Young Ladakhis experience markedly different childhoods from those of their parents and previous generations. In this rural region of the western Himalayas, a transition has occurred since the 1990s wherein education is now widely supported among Ladakhis as a priority for child…
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This dissertation traces the history of the dialectical relationship between centre and margins in a remote mountainous region of Hunza in what is now in northern Pakistan, exploring in particular the politics of representation over time and the material consequences in the regi…
Recent and projected climate change emphasizes the need to understand how the climate system varies naturally. Understanding Asian climate is of particular interest because variations in Asian climate can have large-scale effects on global climate. A 108-m Mt. Everest ice core r…
What causes reproductive practices to become politicized at a particular time in history? In India's northwestern border region of Ladakh, family planning and intermarriage—both of which were unproblematic just over a decade ago—are becoming politicized and increasingly linked t…
The areas of the Himalayas where high mountain ranges meet the lowlands of Asia in a series of deep, narrow, and often xeric gorges are described as the “trans-Himalayas,” including the eastern extreme (SW China, Burma) and the western extreme (Pakistan and Afghanistan). The sys…
The geological history of Himalayans and Tibetan Plateau is important for understanding how our planet evolves, and how geological structures can have local and global effects on climate and floral and faunal evolution of a system. This thesis presents how biostratigraphy of cal…