Benjamin Linder
Biographic Data
| ID | 154423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Linder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Linder |
| SIGNATURE | LINDER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7224-0084 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
South Asia on the Move
South Asia on the Move
The “new mobilities paradigm” (or “mobilities turn”) has been one of the most fertile attempts at trans-/post-disciplinary scholarship in recent social theory. Yet notwithstanding its strides towards topical and geographical diversity, there remains a relative lacuna of studies about non-Western lifeworlds and contexts. South Asia—home to nearly one-fourth of the world’s population, and with a diaspora spanning the entire world—has a particular e…
"Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination
Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu
Since the 1990s, Thamel-a dense neighborhood in Kathmandu, Nepal-has become the primary hub of transgressive, experimental cultural practice among young urban Nepalis. The multivalent assemblage of Thamel reflects emergent lifeworlds that challenge "traditional" conceptions of Nepali identity, and the place produces those emergent lifeworlds as well. Such transformations contest normative social roles, intersecting with multiple power relations a…
After Disasters
This article explores the COVID-19 pandemic to extend the temporal horizon of (post-)disaster mobilities research. We are not only interested in the conspicuous disruption to mobilities wrought by disasters, nor the emergent modes of movement constituted in disasters’ immediate aftermaths. Rather, with special reference to Nepal, this article attends to the jagged and protracted process of remobilizing the world in the wake of dramatic events lik…
Commensurability, Covid, and the domestic
This commentary offers a note on scalarity and rescaling during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It argues that while plurality is pivotal for distinguishing scale from other geographic concepts, vertical relationality is only one axis along which this might be sufficiently accomplished. I raise the issue of scale's horizontal commensurability as a complementary means of approaching the domestic scale in the dramatic upheavals wrought by the current pandem…
Sensing scalarity
This article develops the notion of “sense of scale” to theorize the emotional, tactile, and affective (re)production of scalarity during the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic’s geographic upheavals – from personal proxemics to international travel bans – call for a return to scale that attends to its experiential qualities. Scale is continually conjured, apprehended, and (re)configured through proximal feelings and sensory encounters. After cha…
(Re-)Writing Thamel
In recent decades, Nepalis have been forced to reconsider questions of national identity, politics, cultural authenticity, and history in a rapidly changing urban landscape. Building on scholarship within geocriticism, literary geography, and postcolonial studies, this article analyzes two works of modern Nepali literature that deal with the Kathmandu neighborhood of Thamel. By setting dramas and stories in Thamel, Nepali authors lay claim to a s…
This Looks Like Chinatown
As tourists from China account for a larger and larger share of Nepal's tourism economy, Jyatha-a small neighborhood in Kathmandu-has absorbed a substantial portion of the Chinese businesses catering to this booming demographic. Its landscape is heavily populated with Chinese businesses, leading Nepalis (and others) to increasingly refer to the space with the English term "Chinatown." Drawing on Low's (2000) and Chuang and Trémon's (2013) concept…
Linked (im)mobilities and the relational politics of movement in post-earthquake Nepal
This article highlights the importance of various (im)mobilities that were induced by the massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April 2015. It analyzes over 120 news articles published in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, arranging these into a mobility-centric narrative that highlights the politics of movement in the disaster’s wake. Drawing on the theoretical and methodological “mobilities turn”, I introduce the conc…
Landscaping Otherness
The expansion of tourist economies in South Asia makes it increasingly necessary to address how tourism functions as part of a system of transnational capitalism predicated on differential access to social, political, and economic power, and how this is evidenced in the representations of social difference that proliferate in tourism media. Tourism often takes the form of explicitly experiencing an "other" through display of visual and embodied d…
Sensing scalarity
This article develops the notion of “sense of scale” to theorize the emotional, tactile, and affective (re)production of scalarity during the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic’s geographic upheavals – from personal proxemics to international travel bans – call for a return to scale that attends to its experiential qualities. Scale is continually conjured, apprehended, and (re)configured through proximal feelings and sensory encounters. After cha…
This Looks Like Chinatown
As tourists from China account for a larger and larger share of Nepal's tourism economy, Jyatha-a small neighborhood in Kathmandu-has absorbed a substantial portion of the Chinese businesses catering to this booming demographic. Its landscape is heavily populated with Chinese businesses, leading Nepalis (and others) to increasingly refer to the space with the English term "Chinatown." Drawing on Low's (2000) and Chuang and Trémon's (2013) concept…
Linked (im)mobilities and the relational politics of movement in post-earthquake Nepal
