Karine Gagné
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 74018 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karine Gagné |
| NOMBRES | Karine |
| APELLIDO | Gagné |
| FIRMA | GAGNÉ K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3249-8598 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Melting glaciers as symbols of tourism paradoxes
A Folktale on Growing Ice
This article examines the lessons of resilience and subversion embedded in a folktale about the frozen Zanskar River, also known as the Chadar, which has long served as the only winter route into and out of the Zanskar region. The story of King Rkyalzos’s cook, who faces the peril of melting ice and ultimately escapes cannibalism, offers insight into the intersections of contemporary climate change, adaptation interventions, and local practices. …
The Feel of Climate Change
Vital Bodies
With technological developments, distant Himalayan ice has largely replaced early scientific accounts that emerged from physical engagement. Ice became an abstraction that in contemporary accounts is commonly enmeshed in a climate change imaginary and aims to contribute to knowledge about something happening at the planetary level. This article proposes a shift in narrative scale, drawing on ethnographic research in the Indian Himalayas. It explo…
Vital Matter
The Anthropocene epoch is one where human mastery has left an indelible mark on our planet's geological record. A grand narrative that foregrounds human domination over nature, the Anthropocene should, however, not foreclose agentive capacity beyond the human. This special issue of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale explores engagements with ice, an iconic non-human element of the Anthropocene. The articles demonstrate how recognising ice'…
Snow Leopards, Checkpoints, and Roads
Established with the goal of protecting endangered species, Hemis National Park in Ladakh, India, is a hotspot for trekkers and wildlife tourism. A process of selective legibility operates inside the park, as the conditions that make wildlife legible to the state are effectively rendering residents illegible because the building of infrastructure inside the park is either denied or delayed. Today, residents’ subsistence is largely predicated on t…
Climate change beyond technocracy
Climate knowledge production and climate change adaptation are dominated by technocratic narratives. Where climate change intersects with institutional structures outside contexts of formal interventions, these narratives also have crucial implications for the recognition of climate change-affected citizens. This article focuses on the experience of farmers in the Indian Himalayas who are seeking support from the state following a climate change-…
Multi-Course and Faculty-Student Collaboration
In this paper, we reflect on the development, integration, and implementation of a course-based, primary data collection fieldwork project for undergraduate anthropology students at the University of Guelph. Integrated across three courses taught between January-April 2022, we developed this project to provide students with the opportunity to build research skills and to broaden their understandings of how anthropological methods can be mobilized…
Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas
What does the Anthropocene mean for the Himalayas? Published as part of the Routledge Series on environmental humanities, Environmental humanities in the new Himalayas: symbiotic indigeneity, commoning, sustainability sheds light on this question by showing both the vulnerability and the resilience of the region and its people during this critical era. With this book, the editors Dan Smyer Yü and Erik de Maaker have assembled a collection of pape…
CHAPTER 1 Momo Parties
Si seulement la guerre avait été un peu plus longue
Depuis son indépendance, la production de l'État indien à sa frontière himalayenne a été largement motivée par des préoccupations géopolitiques. L'affirmation de la souveraineté indienne dans les hautes montagnes de la région historiquement isolée du Ladakh s'effectue par la militarisation et le développement d'une infrastructure routière. Quelles sont les conséquences de la production militaire de l'infrastructure routière pour les populations q…
Climat
Cet article porte sur la manière dont le climat est étudié en anthropologie, depuis l’étude de la manière dont les cultures attribuent sens et valeur au climat et s'adaptent au climat local, à la température, aux inondations et aux précipitations. L’anthropologie s’intéresse également au changement climatique contemporain, à sa construction par la science, à son impact chez les communautés, au rôle qu’elle peut jouer, comme que discipline, quant …
Waiting for the flood
A landslide occurred in the region of Zanskar in the Indian Himalayas in 2015, damming the Tsarap River, creating a lake that effectively became a ticking time bomb, threatening villagers downstream. During the period between the discovery of the natural dam and the bursting of the lake, the state's approach to disaster management plunged the local population into a situation where 'technocratic time' ruled, as government experts handled the impe…
Deadly Predators and Virtuous Buddhists
The region of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas has recently seen a rise in attacks by stray dogs, some of which have been fatal. The dogs' claims on territory have not gone uncontested in an emotional landscape fraught with anxieties over religious identities as tensions prevail between a Buddhist and a Muslim population. Consideration for the political effects of ethical discourses about dogs in Ladakh reveals how dog population control, and the i…
