Leanna Augsten

Email: 
augstenl@uoguelph.ca
Program: 
MA PIA
Advisor: 
Dr. Karine Gagné
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Using the theoretical framework of feminist political ecology, and discourse from anthropology of gender and environmental anthropology, Leanna's research focuses on the impacts of climate change on women farmers in Ladakh, India. Particular attention is placed on women's interaction's with their environment through their daily responsibilities as farmers and caregivers, and the impacts that place-specific environmental stress has had on undertaking such tasks.