Roads, Spatial Histories, and Politics of Practice

ROADS, SPATIAL HISTORIES, AND POLITICS OF PRACTICE IN THE HIMALAYA-KARAKORAM-HINDU KUSH

Panel A
Session #4 | 9am - 10:30am | Sunday, Sept 3 | HUMN 135

Sagar Lama, ICIMOD; Tribhuvan University
Ancient Trade Routes and Contemporary Livelihood Practices of Western Himalayan Inhabitants of Nepal

Galen Murton, James Madison University
Border roads, uneven mobilities, and state formation in highland Nepal

Robert Beazley, Cornell University
Vibrant Bridge or Black Hole: Nepal’s Infrastructure Dreams, India’s Eastern Gaze, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Elsie Lewison, University of Toronto
Katharine Rankin, University of Toronto
Transnational rationalities of roads: Foreign aid and transportation infrastructure development in Nepal

Panel B
Session #5 | 11am - 12:30pm | Sunday, Sept 3 | HUMN 135

Shafqat Hussain, Trinity College
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - The Road to Future

Bhoomika Joshi, Yale University
Drivery: Automobility and Autonomy in the Indian Himalayas

Tulasi Sigdel, Nepal Administrative Staff College
Katharine Rankin, University of Toronto
Pushpa Hamal, University of Toronto
Governing infrastructure in Nepal: Perspectives from the archives

Dinesh Paudel, Appalachian State University
Community Infrastructures in Post-Earthquake Nepal: NGOs, Local Resistance and the Micro-Politics of Rebuilding

Mabel Gergan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Indeterminism, Uneven Regional Development, and Hydropower Development in the Eastern Himalayas, India

Organizers:
Bhoomika Joshi, Yale University
Galen Murton, James Madison University

Moderator: Galen Murton, James Madison University

Discussant: Katharine Rankin, University of Toronto