Building a Mountain Fortress for India
This article examines the relationship between affect and the state in post-colonial India, foregrounding sympathy as a feeling that arises from the embodied encounters and interactions between the state and a local population through state-building in the Himalayas. It establishes the emergence of sympathy in the materiality of the Himalayas and in the historical conjuncture of the passage to Indian nationhood in Ladakh, which was marked by the …
Introduction - An Amphibious Anthropology
Amid global climate change and an uneven global political economy that preys on natural resources, landscapes are reshaped at the confluence of land and water, concretely and abstractly. Focusing on the production of place, we suggest that at their point of convergence, there is relational ontology between land and water. This constitutive relationality is the basis of what we call an amphibious anthropology. By foregrounding temporality, movemen…
Glaciers and society
As icons of a world set in motion by human action, glaciers are often highlighted as quintessential evidences of global climate change. Although there is a general agreement among scientists that glaciers around the world are receding, much of the discussions on the subject tend to be oriented toward technological methodologies. Yet, as elements of the landscape, glaciers are strongly integrated to various societies around the world in ways that …
Gone with the Trees
In the 10-year period between 1999 and 2009, the district of Barmer, located in the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India, experienced 7 years of rainfall deficits, as well as instances of excessive rainfall. This increased variability in rainfall patterns in an area largely covered by the Thar Desert 'has exacerbated the region's already precarious environmental and land conditions. This article is based on ethnographic research conducted in this pa…
Cultivating Ice over Time
Assumptions that local communities have an endogenous capacity to adapt to climate change stemming from time-tested knowledge and an inherent sense of community that prompts mobilisation are becoming increasingly common in material produced by international organisations. This discourse, which relies on ahistorical and apolitical conceptions of localities and populations, is based on ideas of timeless knowledge and places. Analysing the water-pla…
Une anthropologie amphibienne
Parmi les changements climatiques et les inégalités de l'économie politique mondiale tirant profit de l'exploitation des ressources naturelles, les paysages formés à la confluence de la terre et de l'eau se redéfinissent à la fois de manière abstraite et concrète. En considérant plus précisément la production des lieux, nous suggérons qu'à leur point de convergence se trouve une relation ontologique entre l'eau et la terre. Cette relationalité co…
Waiting for the flood
A landslide occurred in the region of Zanskar in the Indian Himalayas in 2015, damming the Tsarap River, creating a lake that effectively became a ticking time bomb, threatening villagers downstream. During the period between the discovery of the natural dam and the bursting of the lake, the state's approach to disaster management plunged the local population into a situation where 'technocratic time' ruled, as government experts handled the impe…
Introduction - An Amphibious Anthropology
Amid global climate change and an uneven global political economy that preys on natural resources, landscapes are reshaped at the confluence of land and water, concretely and abstractly. Focusing on the production of place, we suggest that at their point of convergence, there is relational ontology between land and water. This constitutive relationality is the basis of what we call an amphibious anthropology. By foregrounding temporality, movemen…
Glaciers and society
As icons of a world set in motion by human action, glaciers are often highlighted as quintessential evidences of global climate change. Although there is a general agreement among scientists that glaciers around the world are receding, much of the discussions on the subject tend to be oriented toward technological methodologies. Yet, as elements of the landscape, glaciers are strongly integrated to various societies around the world in ways that …
Building a Mountain Fortress for India
This article examines the relationship between affect and the state in post-colonial India, foregrounding sympathy as a feeling that arises from the embodied encounters and interactions between the state and a local population through state-building in the Himalayas. It establishes the emergence of sympathy in the materiality of the Himalayas and in the historical conjuncture of the passage to Indian nationhood in Ladakh, which was marked by the …
Gone with the Trees
In the 10-year period between 1999 and 2009, the district of Barmer, located in the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India, experienced 7 years of rainfall deficits, as well as instances of excessive rainfall. This increased variability in rainfall patterns in an area largely covered by the Thar Desert 'has exacerbated the region's already precarious environmental and land conditions. This article is based on ethnographic research conducted in this pa…
Si seulement la guerre avait été un peu plus longue
