with a participatory seed improvement initiative as a strategy for combating food deficits in a remote community in eastern Nepal are outlined. On the basis of participatory methods of problem assessment, food deficits were attributed to several factors, such as limited arable land, poor soils, and lack of access to improved seeds and other agricultural services arising partly from the lowland and gender biases of national planners. A…
Towards sustainable development
Towards sustainable development
Navigating Bureaucratic Narratives
This article questions some of the implicit assumptions that underlie a managerial approach to gender mainstreaming. It argues that for gender mainstreaming strategies to become effective, they need to be based on an understanding of the structure and cultural practices of institutions, together with analyses of the strategic actions of intermediaries of change within the restricting and constrained environments of bureaucracies. By analyzing gen…
Towards sustainable development
Addressing Food Scarcity in Marginalized Mountain Environments
Experiences with a participatory seed improvement initiative as a strategy for combating food deficits in a remote community in eastern Nepal are outlined. On the basis of participatory methods of problem assessment, food deficits were attributed to several factors, such as limited arable land, poor soils, and lack of access to improved seeds and other agricultural services arising partly from the lowland and gender biases of national planners. A…
Navigating Bureaucratic Narratives
This article questions some of the implicit assumptions that underlie a managerial approach to gender mainstreaming. It argues that for gender mainstreaming strategies to become effective, they need to be based on an understanding of the structure and cultural practices of institutions, together with analyses of the strategic actions of intermediaries of change within the restricting and constrained environments of bureaucracies. By analyzing gen…
Institutional change
This article argues that the managerial approaches to development need to be reconstituted through a more comprehensive understanding of how institutional and behavioural change processes occur. Drawing from a case study in Nepal, and by exploring the largely unintended consequences of project actions, this article argues for viewing change as a complex social phenomenon based on people's interests, motivations, relationships, and actions that ar…
Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Environmental planning (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works)