Martina Padmanabhan

Martina Aruna Padmanabhan (* 1969 ) is a German agricultural engineer and professor for comparative development and cultural research with a focus on Southeast Asia at the University of Passau .

Padmanabhan studied from 1989 to 1996 at the TU Berlin , with a Government of India Scholarship at the Gandhigram Rural Institute in India, the University of Nottingham and the University of Göttingen Agricultural Sciences. In 1996 she became a qualified agricultural engineer. In 2000 she completed her doctorate in Göttingen with a thesis on gender aspects of agricultural innovations in Northern Ghana . Her habilitation in 2009 followed thematically and was entitled Gender and Institutional Analysis of Natural Resource Management in Asia and Africa . Today she is head of the "BioDIVA" junior research group at Leibniz Universität Hannover . This deals with land use changes and agrobiodiversity in South India in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary manner . Padmanabhan examines particularly sociological, especially gender, aspects. In her research she tries to take a "feminist socio-ecological " perspective.

Publications

• with Anja Christinck (Ed.): Cultivate Diversity! A Handbook on Transdisciplinary Approaches to Agrobiodiversity Research. Margraf Publishers, Weikersheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-8236-1657-3 .
• Women and Men as Conservers, Users and Managers. A Feminist Social-Ecological Approach. In: Journal of Socio-Economics. 2011, 40, pp. 968-976.
• Collective action in plant genetic resources management: Gendered rules of reputation, trust and reciprocity in Kerala, India. In: Journal of International Development. 20, 2008, pp. 83-97.

Web links

• Literature by Martina Padmanabhan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Martina Padmanabhan on the website of the University of Passau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see e.g. B. Women and Men as Conservers, Users and Managers. A Feminist Social-Ecological Approach. In: Journal of Socio-Economics. 2011, 40, pp. 968-976.