{"id":10716,"date":"2019-12-10T13:44:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?post_type=cu_people&p=10716"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:23:28","slug":"ishara-mahat","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/ishara-mahat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishara Mahat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ishara Mahat is a development professional, researcher and a practitioner. She has been teaching courses in development anthropology at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Mahat served as a panel member of ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) during 2016-2017, assessing the funding proposals for the ESRC-DFID joint poverty alleviation fund submitted by different academic and development organizations from South Asia, South East Asia and West Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has also worked as a consultant with McGill Institute of Global Food security developing methodologies for social and gender analysis. Previously, she served as a consultant with different international agencies such as CIDA, in the capacities of project appraisal, development, monitoring and evaluation of the gender mainstreaming projects in Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Mahat was a Visiting Scholar with the Institute for Women and Gender studies at University of Toronto immediately after completing her PhD in development studies. Her research focused on the gendered impact of rural energy technologies especially examining the human drudgery (time, labor and risk factors) of women associated with traditional energy resources in rural Nepal. She continued her Post-Doctorate research at the University of Western Ontario further examining the relationship between gender energy and poverty nexus, and its implications on the human development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Gender and rural energy
\n\u2022 Social change and indigenous development
\n\u2022 South Asia and South East Asia
\n\u2022 Participatory research methodologies
\n\u2022 Religion and Spirituality<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courses<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2020-2021 Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANTH 2850A & ANTH 2850B<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019-2020 Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAST 1001
\nANTH 2850A & ANTH 2850B<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mahat, I. (2018) \u201cWomen, Religion and Spirituality in South Asia \u201cOne does not have to be a Man in the Quest of Truth\u201d Anthropology and Ethnology<\/em> Open Access Journal. Vol. 1 (2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dahal G, Mahat I, Subedi K, Shrestha B, Regmi B, Adhikari A,(2015), \u201cIntroduction: Theoretical & Analytical Framework\u201d, in Adhikari, A., Dahal, G., Mahat, I. and Subedi, K, Regmi G. (Eds.) Sustainable Livelihood Systems in Nepal: Principles, Practices and Prospects<\/em>, IUCN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahat, I. (2015) \u201cGender Energy and Poverty in Nepal: Perspectives of Human Development\u201d in Adhikari, A., Dahal, G., Mahat, I. and Subedi, K, Regmi G. (Eds.) Sustainable Livelihood Systems in Nepal: Principles, Practices and Prospects<\/em>, IUCN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahat, I. (2011) \u201cGender Energy and Empowerment, A Case Study of Rural Energy Development Program (REDP) in Nepal\u201d, Development in Practice<\/em>, Vol. 21 (3) pp. 405-420<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahat I. (2005) \u201cAlternative Energy and Women in Rural Nepal<\/a>\u201d, LEISA Magazine<\/em>, Vol. 21 (1) pp .28-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahat, I. (2004) \u201cRural Energy Planning and Policies in Nepal: Gender Perspectives\u201d, Resources, Energy, and Development (READ)<\/em>, Vol. 1 (1 & 2) pp. 19-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahat. I (2004) \u201cImplementation of Alternative Energy Technologies in Nepal: Towards the Achievement of Sustainable Livelihood\u201d, Energy for Sustainable Development (ESD)<\/em>, Vol. 8 (2) pp. 5-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahat I. (2004) \u201cElectrification through Micro-Hydro Plants in Rural Nepal: A Gendered Perspective<\/a>\u201d ENERGIA<\/em>, Vol. 7 (1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahat I. (2003) \u201cGender Dimensions in Household Energy<\/a>\u201d, Boiling Point<\/em>, Number 49, ITDG, UK. pp. 27-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahat, I. (2003) \u201cWomen Development in Nepal: The Myth of Empowerment\u201d Development in Transition<\/em>, Volume XVIII, 2003, PRAXIS, The Fletcher Journal of International Development, Medford USA. 67-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahat I. (2002) \u201cRural Energy Technologies: Towards the Empowerment of Women\u201d, Conference Proceeding, DevNet 2002: Contesting Development: Pathways to Better Practice<\/em>, Massey University, New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10717,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Ishara","cu_people_last_name":"Mahat","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[45],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-10716","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-contract-instructor"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Contract Instructor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. (Massey University, New Zealand), M.Sc. (AIT, Bangkok), PG Diploma (University of Dortmund, Germany)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"ishara.mahat@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23185,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10716\/revisions\/23185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=10716"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=10716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}