Tuesday 7 February 2023 4:30pm
Mond Building Seminar Room, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RF
About
Martin Saxer, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
Places in Knots: Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond
In this talk I trace the experiences of mobile Himalayan communities and their ambitions and ventures across the globe.
Based on long-term research in northern Nepal, I challenge assumptions of global development rooted in sedentarist visions of the "local community" and offer a new perspective on the making and un-making of remoteness.
I develop the notion of place-knots as an approach to understand the ways in which Himalayan communities relate to the multiple places they inhabit and the work and trouble of keeping them tied together.