Martina Padmanabhan

Martina Padmanabhan
Universität Passau · Department für Kulturraumstudien

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Wie sieht aus der Perspektive einer kritischen Entwicklungsforschung das Potential und die Herausforderung der Universität Passau in der gesellschaftlichen Transformation aus? Inspiriert durch das Gespräch mit dem Nachhaltigkeitsforscher und Oberbürgermeister von Wuppertal Uwe Schneidewind möchte ich darüber nachdenken und aufzeigen, was ein kritis...
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Why we want to become the chair of "Critical Development Studies-Southeast Asia" Renaming the chair of "Comparative development and Cultural studies with a focus on Southeast Asia" to "Critical Development Studies-Southeast Asia" is the outcome of an intense intellectual, political and yet intimate process over the last three years. In autumn 2019...
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For a long time, Asia attracted the European gaze and interest through its abundant and seemingly endless endowment with natural goods like timber, plants and minerals. Meanwhile, one of the most pressing issues of our time is to how reconcile the exploitation of natural and biological resources with socioecological needs. How to cultivate, appreci...
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Renaming the chair of “Comparative development and Cultural studies with a focus on Southeast Asia” to “Critical Development Studies-Southeast Asia” is the outcome of an intense intellectual, political and yet intimate process over the last three years. In autumn 2019 a group of international students from the MA Development Studies program reporte...
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In the chapter I reflect on ten months of research in Yogyakarta, Indonesia undertaken in the company of an 8/9-year-old boy as a single mother. By unpacking the shared journey, how it felt and what we had to consider, I place this social adventure and professional challenge within a feminist assessment of academic, family and parenthood institutio...
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Indonesia was one of the then authoritarian states that spearheaded and thoroughly institutionalized the green revolution. The emergence of organic farming (OF), proposed as a strategy for environmental conservation in Indonesia, is embedded in this history. This article uses social network analysis (SNA) to investigate institutional aspects of OF...
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While there is a global consensus that agricultural systems need to be transformed to be more sustainable, possible pathways and challenges to this process are still debated. We analyse the challenges and opportunities involved in transforming smallholder farming to organic agriculture in Indonesia, where the intense application of Green Revolution...
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Southeast Asia is one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This volume offers a timely approach to Southeast Asian Studies, covering recent transitions in the realms of urbanism, rural development, politics, and media. While most of the contributions deal with the era of post-independence, some tackle the colonial period and the resulting deve...
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Southeast Asia is one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This volume offers a timely approach to Southeast Asian Studies, covering recent transitions in the realms of urbanism, rural development, politics, and media. While most of the contributions deal with the era of post-independence, some tackle the colonial period and the resulting deve...
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This paper contributes to the discourse on food policy, particularly in relation to organic farming in Indonesia. Organic farming was first adopted by non-state actors in Indonesia, by faith-based organisations and then by small farmer associations, while the state support for organic agriculture followed at a later date. The three groups, represen...
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Why and to what extent are democratic states, including long-standing, consolidated democratic states, adopting legislation that restricts the ability of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to operate autonomous from government control? This phenomenon is common and expected in authoritarian countries, but surprising in the context of democracies, w...
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Agrobiodiversity is an evident outcome of a long-lasting human–nature relationship, as the continuous use, conservation and management of crops has resulted in biological as well as cultural diversity of seeds and breeds. This paper aims to understand the interlocking of formal and informal seed supply routes by considering the dynamic flow of seed...
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This article reviews the literature on the relationship between gender and ethnicity in Indonesia's mining sector and outlines shortcomings and prospects for further research. Recent studies on mining and gender focus predominantly on women and how they are negatively affected by mining. Ethnicity, although a growing asset in struggles on environme...
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The contributions in this special issue are based on the general assumption that political and economic decisions always have an ecological impact and that societies have always transformed, (re-)produced, manufactured, and crafted nature. Environmental transformations are never socially neutral but are strongly connected to power relations (Görg,...
