Winter 2005 Term Papers

As you can see from the sparse number of posts from this past season, my course work was particularly heavy, leaving me little time to update this and other blogs. However, all three of my term papers dealt intimately with issues related to this research project:

5111 Cosmopolitics
The paper for this course focused on the controversy surrounding the location of the capital in the new Indian hill state of Uttaranchal. Basically, I used the two options as a trope to talk about the global-local literature in a new way that would reframe some very old topics in political geography.

5325 Cultural Politics: Environment & Development
Here, I revisited the Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation as an entry into discussing some of the major theoretical work that has attempted to address the nature-society dichotomy and political power of knowledge production at the heart of the THED debate.

5390 Seminar in Social & Economic Space
The paper for this course gave me the opportunity to work through the political foundation for environmental organizing in the Indian context, particularly vis-a-vis the contending Gandhian and Marxist traditions that have historically guided social movements.

I'll upload a more thorough review of these papers and maybe substantial portions of the papers themselves as soon as I get the summer semester sorted out!