#Historian of #Himalayas and #MountainSocieties. Interested in #State formation and #PoliticalEconomy of #Asian #highlands, I study how these are being integrated with the #NationStates of the riverine plains.
Am interested also in #HistoricalMethods, and in particular with the challenges and opportunities that computational tools (like #GIS, #BigData and #ML, and #NLP) provide the practice of the historian.
Side interests in #politics, #philosophy, #Marxism, #psychology, #journalism.
Please circulate and also consider participating in #OralHistory Association of India's annual conference on the theme:
#Memory and #Orality in a Textual World.
10-12 March, 2023, at IIIT #Hyderabad, #India
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Jan 2023
(send to [email protected])
https://ohai.info/8th-ohai-conference-2023/
@histodons @anthropology @sociology @politicalscience @linguistics
Presenting a paper at the 15th All India Conf of China Studies, on a panel looking at "Institutional Interfaces & Informal Histories in
the Himalayan Contact Zone.'
I am trying to use oral history sources to understand how people living on the India-China border in the Western Himalayas have (had?) visualised divisions of territory and space before the modern lines came about on the map.