Depuis son indépendance, la production de l'État indien à sa frontière himalayenne a été largement motivée par des préoccupations géopolitiques. L'affirmation de la souveraineté indienne dans les hautes montagnes de la région historiquement isolée du Ladakh s'effectue par la militarisation et le développement d'une infrastructure routière. Quelles sont les conséquences de la production militaire de l'infrastructure routière pour les populations q…
Climate change beyond technocracy
Climate knowledge production and climate change adaptation are dominated by technocratic narratives. Where climate change intersects with institutional structures outside contexts of formal interventions, these narratives also have crucial implications for the recognition of climate change-affected citizens. This article focuses on the experience of farmers in the Indian Himalayas who are seeking support from the state following a climate change-…
Vital Bodies
With technological developments, distant Himalayan ice has largely replaced early scientific accounts that emerged from physical engagement. Ice became an abstraction that in contemporary accounts is commonly enmeshed in a climate change imaginary and aims to contribute to knowledge about something happening at the planetary level. This article proposes a shift in narrative scale, drawing on ethnographic research in the Indian Himalayas. It explo…
Vital Matter
The Anthropocene epoch is one where human mastery has left an indelible mark on our planet's geological record. A grand narrative that foregrounds human domination over nature, the Anthropocene should, however, not foreclose agentive capacity beyond the human. This special issue of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale explores engagements with ice, an iconic non-human element of the Anthropocene. The articles demonstrate how recognising ice'…
Cultivating Ice over Time
Assumptions that local communities have an endogenous capacity to adapt to climate change stemming from time-tested knowledge and an inherent sense of community that prompts mobilisation are becoming increasingly common in material produced by international organisations. This discourse, which relies on ahistorical and apolitical conceptions of localities and populations, is based on ideas of timeless knowledge and places. Analysing the water-pla…
Une anthropologie amphibienne
Parmi les changements climatiques et les inégalités de l'économie politique mondiale tirant profit de l'exploitation des ressources naturelles, les paysages formés à la confluence de la terre et de l'eau se redéfinissent à la fois de manière abstraite et concrète. En considérant plus précisément la production des lieux, nous suggérons qu'à leur point de convergence se trouve une relation ontologique entre l'eau et la terre. Cette relationalité co…
Cultivating Ice over Time
Assumptions that local communities have an endogenous capacity to adapt to climate change stemming from time-tested knowledge and an inherent sense of community that prompts mobilisation are becoming increasingly common in material produced by international organisations. This discourse, which relies on ahistorical and apolitical conceptions of localities and populations, is based on ideas of timeless knowledge and places. Analysing the water-pla…
Une anthropologie amphibienne
Parmi les changements climatiques et les inégalités de l'économie politique mondiale tirant profit de l'exploitation des ressources naturelles, les paysages formés à la confluence de la terre et de l'eau se redéfinissent à la fois de manière abstraite et concrète. En considérant plus précisément la production des lieux, nous suggérons qu'à leur point de convergence se trouve une relation ontologique entre l'eau et la terre. Cette relationalité co…
Gone with the Trees
In the 10-year period between 1999 and 2009, the district of Barmer, located in the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India, experienced 7 years of rainfall deficits, as well as instances of excessive rainfall. This increased variability in rainfall patterns in an area largely covered by the Thar Desert 'has exacerbated the region's already precarious environmental and land conditions. This article is based on ethnographic research conducted in this pa…
Glaciers and society
As icons of a world set in motion by human action, glaciers are often highlighted as quintessential evidences of global climate change. Although there is a general agreement among scientists that glaciers around the world are receding, much of the discussions on the subject tend to be oriented toward technological methodologies. Yet, as elements of the landscape, glaciers are strongly integrated to various societies around the world in ways that …
Building a Mountain Fortress for India
This article examines the relationship between affect and the state in post-colonial India, foregrounding sympathy as a feeling that arises from the embodied encounters and interactions between the state and a local population through state-building in the Himalayas. It establishes the emergence of sympathy in the materiality of the Himalayas and in the historical conjuncture of the passage to Indian nationhood in Ladakh, which was marked by the …
Introduction - An Amphibious Anthropology
Amid global climate change and an uneven global political economy that preys on natural resources, landscapes are reshaped at the confluence of land and water, concretely and abstractly. Focusing on the production of place, we suggest that at their point of convergence, there is relational ontology between land and water. This constitutive relationality is the basis of what we call an amphibious anthropology. By foregrounding temporality, movemen…
