Journal Articles
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Chakma, T. (2025). Asian women’s studies after three decades: Institutional success, epistemic limitations, and the imperative of transnational solidarity. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 31(4), 411–434. https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2025.2596324
Chakma, T. (2024). Igniting Solidarities across Borders: South Feminist Futures (SFF) and the Promise of the South Feminist Manifesto. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 52(1–2), 135–143. https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2024.a924312
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Chakma, T. (2024). Where are feminism and gender studies in Asia headed? WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 52(1–2), 123–128. https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2024.a924310
- Godden, N. J., Chakma, T., & Jenkins, A. (2023). Ecofeminist Participatory Action Research for Planetary Health. In P. Liamputtong (Ed.), Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health (pp. 1–24). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96778-9_47-1
- Godden, N., MacNish, P., Chakma, T. & Naidu, K. (2020). Feminist Participatory Action Research as a tool for Climate Justice. Gender & Development, 28(3). https://doi.org/1080/13552074.2020.1842040
- Chakma, T. (2016), Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR): An effective framework for empowering grassroots women & strengthening feminist movements in Asia Pacific. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 22 (2).
Books/ Book Chapters
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Chakma, T. (2026). Beyond borders and classrooms: Conceptualizing transnational feminist pedagogical praxis. In D. Chakravarty, S. L. Vandermeade, & S. Banerjee (Eds), Transnational feminist pedagogies: Meanings, methods, and experiences (pp. 102–116). Routledge.
- Chakma, T., Godden, N. J., Naidu, K., Sinumlag, A., & Paw, N. H. L. (2023). Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) for Transnational Feminism in Asia. In M. Call-Cummings, M. Hauber-Özer, & G. P. Dazzo, The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Participatory Inquiry in Transnational Research Contexts (1st ed., pp. 9–27). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003207672-3
- Godden, N. J., Chakma, T., & Naidu, K. (2023). Feminist Participatory Action Research: A methodology for ecosocial justice. In R. Forbes & K. Smith (Eds.), Ecosocial work practice (pp. 123–134). NASW Press. https://naswpress.org/product/53675/ecosocial-work
- Chakma, T. and Taguiwalo, J. (2019). APWLD Herstory 1986-2017 – Celebrating over 30 years of advocacy, activism and movement building to advance women’s human rights in the Asia Pacific Region. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD).
Reports/ Policy Papers
- Chakma, T. (2026). Changing the Rules of the Game: A Funder’s Guide to Advancing Women’s Substantive Political Participation. Trust, Inclusion & Accountability Collaborative.
- Chakma, T. (2025). Sparking change: Shifting power and resources to youth—Lessons from Spark Fund’s youth-led participatory grantmaking in Southeast Asia. Global Fund for Children.
- Kiribati Climate Action Network, Godden, N.J., Naidu, K., Chakma, T., Leviston, Z., Nailevu, M., Alofa, P., Merryweather, J., Karoro, R., Hu, J., Scott, P., Wrigley, K. (2024). Pacific Girls in a Changing Climate. Plan International Australia and Edith Cowan University Centre for People, Place and Planet.
- Chakma, T. (2024). Our Land & Water: Regional Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) Report [Breaking Out of Marginalisation Programme 2018-2020]. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD).
- Chakma, T., Booth G., and Johnson R. (2024). Expanding Our Understanding of Evidence for Meaningful Participation. Porticus and Closer Than You Think Collective.
- Shadrack, N. and Chakma, T. (2023). Grounding Women’s Land Rights: Towards equity and climate justice. Oxfam International.
- Chakma, T. and Sinumlag, A. (2022). A position paper on Indigenous women’s role in water governance in Asia. Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP).
- Chakma, T., Rigg S., and Ramsay A. (2022). Women confronting loss and damage in Africa: Feminist climate justice research from Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Zambia. ActionAid International.
- Chakma, T. (2020). A rapid assessment report on the impact of COVID-19 on young women living 22 informal settlement areas in India, Kenya, Ghana and South Africa. ActionAid International.
- Chakma, T. (2020). A rapid assessment report on the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Bangladesh. Kapaeeng Foundation.
- Amin, S., Chakma, T. and Pedersen, H. (2019), Promoting and Fulfilling the Right to Development: Case Studies from Asia Pacific. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD). ISBN: 978-616-92225-2-1.
- Chakma, T., Napier-Moore, R., Pedersen, H. and Wardarina, (2016). Changing Development from the Inside-Out: Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) for Development Justice in Asia and the Pacific. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD). ISBN: 978-616-7898-33-9.
- Chakma, T., Familara, A., Lappin, K., Napier-Moore, R. and Wardarina, (2014). Our Rights! Our Voices! Our Resources! Regional Feminist Participatory Action Research Report [Breaking Out of Marginalisation Programme 2012-2014]. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD). ISBN: 978-616-92225-0-7.
Training Manuals/ Toolkits
- Chakma, T. and Yahaya, D.(2025). Building Power: Women Workers Organising Toolkit for Agri-Food and Informal Sectors in Southeast Asia. International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific.
- Chakma, T., Godden, N. & Naidu, K. (2023). Toolkit of Methods for Feminist Participatory Action Research. Oxfam International.
- Yahaya, D. and Chakma, T. (2022). Gender Equality and Macroeconomics (GEM) Training Manual. International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific).
- Chakma, T. and Sinumlag, A. (2022). An Intersectionality Guidebook for Social Movements Organisations in Asia and the Pacific – Co-developed with Forging Intersectional Feminist Futures (FIFF) Consortium. Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP).
Podcasts
- Participatory Action Research Feminist Trailblazers and Good Troublemakers (2023). Podcast: Season 2, Episode 1 Dr. Naomi Joy Godden, Trimita Chakma, & Kavita Naidu – EcoFeminist Participatory Action Research & Planetary Health.
- Public Services International (PSI) (2022). Podcast: How Maori women are fighting discrimination.
- The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) (2018). Podcast: What Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) Means for APWLD and Partners.