Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt is an Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. Kuntala’s research is on the interface of community and gender with the environment and natural resource management in developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Kuntala has published widely on resource and related areas. Some of her publications include Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia (co‑authored, Yale University Press, 2013); The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India (Ashgate, 2014); Gendering the Field: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities (edited, ANU Press, 2011); and Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others (co-edited, Ashgate, 2006).