Dev Nathan
Biographic Data
| ID | 390004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dev Nathan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dev |
| FAMILY NAME | Nathan |
| SIGNATURE | NATHAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Human Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9638-6248 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Wl-8251-Technological Competition and the World Order
The paper deals with the role of competition and technological domination in changing the world order. It points out that there are constraints in the major Asian economies, which could hamper their ambitions of building technological dominance. Acknowledging that competition and monopolization dominate the history of technological development in global capitalist history, it points to the necessity of cooperation in meeting contemporary global c…
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…
Transition to sustainable development in the tanning industry
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while balancing the three dimensions of sustainability, are latent about the pathways to achieve it. The transition may involve trade‐offs between the different dimensions of sustainable development, like balancing the socio‐economic dimension with environmental limits. The paper attempts to demonstrate some of these channels for the leather value chain in India, which is a conspicuous source of precariou…
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
Knowledge, Oligopoly and Labour in Global Value Chains
The article explores knowledge in global value chains (GVCs) and its correspondence with the nature of employment in different GVC segments. It starts with the role of knowledge that is protected through intellectual property rights in creating oligopolies in product markets, which are then re-created as oligopolies in the input markets. Knowledge requirements, transmitted through governance relations and the distribution of power within GVCs, le…
Globalization and Labour in Developing Countries
This article deals with labour under globalizing conditions in developing countries, particularly India.* It poses the question of how the convergence in global incomes and inequality has impacted on labour. In the context of the experience of the developing countries as a whole, the article argues that strategic interventions in global world markets can increase the share of labour in the benefits from globalization. Thereafter, the article deal…
Analyzing and Measuring Vulnerability
The article discusses different approaches to the analysis of vulnerability and argues for the adoption of a capability approach to vulnerability. Vulnerability is related to exposure to hazards and the susceptibility or impact of those events. On the other side are capabilities to cope with and adapt to hazards. In order to retain comparability with the measurement of vulnerability in other geo-ecological zones, the article does not devise a sep…
The social foundations of global production networks
The resilience of the problem of child labour in the global economy has been amply documented, but, we suggest, the reasons for this situation have not yet been fully captured in the associated debates. Our aim is to advance a way of thinking about those forms of child labour which occur in the context of global production networks (gpns), and to contend that greater attention must be paid to the organisation and functioning of gpns, and the soci…
Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia
Contributed articles and seminar papers; most previously published in the Economic and political weekly
Securing Women’s Property Rights
The article deals with the post-project experiences of women who acquired fish farming rights in ponds on government land. In the strongly patriarchal situation of Bangladesh, the establishment of systems of good governance is needed for such redistribution of assets to vulnerable women to take place. Further, it is also necessary to build coalitions against men’s use of violence and other methods to forcibly grab the income or assets of women. T…
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…
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…
Women’s Independent Access to Productive Resources
The paper analyzes the experience of women in acquisition of user rights in fish ponds; excavated on government-owned land. It concludes that fish ponds enabled women to generate higher per capita incomes than the usual small livestock activities, gain knowledge of new methods of production, interact with traders and officials, and enhance their social and familial position
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 Woodfuel Crisis
Arguing with the Crocodile
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…
The social foundations of global production networks
The resilience of the problem of child labour in the global economy has been amply documented, but, we suggest, the reasons for this situation have not yet been fully captured in the associated debates. Our aim is to advance a way of thinking about those forms of child labour which occur in the context of global production networks (gpns), and to contend that greater attention must be paid to the organisation and functioning of gpns, and the soci…
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…
Women’s Independent Access to Productive Resources
The paper analyzes the experience of women in acquisition of user rights in fish ponds; excavated on government-owned land. It concludes that fish ponds enabled women to generate higher per capita incomes than the usual small livestock activities, gain knowledge of new methods of production, interact with traders and officials, and enhance their social and familial position
Arguing with the Crocodile
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…
Women’s Independent Access to Productive Resources
The paper analyzes the experience of women in acquisition of user rights in fish ponds; excavated on government-owned land. It concludes that fish ponds enabled women to generate higher per capita incomes than the usual small livestock activities, gain knowledge of new methods of production, interact with traders and officials, and enhance their social and familial position
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…
Securing Women’s Property Rights
The article deals with the post-project experiences of women who acquired fish farming rights in ponds on government land. In the strongly patriarchal situation of Bangladesh, the establishment of systems of good governance is needed for such redistribution of assets to vulnerable women to take place. Further, it is also necessary to build coalitions against men’s use of violence and other methods to forcibly grab the income or assets of women. T…
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…
Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia
Contributed articles and seminar papers; most previously published in the Economic and political weekly
The social foundations of global production networks
The resilience of the problem of child labour in the global economy has been amply documented, but, we suggest, the reasons for this situation have not yet been fully captured in the associated debates. Our aim is to advance a way of thinking about those forms of child labour which occur in the context of global production networks (gpns), and to contend that greater attention must be paid to the organisation and functioning of gpns, and the soci…
Analyzing and Measuring Vulnerability
The article discusses different approaches to the analysis of vulnerability and argues for the adoption of a capability approach to vulnerability. Vulnerability is related to exposure to hazards and the susceptibility or impact of those events. On the other side are capabilities to cope with and adapt to hazards. In order to retain comparability with the measurement of vulnerability in other geo-ecological zones, the article does not devise a sep…
Globalization and Labour in Developing Countries
This article deals with labour under globalizing conditions in developing countries, particularly India.* It poses the question of how the convergence in global incomes and inequality has impacted on labour. In the context of the experience of the developing countries as a whole, the article argues that strategic interventions in global world markets can increase the share of labour in the benefits from globalization. Thereafter, the article deal…
Witch Hunts
Knowledge, Oligopoly and Labour in Global Value Chains
The article explores knowledge in global value chains (GVCs) and its correspondence with the nature of employment in different GVC segments. It starts with the role of knowledge that is protected through intellectual property rights in creating oligopolies in product markets, which are then re-created as oligopolies in the input markets. Knowledge requirements, transmitted through governance relations and the distribution of power within GVCs, le…
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…
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…
Transition to sustainable development in the tanning industry
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while balancing the three dimensions of sustainability, are latent about the pathways to achieve it. The transition may involve trade‐offs between the different dimensions of sustainable development, like balancing the socio‐economic dimension with environmental limits. The paper attempts to demonstrate some of these channels for the leather value chain in India, which is a conspicuous source of precariou…
Wl-8251-Technological Competition and the World Order
The paper deals with the role of competition and technological domination in changing the world order. It points out that there are constraints in the major Asian economies, which could hamper their ambitions of building technological dominance. Acknowledging that competition and monopolization dominate the history of technological development in global capitalist history, it points to the necessity of cooperation in meeting contemporary global c…
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