Dr. Shweta Prasad
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005 (U.P.), India
Affiliation
Areas of Expertise
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Sociology of Gender with special reference to Violence against Women, Gender and Environment, Gender and Development, Globalization and Women.
Major Publications
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04 Books and 22 papers/chapters
Ongoing Projects
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⮚ New Kind of Agriculture: Interrogating Structural Transformations along the axis of Class and Gender, a collaborative project with the faculties from Michigan State University and colleagues from India funded by the Asian Studies Centre, Michigan State University, USA
ii. Completed
⮚ ‘The Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia’, BHU-International Rice Research Institute, Philippines collaborative project (funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank and the USAID), Nov., 2009-2011- worked as Coordinator for the Eastern UP Hub for removing the social constraints towards (agricultural) technology adoption
⮚ Modern Sati: A Study of Burning Out of Women Employees in Call Centres, major research project funded by the University Grants Commission
⮚ Female Foeticide- A Study of Sex-Determination Tests in Varanasi, Centre for Women’s Studies & Development, BHU, Varanasi
⮚ Wife-Battering: A Study based on the Slums of Varanasi, Centre for Women’s Studies & Development, BHU, Varanasi