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The diversity of plants and animals in agriculture is a social-ecological artefact per se and the result of long-term interaction between humans and agrobiodiversity, displaying the material resistance of the latter. The conceptual framework intraface aims at the analysis of the gendered organization of varieties in an inter- and transdisciplinary...
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Sustainability in Higher Education for the Global South: A Conversation across Geographies and Disciplines
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A workshop on 'Sustainability in Higher Education from the vantage of the Global Sou-th' was organized by the Azim Premji University between 12 and 14 January 2015 in Bengaluru, India. Its goal was to explore how sustainability can be integrated into undergraduate , postgraduate and professional courses. The workshop was divided into four sessions...
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Land-use change is a phenomenon highlighting significant shifts in human interaction with the natural environment. Different patterns of agriculture and a trend towards non-agricultural land use challenge the sustainability of farming systems. This study aims to identify the causes of changes in land use and cropping patterns, with a special focus...
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Transdisciplinary sustainability science (TSS) is a prominent way of scientifically contributing to the solution of sustainability problems. Little is known, however, about the practice of scientists in TSS, especially those early in their career. Our objectives were to identify these practices and to outline the needs and challenges for early care...
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Critical reflection on our positionalities fosters a better understanding of our embodied research experiences. Positionalities undergo transformation throughout the process of data collection and analysis. In this paper, we seek to engage with the question of how our situated, fluid positionalities shape relations and the data collection process i...
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Conducting inter-and transdisciplinary research requires integrative tools. The present study aims at a better understanding of social–ecological transformation processes through the lenses of indigenous women and men farmers from three different farmer communities in Kerala, South India. Central to the interdisciplinary data analysis is the develo...
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Land use change and social transition are driving factors impacting on the status of biodiversity, in particular those aspects directly and indirectly related to agriculture. Agrobiodiversity is both a cultural unit and an ecological resource. In order to unfold the complex web of causes and consequences influencing the sustainable or unsustainable...
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This article highlights applied understanding of classifying earth imaging data for land cover land use change (LCLUC) information. Compared to the many previous studies of LCLUC, the present study is innovative in that it applied geospatial data, tools and techniques for transdisciplinary research. It contributes to a wider discourse on practical...
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Generating knowledge in transdisciplinary agrobiodiversity research often relies on the willingness and collaboration of local people to share their knowledge and items such as seed or other samples of wild and cultivated plants or animals. This raises the issue of ethical and legal requirements for such work. This chapter thus aims not only at rai...
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This book is one of the major outcomes of the BioDIVA project, aiming at creating knowledge on sustainable and gender-equitable management and use of rice agrobiodiversity in Wayanad, a small diversity-rich region of southern India. It involves researchers and practitioners from Germany and India, and a number of examples presented in this book ste...
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Social and cultural diversity is highly topical, in commercial and research organizations alike. It aims at creating equal opportunities for people belonging to various social groups, but this also provides additional chances for developing knowledge and skills, for both individuals and teams. But what are practical ways and methods for tapping the...
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Agrobiodiversity is simultaneously a natural resource and a cultural asset. Its evolution has been closely linked to the rich diversity of human social, cultural and economic activities under specific environmental conditions. In order to continue developing and cultivating this diversity, and to stop its rapid loss, we argue for a transdisciplinar...
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Bei der diesjährigen Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Humanökologie diskutier ten Pioniere der sozial-ökologischen Forschung mit Nachwuchs wissenschaftler(inne)n und Humanökolog(inn)en über die Erfordernisse und Herausforderun gen transdisziplinärer Nachhaltigkeitsforschung. Im Vordergrund standen der Austausch und die Reflexion von Proj...
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Institutions for biodiversity governance are located at the interface of human and ecological systems. The analysis of such institutions is challenged due to addressing a multitude of complex interactions between these two systems occurring at different natural scales and levels of human organization. Due to this complexity, empirical analysis of b...
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Natural resource systems are under stress, which at times can be extreme owing to the diverse impacts of environmental change, climatic variation, socioeconomic pressure, and economic mayhem. This study illustrates multiple levels of interactions in an agroecosystem, using a landscape-level approach supported by a suite of geospatial tools.