This article highlights the importance of various (im)mobilities that were induced by the massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April 2015. It analyzes over 120 news articles published in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, arranging these into a mobility-centric narrative that highlights the politics of movement in the disaster’s wake. Drawing on the theoretical and methodological “mobilities turn”, I introduce the conc…
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu
Since the 1990s, Thamel-a dense neighborhood in Kathmandu, Nepal-has become the primary hub of transgressive, experimental cultural practice among young urban Nepalis. The multivalent assemblage of Thamel reflects emergent lifeworlds that challenge "traditional" conceptions of Nepali identity, and the place produces those emergent lifeworlds as well. Such transformations contest normative social roles, intersecting with multiple power relations a…
Commensurability, Covid, and the domestic
This commentary offers a note on scalarity and rescaling during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It argues that while plurality is pivotal for distinguishing scale from other geographic concepts, vertical relationality is only one axis along which this might be sufficiently accomplished. I raise the issue of scale's horizontal commensurability as a complementary means of approaching the domestic scale in the dramatic upheavals wrought by the current pandem…
Landscaping Otherness
The expansion of tourist economies in South Asia makes it increasingly necessary to address how tourism functions as part of a system of transnational capitalism predicated on differential access to social, political, and economic power, and how this is evidenced in the representations of social difference that proliferate in tourism media. Tourism often takes the form of explicitly experiencing an "other" through display of visual and embodied d…
Linked (im)mobilities and the relational politics of movement in post-earthquake Nepal
This article highlights the importance of various (im)mobilities that were induced by the massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April 2015. It analyzes over 120 news articles published in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, arranging these into a mobility-centric narrative that highlights the politics of movement in the disaster’s wake. Drawing on the theoretical and methodological “mobilities turn”, I introduce the conc…
(Re-)Writing Thamel
In recent decades, Nepalis have been forced to reconsider questions of national identity, politics, cultural authenticity, and history in a rapidly changing urban landscape. Building on scholarship within geocriticism, literary geography, and postcolonial studies, this article analyzes two works of modern Nepali literature that deal with the Kathmandu neighborhood of Thamel. By setting dramas and stories in Thamel, Nepali authors lay claim to a s…
This Looks Like Chinatown
As tourists from China account for a larger and larger share of Nepal's tourism economy, Jyatha-a small neighborhood in Kathmandu-has absorbed a substantial portion of the Chinese businesses catering to this booming demographic. Its landscape is heavily populated with Chinese businesses, leading Nepalis (and others) to increasingly refer to the space with the English term "Chinatown." Drawing on Low's (2000) and Chuang and Trémon's (2013) concept…
After Disasters
This article explores the COVID-19 pandemic to extend the temporal horizon of (post-)disaster mobilities research. We are not only interested in the conspicuous disruption to mobilities wrought by disasters, nor the emergent modes of movement constituted in disasters’ immediate aftermaths. Rather, with special reference to Nepal, this article attends to the jagged and protracted process of remobilizing the world in the wake of dramatic events lik…
Commensurability, Covid, and the domestic
This commentary offers a note on scalarity and rescaling during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It argues that while plurality is pivotal for distinguishing scale from other geographic concepts, vertical relationality is only one axis along which this might be sufficiently accomplished. I raise the issue of scale's horizontal commensurability as a complementary means of approaching the domestic scale in the dramatic upheavals wrought by the current pandem…
Sensing scalarity
This article develops the notion of “sense of scale” to theorize the emotional, tactile, and affective (re)production of scalarity during the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic’s geographic upheavals – from personal proxemics to international travel bans – call for a return to scale that attends to its experiential qualities. Scale is continually conjured, apprehended, and (re)configured through proximal feelings and sensory encounters. After cha…
"Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination
Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu
Since the 1990s, Thamel-a dense neighborhood in Kathmandu, Nepal-has become the primary hub of transgressive, experimental cultural practice among young urban Nepalis. The multivalent assemblage of Thamel reflects emergent lifeworlds that challenge "traditional" conceptions of Nepali identity, and the place produces those emergent lifeworlds as well. Such transformations contest normative social roles, intersecting with multiple power relations a…
South Asia on the Move
South Asia on the Move
The “new mobilities paradigm” (or “mobilities turn”) has been one of the most fertile attempts at trans-/post-disciplinary scholarship in recent social theory. Yet notwithstanding its strides towards topical and geographical diversity, there remains a relative lacuna of studies about non-Western lifeworlds and contexts. South Asia—home to nearly one-fourth of the world’s population, and with a diaspora spanning the entire world—has a particular e…
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