Katharine Rankin

Himalayan Studies Conference 6

Principal investigators: Emmrich, Christoph A.

Keywords: climate change; environmentalism; development; indigeneity; ethnicity; culture; religion; future; Himalayas

Roads, Political Imaginaries and State-Building

Principal investigators: Rankin, Katharine N.

Keywords: infrastructure; Asia; road development; maintenance; political imaginaries; state territorialization; boarderlands; visual ethnography

Expertise, labour and mobility in Nepal's post-conflict, post-disaster reconstruction: construction, law and finance as domains of social transformation

Principal investigators: Shneiderman, Sara B.

Keywords: Nepal; post-conflict; post-disaster; state transformation; construction; finance; law; anthropology; geography; multidisciplinary collaboration

Landscapes of democracy: post-conflict transition and state building in Nepal's agrarian districts

Principal investigators: Rankin, Katharine N.

Keywords: post-conflict transition; local governance; political subjectivity; cultural politics; Nepal; democracy

Neighbourhood inequality, diversity, and change: trends, processes, consequences, and policy options for Canada's large Metropolitan areas

Keywords: neighbourhood change; divided cities; socio-spatial inequality; concentrated poverty; housing; gentrification; labour market restructuring; immigrant settlement; Aboriginal issues; urban schooling; crime and safety; urban policy; Canada

Commercial gentrification, diverse economies and the politics of social mix in Toronto

Principal investigators: Rankin, Katharine N.

Keywords: gentrification; retail; transnationality; diverse economies; Toronto; commercial strips

Landscapes of democracy: the cultural politics of governance in Nepal

Principal investigators: Rankin, Katharine N.

Keywords: Nepal; democracy; civil-society; natural resources; resource management; political subjectivity; governance; conflict

Gender politics of institutions: a comparative case study of mcrofinance in Nepal and Vietnam

Principal investigators: Rankin, Katharine

Keywords: gender and development; institutions; socio-cultural change; spatial scales of regulation; south and southeast asia

Sustainable forest management through co-management in North-Western Ontario

Principal investigators: Kant, Shashi

Keywords: Aboriginal people; common pool resources; common peoperty regimes; design of institutions; forest values; institutional analysis; joint forest management; participatory planning and management