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Erfahrungen mit Transdisziplinarität und ihre Weiterentwicklung stehen im Zentrum der diesjährigen Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Humanökologie. Dabei diskutieren Pioniere der sozial-ökologischen Forschung mit Nachwuchs wissenschaftler(inne)n über den nötigen Umbau des Wissenschaftssystems. Denn praxisorientierte Nachhaltigkeitsforschu...
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This feminist socio-ecological heuristic studies agrobiodiversity management, conservation and utilisation by men and women. Four approaches are characterised for an analysis of institutions, local knowledge, household economics and commodity chains. They are in turn linked to unveil their potential contributions towards a better understanding wome...
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Agrobiodiversity is a complex resource requiring the interaction of various actors with nature for its maintenance. We observe collective efforts to halt genetic erosion in Kerala, India, looking at four case studies on institutional innovations in agrobiodiversity management and analyzing their performance from the perspective of gender equity. Ne...
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The trans‐ and interdisciplinary research project BioDIVA aims to generate transformation knowledge towards a gender‐equitable and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity. Approaching agrobiodiversity from the disciplinary perspectives of land use change, institutions, sociology, economics and ecology establishes per se a ground for an interdisciplinar...
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The analysis of institutions in the field of nature-related human endeavours has always been the key element of Konrad Hagedorn’s academic writing and teaching. Pushing the frontiers of institutional economics to integrate sustainability concerns, he pioneered the reflection on institutions, values and norms in agricultural economics. The aim of th...
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This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate about methods of institutional analysis. How to empirically analyse institutions and institutional change? Is there a superior method when it comes to institutional questions? We discuss these issues for the most common methods in empirical institutional analysis, i.e. case studies, econometrics,...
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The institutional perspective on the management of natural resources in the light of the interdisciplinary debate on sustainability is the focus of the agricultural and resource economist Konrad Hagedorn. Institutions and Sustainability reflects the latest trends in combining institutions and sustainability, summarises new conceptual developments i...
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Rising opportunity costs for continuing to grow and conserve traditional plant varieties has led to an erosion of agrobiodiversity. This study compares two institutions of collective biodiversity management in Kerala, India. The traditional mechanisms of a scheduled tribe, the Kurichyas, are contrasted with the new institution of the People's Biodi...
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The paper focuses on the strategies and tactics of pastoralist women situated within violent conflicts in Afar, Ethiopia and analyses institutional changes taking place concerning the resources water, pastures and overall mobility, especially regarding access to trading sites. An institutional analysis framework focusing on property rights and coll...
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"The major economic activity for pastoralists is animal husbandry. The harsh environment in which herders raise their livestock requires constant mobility to regulate resource utilisation via a common property regime. In contrast to the mobile way of life characterizing pastoralism, agriculture as a sedentary activity is only marginally present in...
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In rural West Africa, the gendered division of labour extends to labelling certain crops as ‘male’ or ‘female’. With the introduction of new varieties of crops and technologies, these constructions of gendered plants undergo a process of renegotiation at social intrafaces. This process of attaching meaning to new features in cultivation results in...
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Despite many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems in explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine economic development. Therefore, this article analyzes the i...
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"The maintenance of crop diversity on farmers' fields in hot spots of plant genetic diversity is considered a ”global life insurance policy“ in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD 2001:1). This paper provides evidence of the importance of the contribution of poor women farmers to the conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources (...
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"Women's economy" and "pre-caring economy" represent two feminist concepts of gender-sensitive economic analysis. Both approaches understand economic activities as structured by the category gender and turn it into the center of their analytic inquiry. The theory of the pre-caring economy, developed in a cooperative manner in the German speaking ar...
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"The major economic activity for pastoralists is animal husbandry. The harsh environment in which herders raise their livestock requires constant mobility to regulate resource utilisation via a common property regime. In contrast to the mobile way of life characterizing pastoralism, agriculture as a sedentary activity is only marginally present in...

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