Manjula Bharathy

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Manjula Bharathy is a professor and former dean at School of Habitat Studies, TISS. She was a Fulbright scholar in gender studies at Rutgers University. Manjula has been a member of a central advisory committee on Panchayati Raj and an expert committee on decentralised planning for areas under the Sixth Schedule. She has authored several books and her articles have appeared in national and international journals. Manjula has been invited to deliver lectures at London School of Economics and universities in Toronto, Rosario, California, New Jersey, Florida, Carolina, Arizona, and New Mexico.


Areas of expertise

Gender studies, decentralised planning, local governance, climate change and social vulnerability, urban studies, media and cultural studies


Currently working at

School of Habitat Studies, TISS Mumbai


Articles by Manjula Bharathy


A woman drawing water from a well in thar desert_feminist perspective

জুন 13, 2024
Climate change needs a feminist lens 
Climate knowledge is often built top-down, overlooking diverse experiences and expertise of women and marginalised communities. This needs to change.
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