Radhika Gupta

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2023-10-20

Assistant Professor, Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

Project Title

  • Heritage and Climate Governance (funded by GTGC, ends July 2024)
  • Borderland tourism (unfunded or funded by my salary)
  • Entangled Universals of Transnational Islamic Charity (submitted for ERC funding, awaiting result after interview).

Social transition(s) addressed

  • The heritage and climate governance project is exploring if and how climate change concerns are a part of heritage discourse and practice in the Indian Himalayas (with a focus on Ladakh).
  • The borderland tourism project is a long-term project that is examining the intersections between borderland tourism and the politics of state security in Ladakh, India.

Behavioural change(s) addressed

The projects are anthropological and address societal transformations and not behavioural changes.

Theoretical approach

The first project draws on critical heritage studies. I am still working out the theory for the second project. It is emic research and theory will emerge from the ethnography.

Empirical research strategies

Ethnographic research.

Possibilities for inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration

The projects cut across anthropology, sociology and qualitative political science.