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Panel No
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P025
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Title
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Himalayan Anthropology: Issues of Climate Dynamics and Corporate Sustainability
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Short Abstract
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The proposed panel aims to incorporate ethnographic researches on climatic dynamics, corporate sustainability and environmentalism of the Himalayan and Trans-Himalayan South Asia. Peoples in region are facing severe socio-economic challenges due to changing climatic factors. Growing tourism around Himalaya places state and corporates as threat to local sustainability. The panel focuses on current ethnographic findings on issues like climate induced economic shifts, labor migration, pastoralism, rituals, tourism industry, corporate sustainability and local environmentalisms etc.
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Long Abstract
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The panel primarily invites ethnographic research on community response to recent climatic changes in the Himalayan and Trans-Himalayan region. The climate-induced vulnerabilities are not just affecting the traditional ecological connectedness of communities with nature, but livelihood changes and associated sociocultural transformations. The panel, therefore, invites comprehensive interdisciplinary research on the Himalayan studies and current ethnographic findings relating to seasonal and labor migration as an adaptive measure and dynamics in pastoralism among Himalayan communities. Furthermore, the panel is open for visual ethnographic works relating to rituals and ecological linkages. For example the worship of Kali Temple illustrates how religion is practiced by common people in their everyday life and its ecological significance. The Himalayan and trans-Himalayan communities are facing several challenges due to socio-economic development around them such as excessive Himalayan tourism and the growth of the hospitality/service industry. The state and corporations promoting eco-tourism must acknowledge the role of sustainability for future of Himalayas. By focusing on the current ecological issues in the region the panel highlights the unique and distinctive nature of Himalayan anthropology and its interesting overlaps with key concerns in world anthropologies. Therefore in the panel climate induced marginalities and uncertainties of Himalayan and Trans-Himalayan communities of South Asian nationalities like India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet will be discussed with an aim to envision a sustainable future for Himalaya.
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