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Assistant Professor
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Social and Cultural Analysis
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Environmental Studies
Ph.D. 2005(Anthropology and Environmental Studies), Yale University; M.E.S. 1998 (Environmental Studies), Yale University; B.A. 1992 (History), Carleton College.
Email:
Personal Homepage:
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ar131/
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Areas of Research/Interest: My research explores the political and cultural dimensions of sustainability in cities. Through ethnographic analyses of urban environmental improvement initiatives, I study how place-based affinities, contested histories, and ideologies of belonging develop in struggles over the form, content, and quality of urban environmental space. Through this work, I aim to understand connections between urban power relations and ideas of nature.
External Affiliations: Associate Editor, Himalaya
Executive Committee, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Member, American Anthropological Association
Board of Advisors, Aquaya (2005)
Fellowships/Honors: The Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, awarded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2007.
New York University Research Challenge Fund Grant, University Office of Sponsored Programs, 2006.
United States Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results Fellowship, 2000-2003.
Select Publications:
Manuscript under review. Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu In Press. "Marking Remembrance: Nation and Ecology in Two Riverbank Pillars in Kathmandu." In Walkowitz, Daniel and Lisa Maya Knauer (eds). Narrating the Nation in Public Spaces: Memory, Race, and Empire. Duke University Press. Forthcoming. “Fluid City, Solid State: Urban Environmental Territory in a State of Emergency.” City and Society.
2007. “Farewell to the Bagmati Civilization: Losing Riverscape and Nation in Kathmandu.” National Identities 9:1 (127-142).
2007. “A ‘Chaos’ Ecology: Democratization and Urban Environmental Decline in Kathmandu.” In Lawoti, Mahendra (ed). Contentious Politics and Democratization in Nepal: The Maoist Insurgency, Identity Politics, and Social Mobilization since 1990. Sage Publications.
Forthcoming. "Revisiting the Concept of Western Versus Non-Western Environmental Knowledge," with Michael R. Dove, Marina Campos, Andrew Mathews, Laura Yoder, Steve Rhee, and Daniel Smith. In Paul Sillitoe (ed). Local Versus Global Science. Oxford: Berghan Press.
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