Navigating State Institutions in the Himalayas

NAVIGATING STATE INSTITUTIONS IN THE HIMALAYAS: ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES
Session #1 | 9am - 10:30am | Saturday, Sept 2 | HUMN 190

Karen Valentin, Aarhus University
Introduction

Uma Pradhan, Aarhus University
Becoming ‘eligible’: Documents, intermediary actors, and the state in education scholarship programmes

Elsie Lewison, University of Toronto
Contested spaces of everyday agricultural governance: organic political ecologies in Jumla, Nepal

Anden Drolet, University of Colorado Boulder
A History of Gross National Happiness, and its Contemporary Usage

Organizers:
Uma Pradhan, Aarhus University
Karen Valentin, Aarhus University

Chair: Karen Valentin, Aarhus University