Jane Dyson

IMPROVING FARMER LIVELIHOODS BY DEVELOPING MARKET-ORIENTATED SMALL RUMINANT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN MYANMAR LEX 34202

This project aims to improve the livelihood of farmers in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar who keep goats and sheep by increasing the product..

2019 - 2022

Food insecurity among international students within and beyond Victoria, Australia.

2020 - 2021

Making Development Work: Young Women as Civic Actors in India

2017 - 2017

Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience

7

Projects

Project Types

5

Research Grant

2

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 43 for Jane Dyson.

Food Insecurity among Students in India

M Priyam, C Jeffrey, J Dyson

Journal article | 2022 | Economic and Political Weekly

Hunger for change: Student food insecurity in Australia

C Jeffrey, J Dyson, G Scrinis

Journal article | 2022 | Geoforum

Student food insecurity has been a major social problem across the world. Building on interview-based research, this paper examine..

Viable geographies

Craig Jeffrey, Jane Dyson

Journal article | 2022 | PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

What is a viable life? This paper addresses this question with reference to viability as a concept and young people’s social actio..

Reformist agency: young women, gender, and change in India

Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey

Journal article | 2022 | JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE

This article uses long-term research in rural Uttarakhand, north India, to intervene in anthropological debates on agency. In the ..

Fragments for the Future: Selective Urbanism in Rural North India

Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey

Journal article | 2021 | ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS

Scholars are increasingly rethinking the urban, the rural, and the urban–rural binary. This article advances understanding of rura..

Active partners: Rethinking the educated unemployed in India

C Jeffrey, J Dyson

Book Chapter | 2021

This chapter reflects upon the social and political actions of educated unemployed youth in India, building on 20 years of ethnogr..

Geographies of the future: Prefigurative politics

Craig Jeffrey, Jane Dyson

Journal article | 2020 | PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

This paper uses an examination of prefigurative politics – popularly imagined as ‘being the change you wish to see’ – to reflect o..

Between unemployment and enterprise in neoliberal India: Educated youth creating work in the private education sector

Andrew Deuchar, Jane Dyson

Journal article | 2020 | TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS

This paper draws on ethnographic material to analyse how unemployed youth create work in the private educational sector. It shows ..

Spirit of the Indian Himalayas

Jane Dyson

Media | 2020

Podcast for 'The Sites' https://soundcloud.com/user-799977508/3-spirit-of-the-indian-himalayas

Rethinking education as a contradictory resource: Girls' education in the Indian Himalayas

Jane Dyson

Journal article | 2019 | GEOFORUM

Scholars are increasingly emphasizing the contradictory nature of schooling's social effects, often blending Sen's (2000) insights..

43

Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Sociology

News

Displaying the 8 most recent news articles from 8 for Jane Dyson.

Young people are mapping viable futures

Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey, Ghassan Hage, Story Producer: Andrew Trounson

Young people globally are facing unprecedented social, economic, political and environmental challenges related to the restructuring of wor..

August 15, 2022

India’s great untapped resource: its jobless young people

Craig Jeffrey, Jane Dyson

Young people have been taking to the streets across India, demanding governments act to provide more jobs. In the northern state of Bihar, ..

August 10, 2022

7 things the Australian Research Council review should tackle, from a researcher's point of view

Craig Jeffrey, Jane Dyson

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare this week announced a review of the Australian Research Council (ARC). The review will require thoro..

July 8, 2022

Food for thought

Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey, Gyorgy Scrinis, Charlene Edwards, Rafaela Anja, Louisa Ellis, Aasha Sriram, Mia Zentari, Eugenia Zoubtchenko

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the issue of food insecurity among university students to the front pages of many newspapers in Australia and ..

March 15, 2021

'God, I miss fruit!' 40% of students at Australian universities may be going without food

Craig Jeffrey, Gyorgy Scrinis, Jane Dyson

The COVID-19 pandemic led to food insecurity among students making headlines in Australia and the United States. But even before the pandem..

March 15, 2021

'How will we eat'? India's coronavirus lockdown threatens millions with severe hardship

Craig Jeffrey, Febe De Geest, Jane Dyson

Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown for India’s 1.3 billion people. With just four hours’ notice, the gover..

April 1, 2020

The Spirit of change

Jane Dyson

The village of Bemni sits high on a wind-swept ridge at an altitude of 2800 metres, in Uttarakhand, a state in the Indian Himalayas. I fir..

October 31, 2019

Stories from the Indian Himalayas

Jane Dyson

For my PhD research at the University of Cambridge, I worked in a high-altitude village in the Indian Himalayas for 15 months. I was examin..

August 12, 2016