Govind Kelkar
Biographic Data
| ID | 390003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Govind Kelkar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Govind |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelkar |
| SIGNATURE | KELKAR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Asian Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0777-7213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 30th anniversary roundtable
After the Long Walk Home…the Gendered Rural Safety Net
In the absence of adequate social security for migrant workers, the recession forced the mass exodus of millions of circular migrants supported by their rural households of largely left-behind women. Our article looks at what happened after that. How did the returned migrants manage to survive and retain their capacity to work till they were required back in urban employment? This article argues that gendered rural households functioned as safety…
Witch Hunts in India
Knowledge economy and gender inequality
The paper analyzes how gender inequality is created in the knowledge economy through forms of exclusion of women from certain areas of knowledge, and the simultaneous higher social valuation of men’s monopolized knowledge as against women’s knowledge in the commons. Gendered knowledge inequality has consequences for other forms of inequality, such as in status, ownership of property, distribution of labor and even consumption. Besides explicit ex…
Witch Hunts
Women's Agential Power in the Political Economy of Agricultural Land
This article seeks to understand whether the legal policies and advances of women's movements have resulted in women's entitlement to land and whether the land reforms carried out from the 1970s to the 1990s have weakened the grip of patriarchy and increased women's capability and land-related decision-making power. We examine these questions by looking at (i) women as producers of agricultural goods and participants in the market economy and (ii…
Feminist Challenges in the Information Age
Appropriate gender-analysis tools for unpacking the gender-energy-poverty nexus
In rural and low-income urban households, energy is 'women's business': women are responsible for providing energy, and use it for domestic chores and productive activities. However, the poor quality fuels many women use contribute to their time poverty, ill health, and level of drudgery. Despite these negative impacts, energy policy remains gender-blind. This can be attributed to the invisibility of women's needs to energy planners, stemming fro…
Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia
Contributed articles and seminar papers; most previously published in the Economic and political weekly
IT Industry and Women’s Agency
This article examines women’s agency in the Information Technology (IT) industry and is based on field research in two cities in India: Bangalore and Delhi. We looked at both the software industry and IT-enabled services, particularly through the perceptions of women and men workers and managers within the IT industry. While a large number of women continue to work in gendered homes and work sites, balancing work and domestic responsibilities wit…
Gender Equity and the Empowerment of Poor Rural Women
Rethinking University
International Network of Women’s Studies Journals
Gender Relations and Technological Change in Asia
In the post-colonial world of the last 50 years in Asia, one broad conclusion can be stated: overall women have advanced in search of more equal gender relations in most of the continent. The challenges to patriarchy are increasing and patriarchy is weakening. This article examines how advances in information technologies have the potential to change the organization of work in Asia, especially in the areas of gender relations and cultural ceilin…
Science, Technology and Mathematics Education for Human Development
Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia
Based on fieldwork in several indigenous societies in South and Southeast Asia, this article explores the change in gender relations from a matrilineal and/or egalitarian system to one where male domination is present as the norm. We looked at changes in gender relations in forest societies in four situations: (a) colonial and state rule over forest communities and the takeover of forests; (b) historical and contemporary revolts of forest-dwellin…
Defining Ifad-Asia Division’s Gender Analysis Approach
Women’s Worlds ’99
The Second Global Knowledge (GKII) Conference
Indigenous Asia
The Asian Economic Crisis
Gender, Technology and Development
Ait-Gasat Asia Joint Conference
Women’s Roundtable Discussion on the Economic, Social and Political Impacts of the Southeast Asian Financial Crisis
Rural and Indigenous Women Speak Out on the Impact of Globalization
This article describes approach papers, proposed strategies, and closing agreements among those attending the May 1998 Asian Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development (APWLD) among rural, indigenous women (IW). IW spoke of their experiences with globalization. The aim was to examine the effects of deregulation and privatization, liberalization, and global market and foreign monopoly capital on rural, IW in Asia. The expected outcome was an adv…
Appropriate gender-analysis tools for unpacking the gender-energy-poverty nexus
In rural and low-income urban households, energy is 'women's business': women are responsible for providing energy, and use it for domestic chores and productive activities. However, the poor quality fuels many women use contribute to their time poverty, ill health, and level of drudgery. Despite these negative impacts, energy policy remains gender-blind. This can be attributed to the invisibility of women's needs to energy planners, stemming fro…
IT Industry and Women’s Agency
This article examines women’s agency in the Information Technology (IT) industry and is based on field research in two cities in India: Bangalore and Delhi. We looked at both the software industry and IT-enabled services, particularly through the perceptions of women and men workers and managers within the IT industry. While a large number of women continue to work in gendered homes and work sites, balancing work and domestic responsibilities wit…
Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia
Based on fieldwork in several indigenous societies in South and Southeast Asia, this article explores the change in gender relations from a matrilineal and/or egalitarian system to one where male domination is present as the norm. We looked at changes in gender relations in forest societies in four situations: (a) colonial and state rule over forest communities and the takeover of forests; (b) historical and contemporary revolts of forest-dwellin…
Gender Relations and Technological Change in Asia
In the post-colonial world of the last 50 years in Asia, one broad conclusion can be stated: overall women have advanced in search of more equal gender relations in most of the continent. The challenges to patriarchy are increasing and patriarchy is weakening. This article examines how advances in information technologies have the potential to change the organization of work in Asia, especially in the areas of gender relations and cultural ceilin…
Wood Energy
This paper argues that in a farm, family-specific aspects of gender relations—that women’s labor is unvalued as ’domestic service,’ or that it has a lower value and lower opportunity cost than men’s labor—lead to the overuse of women’s labor in activities like wood fuel collection. This inhibits farm families from investing in labor-saving and fuel-saving devices, like improved stoves. It also has an adverse impact on farm women’s leisure time an…
The PRC at Forty
Women's Agential Power in the Political Economy of Agricultural Land
This article seeks to understand whether the legal policies and advances of women's movements have resulted in women's entitlement to land and whether the land reforms carried out from the 1970s to the 1990s have weakened the grip of patriarchy and increased women's capability and land-related decision-making power. We examine these questions by looking at (i) women as producers of agricultural goods and participants in the market economy and (ii…
The Asian Economic Crisis
Arguing with the Crocodile
The Chinese Experience of Political Campaigns and Mass Mobilization
The Role of Labour Heroes in the Yenan Period
The Kuomintang
The Role of Labour Heroes in the Yenan Period
The Chinese Experience of Political Campaigns and Mass Mobilization
Kotnis in Kokung
The PRC at Forty
Arguing with the Crocodile
The Woodfuel Crisis
Wood Energy
This paper argues that in a farm, family-specific aspects of gender relations—that women’s labor is unvalued as ’domestic service,’ or that it has a lower value and lower opportunity cost than men’s labor—lead to the overuse of women’s labor in activities like wood fuel collection. This inhibits farm families from investing in labor-saving and fuel-saving devices, like improved stoves. It also has an adverse impact on farm women’s leisure time an…
Farmers, women, and economic reform in China
A striking feature of Chinese political economy since the early 1980s has been a seemingly steady march of economic liberalization and development. This march has been accompanied, however, by rural protests and a decline in the position of women. This in turn has reopened debates about the meaning and processes of market formation where the visible hand of the state and other patriarchal agencies still plays a major role. Are there any early ind…
Gender, Technology and Development
Ait-Gasat Asia Joint Conference
Women’s Roundtable Discussion on the Economic, Social and Political Impacts of the Southeast Asian Financial Crisis
Rural and Indigenous Women Speak Out on the Impact of Globalization
This article describes approach papers, proposed strategies, and closing agreements among those attending the May 1998 Asian Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development (APWLD) among rural, indigenous women (IW). IW spoke of their experiences with globalization. The aim was to examine the effects of deregulation and privatization, liberalization, and global market and foreign monopoly capital on rural, IW in Asia. The expected outcome was an adv…
Indigenous Asia
The Asian Economic Crisis
Defining Ifad-Asia Division’s Gender Analysis Approach
Women’s Worlds ’99
The Second Global Knowledge (GKII) Conference
Science, Technology and Mathematics Education for Human Development
Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia
Based on fieldwork in several indigenous societies in South and Southeast Asia, this article explores the change in gender relations from a matrilineal and/or egalitarian system to one where male domination is present as the norm. We looked at changes in gender relations in forest societies in four situations: (a) colonial and state rule over forest communities and the takeover of forests; (b) historical and contemporary revolts of forest-dwellin…
IT Industry and Women’s Agency
This article examines women’s agency in the Information Technology (IT) industry and is based on field research in two cities in India: Bangalore and Delhi. We looked at both the software industry and IT-enabled services, particularly through the perceptions of women and men workers and managers within the IT industry. While a large number of women continue to work in gendered homes and work sites, balancing work and domestic responsibilities wit…
Gender Equity and the Empowerment of Poor Rural Women
Rethinking University
International Network of Women’s Studies Journals
Gender Relations and Technological Change in Asia
In the post-colonial world of the last 50 years in Asia, one broad conclusion can be stated: overall women have advanced in search of more equal gender relations in most of the continent. The challenges to patriarchy are increasing and patriarchy is weakening. This article examines how advances in information technologies have the potential to change the organization of work in Asia, especially in the areas of gender relations and cultural ceilin…
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)