Gender, Health & Ecological Economies

This itinerary integrates gendered health systems, plantation economies, and ecological livelihoods.

Students examine Kerala’s public health model alongside informal labor markets in plantation economies in Munnar. Seminars introduce the care economy framework, social reproduction theory, and gendered public health access.

Field engagement includes community health centers, women workers’ collectives, and rural welfare institutions. Participatory health mapping and care burden analysis allow students to quantify invisible labor systems.

The program culminates in a gender-responsive health or social protection proposal.

Students will:

Analyze gendered health access and care burdens.
Apply care economy frameworks to plantation labor systems.
Conduct participatory service access mapping.
Evaluate social protection programs through a gender lens.
Produce a health or social development intervention proposal grounded in field evidence.

Gender Studies

Sociology

Development Studies

Environmental Studies

Economics

Social Policy

Kochi

Munnar

Rural Kerala

Day	Location	Academic Engagement	Learning Emphasis
1	Kochi	Seminar: Gender & Social Reproduction	Framing
2	Kochi	Workshop: Care Economy Mapping	Toolkit
3	Kochi	Safeguarding & health interview ethics	Preparation
4	Munnar	Plantation labor seminar	Economic systems
5	Munnar	Women workers dialogue	Labor & agency
6	Rural Kerala	Community health center visit	Public health lens
7	Rural Kerala	Care burden mapping exercise	Invisible labor
8	Rural Kerala	Social protection systems inquiry	Policy link
9	Kochi	Reflection & synthesis seminar	Integration
10	Kochi	Proposal drafting lab	Translation
11	Kochi	Guest lecture: Gender & health governance	Institutional context
12	Kochi	Peer critique	Refinement
13	Kochi	Final presentations & departure	Closure