Chris Diamond

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Lecturer in Hindi & South Asian Languages & Literature. Premodern music, manuscripts, gender, poetry and courtly cultures in Eastern South Asia. Living with my husband and cat on Ngunnawal-Ngambri country. he/him/they/them 🏳️‍🌈
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ANUBhashahttps://www.anubhasha.org
ANU Profilehttps://researchprofiles.anu.edu.au/en/persons/chris-diamond
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Chris DiamondNov 12, 2022
Lalon SanderNov 12, 2022

In the 1980s the Nepal government gave forests to local communities to manage.

Since then tree cover has doubled, reducing floods and landslides and allowing endangered plant and animal species, including the tiger, to thrive.

Story by the NYT: https://indianexpress.com/article/world/nepal-trees-come-back-deforestation-victory-8261931/

As its trees come back, Nepal notches a victory against deforestation

Community-managed forests now account for more than one-third of Nepal’s forest cover, which has grown by about 22% since 1988.

The Indian Express
Chris DiamondNov 11, 2022
pashaNov 10, 2022
Alright, I’m going to play the academic hashtag roulette! I’m a scholar of South Asian + Islamicate verbal arts especially interested in the #qissa + #dastan genres & #qissakhwani. The #ghazal & #masnawi forms are my mainstays but the #shahrashob is cool too. Intertextual theories of #istiqbal #jawabgoi #sariqa are grist for my mill. Writing these days about queer figures like the #amrad #luti #khunsa (no not kundalini yoga, Mastodon). Okay! Let’s see how many of these tags lead me anywhere
Chris DiamondNov 9, 2022

So I've even managed to migrate over to hcommons.social from lingo.lol. It was a lovely instance, but I quickly became aware that I'm probably not a true philologist (though I might dabble), I'm indeed a #LitStudies scholar.

So here is my re-introduction. I am a Lecturer (=Asst.Prof in North America) in #Hindi at #ANU (The Australian National University). I also serve as the Deputy-Director of #SARI (the South Asia Research Institute).

I work on #poetry #music #gender & #memory in the premodern regional courts of Eastern #SouthAsia in #Hindi-Urdu #Maithili #Bengali #Sanskrit and #Apabhramsha.

I am increasingly working on community-oriented practices of #digitalhumanities while working with manuscripts. I do that stuff over on ANUBhasha (www.anubhasha.org) that I co-run.

I'm also a passionate Urbanist who is interested in the structures (both physical and social) that make cities the best place to live.

#manuscriptstudies #philology #ECR #AusAcademia #academia