Austin Lord
Biographic Data
| ID | 3709720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Austin Lord |
| GIVEN NAMES | Austin |
| FAMILY NAME | Lord |
| SIGNATURE | LORD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0620-7363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trans-Himalayan power corridors: Infrastructural politics and China's Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal
Nepal's Ongoing Political Transformation: A review of post-2006 literature on conflict, the state, identities, and environments
This review article provides a reading guide to scholarly literature published in English about Nepal's political transformation since 2006, when Nepal's decade-long civil conflict between Maoist and state forces formally ended. The article is structured around four major themes: (1) the Maoist insurgency or ‘People's War’; (2) state formation and transformation; (3) identity politics; and (4) territorial and ecological consciousness. We also add…
A handshake across the Himalayas: ” Chinese investment, hydropower development, and state formation in Nepal
This article examines contemporary patterns of Chinese infrastructure development in Nepal’s Rasuwa District and the ways in which Nepali actors engage with Chinese investments to advance projects of state formation. Particularly in the wake of political volatility and natural disaster, Chinese interventions support the material and imaginative projects of a Nepalese state seeking stability, security, and economic growth. Long perceived as periph…
Citizens of a hydropower nation: Territory and agency at the frontiers of hydropower development in Nepal
This article interrogates Nepal's ongoing and intensifying attempt to become a "hydropower nation" by focusing ethnographic attention on new kinds of subjectivity, identity, and agency emerging at the frontiers of hydropower development in the Upper Trishuli and Upper Tamakoshi watersheds of central Nepal. Drawing on 13 months of field study and ethnographic observation, this article makes a series of arguments about the coevolutionary relationsh…
Trans-Himalayan power corridors: Infrastructural politics and China's Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal
A handshake across the Himalayas: ” Chinese investment, hydropower development, and state formation in Nepal
This article examines contemporary patterns of Chinese infrastructure development in Nepal’s Rasuwa District and the ways in which Nepali actors engage with Chinese investments to advance projects of state formation. Particularly in the wake of political volatility and natural disaster, Chinese interventions support the material and imaginative projects of a Nepalese state seeking stability, security, and economic growth. Long perceived as periph…
Citizens of a hydropower nation: Territory and agency at the frontiers of hydropower development in Nepal
This article interrogates Nepal's ongoing and intensifying attempt to become a "hydropower nation" by focusing ethnographic attention on new kinds of subjectivity, identity, and agency emerging at the frontiers of hydropower development in the Upper Trishuli and Upper Tamakoshi watersheds of central Nepal. Drawing on 13 months of field study and ethnographic observation, this article makes a series of arguments about the coevolutionary relationsh…
Nepal's Ongoing Political Transformation: A review of post-2006 literature on conflict, the state, identities, and environments
This review article provides a reading guide to scholarly literature published in English about Nepal's political transformation since 2006, when Nepal's decade-long civil conflict between Maoist and state forces formally ended. The article is structured around four major themes: (1) the Maoist insurgency or ‘People's War’; (2) state formation and transformation; (3) identity politics; and (4) territorial and ecological consciousness. We also add…
A handshake across the Himalayas: ” Chinese investment, hydropower development, and state formation in Nepal
This article examines contemporary patterns of Chinese infrastructure development in Nepal’s Rasuwa District and the ways in which Nepali actors engage with Chinese investments to advance projects of state formation. Particularly in the wake of political volatility and natural disaster, Chinese interventions support the material and imaginative projects of a Nepalese state seeking stability, security, and economic growth. Long perceived as periph…
Citizens of a hydropower nation: Territory and agency at the frontiers of hydropower development in Nepal
This article interrogates Nepal's ongoing and intensifying attempt to become a "hydropower nation" by focusing ethnographic attention on new kinds of subjectivity, identity, and agency emerging at the frontiers of hydropower development in the Upper Trishuli and Upper Tamakoshi watersheds of central Nepal. Drawing on 13 months of field study and ethnographic observation, this article makes a series of arguments about the coevolutionary relationsh…
Trans-Himalayan power corridors: Infrastructural politics and China's Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · China (2 works) · Geography (2 works)