Climat
Cet article porte sur la manière dont le climat est étudié en anthropologie, depuis l’étude de la manière dont les cultures attribuent sens et valeur au climat et s'adaptent au climat local, à la température, aux inondations et aux précipitations. L’anthropologie s’intéresse également au changement climatique contemporain, à sa construction par la science, à son impact chez les communautés, au rôle qu’elle peut jouer, comme que discipline, quant …
Waiting for the flood
A landslide occurred in the region of Zanskar in the Indian Himalayas in 2015, damming the Tsarap River, creating a lake that effectively became a ticking time bomb, threatening villagers downstream. During the period between the discovery of the natural dam and the bursting of the lake, the state's approach to disaster management plunged the local population into a situation where 'technocratic time' ruled, as government experts handled the impe…
Deadly Predators and Virtuous Buddhists
The region of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas has recently seen a rise in attacks by stray dogs, some of which have been fatal. The dogs' claims on territory have not gone uncontested in an emotional landscape fraught with anxieties over religious identities as tensions prevail between a Buddhist and a Muslim population. Consideration for the political effects of ethical discourses about dogs in Ladakh reveals how dog population control, and the i…
Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas
What does the Anthropocene mean for the Himalayas? Published as part of the Routledge Series on environmental humanities, Environmental humanities in the new Himalayas: symbiotic indigeneity, commoning, sustainability sheds light on this question by showing both the vulnerability and the resilience of the region and its people during this critical era. With this book, the editors Dan Smyer Yü and Erik de Maaker have assembled a collection of pape…
CHAPTER 1 Momo Parties
Si seulement la guerre avait été un peu plus longue
Depuis son indépendance, la production de l'État indien à sa frontière himalayenne a été largement motivée par des préoccupations géopolitiques. L'affirmation de la souveraineté indienne dans les hautes montagnes de la région historiquement isolée du Ladakh s'effectue par la militarisation et le développement d'une infrastructure routière. Quelles sont les conséquences de la production militaire de l'infrastructure routière pour les populations q…
Multi-Course and Faculty-Student Collaboration
In this paper, we reflect on the development, integration, and implementation of a course-based, primary data collection fieldwork project for undergraduate anthropology students at the University of Guelph. Integrated across three courses taught between January-April 2022, we developed this project to provide students with the opportunity to build research skills and to broaden their understandings of how anthropological methods can be mobilized…
Vital Bodies
With technological developments, distant Himalayan ice has largely replaced early scientific accounts that emerged from physical engagement. Ice became an abstraction that in contemporary accounts is commonly enmeshed in a climate change imaginary and aims to contribute to knowledge about something happening at the planetary level. This article proposes a shift in narrative scale, drawing on ethnographic research in the Indian Himalayas. It explo…
Vital Matter
The Anthropocene epoch is one where human mastery has left an indelible mark on our planet's geological record. A grand narrative that foregrounds human domination over nature, the Anthropocene should, however, not foreclose agentive capacity beyond the human. This special issue of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale explores engagements with ice, an iconic non-human element of the Anthropocene. The articles demonstrate how recognising ice'…
Snow Leopards, Checkpoints, and Roads
Established with the goal of protecting endangered species, Hemis National Park in Ladakh, India, is a hotspot for trekkers and wildlife tourism. A process of selective legibility operates inside the park, as the conditions that make wildlife legible to the state are effectively rendering residents illegible because the building of infrastructure inside the park is either denied or delayed. Today, residents’ subsistence is largely predicated on t…
Climate change beyond technocracy
Climate knowledge production and climate change adaptation are dominated by technocratic narratives. Where climate change intersects with institutional structures outside contexts of formal interventions, these narratives also have crucial implications for the recognition of climate change-affected citizens. This article focuses on the experience of farmers in the Indian Himalayas who are seeking support from the state following a climate change-…
The Feel of Climate Change
Melting glaciers as symbols of tourism paradoxes
A Folktale on Growing Ice
This article examines the lessons of resilience and subversion embedded in a folktale about the frozen Zanskar River, also known as the Chadar, which has long served as the only winter route into and out of the Zanskar region. The story of King Rkyalzos’s cook, who faces the peril of melting ice and ultimately escapes cannibalism, offers insight into the intersections of contemporary climate change, adaptation interventions, and local practices. …
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