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Our little piece in The Diplomat on gendered vulnerabilities experienced by female migrant workers in Bhutan's liquor industry. ICIMOD, RoyalThimphuCollege, IDRC | CRDI thediplomat.com/2024/07/female…

On its second anniversary, another engaging and insightful review of Vernacular Politics in Northeast India. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The SC has quashed FIRs against Indian Army personnel accused in the #Oting killings. #AFSPA permits the killing of any Naga on mere suspicion. In Nagaland, the diff b/w a ‘legal’ & ‘illegal’ state-killing depends on 'due warning', wrote Jelle J P Wouters. theindiaforum.in/article/legal-…

National Conference on Migration, Climate Change, and Societal Change in Bhutan | Royal Thimphu College | April 10 2025 | Call for Abstracts

National Conference on Migration, Climate Change, and Societal Change in Bhutan. Organized by the Himalayan Centre for Environmental Humanities at RTC. In collaboration with ICIMOD Abstracts due: November 15. Details in link. rtc.bt/index.php/anno…

Join us for the final 'Migration & Climate Change' seminar of this term Development UEA 🌍 with Neil Adger!📅 Dec 2 (Mon) |⏰ 12 PM (UK) |💻 Link: us02web.zoom.us/j/89930639503 IDRC | CRDI FCDO Research, Science and Technology Mark Tebboth 🇵🇸 Nitya Rao Dr Chandni Singh Ricardo S. de Campos @RedickerSarah Jelle J P Wouters

TRIBUTE | A filmmaker & cultural bridge-builder, #TarunBhartiya dedicated his life to understanding & uplifting Khasi society. Kyrsoibor Pyrtuh writes. frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary…

"Article 371A was enacted as an envisaged compromise that provided autonomy and self-rule beyond what the Sixth Schedule allowed for,” says Jelle J P Wouters “It allowed a state like Nagaland tremendous autonomy,almost like a country within a country.” scroll.in/article/107915…

Communities in the North East have long since appropriated the term 'indigenous' to stake claims on the state. They invoke indigeneity to distinguish themselves from later settlers & migrants & to pursue a privileged state-society sociality Jelle J P Wouters theindiaforum.in/politics/colon…

The first two articles (on procedural sentiency and exogenous roots of Buddhist ecology) in our 'Faiths for Earth, Geo-Commoning, and New Ethics in the Himalayas' mdpi.com/si/206037 #mdpireligions via Religions MDPI More to come. All in OA

Migration as Adaptation (?) Climate change vulnerability and resilience in Bhutan. Our piece in Dialogue Earth IDRC | CRDI, ICIMOD, RoyalThimphuCollege dialogue.earth/en/climate/bhu…

🇧🇹 Climate change is reshaping Bhutan’s rural economy, prompting migrations that should be better planned for, write a trio of regional experts. ✍️ Namdu Lhamo, Jelle J P Wouters, Binaya Pasakhala 🔎 Learn more: loom.ly/vUV8jsI IDRC | CRDI RoyalThimphuCollege

Jelle J P Wouters, erik de maaker and co. explain the challenges and opportunities of conserving the intangible cultural heritage of the #Bhutanese highlands and how it allows us to understand the interconnectedness of time, space, the human and the non-human - loom.ly/ZIzqYq4

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By the time the Naga uplands turned into a major theatre of the Second World War, not one but two Naga Hills Districts were in existence, one in Assam, the other in Burma. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History oxfordre.com/asianhistory/a…

'We require theories of multispecies production and exchange, of multispecies class struggle. We must rethink socialist revolution as multispecies emancipation.’ Towards a Theory of Multispecies Production, Exchange, and Class Struggle tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My article on Rivers in Deep Time! #rivers #himalaya #time #deeptime #bioregions South Asia Bioregionalism Working Group Vikalp Sangam #himalayanrivers #flowingrivers #geologicaltime #memory #riverscapes itswildouthere.com/blog/rivers-in…

Pleased to share this latest article in Modern Asian Studies, on Naga "head-hunters" and violent diplomacy on the India and Myanmar borderlands. Available Open Access! DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S00267…